Hello everybody, I'm so excited to be here today with Baron. Baron is a dropshipping who lives in a country with economic problems and he has some very, very, very interesting thoughts about how it's to have an online business or a dropshipping business in countries like this. He can share his thoughts about this and how he works in this way. So, hey Baron, how are you? Hello, I'm very happy to join you with this video and I am great. This is a great day and this is actually a great era to be in and we'll talk about it later. Thank you for having me on the show. Where do you live? Where are you from? I was born in Ankara, capital of Turkey and I'm 20 years old. I'm in the university right now. Since I study engineering, we have cooperative education program. So, for these last three and a half months, I was able to work on my project full-time. Cool, what is your project? My project is, I actually started with only doing dropshipping myself and then things got expanded from there. If you want me to start telling everything from the beginning, I can do that. Yeah, we're happy to hear how did you get dropshipping? How it started? Okay, so I was 19 when I got my first job as an engineering apprentice in a rocket company in Turkey, actually the only rocket company in Turkey. I was in the work analysis team and I was working full-time at this corporation and I used to get up at 6.30 am, walk for 30 minutes to the bus and then the bus would take me to the company which took about an hour and the same in the evening when I'm going back to my home. So, I just woke up before the sun and then I spent in a total of two to three hours in the trip. So, when you measure it, it's one-eighth of your day, about one-eighth or one-twelfth of your day and this time was mostly wasted because I had to be at a specific location at a specific time and I really started to dislike my job when my boss was being angry at me for stupid reasons and since I was an apprentice I was being paid less than the cleaner in the company but I did more things than most of the engineers there. So, the pay was unequal to me like we got paid under the minimum wage. In Turkey, the government takes extra taxes on students so if you're a student and make an internship from somewhere you get taxed extra. So, I was getting under minimum wage paid and I was doing an engineer level job. So, this whole thing got awakened to the situation and I saw that this is not a good way to live your life. There's much more to life and the youth, the time and your prime years are much more valuable than any money these companies could pay you. So, I started to seek out other ways to pull money from the economy. Like in the start, since I had... I didn't have even a thousand dollars in my bank account since my local currency was very weak at that time because of the political problems, economical problems that were out of my reach. I didn't even have a thousand dollars of purchasing power at that time. And when you're that broke, you can't really think about purpose changing people's lives. That's not the level in the hierarchy, like hierarchy of needs. That's on the top. I was like this level. So, I had to find a way so I could pull money out of the economy in my own terms so I wouldn't have to sell my time to another bus or to my parents. And then I found Rapshi, because that was one of the best businesses you could start with zero money down on the product. And it was also easier to manage than a service-based business. So, I could also provide some service to some people in my own terms, but it's not as easy as doing drop shipping as I started. And by the way, I started with Amazon, not eBay. I started with drop shipping on Amazon. In Turkey, we do things a little bit differently than in the US. We generally drop ship from Amazon US to Amazon Canada or Amazon US to Amazon Mexico. Since there are same sellers in these other platforms, you can just present Amazon.com's products in Amazon.ca or Amazon.mx and then you can make good profit margins with that. We also have some software that makes it very easy to find products on Amazon. And since you just need the async codes to list it on Amazon Canada, because they are all in the same panel. You can control your Canada store, America store and your Mexico store from your same panel. It was very easy to find the products and upload the products. Because of that, I was able to pull money out of the economy without having much of the high income skills, rather than engineering, of course. Cool. So, I actually came to drop shipping because they wanted to... not to sell your time and they want to really maximize the profits which you can do with your time. Nice. And how did you get to drop shipping on eBay after this? So, when I first started selling on Amazon, I purchased an educational program in Turkey. But at the time, that educational program wasn't up the park with industries. So, there were a lot of knowledge gaps in my knowledge. So, I decided to also get mentorship from some guy who knew Amazon much better. So, I started getting mentoring from that guy who is now my friend. And in one of our mentoring course, we were talking about... he was talking about setting up a new online education company. And he said, he needed people who knew good English, who are also smart and hardworking. So, then I said, I might be able to do that job. I might be able to learn new business models fast and try it myself, then tell it to people. And the eBay came into place when the other mentoring students, the other consultation students in our group started to get suspended because of the trademark issues with the brands. So, when you drop ship from Amazon to Amazon, you have to be very careful about trademark problems because you work with thousands of brands. So, even two or three of them might be upset about what you are doing. So, if they claim trademark violations against you, there is not that much you could do. So, we were searching about a new business method which allowed you to sell most brands without getting into trouble. Because of that, we found eBay dropshipping. Cool. Nice. So, this is how you get to eBay dropshipping. And now, what are you doing with the dropshipping?  Yeah. Actually, I was the first one to figure out a way to sell on eBay from Turkey without having any relatives or close friends in the other countries because there's no paper in Turkey. And in order to sell on eBay, you have to have a PayPal account. I tried to set up a PayPal account in the UK, in the US, but they didn't work because I didn't know what I was doing. And then I started to research about it. Then I learned about Steatechance accounts. Then I tried to work with a lot of Steatechance providers, which most of them were scammers. And eventually, after many months of trial and error, I have found a site that is reliable. Then I talked to him, and then we made an agreement. After that, I got my account, and then I was able to get consistent sales with that account, and then I prepared an educational program. And now it is the only and most detailed eBay course in Turkey. It has more than 15 hours of content and minimal extra bonuses. Nice. I saw that there are not a lot of dropshippers from Turkey. It's very, very not common there. But the number will rise up in the next few months, I hope. Nice. When we talked with you on Skype, you explained something which was very interesting for me. This way I also wanted to make this interview because it's something which was very amazing. You explained me about the currency, because you are making money by dollars, so it's much better for you because you live in Turkey and it's much cheaper there. Can you explain a bit about this? Sure. The Turkish lira was given more than 50% in the last two years. So at this moment, one US dollar is equivalent to 5.62 Turkish lira. So when you earn dollars and spend Turkish lira, there is a huge leverage between the currency. So even if you just profit $1,000 from eBay or Amazon, it is equivalent to a good starting engineering salary in Turkey. So even if you get $1,000 of passive income per month on your own terms, if you are by yourself, if you don't have a huge family, you can be financially free with that money. And it is not very hard to get there. Even $1,000, it's what engineering in Turkey gets. In general, starting salary of most engineers is a good profession in Turkey. It is considered to be a good profession. You might start with $3,000 or $4,000 Turkish lira, which is not even $1,000. If you can earn $1,000, which is $5,000 and $600 Turkish lira roughly, it is considered to be a very good salary for a young engineer. So if you can profit $1,000, then you can be financially free right now in Turkey. Nice. Cool. And how fast do I think people can get to this amount, for example, from your students or people who you teach? Do you have any estimation? Yeah. Let's talk with numbers. I log each of the sales I get from my stores, like from Canada, Mexico, and US eBay. And my average profit is about $7 to $8 per item. So if you profit $7 to $8 per item on each transaction, you have to make, let me do the calculation from my phone. $1,000 divided by $7.5, you have to get 135 sales to be financially free, divided by 30 since your store works 30 days a month. If you get 45 sales a day with your store, you can be financially free in Turkey. And there are many more countries whose currency is weaker than Turkish lira. So for some of the countries, if you can profit $1,000 a month, it is like mid-level manager's salary in some countries, $1,000. And you only have to get 45 sales, 6 sales at most a day. And it is not weird how to do it. It takes, if you are hardworking, it takes at most 3 to 4 months to get there. And you are financially free like that. That's huge. That's amazing. Cool. I know that I think that there is, you also said something about this. There are problems with PayPal on Turkey also with eBay, or there are no problem to open eBay accounts. So here's the situation. There's no PayPal in Turkey. So you have to use US PayPal or UK PayPal to sell on eBay. And since your PayPal account and your eBay account is linked, you have to log into them from the same country's IP. So there is no limitation for you to go and set up an eBay account with your Turkish IP or from Turkey. But if you want to sell on it, you have to connect the PayPal account to it. And if you want to connect the PayPal account to it, then you have to use US or UK PayPal. Because of that, you are unable to set up your own eBay account without a legal entity. One more choice is actually setting up an LLC in the United States and then you can get yourself an individual taxpayer identification number, set up your PayPal business account, and then set up an eBay business account, purchase an anchor store. So you start with high limits and verify PayPal right away. But that is very costly, since you are spending dollars and in your country, you are probably earning Turkish liras if you haven't started the ropes you can get. So like 99% of my students are not able to afford setting up an LLC right away. So we had to come up with an alternative solution which cost less. And I came up with a stealth account. And they work right now. Cool. So you are working with a stealth account to be able to really make the op-shipping money to okay. Yeah. Without stealth accounts and residential private proxies, it is almost impossible to do the op-shipping from Turkey without a legal entity. Like you get banned right away, you get banned in a week. Yeah. Good. It's very important for people to know that it's very important to work with private proxies and not shared proxies because shared proxies will burn and close your account. Yeah, you get banned at most amounts. Like I give you at most one month. And proxies are not that expensive. They only cost around $10. And also in Turkey even purchasing the proxies is a pain in the... I don't want to curse. Even purchasing a private proxies is harder than Turkey. Like you have to set up another PayPal account just to put your credit card into it. You make the purchase, you get the private proxy, and then you send the bank transfer to your staff guide. Staff guide gives you your stealth account. And then you use your proxy to log on to your stealth account. And you have to make sales in your first month so you can keep paying your proxy. