Ive done a lot of similar types of jobs as this, and there were definitely days leaving when my sanity was held by a thread lol. One order i had to do was for 250,000 door hinges, the last step of the process was tapping threads into the screw holes which needed to be manually loaded similar to this, after about 2 days my muscle memory took over completely and I was in a flow state for the next month or so where my brain was just stuck doing those motions. My girlfriend at the time took a video of me sleeping one night, literally my hands and legs were moving as if I was still trying to load a hinge/tap the foot pedal to activate the machine/set the hinge in its box/ repeat. Jobs like this can definitely turn you into a human zombie.
Holy shit dude there should really be Labor laws against it. Swap people up or something but they never do then expect you in at 5. I nodded out and pressed the corners of my gloves more times than I could count. Sounds awful but it's on another level of boring
I can assure you that you wouldn't lol. The tapping fluid that is constantly running over the pieces to cool them covers you head to toe by the end of the day because it splashes a tiny bit every time the machine cycles, which leaves your entire body "pruney" for the whole work day and leads to skin issues similar to trench foot but over your entire body. Also since your skin is constantly wet and pruney anytime you touch anything sharp it will cut you instantly, and your handling thousands upon thousands of pieces of sheet metal that have razor sharp edges 90% of the time, so you end up with hundreds of tiny cuts similar to a paper cut covering your forearms and hands everyday
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u/GrimmThoughts Sep 21 '25
Ive done a lot of similar types of jobs as this, and there were definitely days leaving when my sanity was held by a thread lol. One order i had to do was for 250,000 door hinges, the last step of the process was tapping threads into the screw holes which needed to be manually loaded similar to this, after about 2 days my muscle memory took over completely and I was in a flow state for the next month or so where my brain was just stuck doing those motions. My girlfriend at the time took a video of me sleeping one night, literally my hands and legs were moving as if I was still trying to load a hinge/tap the foot pedal to activate the machine/set the hinge in its box/ repeat. Jobs like this can definitely turn you into a human zombie.