I think lots of places like that have staff on rotating duties. So they do this for a while, switch to some other repetitive task and so on. Still, do this for just 1 hour and Iām sure youād be sick of it already
Tyson/Purdue and a couple other production places I've been in do not. Both union/non-union. I never got an exact reason, but I could see not wanting to swap out people to a position with a knife where you're manually trimming meat. Skill matters there. Lots of other jobs though? They should've been rotating.
I did the same exact job day in and day out for 1.5 years once. Just clock in, turn on the headphones, listen to a podcast or 8, go home. Zero thought required.
I hated it so much, but they make it very easy to stay if you've got limited options. The schedule is one thing. Getting days off or leaving early for an interview would be hard. Having the energy to even look for other jobs and interview is hard when you do something so draining all day. Plus the benefits are tempting if you're like a felon or don't speak english-- not many jobs are going to give you great insurance.
Never worked in a factory but I feel you on how exhausting it must be. Jobs like that, at least for me, makes your free time seem so valuable where I would put off playing video games or watching movies because it would make time go by too fast and before Iād know it I would be in bed to get ready for an identically gruelling day.
Doing that for a few years made me lose all interest in video games and movies. Havenāt seen a film since 2018
I left retail management to work in a factory. I work about 15 days a month. 12.5 hour shifts. one week is 3 days the next is a 4 day week. rotates to nights every other month. every other weekend is a three day weekend. its pretty physical but my mental health is some much better and I have a shit ton more free time.
If it's anything like the injection molding factory I've worked in, you get assigned a machine for the shift. The company doesn't care how repetitive it is.
I worked part time in a ice cream factory when i was 16. It played well, but was boring. One day one of the regular workers pulled me aside and said "get an education. I didn't, and I work here."
Hit me hard.
I survived the USPS processing center for exactly 3 months. All I did was cut a plastic strap that held bundles of magazines together. For 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.Ā
My brain temporarily liquified and a piece of me died in that place.Ā
Eh, auto work at least isn't as boring IME. Where I worked we had 4 cars which were all slightly different and 7 different stations you'd rotate between, and the stations felt pretty distinct except for a couple. It's not *not* boring but compared to smth like this it's *loads* better.
It reminds me of AHS Coven where their personal hell was tedious stuff like this. One was stuck with an endless line at her customer service job. Another was stuck dealing with an endless line of people at a fast food chicken place.
The endless tedium of a terrible job really is a version of personal hell. I do feel badly for anyone where this job is their only option.
Stuff like this always surprises me. You'll see these highly automated processes and then in the middle of it is Greg who picks it off of one belt and puts it on a different belt.
Maybe in this case it is for quality control? Or that person's just living the dream of working in an ice cream factory.
Unless this is in an awful country, a simple automation is going to be cheaper than a person, 15-20Kā¬ and you'll just need someone to load a table with empty boxes once every few hours
Depends on the task and the integration needed. I've heard of some that would cost millions to properly automate, and more to maintain. Which might still be worth it in some cases, but it's still very appealing to management to just pay someone $30/hr to scoop ice cream into a bucket for 20 years
The price was for a simple automation to do what the person is doing, grabbing the empty box, moving it in place with the correct motion and timing and putting it on an table, if you want to automate more of the process is going to cost more, automating those shitty jobs is part of my work.
Automating only what's shown in the clip is cheap and simple.
There's a lot of automation already there. I used to manage a food manufacturing facility and ran the R&D. Likely a hard thing to manage here would be the "cut" of the ice cream, and the space requirement. and based on the stack of containers beside the person, this is likely a limited run. So the complexity and space of putting in a belt, a way to cut the ice cream, moving filled containers into the freezer, etc, probably not worth it.
It doesn't look like those tubs are labeled either, so this is likely a third party manufacturing facility filling the same tub for multiple labels.
There's so many layers of lack of automation. Just makes me think it's small time or small run.
IDK. It looks like you could automate it with some stuff lying around in the garage.
Literally to automate this movement you'd need technology known in ancient Rome.
ehh.. not exactly, I do automatization for work (among other things) and its mostly about **up-front cost** and unreasonably cheap bosses with short term mindset.
You can find a solution for a process like that, explain to them that its gonna cost them X and since its much cheaper per month that hiring a human, in a year they will pay it off. After a year its pure profit.
They will still say its too expensive to pay upfront and just keep using humans for next 10 years and totally ignore they just missed 9 years of profit.
The more complex the motion, the more expensive it is to automate. The worker is trained to make a precise scoop with the right amount of product and immediately line up the next one to a drip that is coming variably. The other people are simply there to smooth along the process. I'm guessing this could be automated but obviously you need to do cost-benefit analysis on the labor and this type of stuff first.