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, but at least it worth it. Do you have any other tips which you want to give to people who want to start purchasing in countries like Turkey, countries where the PayPal and eBay blocked, or any other countries which have the financial problems? Yeah. I can set up a roadmap to people who wish to start purchasing in an underdeveloped country. And it is first you need to learn how to do the job, because if you try to figure out everything yourself, you end up paying more than education costs, and you spend more time to learn it. So I had to learn doing eBay dropshipping by myself because there were no other courses to teach me how to do this from Turkey. So I spent months, and I spent hundreds of dollars for it. But if you were to purchase an educational program, it would cost you less, and also it would take less of your time. In order to afford the educational program, you might have to work on a site project with minimum wage. That's how I did. In my apprenticeship, I was earning less than minimum wage, and I haven't spent any money from my first two salaries because I used them to learn about the job. I learned about how to do Amazon dropshipping. Then I started. And if you want to be successful in dropshipping, you have to find products that are already in demand. You don't want to guess the demand. You want to enter a market if there is demand for it, and if you can't compete on it. So if you can't compete with your competitors, but there is demand, don't enter that market. You want to enter only if there is demand, and you can do something better than your competition. For example, you might be able to drop the price for like three cents. You might be able to create a better copy for your eBay listing. You might be able to make it more visually pleasing so that it catches the customer's eye. You can add trust badges to your item pictures so that it is more noticeable to your customers. And Autodesk does it really good. You use HTML-based scripts so that your listings look professional. Some people just copy and paste everything from the suppliers website and do not touch any of it. And if you find good items with really bad descriptions, then you can improve the listing and then you can sell the item rather than your competition. So the number one skill for new dropshippers is to understand if there is demand for the product I want to sell and if I can compete on it. Cool. Great. Thank you. When I release your course, so people know and then we can also put it under the video. Okay, so we are planning to open the course for public in this month. Before that, we only had 25 people in our test group so we wanted to see people bring good with the program and a few of our first students started to sell on eBay and then we saw that it worked so the course will be open for public in this month in April. Cool. Yes, thank you. So I'll put the link when you give me the video. Great. Thank you very much, Merlin. It was very, very nice to do this interview for you. I'm sure that it will be interesting for people. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me in your channel. I'm really pleased to talk to you about the subject and if any of those followers have any questions, they can ask me their questions on Instagram. You can also tag my Instagram. It is the best way to reach me. Cool. Thank you very much. Bye-bye. Have a good day.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to our When I Work demo training class, and thanks for joining me today. My name is Angie, and I'm the customer support manager here at When I Work. So today I'm going to show you how When I Work will make scheduling and communicating with your employees easier. I will also show you how When I Work puts the work schedule in your employee's pockets through text messaging and the mobile apps. So the first 15 minutes of this class will be the demo. Then once the demo is done, I'll spend the next 15 minutes answering any questions you have. So if you have questions during the demo, feel free to leave them in the question box that's associated with the webinar. And then once I'm finished with the demo, I'll go through and try to get every question answered. I want to stay strict to our 30-minute time frame, so if I don't get to your question, I'll email you after the webinar and get it answered for you. So I'm going to get started now on the demo portion of this. So when you first log into your When I Work account, you're taken to the dashboard. The dashboard is a snapshot of what's going on right now with today's schedule. So you have today's schedule that appears here. I'll show you all of the employees that are scheduled to work, and it will also give you a filter of throughout the day as the hours go on, so you have a continual update. So if you need to log in and quickly see who's working, you can see that just by logging in and viewing the dashboard. Things needing your action and things awaiting actions from others, these are to help you view activity that's going on between you and your employees. So if you have employees who are requesting time off or trading requests, you'll see these as pending, and that's to let you and other managers know that you need to either approve or decline those requests for your employees. The things awaiting actions from others is mostly for your employees. Let's them know that when they create a request, it's waiting for someone to take care of it. So they're not left wondering what's going on with it, and they can clearly see a manager hasn't looked at it yet. So until a manager approves or declines requests, the employee is waiting to see what goes on with that. I'm going to quickly walk you through the steps you need to do to set up your account, and then I'm going to go through and show you how the scheduler and everything works. So the gear menu at the top right here. This will take you to all of the sections you need to set up. So I'm going to take you to the employees page. The employees page is where you manage your staff, so you can add all of your employees through here. You can do a mass import from the tool section and selecting import employees, or you can add them one at a time by selecting add employee. Doing this, you can input their first and last name. If you include their email and mobile number, they will receive an invite from us. So make sure that if you don't want them to receive invites yet, just leave those fields blank. You can add them later. We also have access privileges. So by default, your employees are set up as employees, meaning they can only log in and view the schedule and make requests. They can't actually make any changes or see any private information about other employees either. Managers and supervisors, they both have access to manage schedules and manage employees. Managers, you can limit some of their specific actions that they can do, and you can also limit them to specific locations if you're using the location feature. Manager can do anything in the account, work with the app settings, work with every location and every employee. So the manager is basically what you have all the capabilities to do. Next, you'll want to make sure to take your employees to the positions and locations they belong to. This just helps our system to filter out qualified employees. This is a location dropdown. If you're using more than one location, this is where you need to take your employees. Next, you can include their max hours, week, and hourly rates. These help you to schedule your employees according to the hours they can work. So that helps if you have part-time or full-time employees, so you can make sure you stay between those hours. And then hourly rate helps you to view a labor forecasted so that you can make sure that you're staying within a budget when you're scheduling out your employees. And I'll show you how that looks more when I get to the scheduler section. So next, you'll want to make sure to set up all of your positions. You can simply add a position by clicking Add Position, give your position a name, and then choose a color if you want to. The choosing colors will help you manage your schedule and get a better view of position coverage for yourself. You can add as many positions as you need to. So the next section here is the Location section. This isn't used by everyone. It's if you want separate departments being scheduled or you have actual separate locations. So you can add a location and input all the details here as well. So again, make sure if you are using this feature, you do take your employees to the locations they belong to. Shift Blocks is the most important feature, I think. This is just going to make your scheduling really quick for you. So if you have shifts that you're using all the time to schedule, create them all in the Shift Blocks section. So you can add a Shift Block. You can insert the start and end time. There's another color code option for you there, so you can keep things more organized for yourself. You can also include unpaid breaks, and that's going to tabulate correctly with your hourly total that you're scheduling your employees. Take it to a position or a location if you need to, and add as many Shift Blocks that you need to make your scheduling quicker. The next section here is our Sites feature. This is another feature not used by everyone, but if you are scheduling your employees at job-specific sites, this is the most handy feature you can set up. Some type of businesses using this are catering, ballet, construction, so businesses such as that. You can add as many sites as you need to, again, add your site, give it a name, give it a color if you want to, and then if you input an address, it's kind of handy because it will give your employees a Google map that they can click on to get directions to the job site they're going to be working at for their Shift. So once you have everything set up, you can go to the scheduler here. Now the scheduler is obviously the main feature of when I work. This is where you're going to do all of your scheduling for your staff. So I have a schedule set up for this week. I'm going to go to the Tools section here and select Clear Schedule so I can show you what it looks like working on a blank template. So this is my schedule for the week. I need to create it. I have a green flag and a gray flag. I have a lot of time off going on with my employees for the week, so I can make sure to schedule accordingly. So these flags in the upper right corner represents your employee's availability preferences. So your employees have the option to input hours they prefer to work and also hours are unavailable to work. So if I click on Friday for Dave Johnson, it shows he prefers to work 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. So our system is going to filter out all the shift blocks that I have set up to let me know what shifts are going to work best with his preferred hours. So 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. is going to be the best fit for him, so I want to schedule him this shift. And with the gray flag, it means that they are asking for showing that they're unavailable. So if I click here for Karen on Wednesday, it's going to show she's unavailable from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Again, our system is going to filter out the shift blocks that will work best with this availability. So I have a few options I can choose from. I wanted to work 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. That's going to work best with what she has chosen for her times, and I have that set up for her. You'll notice that adding shifts is as easy as clicking on a cell and choosing your shift blocks if you have them set up. So I can choose a shift block. And then also, a handy feature we have is our copy and paste feature. So if you want to use this shift over and over again throughout the schedule, you can click control or command on a Mac and select the shift. So I can quickly copy and paste it. For the same employee, I can move it to another employee that's going to be working the shift. You'll notice as I'm moving it around that there's thumbs down and thumbs up. So that lets you know while you're moving the shift around who's qualified to work this shift and who's not. So I want to make sure to have Dan work it because he's tagged to work the front desk position. So if I'm adding a shift and using a shift block and I need to change it a little bit, that's perfectly fine. So maybe I want Karen to work on Friday from 4.30 to 10 p.m. I need to change the position she's working. So I can click on this edit pencil that's associated with the shift block. So doing this will allow me to edit any of the shift information I have included with this specific shift block. I can include an unpaid break. Maybe she gets a 0.5 or a half hour break. I want to change her position.  