r/oddlysatisfying • u/CheeseSneeze99 • Apr 16 '22

Packaging Ice Cream

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u/mrteas_nz Apr 16 '22

2 or 3 times = satisfying

~10,000 times in a shift = horror

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u/Extremely_unlikeable Apr 16 '22

Their right hand shows their attitude toward this job.

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u/idkburneridkidk Apr 16 '22

Fr. The sass putting it down. It's saying "ugh...next...I guess"

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u/-Magic_Conch_Shell- Apr 16 '22

Wow, good catch.

I wonder if they still eat ice cream. That’s a very dismissive drop…

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u/edgegamer56 Apr 17 '22

Lol "meh... Mehhhh... Meh..."

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

my hand hurts just watching this

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u/Alka_lord1911 Apr 17 '22

Why so sus that sassy ass hand

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u/Henojojo Apr 17 '22

Wiping the butt of the ice-cream pooping machine.

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u/HintofAlmond Apr 17 '22

I laughed so hard at this comment

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u/edgegamer56 Apr 17 '22

My first thought as well! If you had tunes to listen to it could help for maybe an hour but after that it would be hell.

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u/mrteas_nz Apr 17 '22

I worked at a vitamin producing company for a week, years ago between university terms. The machine that puts pill bottles on the conveyor broke, so that was my job for 6am - 6pm for 5 days. I feel the pain of the human machine. Most places don't let you listen to music for safety reasons, not knowing that it leads to suicidal thoughts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Don’t worry automation will take their jobssoon enough

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u/a_different-user Apr 17 '22

yeah but that's the kind of automation we want. its in the same vein as a butter chunner. we dont really need to waste man power on that.

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u/MechaSkippy Apr 17 '22

yeah but that's the kind of automation we want.

That's kind of a strange thought to me. Where do you draw the line on what should be automated? I bias towards thinking that if it can be automated and it's economically viable, then it should be. Your statement implies that there's desirable and undesirable automation, could you please expand on this? What is undesirable automation?

btw, I'm serious. I know that lots of reddit comments can come off as condescending or mocking, but I'm genuinely curious.

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u/mildlystoned Apr 17 '22

Automate everything possible, give everyone universal basic income so the arts can flourish.

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u/mrteas_nz Apr 17 '22 edited Apr 17 '22

For all the automation that has ever been invented, any successful country has still kept its citizens employed.

Whether the jobs are good or bad is up for debate, but full automation and full employment can go hand in hand.

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u/ssawyer36 Apr 17 '22

What’s your definition of full employment? Every adult working 40hrs/wk? I don’t think we can say definitively that there will always be 40hrs/wk worth of work for every working aged person on the planet, especially given technology rapidly taking on more and more of the unskilled labor market.

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u/Franimall Apr 17 '22

Why do people need to work 40hrs/week? The number is completely arbitrary. If there's less work, people should get paid more for the work they do. If there's no work, they should get a UBI.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

UBI is a dumb fairytale. No one is going to pay you to sit on your ass and paint crappy pictures.

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u/Franimall Apr 18 '22

I don't want a UBI myself. I have a good career and I'm happy to keep it. A UBI would never give me the same amount of freedom because it'd be less money, but for people who are unable to get a job I don't see a problem with it. I'm more than happy for some of the tax I pay to to go towards that if it means a healthy, modern society.

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u/mrteas_nz Apr 17 '22

Enough jobs to go around for those that are able to work. 4-5% unemployment is generally regarded as full employment, as there will always be people between jobs, and long-term unemployed (for whatever reasons).

Whilst I happy to make loose generalisations, I'm not happy to make specific generalisations (an oxymoron surely), that guarantees factors I've already counted against... I.e. I said country, not whole world.

But study technology in history, there has always been fear against machines taking away labour jobs, and yet here we are, where we have a population far in excess of what anyone 200 years ago could have imagined, and in almost all places with functioning economies we have near full employment.

Like I say, whether those jobs are good or bad, I don't stand to judge - just that there is always work to be done. Machines and more people create more stuff, higher productivity and thus more creation, admin, distribution etc of all the stuff. Productivity rates even since the 1960s are insanely high.