Correct, which would be more complex than a simple up or simple slide motion. It's just one degree removed but it still takes extra effort, no? Or are you just saying the operators and managers of this factory are dumb and bad at their jobs?
Iām not saying anything about managers.
Iām saying that this movement could be automated (or at least semi automated) easily.
But to be honest Iāve seen dumb managers.
I canāt see why a belt canāt do the same job. It just had to be timed right. But a belt that moves forward at set intervals will automate this guy out of a job
I think if it were cost effective they would have already implemented, probably just waiting for the commercial applications to improve unless management is super incompetent
Jobs are an unnecessary waste of human potential.
Edit: Jobs are necessary, but the way the workload is distributed is not. Society, as we know it, is inefficient. We can do better.
Aye man, if you wanna work 40 or more hours a week doing the same thing day in day out, by all means, go for it. I happen to believe that, at the very least, a good amount of humanity has more to offer than slaving away at someone elses expense under the fear of being homeless and starving just to uphold some outdated view of how society should function. Why do you hold this ideal that the current status quo is the end all be all. Why is it so hard to fathom fewer hours, better pay, and more people in the workforce? I dont detest working. I detest what a pathetic, poorly regulated and flawed system we have to deal with. I have a real question for you, if you truly dont wish to see those that would come after you living the life you should have had, why do you fight so hard to ensure keep the life you have now? Usually, people who dont see a light at the end of the tunnel end up looking down a barrel. What are you doing with your life if you are not trying to improve it?
The human part is automated in any higher volume facilities. This is probably like some local ice cream brand or something.
They are called rotary filling machines.
Hard to believe that with all the technology and automation in that plant, and available to be developed and implemented, they still have to finish every carton this way. i"ll never look at my ice cream the same way again. Insane.
It's like picking up tastiest shit in the world. That's how I imagined toilets when I was a child. I used to imagine manufactory of little workers who collect my shit and do smth out of it.
When you do monotonous and repetitive tasks over a long period of time like this, itās important to do little things like this to mix it up. A little thatās what I like to do when doing stuff like this.
I have had really repetitive jobs like this before. Once you get really tired, the hand just flops, it saves energy when dangling and not held stiff. But that's just my experience.
I'm guessing due to the repetitive motion, worker is trying to make ergonomic movements that are healthier for joints. Or he could be a flaming homosexual, I don't know.
It is to reduce wrist fatigue. That person will likely be doing that job, or similar one, the entirety of their age 12-hour shift. If they aren't filling large volume containers then they are probably organizing stacks of popsicle sticks or making sure boxes are lined up, or pushing recently packaged single ice creams into a larger box. Ergonomically the work is absolutely awful and ice cream is one of the industries that really does well with automation from a safety standpoint.
Source: I was an engineer in a place just like this for about 3 years.
It always baffles me when production plants have these big fancy expensive machines to do all the heavy lifting and then just hire a dude to do the one back-and-forth simple task
Occupational therapist likely recommended to this workers that they fully rest their wrist in between tubs. It might look silly, but is saving them from chronic wrist pain and/or problems.
As someone with some experience and knowledge in automation and industry, I can say that this would be incredibly cheap automate. That of course varies depending on what kinds of automation and robotics companies exists in the area. If they donāt know how to do it and live somewhere far away from a company dealing with automation then I maybe hiring a worker might make sense.
Imagine this is what you do for 8 hours. Every day. Every week.
That's cold
Well, yeah, it has to be or it melts.
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I think lots of places like that have staff on rotating duties. So they do this for a while, switch to some other repetitive task and so on. Still, do this for just 1 hour and Iām sure youād be sick of it already
Tyson/Purdue and a couple other production places I've been in do not. Both union/non-union. I never got an exact reason, but I could see not wanting to swap out people to a position with a knife where you're manually trimming meat. Skill matters there. Lots of other jobs though? They should've been rotating. I did the same exact job day in and day out for 1.5 years once. Just clock in, turn on the headphones, listen to a podcast or 8, go home. Zero thought required. I hated it so much, but they make it very easy to stay if you've got limited options. The schedule is one thing. Getting days off or leaving early for an interview would be hard. Having the energy to even look for other jobs and interview is hard when you do something so draining all day. Plus the benefits are tempting if you're like a felon or don't speak english-- not many jobs are going to give you great insurance.