We also have a repeat shift option. So if you want your shifts to repeat weekly or bi-weekly or so on, you can choose that here by doing repeat. So maybe Kristin works 4.30 to 10 p.m. as a coordinator every week. And that ends, we'll say, at the end of the year. So that's always gonna show up on her schedule so you don't have to continue to input the same shift week after week for her. So I'm gonna create that and that makes all the changes that I've created. You can also create a custom shift. So maybe I don't wanna use any of my shift blocks. I can click custom shift here and this is gonna take me to the same shift editor pop-up. So I can include my start and end time. I can choose a color. I can do anything I need to do and I can create that shift. If you wanna save this shift as a shift block for later use, you can do that as well. And so that's a nice handy way to create all of your shifts that you need to set up for your employees. So I'm gonna move on to my next week. You'll notice that at the week I'm looking at all the shifts have these hash lines through them. So the hash lines indicate that I'm working on an unpublished schedule. What that means is my employees can't actually view the schedule right now. So myself and my other managers or supervisors, we can all work on the schedule, approve it, make sure everything is set up correctly until we push it to our staff. So I have my schedule set up. It's exactly how I want it for next week. So I'm ready to let my staff know. So I can go to the publish and notify widget up here and I can click on the arrow down. I can choose a date range. So maybe you create schedules two weeks out. So I can publish two weeks worth of my schedule out to my employees or a month's worth or however many weeks in advance you like your employees to have their schedule. Then I wanna notify all my users. I can include a message like new schedule is out. And then I'm gonna publish my shifts. So when I publish them, you'll notice that all my shifts turn solid color. The publish will push out text, email and push notifications to your employees, letting them know what their shifts are and also letting them know that they can log in to the web or mobile apps to view the full schedule from there. So now my schedule is ready and set to go. I'm gonna show you a couple of other features we have. So when you started setting up your account, you could choose the color codes that I was describing before. So right now, this is our color code section up here. Right now the color are assigned to the shift. So my 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. shifts are all in purple. My 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. are all in blue. So you can coordinate that however you like. I'm gonna move to the position option here. And this is gonna show me all of my positions based on color. So I can get a nice position coverage view. I can see all the managers I have scheduled in purple. My team leaders are in this fuchsia color. And then we also have a position sorting option over to the left. So if I select manager, that's gonna show me all of my whole manager schedule. It's gonna show me all my employees who can work as managers. So I can quickly and easily make sure I have the correct coverage for these positions. I can also select more than one position if that's helpful for you. So it's just a nice handy tool to view your position coverage to make sure you have the right amount of people scheduled. Next I'm gonna talk about our open shift section. So at the top here is a green bar if this represents our open shifts. Open shifts come in handy if you need extra help. You need someone to come in quick to take over a shift. So maybe I'm short on Wednesday the 13th. I can add a shift. I need, let's say, I need a manager to come in. I didn't schedule enough. So I can click on the manager shift block. Now if I click on this open shift, I can offer, you click the offer and assign option here. And this is gonna give me a list of qualified and available employees to take this open shift. You'll notice that Rachel has plus three OT.  So that might give her overtime hours or so on. So you can decide whether or not you wanted to take this shift. I don't want her to, I don't want her to go over her max hours. I also don't want a couple other people to be able to take this shift. So I'm gonna deselect Nellie and Randy. So now I offered it to those specific users. I can then notify these users by clicking the notify option here. Here I can input a message for them and then I can send the notification and that alerts the users I offered and assigned the shift to letting them know about the open shift. The first one to take it gets it and it automatically moves within the schedule. So maybe Dave picked up this open shift so that automatically moved for me. So it's just a really quick and efficient way for you to get someone to pick up a shift that you need to have covered for any day of the week. Kind of similar to how this feature works is our replacement feature.  So we need someone to fill our shift. So if I click on Karen shift, I can click there and select replace. So the replacement feature is gonna again give me a list of available and qualified employees to take over Karen's shift. So I can select these. Again, it's gonna show me other available employees but he would go seven hours over time but I need to have someone pick it up so I'll take that risk and then I'm gonna initiate the shift alert. Again, this is gonna send out email texts and push notifications to those employees. The first one to take it gets it and it automatically moves within the schedule. So you can quickly get replacement for employee shifts and you can quickly get employees to take shifts that need to be covered. So it's very efficient. The last section here I wanna go over is our hours and budget section. So when you added your employees, you can input their max hours. Those appear under their names in the scheduler. So the schedule is gonna compare scheduled hours to the max hours. So right now, Angela's working 35 out of her 40 max hours. So if I schedule another shift, you're gonna see that you would be going over specific times. So she'll be going over time, it'll turn red. So when it turns red at alerts you to let you know you're going over their max hour time so maybe actually don't schedule them. You also get total hours scheduled here at the bottom per day, per week. So it's just another handy thing to make sure you're scheduling the right amount of hours. If you click on those numbers below their names, this is gonna take you to our weekly projection. So you can see the total labor costs here at the bottom for each day and then also for each employee under their name. If you need to view projected sales compared to your labor costs, you can input projected sales for each day of the week and then that's gonna tabulate correctly over here on the side in the weekly projection section. So it's just a nice way for you to get a ratio of your labor expenses to projected sales. All right, so that concludes the demo portion of my webinar. I have a couple of questions that have popped up. Feel free to just keep asking them, throw them out here. It's gonna be the best way for you to ask your questions and get them answered. So keep asking them. So my first question is from Derek. He says, if I begin working on a schedule, get away from a computer and get X out, does it automatically save my work? Everything you add is saved automatically. You'll notice that there isn't a save option. That just means that whenever you input a shift, it's just automatically saved. So if you are timed out of your session, all that information will be saved for you if it logs you out automatically. Seth has a question. He says, not all staff show up for a swap. The swap, it will only show qualified and available employees. Sometimes you'll think that you don't have enough employees set for that swap or available for it. If you have a specific issue with it, and then Seth, I recommend emailing us at support at wheniwork.com and giving us the name of a specific employee who's trying to swap a specific shift and who's missing from that swap. But many times it's because either they're not taken to the same position or they're already working a day that they want to swap. So you just have to make sure to look at all those credentials. But our system will automatically filter out any of those. So you're not having an employee swapping, let's say a manager shifts with a front desk and the front desk person's not qualified to work manager position. So you just have to make sure that all the credentials are adding up. My next question is from Morgan. She asks, the grid is people in shift focus. Is it possible to set up position sites on the x-axis side of the grid? Unfortunately, there's not a way to custom edit how the schedule actually works for you. So the best way, like I showed you before, do positions is to just filter, use a position filter here, Morgan. So if you have managers, then you can just create the manager schedule from here. Or if you have floor, you can schedule based by position. You can also schedule based by site. So if I have one site here, if I click there, this is gonna show me employees who can work this site. And then I can toggle this to get my whole list of employees and create just that specific site schedule. So I hope that is helpful for you, even though you can't change how they display within the x and y-axis of the grid. But this is really handy, especially for the site feature. I'll show all my shifts. So I can quickly add a shift and it'll automatically take it to site A if I'm filtered out to just view site A. So my next question here, again, is from Seth. He said, can we tweak available staff eligible for a swap? Yeah, so when an employee creates a swap or drop request, it first is gonna be sent to you, the manager, to approve it. So I'll show you what that looks like here. So if I view my requests. So I have a pending swap request. So this hasn't been approved yet. Karen, the employee who created it just sent it to me. So then I see the list of the employees that she wants to swap with and shifts. So through here, Seth, I can deselect the specific ones. I don't want them to choose. But other than that, you can't add specific shifts. You want them to swap. So you can choose which ones you don't want them to and then you can approve it that way. And then those employees will only get the notification about this swap request. My next question here is, is it possible to view the schedule by a month? Right now we don't have a month view and the main reason for that is we haven't exactly found the perfect way to have it displayed and work functionally, especially for our larger accounts. It is something that we are continually talking about and might add someday, but right now it's on an option. If you do wanna view your schedule by month, the best way is gonna be to use our calendar sync option. So if you can sync your schedule to either iCal, Google or Outlook by using calendar sync up here from