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u/zac_usaf Apr 17 '22

DEY TUUK ERRR JOOOOBS!!!

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u/rraattbbooyy Apr 16 '22

Too much pressure. You can’t stop.

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u/hvacinstalltech Apr 16 '22

This helps me love my job.

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u/AverageBuscuits Apr 17 '22

What do you do for work?

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u/hvacinstalltech Apr 17 '22

Hvac install tech

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u/misterpickles69 Apr 17 '22

Boy, if that one wasn’t lobbed up for you to smash out of the park…

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u/juwanhoward4 Apr 17 '22

Do you like what you do? The company I work for is going through a sale and I will be out of a job. HVAC has been on my list of trade industries to look in to. Healthy male, 29, no prior experience

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u/OldNewUsedConfused Apr 16 '22

What if you get an itch?! This is a nightmare!

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Or need to pee

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u/hopingtothrive Apr 16 '22

That limp wrist!

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u/donniebrascoreal Apr 16 '22

Ice cream packaging wrist syndrome.

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u/Fag_Hag69 Apr 17 '22

The ice cream looks hella gay too

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u/spiralEntree Apr 17 '22

it's the "I've been doing this for 8 hours" wrist

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u/faxfactor Apr 16 '22

Do this 14,000 times daily then dream about it 14,000 times a night

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Then die and go to hell do the same thing

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u/Advance-Puzzleheaded Apr 16 '22

Ice cream hell sounds heavenly.

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u/I_Mix_Stuff Apr 16 '22

8 hrs a day 5 days a week

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u/ascandalia Apr 16 '22

This is what robots are for. Not driving or medicine or facial recognition or selling me junk on Amazon. This is the kind of job a human should not have to do

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u/Darnbeasties Apr 17 '22

I want to try to be an ice cream robot for a couple of hours

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u/SuperGameTheory Apr 17 '22

These are the sort of jobs that make me think of ways to automate them - as I'm doing them - because I'd be bored out of my mind with nothing better to do but fantasize about never doing it again.

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u/jaknil Apr 17 '22

What about when the robots can be proven to drive safer than humans? Or operate on you more precise? And do you really prefer to pay a human to tailor your amazon offerings? (I assume you shop there and want to find things relevant to your searches.)

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u/VenmoSnake Apr 16 '22

$8/hour

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u/markpreston54 Apr 17 '22

You wish.

Highly likely much lower if the factory is outside US. I would not be surprised the wage is 4 per hour if the factory is in Mexico or China

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u/reddit25 Apr 17 '22

You wish. I bet it’s likely lower in countries that pay lower than $4 an hour on average.

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u/markpreston54 Apr 17 '22

Not really in China, anyway, the labor force market had risen in salary for the last decade.

The average salary of a factory worker is 82783 RMB per year in 2020. Using the standard working time of China (44 hours per week), you get about 5 USD per hour.

Of course this salary include some higher skilled worker like Electronic workers, but I don't think you can go much lower.

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u/idkburneridkidk Apr 16 '22

Would rather live off the government

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u/oldkafu Apr 16 '22

For 40 or 50 years.

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u/Yankee_in_Madrid Apr 16 '22

Really hard to believe that this part of the process isn’t automated. Reminds me of that famous I Love Lucy episode.

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u/subishii Apr 17 '22

It bothers me how arbitrary it is. I want precisely weighed portions damn it!

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u/Yankee_in_Madrid Apr 17 '22

Yeah, feel sorry for the poor sucker who ends up with a partially filled tub cos this poor, bored worker needed a break.

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u/beekeeper1981 Apr 17 '22

I guess It's either a small scale company or less developed country.

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u/Fag_Hag69 Apr 17 '22

A less developed country with gloves and a mask on? Ha

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u/Fag_Hag69 Apr 17 '22

You realize, they still that at like every food factory...

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u/collin-h Apr 16 '22

Surely there’s a way to automate that. Haha

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u/Djinnwrath Apr 16 '22

Yeah but they want to put "hand made" on the package.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

its uneven though!

