r/oddlysatisfying • u/Fr33_load3r • 1d ago
Prefect packing and stacking technique
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u/Brilliant_Bonus_1638 1d ago
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That’s why I box my avocados just slow enough to not get fired from my job at the avocado packing facility.
And it’s also why I shit on company time.
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u/swung 1d ago
Productivity drops exactly one bathroom break per shift. Corporate can survive the loss.
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u/postprandialrepose 1d ago
True. Fecal matter wicks precious bodily moisture, which leads to dehydration, which leads to loss of productivity. Dehydration also leads to constipation, which causes the worker to spend more time in the restroom.
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u/SourceOriginal2332 1d ago
This is why they get paid per case finished not an hourly rate.
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u/Workman44 1d ago
I've always thought ouput should be far more of a salary-maker than just experience
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u/Partypaca 1d ago
I feel that as an ex-amazon picker. They wanted 400-500 items picked an hour. And often the pods would come slow, get stuck, or you get tons of heavy items.
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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 1d ago
What does being that efficient earn you at a job like that?
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u/Arkhe1n 1d ago
More work
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u/curious-kitten-0 1d ago
Exactly, working in a manufacturing setting in repetitive jobs in the past. I got really good at doing the job to the point that I did it on autopilot because it was all just muscle memory after a while. I was fast and efficient so I was tasked with doing my job as well as helping and training others. It kept me busy but I was not paid extra.
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u/OverlordShoo 1d ago
I hope you at least claimed training experience in your work history going forward
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u/NotJayuu 1d ago
I worked at a factory that had a limited number of packaging that needed to be done, but no matter what at the end of the day you got paid for the full day. So if we ended early we could go home early while being paid in full. So at least in my case it meant less work!
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u/SwimmingHand4727 1d ago
Came here to say that! He (or she) wonders why he has to do more than his coworkers .....
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u/ZoeeCarter 1d ago
If it's piece-rate, then speed actually pays. If not, it's mostly personal pride or muscle memory
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 1d ago
Maybe working towards a promotion where they won't have to be "hands on" so much?
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u/amooz 1d ago
Honestly, probably time to mentally checkout once it’s all muscle memory which makes the day go faster. It’s like distance driving a familiar route, you’re conscious the whole time and reacting appropriately to the road and traffic, yet when you think back to it you realize your brain was in standby mode.
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u/DubsideDangler 1d ago
If you do any task you do it as efficiently as possible. Have pride in your work.... unfortunately the people that pay these folks have only pride in their vacation hone and boats and toys they buy instead of paying a proper wage.
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u/RRTAmy 1d ago
Maybe they get paid by the box?
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u/e-wrecked 1d ago
I saw a video where they were picking fruit (I believe?) and they were hustling because it was paid by the box.
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u/Traditional-Size3076 1d ago
In Pakistan we have a different culture, the daily wages labour does contract work, for example, hauling bricks, you could pay the guy 2k for hauling bricks all day and he would haul 200 bricks in the whole day, or you could pay him 2k for 200 bricks and he would be done in an hour. Oh you need your fruits moved ? That will be 2k per day and I will haul all this in 2 days. Or you can do a contract and haul a truck worth of fruits in 2 hours and just pay 3.5k.
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u/BrowseBowserTrousers 1d ago
I was kind of a beast in the produce department. I worked really hard, people noticed, and I kept getting promoted. I know it doesn’t always work out that way but you never know.
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u/nellyruth 1d ago
Not much.
Could she have been more efficient and easier on her joints by not moving her arm around as much? Is she selecting by size?
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u/Visual_Face5413 1d ago
Sad seeing human beings having to work like a robot
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u/fusguita 1d ago
Still better than seeing robots having to work like humans
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u/countervalent 1d ago
What if we could have robots do this and use the surplus value to actually increase our collective quality of life?
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u/fusguita 1d ago
Because the surplus value would just go into the wrong pockets. But if you'll find a way to make that work, I'll vote for you for president of the world
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u/DCS_Sport 1d ago
What fucking utopia do you live in where everyone has a job that changes the world? This is literally what humans do - necessary jobs so that others can do their jobs. This person is good at what they do, but I’m not going to sit here and make up some fantasy narrative as to what their life is like based on a 30 second clip.
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u/Arkhe1n 1d ago
This sub loves their sweatshops, I swear to God
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u/Osgore 1d ago
Coming from a family that did this kind of work. This person is likely happy to have a job that they can use to provide a living for thier family. Everyone looks down on this work but forgets what we had before. Straight up misery and complete insecurity. This is opportunity, and that's why they become efficient, because they take pride in thier work. They are grateful to be thier because they know it can be worse.
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u/AccomplishedRole4320 1d ago
We don't look down on the work or the workers. Nor that it's a step up from possibly worse conditions or as a means to provide for themselves but more often for their families and next generations.
We look down and wish to abolish the very conditions and economics that force our people into these situations to begin with.
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u/HikmetLeGuin 1d ago
Exactly. Things don't have to be this way in the first place. People don't have to choose between shit and shittier.
It's better not to perpetuate a system that constantly forces people to choose between two terrible options and then convinces them to be "grateful" for the slightly less terrible one.
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u/Philderp069 1d ago
I used to work in produce departments in grocery stores. I learned to do this but unpacking instead. Now I see a lot of people talking about why do it so fast. Honestly, I just learned to do this naturally over time.
Speed comes with experience and practice and when all you do is unpack boxes of produce for 8+ hours, you just kind of pick these things up.