this dashboard. So if I click that, I can copy these URLs or subscription links into the calendar program I'm using and you can view your schedule that way as well. My next question is, can we change the name of positions or sites? Within the scheduler, you can't change the name of the position or, well, you can change the name of the site. So if you're using sites, you can click this pencil here and this is gonna allow you to change your site name if you need to do that within the scheduler. Otherwise, you can do it from the gear menu and going to the specific section where you need to edit and create new sites and positions. The position name, you can also edit from here if you need to do as well. My next question is, what do you offer when you sign up for a membership? What do you offer in terms of ongoing support? So with any membership, you are offered the exact same features, we don't take any features out unless you're on the free plan. So you get all the features everyone else gets, doesn't matter which plan you choose. The support, we have ongoing support always. The best support we offer through our email, we're available every day. We're very quick with our responses, almost always within an hour with your email with us. We also offer a live chat option that's available to you. So that is our ongoing support for you. And if you need specific help or need urgent help from us, we do pick up the phone and call you if that's necessary. The next question here is, can we export payroll time sheets? Seth, I don't know if you're referring to the export and just when I work or if you're referring to the wage-based feature that offers specific time sheets. But there is within wage-based, once you close out a schedule, sorry everyone, this isn't part of when I work. Within wage-based, once you close out the time period, you'll see an option to export the information. So my next question here is, we are an event company and we like to change position or site to event. The best way for event companies is to use a site's feature. The positions, I suggest leaving them specific, like if I don't know if you're a server type event company, like servers, bartenders, set up crew or so on, to keep your positions that way. If your positions differ for each site or each event you are working, then I suggest just adding all the possible positions you could use to schedule at that job site. With your sites, I don't recommend changing a site this way. I just recommend continuing to add the sites that you're gonna go through. And then when you're done using a site, you can delete it. But the best way to make sure you get the right information and it flows efficiently, it's to add your new event locations through the site section and add your new positions here, just to make sure everything stays how it needs to and changes how you want it to change. So my next question is, what's the difference between a location and site? Yeah, so locations create separate schedules, whereas sites you can work within one schedule if you want to, and sites, locations are set, like you're not gonna change that location anytime, like the address or the name, whereas sites, like for what I was describing with this event company, she has specific sites her team works at each week or each day. So I'll show you here how that works quick. So I have two locations here. So this is gonna give me my two separate schedules. Right now I've been working in the uptown schedule. If I move to downtown, this is gonna give me a completely new schedule with my list of employees that are taped to this. I have employees that are taped to both, so I can see that they are already scheduled in different locations, so I don't double schedule them in two different locations. Oftentimes, users who use a location feature use it for their different departments within their company so that they can keep the separate schedules separate for each department. With the sites and Morgan, this is gonna answer your question about viewing the schedule by site. So if I add, let me just see here. So once I add a site to a shift, so I can quickly do that by, so here's my shift, I need to edit it and then I can add a site. So I'm using site A, then that site is gonna appear in the left side. So once that happens, I can click on that site similar to how the position filter works. I can click on site A and that's gonna let me schedule by site view by that specific site. So I need more workers for this site so I'm just gonna keep scheduling and it's always gonna take them to this site as long as you're clicked on it. So I hope that answers your question for you Morgan and also for you too, Seth. So my next question is where do you pay the link to add your when I work calendar to a Google calendar? So when you're in your Google calendar, it's gonna, you're gonna see on the left side like a calendar option, you can like right click it and add calendar subscription. I guess that's the best way I can describe that to you. I recommend Googling that if you need more specific details on how to add a subscription to your calendar. So my next question here and probably last, I have a couple of minutes left is does the schedule hold a history so I can refer back from one holiday to the next? Yeah, so right now, all the information you input on your schedule is saved up to two years. So if you need to keep going back to view that information, you can do that. We also have an export feature. So if you click on the tool section here and export your schedule, you can get your own hard copy of an Excel document of your schedule you've created in all your past and this is also gonna give you an hourly summary for you to view total wage for employees and total hour scheduled. So you can use a schedule export as well to view that information. My next question here is, can we hide date columns if we only run events on Saturday and Sunday and we don't need to see the entire week? Unfortunately, that's not an option right now. You'll have to view the full week. You can view in day view, Morgan, if that's more helpful. So if I click on Saturday, I'm just gonna see Saturday's schedule and all the filters work the same within here as well. My last question here is from Andy. He asked, can you use a 24 hour clock? Yes, so Andy, from your name in the upper right corner you can select app settings and here you'll see an option to change your time format. So right now I'm 12, you can change it to 24. Make sure to click save when you're done making those changes but that's the way that you can work in a 24 hour time format for yourself. All right, so I got through everyone's questions which is great and thanks for all the questions. I hope I got them cleared up for you. If not, you can go to this need help option here and this will take you to our customer support page. It will bring you to a list of support articles we have created, a list of training videos as well and then you can also file a support ticket. So if maybe I didn't make it clear for a question I was trying to answer for you, feel free to email this within a ticket. Again, we get back within an hour almost always so feel free to send us an email and myself or someone from my team will respond to you right away. So if you haven't done so already, please sign up for a free trial. It's free for 30 days. It's the best way to know whether or not when I work's gonna work for you and your business. So sign up, test it out. I hope it works out for you. So thanks for joining me today and have a really great day.


Photosynthesis is pretty awesome. It's where the plants and the trees and all the green stuff that you find around yourself take in water and carbon dioxide from their surrounding and then use the energy of the Sun to manufacture their own carbohydrate molecules. And why is it called photosynthesis? Because the plants use photo which means light energy to synthesize meaning to create carbohydrates from the raw materials. And why do they do that? Because carbohydrates is food for them. But guess what? Carbohydrates are food for us as well. Even we need these carbs for our energy. This means photosynthesis feeds almost all living things on this planet. And on top of that there is a bonus. During this process the plants kick out a particular molecule into the atmosphere. Guess which one? Oxygen. This means photosynthesis gives me my carbohydrates, my food and it gives me oxygen to breathe. That's why I love photosynthesis. But here are my questions. Why can plants and trees synthesize their own carbohydrates? But we animals can't. What do they have that we don't? And what exactly happens during this process? How exactly do they produce carbohydrates from the raw materials? These are the questions that we're gonna try and answer in this video. So let's start with the first one. What do plants and trees have that we don't? Well it turns out that they have something called chlorophyll. What's that? Well to answer that question let's clear this up a little bit and then we'll have to look at one of these leaves very carefully. So if we zoom in we will see a leaf which is not surprising. But if we zoom in even further maybe using a microscope now we see something very interesting. So these compartments that you are seeing they are the cells of that leaf. And inside these cells you can see all these green things right? These green things are called chloroplasts. And guess what? Photosynthesis happens inside these chloroplasts. Okay? There are a lot of complex molecules inside working together to carry out this reaction. Now one of the most important molecule inside is a pigment called chlorophyll. So chlorophyll is a pigment found in these green stuff and chlorophyll is the reason why they are green. Okay chlorophyll gives them the green color it makes all the plants and trees green. But another important job of chlorophyll is to absorb the energy from the sunlight. Without chlorophyll energy wouldn't be absorbed and photosynthesis wouldn't happen. So here's how I like to think about it. Imagine we are concentrating on one of the chloroplasts. As the sunlight comes and hits it the chlorophyll absorbs that energy and makes it available for all the molecules. Now they have the energy to take in carbon dioxide and water and then carry out the photosynthesis reaction which we look at in detail in a little while. And then it spits out this juicy carbohydrate molecules. And then it also produces oxygen and the oxygen gets thrown out. Now before we dive into this chloroplast to see exactly how this chemical reaction happens let me tell you a couple of things that I used to get really confused about. Okay first is because we see plants throwing out oxygen during this process I thought they don't need oxygen. I thought they need carbon dioxide but they don't need oxygen. Turns out that's wrong. Even plants need oxygen just like how we need it. Okay and we'll talk more about this in videos of respiration. But plants and trees they also need oxygen for the same reasons why we need it. Then why do they throw it out? Well it happens it turns out that during photosynthesis they create a lot of oxygen. Okay so they keep whatever they want and the rest they throw out. So they don't throw out all the oxygen.  