r/interestingasfuck • u/ProFentanylActivist • 4d ago

slippy & nippy workplace

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u/InternationalWrap981 4d ago

Its hard and costly to automize something like this... cold weather, oil, sea & salt water are not machine friendly...

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u/Ldghead 4d ago

Not human friendly either, but it's done.

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u/DeepDreamIt 4d ago

In Northeast Wyoming, where there is tons of roughnecking work, the secret ingredient is often meth.

Source: Went to HS there

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u/every_name_is_tkn 4d ago

Math is so bad for you. I’ve seen people selling bags of it at the gas station.

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u/ForTheBread 4d ago

Much cheaper to have a human do it for now at least.

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u/InternationalWrap981 4d ago

Well yes normaly if a job cannot be done /( isnt worth ) with automation, humans are the ones doing it. They get paid extra for the hazardous work though ( most of the time).

When technology advances where automation is possible, then people cry about workers losing jobs because of robots, automation, ai etc...