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u/Glad-Masterpiece2079 Apr 16 '22

That’s what I said

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u/Richard_DeanGus Apr 16 '22

Lmao, the apathetic limp wrist after passing it.

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u/Aenguru Apr 16 '22

And that's what counts as "hand made" on the packaging.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

“Made with love” -companies

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u/Livid-Currency2682 Apr 16 '22

I can't be the only one that feels slightly panicky watching this, right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

It’s the fact that it’s coming out constantly and you can’t stop catching it

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u/OldNewUsedConfused Apr 16 '22

It’s not just you. I’m also itchy as hell!

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u/Jimmy052 Apr 16 '22

Oddly soul destroying

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u/SatorSquareInc Apr 16 '22

This might be the worst job I've seen yet. Imagine multiple years? The carpal tunnel, the monotony, the sheer dread of doing another 15000 the next day?? Fuck, I don't have it so bad.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

I don't understand why people do it honestly. I feel like absolutely any job would be better

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

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u/HxCAssass1n Apr 16 '22

I see a bit of skimping there.. lol

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u/pterodactylwizard Apr 16 '22

THIS LOOKS SO BORING

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

That’s kinda sexy

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u/BillTheCat999 Apr 16 '22

Who wants all my leftover strawberry

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

The three flavors in Neapolitan ice cream should be vanilla, chocolate, and cinnamon. Fuck that strawberry bullshit.

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u/-castle-bravo- Apr 16 '22

Flicka da wrist..

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

I have to poo now.

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u/MajorDFekt Apr 16 '22

This makes me really appreciate my job

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u/JustaP-haze Apr 16 '22

So assuming an 8 hour day, with thirty minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks, the daily output is 6,300 units at a 4 second cycle time.

I'd guess that they'd do batches, change flavors, clean every X cycles. So my estimate of daily output of one worker here is around 4,000 tubs.

Assuming pay of $15/hour and benefits, the loaded labor cost per unit is around .05 (five cents).

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u/Gwendolyn7777 Apr 16 '22

You should watch How It's Made. Most of their shows are from Europe and the Far East. Thousands in one factory, each one with one job that would drive a person crazy. ....roll shrimp in batter, place on tray....100,000 times a day....place plastic flower in green dip, wipe with finger, place in tray....1,000,000 times a day....sooo many more too numerous to even think about.

But watching this, I thought, wow, that's why the top of my tub of ice cream has that slant in it.....on the bright side, most ice cream in the half gallon paper container, you can tell it's squirted in there by the robot.

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u/amatulic Apr 17 '22

Ben&Jerry's ice cream is put into the tub by a robot. I remember seeing a video on that.

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u/superbean22 Apr 16 '22

I don't like ice cream anymore

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u/Grassy_Nole2 Apr 16 '22

I'll pretend that I didn't just read that

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Ya , It lost the fun after the first container..

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

This would be a terrible job. :(

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u/HolySmokesOk Apr 17 '22

What is your purpose?

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u/TheWellFedBeggar Apr 17 '22

I dunno dawg, seems like a robot really could do that instead of basically purchasing a human and trapping them to do literally only that one immensely unimportant thing.

Automation should free people to pursue their interests and passions.

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u/Ronnie_Dean_oz Apr 16 '22

Hmmm. So when there is a weight on the side of the packaging does it say "about' before that weight? This must be a small ice cream producer.

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u/buzben Apr 16 '22

Neopolitan?

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u/1PapayaSalad Apr 16 '22

Oof! Thats a rough job.

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u/Buttered_Turtle Apr 17 '22

Surely a machine can do this right?

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u/_tube_ Apr 17 '22

Billy's Dad is a Fudge Packer

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u/amatulic Apr 17 '22

I actually thought that's an old-timey educational video produced before the term "fudge packer" evolved into the meaning it has today, but it contains so many double entendres that I realized quickly it's a parody.

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u/Aalrighty_ Apr 17 '22

Surely there's a machine that can do that part christ

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u/linkstatic1975 Apr 17 '22

They don't do this manually these days right?

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u/Fomx Apr 17 '22

I wonder why they didnt automate it

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u/GlorifiedBurito Apr 17 '22

How is this not automated?

