A 15-year-old just roasted the entire meeting #corporatelife #workhumor #genz

24 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube clip, Eric Siu recounts a recent meeting with two teenage engineers—a 15‑year‑old and a 17‑year‑old. The 15‑year‑old observes that the room exhibits "low agency," meaning people aren’t moving quickly enough. Siu praises this insight, noting how rare it is for someone so young to call out corporate sluggishness. He then asks the 17‑year‑old for a solution; the teen bluntly replies, "just effing do it," which Siu echoes. The anecdote highlights the high agency, decisiveness, and candid communication style of younger team members compared to typical corporate inertia, and Siu uses humor to underscore the contrast.

I was sitting in a meeting with some of our engineers earlier this week, right? And we had the 15-year-old in the meeting and the 17-year-old in the meeting, right? I was like, hey, 15-year-old, I was like, so, so what are you seeing, right? He's like, I see low agency in this room. I was like, I love it, right? So he's seeing that people aren't moving fast enough. He called it out himself at age 15, right? And then I went to the 17-year-old. I was like, hey, so what should we do about this? And you know what he said? He said, just effing do it. And I was like, I was like, exactly, just effing do it right now. I just thought that's funny because it comes from such young people that are— that have such high agency.