Secondly I should think this process only happens in the leaves. But no they can also happen in the stem and the birds and they sometimes in the fruits as well. Okay photosynthesis can happen in any part of the tree which is green because any part which is green has chloroplast and whatever wherever chloroplast is present photosynthesis can happen. So for example you may have seen these green bananas and and apples right? Why are they green? Because of chloroplasts and chlorophyll they can also carry out photosynthesis. Okay so not just leaves but leaves carry out most of the photosynthesis. And lastly what about this house plant which is in my balcony which has non-green leaves? Can they carry out photosynthesis? I used to think no because they are not green so they don't have chlorophyll so they can't photosynthesize. But turns out that's wrong. Turns out that even these plants do have chlorophyll and so they can photosynthesize. Then why aren't they appearing green? Well because plants can have other pigments as well. Now in most cases when we green plants are there chlorophyll is dominating and that's why we see them to be green. But in this plant for example the other pigments like maybe the red color pigments they are dominating and that's why when we look at them it looks a little purplish reddish. It doesn't mean chlorophyll is not there. Chlorophyll is there. Chloroplasts are there. They can also photosynthesize. Alright so now that that's clear let's dive into this chloroplast and see exactly what chemical reaction is taking place. So let's begin by writing a chemical reaction for this process. How do we do that? Well whenever I forget what's going on I start by thinking about the products. Now I know that in photosynthesis I get carbohydrate. Okay this helps me remember the reaction. Here's how. See carbohydrate has two words. It has carbon and hydrate. Carbon means carbon. So to manufacture carbohydrate I need carbon. Plants need carbon. Where do they get that from? Well they get it from carbon dioxide. That's how I remember carbon dioxide. Then they also need hydrate. Hydrate is water right just like how we say dehydrated means loss of water. So they also need water. Oh so plus H2O. So these are the two reactants needed. But of course remember to carry out this reaction they also need energy from the sun. Photosynthesis. Photopart is over here. Okay so these are the three things needed. Now what do we get? Well let's see. Now whenever we write this arrow mark we put a chlorophyll on top of that to signify that you know energy is absorbed by the chlorophyll. Without chlorophyll this cannot happen. Right. Okay anyways what do we get? We get carbohydrate. Right that's the major product. But how do we write the formula for carbohydrate? Again I look at this. See carbon means carbon. So there is a sea. Hydrate means water. So H2O. This is carbohydrate. Okay. But wait carbohydrates do not have just one atom of carbon and one molecule of water. They can have three and three or six and six or you know any numbers they can have. All right. So there are many carbohydrates. So in photosynthesis which carbohydrate do we get? Well we get the carbohydrate in which there are six atoms of carbon and six molecules of water. That's also something we need to remember. Okay. So the one we get is where there are six of these. All right. And this molecule, this carbohydrate is given a name. It's called glucose. So photosynthesis gives us glucose. All right. And what else? We get one more product. Which is that? A byproduct which they throw out. Which is that? Plus oxygen. And you will see in a second why I have colored oxygen this way. And here is our chemical reaction. But if you look carefully you see that it's not balanced. For example on the right we have six carbon atoms. On the left we just have one. Okay. So we need to first balance it. And so can you try balancing it first? Great idea to pause the video and see if you can balance this whole equation yourself first. Okay. Hopefully you've tried. So I'll just quickly go and balance this. Since there are six carbon over here we multiply this by six. There are six water molecules over here. So I multiply this as by six as well. Now let's look at the oxygen. The oxygen here is balanced six and six. But over here we have 12 oxygens. So this also will balance by multiplying by six we get 12. Now everything is balanced. Now I know this was fast but we've talked a lot about balancing in great detail in chemistry videos. So if you need more clarity on how to balance equations great idea to go back and watch chemistry videos. Anyways now let's think about what's going on in this reaction. I'll start with what I thought again. So when I learned this I thought that here carbon dioxide is being broken into carbon and oxygen. So I thought that plants take in carbon dioxide break it and throw away oxygen. That's how we get our oxygen. And then they take that carbon and attach it to water to give to give us carbohydrate. That makes sense right? Easy right? Unfortunately that's not how it works. Why not? Well the main reason for that is because carbohydrates are not really carbon attached to water. So glucose is not six carbons attached to six water. I will show you the structure of glucose. There are many structures but one of the structures of glucose looks like this. Now I know this looks all scary and don't worry we don't have to remember any of this. But what I'm trying to show you is do you see carbon attached to water anywhere? No right? It's not like that. It's a little bit complicated right? So even though the name is stuck carbohydrate it's not really a good name actually. The name is stuck but it's not really carbon attached to water. So you can't attach carbon to water and expect to get a carbohydrate. Okay? So let me get rid of this. Carbohydrates are not really carbon and water but it's useful to remember the formula. I use it to remember the formula. Okay? Let's get rid of this. So if that's not what's going on what's really happening in this reaction? So here's what's happening. The chlorophyll absorbs the energy from the Sun and then uses it to break open water into hydrogen and oxygen. And by the way it's not chlorophyll alone. There are many molecules working together. But some of that energy is used to break open hydrogen and oxygen and that oxygen is thrown out. So the oxygen photosynthesis comes from water not from carbon dioxide. And this process is pretty important at least historically because that's how oxygen came into our atmosphere. So almost all the oxygen that we are breathing today was once upon a time locked in water. Pretty cool, right? So we need to change the color of this. This came from water. And then what about this hydrogen? Well, then the hydrogen gets attached to carbon dioxide in a series of steps. It's not a one step reaction. There are many more molecules involved over here. But in a series of steps to finally give us glucose. And so the oxygen over here is the oxygen from the carbon dioxide. So again, we need to color that properly. So again, what happens? Chlorophyll absorbs the energy from the Sun and uses some of it to break open water into hydrogen and oxygen. Oxygen is thrown out. And then the hydrogen is attached to carbon dioxide in a series of steps to finally give us glucose. And I can stare at this forever because this is literally what's keeping me and you alive. But we need to end this video. So let's quickly go ahead and summarize. What did we see in this video? We saw that photosynthesis takes place inside these green things called as chloroplasts. They are green because of a pigment called chlorophyll. And chlorophyll helps in absorbing the energy from the Sun. And what does it do after absorbing the energy? It uses it to split open water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen gets thrown out. And then the hydrogen is attached to carbon dioxide in a series of steps to give us glucose. This is what happens inside the chloroplast. This is photosynthesis. This is how we get our food and our oxygen.


I think what I wanted to discuss quickly briefly with your folks is your thoughts on how to move things forward with, you know, whatever scope we're trying to achieve with the working group proposal, notably the white paper, something that I'm interested in, but beyond that, how to, you know, it gives sense to the chaos and during effort we're trying to convey. I guess it's, you know, it's quite crystal clear that it's been a bit quiet, but it's also a very new subject, except for those people who've been doing that, like maybe like you folks, well, Michael anyway. But at some time, I think it's exciting because it means we can actually engage in setting up the ground for, you know, for the rest of the industry when they catch up. But I was wondering, you know, well, we plus it would probably be back. Yeah, so I just was wondering your thoughts on that and, you know, where your man's at on that subject. So is it possible? So I think that white paper is obviously the way forward, getting eyes on it is important. Maybe maybe it's worthwhile. I guess the core contributor, like we send an email out to all the core contributors saying, Hey, look, we want to try and finalize this shortly. We put some effort in the next couple of weeks to get it into a more finished state. And then CNCF can tweet out and publicize a little bit more widely that we're trying to sort of finalize this. Please feel free to come to this meeting. And then we'll sort of put it into, I can't remember what they call it in the IETF, but like a like pre close closing call or something. Yeah, where you sort of make final comments and you've got like a deadline to make changes. I think that's fair. I think we need to that little push for the next two or three weeks, whatever it takes, but certainly a fairly short deadline for people to make their mind whether or not they are ready to contribute. If they have anything to contribute, I wouldn't want the white paper to reflect only just either my mind or a few other people. It would be wrong on that note. At the same time, I'm wondering, all the comments I've made, I'm really wondering if I'm actually on the right track anyway. So I'm going to, I'm quite looking forward to commands, feedback, not necessarily on my grandma style, but more on the, if we've got the right notes, because we don't want to be normative, it's fairly tricky to be fair because we don't want to look like this is the only way and that's the standard way of doing care centering. At the same time, we can't be too high level and just be basically useless as a white paper. So I have found, I'm not versed in writing white papers, so certainly I would welcome feedback from the community on that front. Definitely. So I like the battle plan of saying buckle up and if you could actually make some time to read it and make comments, that would be beautiful. Hey, this is Deepak here from Capital One. So I know, like I've been trying to contribute, I sent a message to Chris and then got the details. So I will make time this week and hopefully before this September long weekend here, I will add my contributions there and then probably we can do a review in the next meeting. Thank you very much, Deepak. I think it's very welcome that we have different voices because there are various offensive flavors, but certainly different texts on what care centering is all about. It couldn't be just Netflix way or my way or LinkedIn way. It needs to be to reflect the diversity of the landscape definitely. So the more people contributing, the stronger it will be. So it's welcome, definitely. So at Capital One, we do practice chaos engineering seriously like I'm from the identity. So in various departments, we do at different levels, but we try to do all internal presentations about resiliency and chaos engineering, but right now I'm working with my communications group to see what can be shared. So I'll also come forth with some presentations going forward. It's pretty good. I did submit a proposal for the QCon that's happening in December. I guess last time Chris was mentioning that. I did submit a proposal so waiting for the results. I think. Aside from that, I think I wonder if there is a value in trying to reach out either through examples, maybe we've done some examples online on this meeting and they've been recorded. So that's great. But I wonder how far we could go with I don't know what would be the shape, but more success stories like you folks have told, but maybe written because I think the White Paper could welcome alongside it some success stories examples like I wouldn't say blog posts, but similar to that just to enrich the thing, not just say, well, this is just theory. It needs to be shown that it's practice and used elsewhere. I've actually got a blog post coming out on InfoQ. Sometimes soon. They haven't told me exactly when. That actually details some of our success stories. Brilliant. I think we do need that kind of thing. The Grammy