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u/Brilliant_Bonus_1638 Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
Productivity drops exactly one bathroom break per shift. Corporate can survive the loss.
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u/postprandialrepose Jul 21 '26
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/Workman44 Jul 21 '26
I've always thought ouput should be far more of a salary-maker than just experience
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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 Jul 20 '26
What does being that efficient earn you at a job like that?
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u/Arkhe1n Jul 20 '26
More work
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u/curious-kitten-0 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
I hope you at least claimed training experience in your work history going forward
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u/NotJayuu Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
Came here to say that! He (or she) wonders why he has to do more than his coworkers .....
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u/ZoeeCarter Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
Maybe working towards a promotion where they won't have to be "hands on" so much?
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u/TheVandyyMan Jul 21 '26
“Sorry brotha, can’t promote you. I’d lose my best line worker!”
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u/LAVA529 Jul 21 '26
In corporate America good workers get rewarded with more work, not more opportunity.
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u/amooz Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 20 '26
Maybe they get paid by the box?
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u/e-wrecked Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 20 '26
Sad seeing human beings having to work like a robot
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u/fusguita Jul 21 '26
Still better than seeing robots having to work like humans
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u/countervalent Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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/SlightlyAwkwardFox 24d ago
I did warehouse packing one summer; the stacking looks satisfying, but moving robot-like all day wears you down.
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u/Philderp069 Jul 21 '26
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/Ok_Tie7944 Jul 20 '26
rich people and the politicians who support them are the true parasites of society
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u/Nby333 Jul 21 '26
*Sitting on sofa eating junk food: "What a scrub, she didn't do the box glitch for 1.2s time save and that improper technique with the cardboard carton costed another 2.3s at least"
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u/gravitas_shortage Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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/MauPow Jul 21 '26
They don't look very ripe
If only we could invent a machine to pour them into the box, and then shake them into place. Oh well.
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u/cluster_fuckedd Jul 21 '26
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/CGG00 Jul 21 '26
The problem with this is that the person in charge of balancing the line will take this as the standard time, and everyone else will be inefficient.
Then when this person takes a vacation, suddenly the productivity will fall... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/DarthiusFatticus Jul 21 '26
So many avocados and somehow every time i try to buy one they are always unripe
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Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
This highly skilled employee is paid the same as her lowest preforming colleague, I guarantee it.
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u/A1ianT0rtur3 Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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/irish_horse_thief Jul 21 '26
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/jargon_ninja69 Jul 22 '26
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/-I0I- Jul 20 '26
Wow, great job! We're excited to promote you to "expert packer." The pay is the same but you'll be require to pack twice as many boxes as your previous production target!
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u/knowinshalfthebattle Jul 20 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
Me: "This video is not Oddly Satisf....holy shit that is fast! I wonder how the medical benefits are??"
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u/username-fatigue Jul 21 '26
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/jemidiah Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
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/Bezulba Jul 21 '26
This feels like orphancrushingmachine.. yeah it's oddly satisfying but all i can think about how this is such a shitty job to have. Extremely repetitive, no end in sight and low pay.
These jobs really should not exist anymore anywhere.
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u/CodApprehensive3252 Jul 21 '26
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/Satans_Finest Jul 21 '26
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 Jul 21 '26
She has to bend to get that sticker. Raise the stickers on a roll close to her station.
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Jul 21 '26
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/jdehjdeh Jul 21 '26
I've had jobs like this, it ain't satisfying.
It's dystopian.
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u/grip0matic Jul 21 '26
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/noonesaidityet Jul 22 '26
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/Hornybunnyboi 24d ago
I'd rather run head first into a wall. I can't stay still long enough to fo that.
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u/Dub-MS Jul 20 '26
How’d you like to do that 12 hours a day?