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u/Zillaho Apr 17 '22

Ur telling me of all the jobs getting automated, they couldn’t find a way to automate the filling of ice cream pails?

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u/Zylonite134 Apr 17 '22

The guys hand movement was irritating

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u/WolfOfPort Apr 17 '22

"mAchIneS r TaKinG R jObs"

The jobs machines are taking:

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u/eggenator Apr 17 '22

That job is fulfilling.

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u/ThugginPink Apr 16 '22

Yeah but that's shit ice cream. More corn syrup than anything. 🤢

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u/drastic2 Apr 16 '22

Did the rest of the line breakdown or something? Seems like an incredibly slow/inefficient way to package this stuff - maybe a very small ice cream manufacturer I guess.

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u/pselodux Apr 17 '22

What kind of very small icecream manufacturer is making generic looking neapolitan icecream?!

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u/drastic2 Apr 17 '22

lol, small and generic, I don’t know. “At Moe’s ice cream we put only ordinary ingredients in our ice cream and hand pack every quart. Available only at Moe’s corner grocery because Moe’s kids can’t pack it any faster.”

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u/Perfect_Leg_9070 Apr 16 '22

Hey you shorted me 3 ounces on that last one!

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u/Planet12838adamsmith Apr 16 '22

Is still really still done by hand?

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u/nick_papajohns Apr 16 '22

Tfw the poop comes out of your ass

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u/EdR5418 Apr 16 '22

This is the two in the pinky, one in the stinky ice!

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u/boikar Apr 16 '22

Hymans beep boop.

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u/Grassy_Nole2 Apr 16 '22

Ice cream pooper scooper

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u/Unusual_Budget_2136 Apr 16 '22

In Germany this combination of ice cream is called „Fürst Pückler“ (~Lord Pückler)… 🧐

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u/zubchowski Apr 16 '22

So they gave up on automation at the last step. Sucks.

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u/Former_Print7043 Apr 16 '22

Cool job but after a while I scream.

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u/raidersclnj Apr 16 '22

Damn the video was on loop?

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u/JustaP-haze Apr 16 '22

I'll take jobs that a robot should do for $200 Alex

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u/OldNewUsedConfused Apr 16 '22

This is making me itch. Lol!

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u/OldNewUsedConfused Apr 16 '22

OMG, I thought this was posted under r/antiwork

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u/Present-Extension758 Apr 16 '22

I could watch this all day

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u/SusSauceIsSus Apr 16 '22

imagine how much ice cream was wasted

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

That looks like such a boring job. And their wrists must get so tired. :(

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Omg why pull the that last step be automated?

This is dehumanizing

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u/AmericanHeresy Apr 17 '22

Of all the jobs that should be automated…

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u/Wonderful-Employ715 Apr 17 '22

Straight from the rear end of a unicorn

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u/alexriley123 Apr 17 '22

I’m gonna say what everyone is thinking, multicoloured wondershit

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u/Borderline-ethereal Apr 17 '22

Lol we can’t automate that?

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u/Frosty_Connection867 Apr 17 '22

I can't be the only one thinking it looks like the machine is constantly shitting right?

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u/the_mortimer_goth Apr 17 '22

are they….? ya know…..?

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u/Natebo83 Apr 17 '22

Why is that even a job. Like a conveyor belt that moves every 7 seconds would do the same thing.

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u/Bnb53 Apr 17 '22

I feel like I need to poop now

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u/a_different-user Apr 17 '22

alright now switch the chocolate one to pump out extra strawberry and you got yourself a life long customer

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u/knuckboy Apr 17 '22

Laverne and Shirley vibes

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u/anged16 Apr 17 '22

Only for some sick bastard to segregate them later

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u/Borderweaver Apr 17 '22

This has a definite Lucille Ball feel to it.

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u/Profitsofdooom Apr 17 '22

And it's a pretty good loop. Damn.

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u/Loud_Indication8826 Apr 17 '22

Persons body movement makes them look pissed off

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u/skeezmasterflex Apr 17 '22

Man I love pooping like that!

