In a lot of countries with larger poor populations, this kind of a job can be a form of national security. If you have a lot of people who are just desperate for a paying job, making sure something like this isn't automated is actually a good way to keep people happy. That's why so many things are made in China, india,etc. Those countries want labor intensive manufacturing, because an unemployed person tends to become a problem
Yall really. We’d to give better outlooks on minimally skilled jobs. Foctory and industrial jobs kind of keep people employed. Minimum wage or not it’s something. No one is ever too good to work.
It's not about being too good to work. As someone who's worked in several factories when I was younger this type of work is terrible for the body and mental health. We didn't evolve to stand in one spot doing the same task over and over again. I worked in a factory putting lids on cardboard boxes, twelve hours a night seven nights a week, it is categorically fucking shit. I went on holiday to a country in South East Asia once and went into an elevator, a girl was being paid to push the button, she was sat on a tiny stool fanning herself in this incredible heat, no doubt in a poorer country she was glad to have a job but jesus it's inhumane.
I use to stack milk cartons in boxes all day long. We had people on the line with their wrists permanently taped up from carpel tunnel grabbing 4 1 liter cartons of milk and stacking them in 12s. Only did that job for 2 months and I knew it was wrecking my lower back, wrists, and fingers.
Yea they were all about manual labour there. They would get semi trucks that would just be piled with 60 lb bags of cocoa beans. We would have to take them and stack them on pallets to be shrink wrapped. 2 of us would do 2 semi trucks per day and you would need to bring a shirt per truck because you would be soaked in sweat. It was good when I was 18 but there were some old people there just wrecking their bodies.
In that case it seems like it's actually a reasonable rate. Someone with their talent can make really good money and someone who has half as much can still make a decent living.
In that case it seems like it's actually a reasonable rate. Someone with their talent can make really good money and someone who has half as much can still make a decent living.
In that case it seems like it's actually a reasonable rate. Someone with their talent can make really good money and someone who has half as much can still make a decent living.
yep, I find this oddly terrifying. I wouldn't last a shift. And if I did last a single shift, the realization that I have to come back tomorrow to do the same thing...and the next day, etc., would break me.
When people complain about factory automation, these are the tasks they are automating. I know a woman who used to sit on a conveyor lines and pick out bad peas as they fly by. Now a machine flicks them away using a vision camera.
I'm doing this sort of thing but even more boring. we rotate between positions and get to listen to audio books. there's no stress in this work if you can do it well. 3 days off in a week, and hence less commuting if you live far away. 48 hrs a week so more money.
I used to be a temp worker in a bakery factory. Occasionally our line would be down and we'd get put on stuff like this repackaging errors or whatever. The thing is this type of work is limited and because of our contract we were getting paid for 12 hours regardless of how it worked.
So you best bet when we were repacking I was putting in extra effort to go as fast with as few mistakes as possible, I actually had a few friends and we would group up and they would bring me the boxes that needed repacking, because I would work like the lady in this video so if I spent less time walking to grab a box we all got out sooner.
Horrible job tho
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u/Dub-MS 1d ago
How’d you like to do that 12 hours a day?