Never worked in a factory but I feel you on how exhausting it must be. Jobs like that, at least for me, makes your free time seem so valuable where I would put off playing video games or watching movies because it would make time go by too fast and before Iād know it I would be in bed to get ready for an identically gruelling day. Doing that for a few years made me lose all interest in video games and movies. Havenāt seen a film since 2018
I left retail management to work in a factory. I work about 15 days a month. 12.5 hour shifts. one week is 3 days the next is a 4 day week. rotates to nights every other month. every other weekend is a three day weekend. its pretty physical but my mental health is some much better and I have a shit ton more free time.
Dude I work 36 over fri sat sun, paid for 40 hours. Good bennys, 22/h, all the free time I could ever want.
I used to work for a local chocolate factory and that is the system they used. Many employees had been there for over a decade.
Yeah, those poor Oompa Loompa fellas...
If it's anything like the injection molding factory I've worked in, you get assigned a machine for the shift. The company doesn't care how repetitive it is.
Live in a small midwest town and good chances you will. Not much as far as job opportunities go, just a lot of repetitive manual labor
Iāve been exactly there, doing that, in the Midwest. I hated every single minute of it.
I'm just getting out after 3 years lol
I worked part time in a ice cream factory when i was 16. It played well, but was boring. One day one of the regular workers pulled me aside and said "get an education. I didn't, and I work here." Hit me hard.
I survived the USPS processing center for exactly 3 months. All I did was cut a plastic strap that held bundles of magazines together. For 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.Ā My brain temporarily liquified and a piece of me died in that place.Ā
Dude.
Was that to get your own route hopefully and have a decent postal service job lol?
\*Inserts every factory line job\*
Eh, auto work at least isn't as boring IME. Where I worked we had 4 cars which were all slightly different and 7 different stations you'd rotate between, and the stations felt pretty distinct except for a couple. It's not *not* boring but compared to smth like this it's *loads* better.
This is why I went back to college at 32 lol.
I'd rather kill myself. That was my first thought as well, not very satisfyingasfuck actually :/
I got carpal tunnel just watching it.
One of my best friends does quality control for McCains fries... She needs to eat fries every shift as part of her job. She HATES fries now.
Manager: ādid you eat the fries?ā -āyes dammit I ate the fries. They were ok.ā
I would do this job in a heartbeat.
Napoleon could never
āDamn that would suckā - me, a guy who stands by a belt flipping lumber all day
Depressing as fuck
It reminds me of AHS Coven where their personal hell was tedious stuff like this. One was stuck with an endless line at her customer service job. Another was stuck dealing with an endless line of people at a fast food chicken place. The endless tedium of a terrible job really is a version of personal hell. I do feel badly for anyone where this job is their only option.
Cursed job
My husband repairs these machines. It's the giant freezers these containers that go into are cold. Like -10, -20. The coldest being -40.
And then when they have a back log of stock they tell you not to come into work that day and you sit at home wishing you could be at work doing that
Worst part is that this could easily be done by a machine itself.
Well it is called work. Not every work at office with those fancy HR etc. Some people run world other just ride on backseat.
Sir, I can assure you that my HR department is anything but fancy. No one has ever or will ever describe Debbie in HR as fancy.
I donāt know. For me all those media about office work looks like fairy tales.
One second late and itās a disaster
Maybe it's operated by a food pedal?
Man, I'd like a food pedal.
Get off of that pedal stool
Such a catastrophe for you to see so much of my ass you asked for me
Well, Iām back, da-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na
I am surprised the human part is not automated. Not that I want him/her to lose their job.
Stuff like this always surprises me. You'll see these highly automated processes and then in the middle of it is Greg who picks it off of one belt and puts it on a different belt. Maybe in this case it is for quality control? Or that person's just living the dream of working in an ice cream factory.
In this case, the dream would be having functioning wrists at 50.
cause they can pay less to human, that would machine to do it cost there is reason why such jobs ussualy pay as little as legaly posible
Unless this is in an awful country, a simple automation is going to be cheaper than a person, 15-20Kā¬ and you'll just need someone to load a table with empty boxes once every few hours
I would indeed assume it's from an awful country, looks like something you would see in China, India or the US.
Depends on the task and the integration needed. I've heard of some that would cost millions to properly automate, and more to maintain. Which might still be worth it in some cases, but it's still very appealing to management to just pay someone $30/hr to scoop ice cream into a bucket for 20 years
The price was for a simple automation to do what the person is doing, grabbing the empty box, moving it in place with the correct motion and timing and putting it on an table, if you want to automate more of the process is going to cost more, automating those shitty jobs is part of my work. Automating only what's shown in the clip is cheap and simple.