folks have done quite a good job of summarizing and telling the story and we need more things like that. We've tried as well with Koseki, but maybe we could suggest and I will suggest to the Slack channel whether or not we could create like a repository of a page somewhere saying just listing those articles that would be easy for people to look through. One last thing for me anyway, for me, I wonder is there a value in reaching out to other working groups and perhaps having a discussion with them like I'm thinking serverless because it's hot and it's fitting in my opinion, but could be anything else like storage obviously or otherwise. Saying, well, could we try to come up with a story of chaos entering in serverless or chaos entering in anywhere else just as an example of this can be applied and this is a good look with other working groups. I wouldn't want the chaos entering to live isolated or in silo basically, but maybe it's too soon just pushing the idea out there. I think it's at least worth while reaching out like there's nothing to lose. Colton did mention in the gremlin chaos engineering Slack that they are working on serverless features as well. Sweet. So there is at least some thinking there but I don't have any more information than that. I think it's just that it to me anyway, this is a personal opinion. Obviously, to me chaos engineering is more a federating kind of practice than practice on its own that lives in its own world. So I like the idea to say, well, chaos engineering is not just a silo that you practice aside from anything else. It's really more federating than that. But I'd like to demonstrate that. So if the group feel like it goes beyond the need of this working group, I'll probably take that on my own and just do a blog post of something like that. So that's where I stand. Hopefully, they will pick up but we all have jobs and holidays and stuff like that. So it's a slow process but having participated to IETF working groups in the past, I know it's still anyway. I've definitely heard that. I haven't gone to IETF yet. And back in the days, it was mostly on emails. So you needed patients to read long emails and just make sense of what it is. So I'm used to it. Right. I don't want to keep the meeting much longer. I don't know, maybe just quickly, have you folks been working on something interesting on chaos engineering inside your companies or elsewhere, whatever, just out of curiosity for myself? I know for us, we've been focusing most of our attention on a Chrome extension where from the Chrome extension, we can enable and disable specific backends and see what happens when the page loads. That's most of our focus at the moment. That's pretty cool. Hi, this is Aditya from Under Armour. Hello. Yeah, we have been using Gremlin and we are starting out on game days.  So this is in collaboration with Gremlin. So we're starting out with microservices and some of the Kubernetes stack and trying to game day those things. And we'll be blogging out about these things as well. That's what's going on at Under Armour. If you're on the Slack channel, do push your article on there so that we can read it. I'd be interested. Sure, absolutely. Thanks. What about you Deepak? Have you been busy, busy on chaos engineering? Yes, we have had a few game days done and we actually have recurring chaos tests running in our production. We started off with simple scenarios easy to stops. And then we've had a bunch of learnings with alert tunings and making sure our playbooks are exercised well and all that. So yeah, we've been on the way and we use our internal product. And my team has been contributing to some new scenarios as well, creating network disruptions and things like that. So that's my experience so far. But we are thinking of chaos engineering as a way of making sure the resiliency design we put in works. So it's hand in hand. So that's the practice we are getting at to improve the overall site resiliency here. Sweet, sweet. Well, on my on our site, we've been so I work on the chaos tool kit, if you've heard of it, chaos tool kit open source project. And we've been busy on two fronts. First of all, we have quite a few contributions now on some drivers like on AWS, most specifically in Kubernetes. So we've been busy, you know, just, you know, try, try ging and unlink all the PRs and stuff like that. So it's been quite awesome to see people, the AWS driver for instance is mostly community driven. It's just because I don't use AWS myself is this just I wouldn't I wouldn't presume what to test or what to fail or whatever. So it's so awesome to see the community come in with ideas about what's the right thing to actually go in and look for and try to break or, you know, or just push over. So it's been quite awesome on that front. And on the other front, I've spent quite a lot of my time for the past two or three months, working on the chaos serve, which is project we're going to put out in September. It's like the, the UI on top of chaos tool kit. So it's an open source project where it's a front, you know, web frontend for bundling your, you know, collaboration on top of chaos tool kit. So you can, you know, create organization and stuff like that. And, and just deal with all your efforts of chaos engineering through the chaos toolkit that way. So it's really a collaborative portal on top of the chaos tool kit.  It's hopefully it will pick it up. And, and I'm sure I'll be happy if you have some feedback on it at some point. I will be great. And that's about it really. That's good. That's good to hear we've been busy. All right. I really don't want to, you know, I know it's probably early or whatever it's time it is.  I don't know if you have anything else to say to the. Hey, I just had one question. So you're talking about the chaos toolkit, right? Yes. So what is the vision for that? Is that going to be like, you know, like part of the landscape where are we expecting everyone like who is just starting to start with the chaos toolkit and contribute or what is the vision of that? So if you ask me, I would be pleased with that being the main lead, you know, lead developer of the project. I have no idea what the CNCF idea is. We haven't put forward the chaos toolkit as a project. If, you know, hopefully after the white paper is done, the group will remain and continue and figure out if there is a project that can be set as a proper CNCF project for chaos and ring. I have no idea. We would love you know, to push it for push it, not in a negative way, but certainly we are proud enough and we think it deserves, you know, a discussion on that. So chaos toolkit is just an open source project. People can start there or start anywhere else definitely. I see. Okay. Makes sense. Right. Actually quickly, Michael, I don't know if I've asked or if we've asked that question before and sorry for that, but I can't recall exactly what status of the various tools you've created internally in terms of being used as well. They seem to be very specific to LinkedIn, you know, basically way of working. So I'm not sure they like it. We've got salt modules to do like the on host chaos engineering, which we may open source at some point in time. The application level stuff. I don't really see being open sourced in saying that some of the components in the transport transport framework, which is called wrestling, those changes that were made for the chaos engineering purposes, they are an open source. I know Tammy tweeted them out a few months ago. So some of that's there. But I'm not sure how much of the magic is there that you actually need. So I don't think the whole thing is going to be open sourced, but maybe the host level stuff. And it's not like we're doing anything super fancy. Like if I had some time, I could probably go and contribute my own modules on this on a on salt. But yeah, that makes sense. Okay. All right. Miko or my co I'm sorry if I don't want to make a mistake here. We were talking about, you know, what we've done on chaos engineering recently. And, you know, I'd be pleased to hear your voice here if you've done anything. Yeah, it kind of skipped my turn. So I assumed you just want to wrap up. We have been working on powerful seal, making it a little bit easier to use. We actually got a very gifted intern who ended up working on that. So there's a few features that are currently in review on the repo. And there are all many around actually making it easier for the learning curve to start to have something set up quickly on your Kubernetes cluster. So that you can start seeing what happens in a kind of semi automatic mode. So there's this semi automatic mode that reads some metrics like CPU RAM and tries to kind of guess what might be interesting to kill and then kills it for you. There is a web interface that makes it easier for you to actually see what's going on there if you don't want to stare at logs in the command line. And there's some other snow filters that also make it easier to kill the different pods. Oh, yeah. And an interactive mode that you can deploy that if you don't have like command line access to your cluster or you don't want to give to someone else. And there's also UI kind of interactive mode that shows what you can kill and you can kind of click and select and filter and see what happens there. So yeah, that's kind of what we've been doing. And we based it mostly of the experience that we had when we were kind of giving the tool to the other teams in the company. And they were struggling a little bit at the beginning to come up with good policies on what to destroy and why and how. And yeah, so this kind of learning curve is the biggest topic right now. That's interesting because it seems to me that a lot of companies are building their own, you know, tools to do that. And now there are various, you know, ways, you know, reasons probably because it started quite a while ago and there was nothing else or maybe because they have specific needs that no other tools can provide. But I wonder how we're going to settle that.  I wonder if care centering can actually standardize. I would love if we could find something to standardize on, like even like reportings. Sometimes I wonder if we could, for example, even create events using like cloud events just to say, well, this is happening, this is happening, blah, blah, but I find that interesting that for now we're very much in a stage where, you know, we all trying on our own way. And it's quite interesting to see and I wonder where it's going to settle, whether or not, like for example, you're mentioning things that are basically sort of an intelligence, you know, looking at the state and making decisions. And with the chaos toolkit, we've been more, well, you, it's more like almost like a test driven in a sense where you write something state static and just hammer the stem that way. And that's it. So yeah, I don't know if you have any thoughts on that, on the way you see the. Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. I think that, you know, on one hand, it's very tempting to try to settle for one standard. But usually what happens is that you have 10 standards, then you try to settle for one and you have 11 standard. And also the CNCF approach, I think is quite nice in the fact that they don't try to choose one technology or one particular tool over others. They kind of serve the different ones that are potentially competing and serve slightly different use cases. So I think that, you know, realistically, we just have to kind of see how this all evolves and where it goes and probably merge some things later on. Yes. That's my thinking at the stage. Yeah, I will associate the fact that people are, you have people like you folks doing it already. And then there are many people who are not even at stage of resiliency in their mind or in their design. So it's such a stretch. All right. It's exciting times. All right. Well, if that's all from any, you know, any of you, I'm happy to just stop the call and get it sharp ready. All right. Cool. Thanks for that. All right. Thanks. Have a good one. Bye. Thank you very much. Bye bye. Bye bye. Thank you.


