[SPEAKER_01]: This is the jockel underground podcast number 181 sitting here with echo Charles. [SPEAKER_01]: We've got a series of questions from you all Which we'll provide answers or courses of actions or recommendations? [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get into it. [SPEAKER_01]: Taco [SPEAKER_00]: I work for a web publishing company that just laid off 12% of the staff, including growing segments while protecting declining ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leadership only gave a vague email, and slash freelance budgets despite strong ROI, and won't address the questions. [SPEAKER_00]: Our financial reports show revenue up, cost flat, and cash strong. [SPEAKER_00]: Yet concerns are dismissed. [SPEAKER_00]: Leaving me worried about both my job and the company's future. [SPEAKER_00]: Should I move on? [SPEAKER_00]: Push for answers or just keep my head down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you Should I move on push for answers or just keep my head down? [SPEAKER_01]: The answer is yes Should do all three of those things you should keep your head down. [SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_01]: You should work hard Perform well trying to help the company win. [SPEAKER_01]: Like you should do that for sure At the same time you should also push for answers [SPEAKER_01]: Try and figure out what's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ask some earners questions, bring it up to the chain and command, and they all hands. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe send an email to your direct superior. [SPEAKER_01]: Ask him what's happening. [SPEAKER_01]: Ask if you get some more information. [SPEAKER_01]: Ask some direct questions about, like, hey, where are we at with this? [SPEAKER_01]: And what's going on with that? [SPEAKER_01]: And don't accuse them, just say, hey, look, I want to be able to support the mission here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one thing if we could find out why this budget got cut. [SPEAKER_01]: And then while you're doing that, you should also, yes, prepare your resume and have an exit strategy. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, reach out to some of those relationships that you have in the industry, talk to them, hey, how does everything go on over there? [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what positions do you guys have coming available? [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you know, just keep things on the ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause these are not good signs that we're seeing. [SPEAKER_01]: But there is a chance that, you know, they're gonna get a major investor that's gonna come in and they want them to focus on this other thing and so they're getting ready to some of the other stuff, like, there's possibility that everything's cool. [SPEAKER_01]: But we don't know yet. [SPEAKER_01]: So I would do all three of those things. [SPEAKER_01]: I would work hard, perform well, try and help the company win.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would ask Ernest questions and try and figure out what the hell's going on, and I would prepare my resume. [SPEAKER_01]: That if we need to leave and out form some some relationships with some other companies, so I'd have an extra strategy. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: you watch the movie office space of course classic classic it kind of seems like that's what it you know like us today you know where they come in and they start making these changes whenever efficiency experts right so basically when this guy comes with that you know or get find themselves in that interview when he's like what is it you'd say yeah I do here that's when you know all right there [SPEAKER_00]: You know me. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next question. [SPEAKER_00]: Joko, I'm 24. [SPEAKER_00]: I always wanted to join the military, but family discouraged me. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm so I studied engineering. [SPEAKER_00]: The job is soul-sucking, and I know army special forces would make sense. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm active, outdoorsy, I love languages in history, but my PT stats lag despite constant training. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm tall and lean, like Israel, Aidesa, and yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Pay them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Strong and rocking and grappling, but struggle with push-ups, pull-ups, and high-volume work. [SPEAKER_00]: My question. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, kinds of guys succeed in special operations. [SPEAKER_00]: Do I need to drop everything in just trained PSD numbers or have you seen guys struggle with stats, but still make it? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, quite frankly, unless you can pass the PSD with a 40, you won't be going a selection.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I don't know what you really mean by struggle with push-ups, pull-ups. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you mean by that. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, can you, by struggle do you mean you can only do 20 pull-ups, and that's kind of a struggle, or by struggle do you mean you can do 3? [SPEAKER_01]: By struggle, do you mean you can do it's hard for you to get a hundred pushups in two minutes or by struggle, do you mean you can only do 22 pushups? [SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't have done this.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a big difference there and if you can't do the numbers, you can't go to selection. [SPEAKER_01]: So yes, if you want to go to selection, you've got to focus on the numbers, you've got to train them. [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, the better that you do with the numbers, the better chance you have it to make it through selection. [SPEAKER_01]: So special forces push-ups, minimum standard 49 in two minutes. [SPEAKER_01]: It's minimum standard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Recommended is 80. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you are having trouble getting 80, and you know what, but you're still, but you're doing 72, or you're doing 68, so you're kind of, you're beating the minimum standard. [SPEAKER_01]: Cool. [SPEAKER_01]: Minimum standard for sit-ups, 59 in two minutes. [SPEAKER_01]: Recommended is 80 plus the same thing. [SPEAKER_01]: Pollops, minimum standard of six, recommended is 15 to 20. [SPEAKER_01]: So can you only do seven Pollops?
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do seven pumps, that's a problem. [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta get your numbers up. [SPEAKER_01]: being good down the list. [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like you're a good runner, um, sounds like you can rock well, so that's cool. [SPEAKER_01]: So to answer your question, what kind of guys succeed and soft, they're going to be able to do a lot of pull ups, push ups, they're going to be able to run rock like, you got to be good at stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can have major, you can have some areas where you're weak, [SPEAKER_01]: So, yes, you have to focus on it. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you have to train it, and the better your numbers are, the better chance you have to make it through training. [SPEAKER_01]: So, that's the same thing with Seagull training. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, they single biggest identifier of people that are gonna make it through is like, they're run time and swim time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, just doing, I think it's sub-nines. [SPEAKER_01]: Sub-nines, swim and sub-nine run for what is it a mile and a half? [SPEAKER_01]: In the run, and 500 yards swim, those things are sub 9, you got like a much better chance of making it through. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think pull ups they throw in there too, 20, 20, 20, 20, 25 pull ups is like solid. [SPEAKER_01]: You have a much better chance of making a third.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you can do eight pull ups, bro, you, you're going to have problems. [SPEAKER_01]: Freaking rope climbs obstacle course. [SPEAKER_01]: How you're going to pass the obstacle course if you can't do more than freaking 15 or 20 pull ups or if you can't do at least 50, just going to pull up. [SPEAKER_01]: You ain't going to pass it. [SPEAKER_01]: So the same thing here. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you got to do. [SPEAKER_01]: You got to get good of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And weird because he says, [SPEAKER_01]: Despite, he says something about suspect working on it, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, despite constant training. [SPEAKER_01]: So, you gotta get your training in order. [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you're training hard in pull-ups, you will get better at pull-ups. [SPEAKER_01]: You do a lot of pull-ups, you'll get to do more pull-ups. [SPEAKER_01]: You do a lot of push-ups, you can get to better at push-ups.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, if I were you, if you want to make it to this training, you gotta do well in the PST. [SPEAKER_01]: I would start training a bunch of pull-ups, a bunch of push-ups, [SPEAKER_01]: that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jaco Underground podcast. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to continue to listen, go to Jaco Underground.com and subscribe. [SPEAKER_01]: And we're doing this to mitigate our reliance on external platforms.
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