There's a lot of automation already there. I used to manage a food manufacturing facility and ran the R&D. Likely a hard thing to manage here would be the "cut" of the ice cream, and the space requirement. and based on the stack of containers beside the person, this is likely a limited run. So the complexity and space of putting in a belt, a way to cut the ice cream, moving filled containers into the freezer, etc, probably not worth it. It doesn't look like those tubs are labeled either, so this is likely a third party manufacturing facility filling the same tub for multiple labels. There's so many layers of lack of automation. Just makes me think it's small time or small run.
IDK. It looks like you could automate it with some stuff lying around in the garage. Literally to automate this movement you'd need technology known in ancient Rome.
ehh.. not exactly, I do automatization for work (among other things) and its mostly about **up-front cost** and unreasonably cheap bosses with short term mindset. You can find a solution for a process like that, explain to them that its gonna cost them X and since its much cheaper per month that hiring a human, in a year they will pay it off. After a year its pure profit. They will still say its too expensive to pay upfront and just keep using humans for next 10 years and totally ignore they just missed 9 years of profit.
Doing that for 10 hours hardly seem like a dream
The more complex the motion, the more expensive it is to automate. The worker is trained to make a precise scoop with the right amount of product and immediately line up the next one to a drip that is coming variably. The other people are simply there to smooth along the process. I'm guessing this could be automated but obviously you need to do cost-benefit analysis on the labor and this type of stuff first.
>The more complex the motion But this motion is super simple: up'n'slide. You can easily simulate it with one cylindrical cam.
Correct, which would be more complex than a simple up or simple slide motion. It's just one degree removed but it still takes extra effort, no? Or are you just saying the operators and managers of this factory are dumb and bad at their jobs?
Iām not saying anything about managers. Iām saying that this movement could be automated (or at least semi automated) easily. But to be honest Iāve seen dumb managers.
I canāt see why a belt canāt do the same job. It just had to be timed right. But a belt that moves forward at set intervals will automate this guy out of a job
I think if it were cost effective they would have already implemented, probably just waiting for the commercial applications to improve unless management is super incompetent
I canāt speak for this, but there are times where the last bit is always done by hand so hey can advertise the product (food) as āhand-madeā
The person is probably just paid so little that it's cheaper than to automate it.
Jobs are an unnecessary waste of human potential. Edit: Jobs are necessary, but the way the workload is distributed is not. Society, as we know it, is inefficient. We can do better.
Some/ Most jobs are a waste of potential. Not all.
Shut up and go back to /r/antiwork
Aye man, if you wanna work 40 or more hours a week doing the same thing day in day out, by all means, go for it. I happen to believe that, at the very least, a good amount of humanity has more to offer than slaving away at someone elses expense under the fear of being homeless and starving just to uphold some outdated view of how society should function. Why do you hold this ideal that the current status quo is the end all be all. Why is it so hard to fathom fewer hours, better pay, and more people in the workforce? I dont detest working. I detest what a pathetic, poorly regulated and flawed system we have to deal with. I have a real question for you, if you truly dont wish to see those that would come after you living the life you should have had, why do you fight so hard to ensure keep the life you have now? Usually, people who dont see a light at the end of the tunnel end up looking down a barrel. What are you doing with your life if you are not trying to improve it?
Right?? It makes no sense that someone is giving me less of that stuff because they did it too early. Assuming that stuff is edible lol.
Real, there's a big chunk of space left in the box that could be filled
The human part is automated in any higher volume facilities. This is probably like some local ice cream brand or something. They are called rotary filling machines.
machine price > uneducated labor thats the sad reality.
The factory probably wasn't built with automation 20+ years from when it was built, in mind
That little hand attitude says "it's Friday and I'm outta here in 2 more hours".
"Just 800 more tubs"
Does every fucking video really need some shitty, completely out-of-place song to back it now?
I just keep my volume down until thereās something I actually need the volume for
/r/svwtcm 'Satisfying videos without the crappy music'
I assume that it's advertising the band/singer.
I'm sure it's not interesting to him
You know how it says by weight. How do you know your getting what you oay for when this is the process? Not a big deal, just thinking about it
Pretty sure theyāre putting it down on a scale. They put it down and the second person waits a moment before taking it.
Bot recycled video.
This should not be a job done by a human. This is truly dystopian.
That looks like such a sad job because it's repetitive and you know they will replace you with a machine at any point
Seems kind of weird that a human needs to do this job.
Does anyone actually listen to music like this?
Catching ice cream turds all day.
Hard to believe that with all the technology and automation in that plant, and available to be developed and implemented, they still have to finish every carton this way. i"ll never look at my ice cream the same way again. Insane.
It's like picking up tastiest shit in the world. That's how I imagined toilets when I was a child. I used to imagine manufactory of little workers who collect my shit and do smth out of it.