I'm not gonna do it this long, I'm feeling lazy today. I'm feeling, I'm feeling lazy today. I don't feel like blowing your ears out today, chat. I'm gonna be nice. We're here. We're here. We're here. We are here, chat. Quick little explanation. All right, I want content and I've been thinking about things I can do trying to think of some more Spider-Man videos that I could make. One thing I've never done that I feel like will help me get some ideas going is play some Spider-Man games that I haven't fully played before. And this is one of them. Fake fit. Guys, I was a Nintendo kid, okay?  I tried to play this game all my life, okay?  I couldn't get it to work. Chat, I just didn't have a PlayStation when I was a kid. At least not when I was competent enough to understand how important playing this game would be.    It's not my fault.  You guys are being dickheads. I'm just kidding. I'm not actually mad at my chat. I'm just, we're ribbing, we're ribbing. All right, enough talk. Guys, I'm gonna become a real fan. I'm gonna play this game.   I don't like that. I don't like that the creepy old man voices come out when you say kid mode. I don't like that. It makes me, I feel like if I was a child, I wouldn't pick kid mode. I'd get, hold on. Bro, I feel like Venom's trying to put me in the back of the van with some candy. Kid mode.  Okay, all right, all right.  I feel like if I get normal, right?  Let's do it. Knollogy is the light that will cut through the darkness when humanity conforms to a single truth.   We can't use that Spidey quip anymore. You can't make fun of him for having a bull cut. That is not a bull cut.  Oh, Reno Romano. I've seen this cut scene a couple of times. I've seen, I think I've seen at least all the cut scenes. I've just never, ooh, sorry. My goat, my goat, my goat's on the stage.  I don't care about anything else. Sus. I'm sorry, the stream just started. The content brain's not going yet. Oh, see it, chump. Yeah!  He looked awesome. Oh, Nora's in the chat, synth voice network.  Oh, yeah, I know exactly why. I know exactly why Nora loves this game. I love how blue he is. Venom's not blue enough.  And nobody cares.  So Doc Ock is working with Carnage. In what world does that make any sense? Excuse me. Oh my God, they're, I forgot about this.  Everybody that was on the street of New York just now is dead. There are millions of bodies lying in the street right now, bro, they've been gassed. I can't with this, bro. New York air is already shitty enough.   And now we're dealing with a bank height? Okay, all right, all right, hold on, hold on.  It's just the beginnings, Spidey fans. So get ready for a true superhero action, with roughs and chills, twists and turns. More supervillains than you can shake a web ad out of web slinging wallcrop. Sorry, I had to let him talk all the way through, bro. Moment of silence. Dude, I met Stan Lee.    Oh, this feels so great to control. This feels so much fun to control. Kai didn't see my dono. My bad, my bad. We're kind of in the opening segment of the game. I'm gonna read it out now. Let me get all my ducks in order chat, hold on. Hey Kai, you should play the PC or Dreamcast version, said Spidey does stuff with the 14 czar. Thank you, I appreciate that. I'm playing it on a PS1 emulator right now.   They got J. Jonah Polygon. Thank you so much for the two. Okay, we're gonna get back into it.  I really don't wanna run around with this. Gotta get to that bank. Reno, please bro, let me mourn. Let me mourn. What is this? Oh! Oh!    He's got webhands now, okay. Gotta get to that bank. My bad chat, oh my god.  If you press enough, you can swing to it. Press the jump button and then press and hold the R2 button while in the air to swing.     All right, where am I going?  Oh!   Hold it, spider. He doesn't look friendly. You can kick, punch, or use your web attacks to get past this guy. Thank you, Black Cat.  Okay, punch. Whoa! They jumping me. Not yet, actually. All right.  Maybe I'll get used to it. I mean, I played the fucking, I played through Spider-Man 1. I'm already kind of getting the hang of it. It's just that Spidey feels super fucking, oh. Okay, I almost died just now trying to freestyle.   All right. Okay, I didn't mean for him to do that, but that actually helps me. Okay. All right. Oh! I thought I fell again. Dude, I'm tweaking out, man.  I can't even look down. Oh. Oh. Okay, there he is.  I'm controlling this with the D-pad right now, chat. I'm really fucking, I'm really holding out out here.  Third cash or select payment type. I'll let that one read out. Drop the mic donated $1.99 through Super Chat. Dockhawk Dagon. Thank you. Yes, don't fall in the mustard gas. I will not fall in the mustard gas. Thank you for the donut.   How do they expect people to race motherfuckers in this game? I could not imagine doing a high-speed chase with these controls.  How did Bro get the game? I'm playing it on a PS1 emulator. And of course, I actually bought the game, you know. And put it in my computer. I mean my PS1, my PS1. We're streaming the PS1 to my computer. Totally.  I don't know. I accidentally set it up wrong. Use the control stick. I'm on an Xbox controller dog. I'm on an Xbox controller dog.  Cause I just need to rebind them, but I don't think the emulator can be open while I do that. I'm using EPSXE. Leave, they shot down those police choppers. Yeah, just my luck. I'll probably get blamed for that, too. Is that the bank ahead? Yes.  I hate it. The robbers on top of the bank.  It's the heads up, Cat. Oh my, they couldn't have even given her her mask? Why is she running around maskless? I think that's the same face model they used for Mary Jane in this game, right? They just reused it on Black Cat. She looks like a fucking, I don't even know. She horrifies me. What am I looking at here, man? Oh, you motherfucker, you know I gotta go over there. Yeah, I've never even played this game. Looks like the Fantastic Four aren't around right now.  I got it.  They actually gave her the mask on the Dreamcast version, I believe. Thank you, shevenim. I didn't know that.  I don't even know. She looks like a skin walker in this game. Spider-Man!  Jesus! Oh my lord.   Boom, dickhead. Boom, dickhead.  These motherfuckers have guns. What am I supposed to do, bro? Oh, can I shoot a web at him? Fuck, I forgot what the web button was. Okay, what is it? There we go, gotcha.   Oh, nevermind. Oh, okay, we go right in. No question to, okay, save game. Yes. All right, all right, hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, I can put in a name. Yeah, let's not put in my real name.  There we go. Yup. Okay. It says save completed. I might, why is bro mad at Spidey just talking?  All right, let me, let me. Excuse me, guys, my bad.  Let me fix it real quick, chat, my bad. We're gonna take a quick five second breather.  Hold on, hold on, almost got it.  Those were the inputs for the goddamn fucking, all right, let's see it. Are we back? Are we back? Are we back? Are we back? Are we back? Wrong screen. Are we back? Are we back? We're so back.  All right, here we go. Nope, not the mode I wanted to do. Okay. Oh, I got so scared it was lost. Woo, all right, back to it. Hi Kai, hi Beetlejuice. I wanted to say hi to my members. Well I hope they don't mind if I make a quick deposit. Oh, see, okay, that feels way better now that I can use the, Oh! I've got company.  Really?      Oh, okay, that took him out instantly.  I can't web him from a distance.  All right.  Like crab man.  He's off 12 Vicodin.  That really hurt me more than it hurt. Looks like that. All right, there we go. Controls the security door.  Yeah, I'm not that old guys. I'm not that old. I'm not PS1 old. Well, yeah, no, I'm definitely not that old. And zip straight to the ceiling by pressing R1. Okay, Spider-Man. Aware he's in a video game. Oh right, that should probably be where I go.  All right, here we go. Who? Looks like these switches can open the security doors. I don't remember, did they put this game on N64?  I feel like they did. Spider-Man is usually always on a Nintendo console. They definitely put this on N64 if I had to bet on it. I just don't remember. Aren't you like 20? Yeah, but like being that being said, I was born in 2003. Didn't the PlayStation 1 come out in like, had to be before 2000, right? Just a little before 2000? Not like anything crazy, but like a year or two? Okay, I hit the thing. What now? My bad chat. I'm not paying attention.   This guy's dying for his life.  Okay, beat up another one of those gimp suit, man. What now? Okay, I'm kind of confused.  I did the thing.  Where's this dude at?     Oh, okay, that helps. Kind of, no? Oh, all right. Let's try it again. I'm a little confused, guys. I need to fucking, guys, I need to become a boomer to be. Oh my God. All the way back here. I hope you don't mind if I make a quick deposit. All right. I can do it, I guess.  Yep.    No pause.  I swear. Just like the movie game, Kai Get Good, chat. I do not wanna hear. I do not wanna hear a single Get Good, this entire stream.  I don't wanna hear it because then my response is gonna be, you're old, L, and then I win. I do not wanna hear it. I'm already in full health. Do you have any Lego Spider-Man sets? That's actually a really interesting question.  Do I just like, do I have to strategically open it?  What was I saying? Lego sets are kinda hard to display.   You know what I mean?  Oh, fuck, all right, we gotta do it all over again.    Okay, so if I just let him, okay, webbing, just base, if you can web them up, web them up, got it.    Yeah, I feel like it's a dedication hobby.   