As for why do it faster despite making minimum wage? Well for me it was so I didn’t get in trouble for working too slowly or not finishing my tasks by the end of the day cause I was too slow. It’s not really about the bosses or the pay so much as it’s a paying job that I don’t want to lose because I’d rather not go try and find another job at that time. That’s just me though.
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u/SweetNarrator 1d ago
"Unskilled" labor. I'd like to see your avg. rEpublicuck do this for 15 minutes.
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u/Ok_Tie7944 1d ago
rich people and the politicians who support them are the true parasites of society
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u/gravitas_shortage 23h ago
There's always one comment saying "UnSkIlLeD lAbOuR". No one thinks there is no skill in unskilled labour. Unskilled labour is defined as labour that does not require formal training or education. That's all.
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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 1d ago
It's wild that things like this get posted like we're amazed at people being able to do this, but we still pay these people nothing.
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u/bradford68 1d ago
slide the blue thing under the avocados, shake and place in box. i've never done this job but that seems like the way to do it but maybe I'm wrong.
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u/Medical_Button_7933 1d ago
most likely would bruise the avocado, but filling the blue box without the tossing and the putting it in the box would probably be kess harmful to your arms and shoulders not sure about the back though
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u/cluster_fuckedd 1d ago
That does seem more efficient but those blue things are usually pretty soft and flimsy and would probably be likely to rip as you lift it and put it into the box if you had the weight of all those avocados on it
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u/DarthiusFatticus 1d ago
So many avocados and somehow every time i try to buy one they are always unripe
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u/GelatinousCube7 1d ago
i can do stuff like but i cant imagine doing it every day, im not an assembly line person.
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u/ImherefortheH1Z1 1d ago
This highly skilled employee is paid the same as her lowest preforming colleague, I guarantee it.
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u/A1ianT0rtur3 1d ago
I get the sentiment that workers are underpaid but its strange how many people here are complaining that this dude puts in 100% to his job and is trying to get as much done as quickly as possible.
You're probably right that people often don't get the appreciation they deserve at work but people DO notice and over time its better to give the best representation you can of yourself to get the best opportunities. How you do anything is how you do everything. If this dude is giving 100% at his job then he probably gives 100% to everything and that is the mindset of a successful person
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u/moonwalker29059 1d ago
I've worked in factories and warehouses and trust me there are people like that everywhere. You really HAVE TO make the work fun or you will lose your mind. Especially on production lines.
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u/knowinshalfthebattle 1d ago
That’s the person everyone else at the factory gets pissed at for making them look bad.
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u/Temporary_Bad_1438 1d ago
Me: "This video is not Oddly Satisf....holy shit that is fast! I wonder how the medical benefits are??"
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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 1d ago
Avocados are called 'Alligator pears' in one of my Grandma's cookbooks.
I've always love this stupid fact.
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u/username-fatigue 1d ago
I used to pack apples every season and used precisely the same technique. It's strangely meditative!
And then I'd blow my nose and all my snot would be purple from the dust.
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u/hibzy7 1d ago
And you all thought, machines would replace humans 🤣🤣🤣
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u/rabguy1234 1d ago
They will for jobs like these. We have an automated robot at work that discards ‘bad’ donuts and picks and packs good ones.
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u/jemidiah 1d ago
Wonder if they had circus training growing up. That sort of precise tossing/catching is very reminiscent of juggling.
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u/Last-Sleep4638 1d ago
why do they need to be lined up? Also, wouldn't a "scoop and shake" from the big pile work well enough?
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u/CodApprehensive3252 1d ago
I know people don’t like the idea of AI taking our jobs but imaging seeing a humanoid robot doing this ten times the speed of
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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 1d ago
That how you get bruised fruits and veggies. And you'll be the reasons why apple has brownish bruises.
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u/Satans_Finest 1d ago
Would probably be almost as fast to just take two in each hand at a time with the benefit of less strain on the joints.
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u/Eelroots 1d ago
She has to bend to get that sticker. Raise the stickers on a roll close to her station.
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 1d ago
This was posted here previously in better video quality as well and with 2.6k upvotes
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1p573zy/this_expert_packing_of_fruits/
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u/grip0matic 1d ago
How is this more quickly than a sorting machine? I've worked with fruits and NO AMOUNT OF PEOPLE would beat a sorting machine. Also there is no excuse, avocados have a thick skin, and are almost round. If the kumatos got engineered to have a round and thick skin tomato able to go through a sorting machine is because that's more efficient.
Peaches, apricots, prunes, everything went throw the sorting machine. We only had to do flat peaches by hand, because those are not round and the machine cannot sort them. Also a sorting machine can be calibrated to an amazing degree.
I miss working at the cooperative, it was hot af, but for me it was so easy to do any job in there. From unloading trucks to anything, I learnt to be useful in any part.
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u/irish_horse_thief 1d ago
I worked as maintenance engineer at a chicken abotoir where they unalived 38 to 50 thousand birds a week. You should have seen the girls who folded the wings and put on the elastic bands holding the legs together on the tying line... superhuman techniques can be seen in factory work.
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u/noonesaidityet 17h ago
Looks like the person found a really efficient and probably boredom-reducing way to do this, so I expect a manager to come along any second to tell them to knock it off.
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u/jargon_ninja69 5h ago
Reminder that there is no such thing as "unskilled labor"
Unless you're a parasitic CEO raking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for doing nothing but screwing over the people that actually do the work
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u/Dub-MS 1d ago
How’d you like to do that 12 hours a day?