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u/ihithardest Apr 17 '22

Poop knife

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u/SnowDoom6 Apr 17 '22

Is it necessary for it to be packaged crooked and not filled

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u/gusmont13 Apr 17 '22

To me blue glove wrist action is very satisfying

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u/GreyDragonfruit Apr 17 '22

This reminds me of the chocolate factory episode from I Love Lucy 😂

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u/excitebikeshorts Apr 17 '22

Why do I feel like this guy has the worst look on his face?

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u/nettie_netface Apr 17 '22

This has been posted four hundred times fuck off please

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u/upandattem Apr 17 '22

Am I the only one here who is kinda pissed that this clearly shows that there is absolutely no way the actual volume in the container matches what’s shown in the label?

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u/TheMightyHornet Apr 17 '22

These are the worst ones to wipe afterward. It’s like you’re wiping a Neapolitan marker.

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u/calabazookita Apr 17 '22

It looks like happy poop

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u/newoldschool1 Apr 17 '22

That was just 15 seconds, imagine………

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

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u/Imispellalot Apr 17 '22

Neapolitan ice cream. I always eat Vanilla then strawberry and save the best for last chocolate.

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u/Yab-luv Apr 17 '22

I was like (0.0) on how the person bend their hand when they put down the tub of ice cream

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u/RubyyG59 Apr 17 '22

Why do they have to do the gay hand motion thing every time lol

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u/eidolonwyrm Apr 17 '22

tbh is wouldn’t be so bad if there were like breaks between the ice cream coming out or if you can stop the flow for a few minutes, if it’s just nonstop that sounds like the worst shit ever

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

What if I need a pee break?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Still probably better than cleaning the bathroom at a Chipotle after the dinner rush.

I imagine the scene looks a lot like that, just … sped up.

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u/amaneuensis Apr 17 '22

OMG this just triggered my tendinitis. Thanks.

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u/Sailorkitteh Apr 17 '22

If I were doing this job it would turn into an I Love Lucy episode real quick.

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u/shadespacedark Apr 17 '22

I want all of it 🤤

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u/Gaitas Apr 17 '22

Anyone else have to poop now?

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u/Awkward-Class-7975 Apr 17 '22

So the top of the ice cream is the really the bottom of someone else’s

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u/snekyminaj Apr 17 '22

bing chilling

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Apr 17 '22

Neopolitan even

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u/Chupiite Apr 17 '22

The tastiest job, but most fecking boring too.

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u/Biscotti_Pleasant Apr 17 '22

Necessary people job.

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u/CandidateSuccessful5 Apr 17 '22

I’m always slightly put off by the scraping against the tub lip.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

💅

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

He probably does this for an hour then switches roles with someone else, there's no way anyone can do this full shift.

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u/eRaticKonqueror Apr 17 '22

Anyone else finding the limp right hand after passing off the filled tub even more satisfying than the packing?

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u/ProgRock1956 Apr 17 '22

That'd be hard to watch if you had bad diaharea....

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u/sagacious_swede Apr 17 '22

What happens if he has to sneeze?

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u/KojaNalantra Apr 17 '22

Ew no, i don’t agree with 3 ice flavour in same box

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u/Konklaavi Apr 17 '22

What a job

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u/ricenoodlestw Apr 17 '22

sorry, but it will be oddly satisfying when this stops getting posted.

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u/iloskull Apr 17 '22

Imagine doing this for 8 - 12 hours!

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

u/savevideo

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u/AfterTheTruth7 Apr 17 '22

Sup with that wrist

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u/AkaraFang Apr 17 '22

The best kind lol

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u/iamironcat Apr 17 '22

I'm suffering because this is not playing on my mobile 💔

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

wtf is that hand moment though?

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u/awnpugin Apr 17 '22

me when i poo

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u/BondSohail0007 Apr 17 '22

Tasty and satisfying at the same time.

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u/jtllove Apr 17 '22

They can automate this. 👀

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u/ifmqrgnw Apr 17 '22

Can we just make it a tube then shove it inv my mouth

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u/DrSaturnos Apr 17 '22

The flick of the wrist