You just wanna build a Lego set.   Oh, UberBustubs, nice to see you again. Um, so far I'm loving it.   Other than that though, I'm having a fairly fun time. It's content, you know what I mean? I feel like I'm taking you back to the past.     I can't lie to you guys.   Please don't shoot. Please don't shoot. I'm so sorry. I deserve to have one of them shot for my fucking, my creemings, but like please don't. Okay. I think I did it, right? This is where they're all supposed to go. So am I missing somebody? Who am I missing? Hello? I have no clue where to go. I'm already at full health. I know! Damn! Am I fucking? Am I stupid? I swear to God. Am I supposed to touch these? Like do I have to clear them before I can get to the next? Okay, I don't wanna hear that. I don't wanna hear that. Chat. Do any of you old guys know what to do? I'm sorry. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Um. Huh. Can I do the thing where he hangs upside down? No? I can pick up an object by pressing punch and I can throw the object by pressing punch again. I'm gonna break out the window. Okay, somebody in chat said go to the elevator so I'm going to the elevator. Okay, I didn't mean to fucking. Bro, he leaves splooge marks wherever he goes. Dog. Nut on the wall. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, I was supposed to go through the elevator.  All right.  Cream on him. Yes sir. Oh yeah. Man, Spider-Man's kind of a freeloader in this game. He just sort of finds his own web cartridges lying around the city. God knows who made him. Spider-Man, can you look down for me? Okay, thank you. Why would they put you so deep in this corner with this camera?  Oh, oh.  I was feeling myself a little too much. No, he splooged on the plant. Okay, there we go.   All right, all right, all right. Oh, I have to go up for this part. Hooey! All right, let's go. Mind if I drop in? You know what? I don't even have to say anything. He makes all the jokes for me. All right, all right, no more insightful commentary. No, well actually, my commentary is not very insightful.  Anyway, that's a topic for another day. Oh, what? Which direction is that guy that just came in?  Easiest pie. All right. Four hostages and a bomb. A bomb? Dude!   Let me look up there, dude.    I'm acting surprised, but the life of Spider-Man is kind of like stopping a 9-11 level event every week.  Now I have to stop a 9-11 level event.  Okay, not bad. Oh, never mind. I webbed the wrong guy. The robbers have been taken care of, but what can I do about the bomb? Um, I don't know, splooge on it.   Do I beat it up? What am I supposed to do?  Am I supposed to take it somewhere? What do I do with this? Oh, that's not gonna do it. Okay, I'm kidding. Oh, fuck, it went down faster.    Who? Wait a minute. Why is there like a spot carved out here?  Guys, 9-Eleven times two is gonna happen. I thought that thing on Twitter. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Okay, we're really cutting it close. Oh no, I shouldn't have thrown it up on the machine.  Oh, I glitched it. 9-Eleven, baby! Oh, there it is. Ha ha ha! Okay, my bad. Vaugh! Sorry, someone in chat screaming Vaugh killed me. Oh, okay, okay. That was funny, that was funny. All right. Okay, first of all, let's get this door open first. Are you playing this on the actual PS1? No, I'm playing it on an emulator right now.   The robbers have been taken care of, but what can I do about the bomb? All right, give me that goddamn thing, the Herculean hold. At this point, I can just afford to toss it, right? Yup.   All right, close it. No, 9-Eleven, guys. Not this time, guys. 9-Eleven is canceled. I'm out. All right, save my progress. Wow, so he has never really played this before? I never had the hardware to play it on when I was a kid. I played all the other ones.  Like, there's always gonna be that one that gets away from you, okay? I've played almost every single other one. I've played Spider-Man 1, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Spider-Man fucking, Spider-Man goddamn Web of Shadows, Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, Spider-Man Edge of Time, of course, all the new ones, Spider-Man on Game Boy, just haven't fucking, I hadn't had the, I didn't have the hardware to play this one when I was a kid. It's as simple as that. There's always gonna be that one that gets away from you. I have also not played Maximum Carnage. Thank you, Ty, 202. I should probably play that, too. Man, maybe that ain't so bad. I'm just kidding.  What's over here, dude? Oh, wait, we're on a timer. Whoa! Almost fell, almost fell.  Wait a minute, how do we know that Scorpion's gonna kill J. Jonah Jameson again? I wasn't paying attention, I was reading chat. This happens to me all the time.  There we go. Instantly down. Oh, this camera sure is delightful. I'm not gonna get tired of this. Oh, dude.   Someone get this man a mucinex, dude. I can't, why does he sound like that? Is that him? Oh, wait, no, he's not green in this game.  What is that up there?  Ooh, glad I did.  Have you ever played The Amazing Spider-Man in Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge? No, isn't that a DOS game? On DOS?  I don't even know how I'm gonna play DOS. Getting this setup was like a little bit of a hassle.  Well, it wasn't that bad actually. I just had to look up like one thing and then I had it. Okay. So what, am I going that way?    I have to go. There we go. All right, homestretch. Hold me, Uncle Ben. Ah! DOS box is a thing. That's true. Oh, here we go. Oh, we're doing this subplot right now, okay. Aw, man, I thought it was gonna break to the window. That would have been cool. Kyle, you making a video about this game? I might, actually, if I like it enough. I haven't fully played through. I probably will make a video about it, but it needs to be better than that Spider-Man 1 video.  I haven't refined my writing skills and I really need, okay, I need to take this fight seriously, dude.  Come here, dickhead. Okay. Cover him. Oh my God, I don't wanna empty out five whole cartridges on him.  All right, that's not gonna cut it.  And the chair. Oh yeah, I got his number now. Bitch. No, hold on, hold on, hold on, guys. I got one for you, I got one for you, I got one for you, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, I got one for you, chat. Mr. Scorpion, those files you asked for? Cause I threw a filing cabinet, all right.    Oh my God. Give me that.  I have one cartridge left. I have one goddamn cartridge left. I missed.   Jesus Christ. Can y'all hear my desktop fan? Is that loud? Okay, all right. Back to it, back to it, back to it.  All right.  Get no scope.  Bam, bam, bam.  Bam, bam, bam. How do I give myself the web hands? Oh, Jameson was literally right behind me on that one. I'm actually doing good this time.  You know, one thing I actually never minded about this Spider-Man game, I don't care that he doesn't have the webbing on him. I think he still looks cool. I think we still, I think we forget a lot of the time about how cool Spider-Man's costume is. You can literally pull off the web-less look with the Spider-Man suit, as long as you still have all the other iconography on it, you don't need the webs.  He kinda looks like a bit more of a bland superhero, but he still looks cool, I think.    To use the web hands, you gotta press either left or right plus triangle. Okay, thank you. Okay, it's not working. It's not working still.  Oh, I'm literally down to my last fucking, I'm gonna have to throw straight hands with him. Bitch! Oh! Oh, you're just too clever for me, JJ. There he is, officers. The man behind the science expo heist. Why are you guys dressed like that? Shoot him! Ha ha ha! Okay, that was a good one. Oh yeah! I haven't got time to explain. Just tell me your side of it. I'll know if you're lying. How am I supposed to know you're the real Daredevil? What? Listen, it's true. A Spider-Man made off with Octavius' new invention, but not the Spider-Man. Daredevil! Somebody's framed me. Why? I don't know yet.  Well, then, my PD is coming fast. That's it, you believe me? I don't have to believe you. His suit looks good too.  Daredevil looks good.   Everybody saw that, right? He just did the swinging animation. No way. No way.  Hornheaded bastard, bro.   What's your favorite Spider-Man suit?    I literally, I go through one loading screen. I go through one loading screen. I go through one loading screen. Daredevil has grappling hooks in his batons. Chat, I know, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.  Okay, I don't need to worry about web cartridges because I already have seven of them.  I gotta get off this building, dude. Okay, I was swinging blind there for a second. I didn't know where I was going.  I literally went through one menu. One menu! Someone in the chat said, get on the crane when you see one. Oh, fuck, I went so low. Okay, whew.  I'm stuck. I got stuck. I got stuck on the wall.  There's an Easter egg on the crane?   It takes one missile to kill Spider-Man. Kai, if you wanna win, I would recommend going on the back sides of the buildings. You know what, I bet. Say less.  I forgot that they bombed right there.    Okay, let's go, let's go. Okay, can't go that way. Okay, never mind. Wait. Okay, these dickheads will not move. Okay, it's that simple. They just bomb up the boarded sections? Okay. Oh, fuck, I thought I could make it.  Here, I'm gonna keep trying. I'm gonna keep trying.   Can we talk about this for a second?  I gotta pause the game. There is no, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. I gotta pause the game real quick. Chat?