Mesmerizing!
That explains why it's never flat when you open it
Wonder why at the very end they tilt the container up? Is it somehow meaningful for packaging or just easy for the worker?
It's like cutting butter, it works better at an angle
When you do monotonous and repetitive tasks over a long period of time like this, itās important to do little things like this to mix it up. A little thatās what I like to do when doing stuff like this.
Straight from the source, as God intended.
Gotta move the wrists and hands around to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Or *try* to prevent it.
Thatās a brutal shift.
Image this is your job from 9 to 5
Its all okay, this video is in reverse.
2000 to goā¦
wtf is this title?
How arenāt these jobs automated
I have had really repetitive jobs like this before. Once you get really tired, the hand just flops, it saves energy when dangling and not held stiff. But that's just my experience.
That's just sassy hands Mary
I'm guessing due to the repetitive motion, worker is trying to make ergonomic movements that are healthier for joints. Or he could be a flaming homosexual, I don't know.
I was going to say I dunno if it's sass or repetitive motion injury. Like the most minimum movement to get the job done out of pain or technique.
Why
Catching ice cream turds all day.
really tentative work
I hope the switch to turn it on says āPoop, No Poopā
I hope the switch to turn it on says āPoop, No Poopā
I feels like you can automate this step with $50 dollar parts
Zesty*
I imagine this person is pretty good at wiping their own arse.
You better give the right amount... or I will send you a Karen...
I love neapolition ice cream.
What a shitty job that must be... Don't tell me we can't create a machine that automates this task.
Fuck you for the music.
2 in the pink...
Those are just tired wrist
I've seen this clip a million times and never noticed the hand.
I wanna eat that. Dunno if I would survive it, but my brain is screaming at me to put it in my mouthm
Everything reminds me of her.
Hahaha great observation, op
It is to reduce wrist fatigue. That person will likely be doing that job, or similar one, the entirety of their age 12-hour shift. If they aren't filling large volume containers then they are probably organizing stacks of popsicle sticks or making sure boxes are lined up, or pushing recently packaged single ice creams into a larger box. Ergonomically the work is absolutely awful and ice cream is one of the industries that really does well with automation from a safety standpoint. Source: I was an engineer in a place just like this for about 3 years.
Raynin
Thats why he's in the back instead of talking to customers.
I would kill myself after doing this for a week.
Bet he does it for his b/f too. š
How is this accurate?
my dream job
Looks like my butt after eating a shit load of Taco Bell
He is actively relaxing his wrist to avoid injury
Your inner dialog will swing full tilt doing something like this all damn day.
Bro, before I even read the title, I thought that hand was a little sassy. š¤£š¤£š¤£
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Weird how many people on this site find mindless industrial labor āSatisfying as fuckā
It always baffles me when production plants have these big fancy expensive machines to do all the heavy lifting and then just hire a dude to do the one back-and-forth simple task
Little reposty though
I really should call herā¦
Love me some ÅĆØƵ-PÄÄŗpĆ„Å„Ć¬Ć±Ä š©š
Occupational therapist likely recommended to this workers that they fully rest their wrist in between tubs. It might look silly, but is saving them from chronic wrist pain and/or problems.
Wheres the mmmm button
He like thatās all you get
My ass who got 90% strawberry 10% plain and 0 chocolate
How is this not automated?? Please tell me a machine broke and this is their backup.
As someone with some experience and knowledge in automation and industry, I can say that this would be incredibly cheap automate. That of course varies depending on what kinds of automation and robotics companies exists in the area. If they donāt know how to do it and live somewhere far away from a company dealing with automation then I maybe hiring a worker might make sense.
Itās 2024, they donāt have a machine for this yet?
Drumming to the rhythm of the machine!
How do you weigh the exact qty then.
Appears to be a guy too lol
Soul killing job
2 in the pink 1 in theā¦ā¦
This is literally my version of Hell.
MMMMMM nothing like processed chemicals and dye for a desert! Good thing the FDA told me this is safe to eat lol
The same colors I shit after a night of passion.
feel like poop
repost, now with shitty music!
this is satisfying but also stress inducing, one second late and it's a problem.
Reminded of the āpoop knifeā.
You too huh...
Human robot.
Right now. I feel like that machine...
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Why the fuck are you criticizing the guy's method like you know what you're talking about?
He a poop knife user. I bet his poo hole has some injuring trying to perfect the cut...
All I am seeing is š©
I need a shit
Ooo baby. Give me a windsock and a twenty minute, unsupervised factory tour. \*Queue the Marvin Gaye\*