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ExecuDork
Feb 25, 2007

We might be fucked, sir.
Fallen Rib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

Dude gets all the ladies on the dancefloor.

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Banana Republican
Jul 12, 2007


RabbitWizard posted:

After this, my videos won't blow your socks off. But I worked at a (little bit different) place like this. If you want to get a sense of scale of those places, they might be interesting. I never bothered to upload them before, so OC, don't steal!

I had to put poo poo audio over them because Youtube doesn't seem to have an option to just remove it. So mute them! Also, I couldn't find the option for the auto stabilization :(
I'm standing where there pallets are normally placed. A coworker is driving me around, he's in a cabin behind me. There's a manual mode for when we humans do things. Everything is quite slow.
Video one is driving forward with manual controls. Video two is going up with manual controls.

Then, there's automatic mode, which drives to a position at ~3 meters/second. This is the third video, which is the most exciting one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprCDk3BREk&list=PLzk9Q1XB-ZCrJPhJzb6-JO_OHpLyHqWG_ (This should be a playlist of 3 videos without me talking, if it isn't, please tell me!)

Those lifts could pick up or set down pallets on the right or left, up to 750kg. There were 20 lanes. ~10,000 pallets were put in/picked out each day.

For OSHA, one time a lift got stuck at the top and instead of putting on the climbing equipment and climb 45 meters of ladder (it's harder than you think!), we just drove the lift in the next lane up and walked to the other one. Without safety, because there aren't any attachment points on any of the storage structure. I wonder why.

Yeesh I feel like the walls are closing in just watching that. That is not a place meant for humans.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Ultraklystron
May 19, 2010

Unsafe At Every Speed

ExecuDork posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

Dude gets all the ladies on the dancefloor.

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007


Air cooled

And earthquake proof

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007

And easy to dust!

Spoondick
Jun 9, 2000


called support, but my system keeps hanging

Uncle Enzo
Apr 28, 2008

I always wanted to be a Wizard

RabbitWizard posted:

After this, my videos won't blow your socks off. But I worked at a (little bit different) place like this. If you want to get a sense of scale of those places, they might be interesting. I never bothered to upload them before, so OC, don't steal!

I had to put poo poo audio over them because Youtube doesn't seem to have an option to just remove it. So mute them! Also, I couldn't find the option for the auto stabilization :(
I'm standing where there pallets are normally placed. A coworker is driving me around, he's in a cabin behind me. There's a manual mode for when we humans do things. Everything is quite slow.
Video one is driving forward with manual controls. Video two is going up with manual controls.

Then, there's automatic mode, which drives to a position at ~3 meters/second. This is the third video, which is the most exciting one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprCDk3BREk&list=PLzk9Q1XB-ZCrJPhJzb6-JO_OHpLyHqWG_ (This should be a playlist of 3 videos without me talking, if it isn't, please tell me!)

Those lifts could pick up or set down pallets on the right or left, up to 750kg. There were 20 lanes. ~10,000 pallets were put in/picked out each day.

For OSHA, one time a lift got stuck at the top and instead of putting on the climbing equipment and climb 45 meters of ladder (it's harder than you think!), we just drove the lift in the next lane up and walked to the other one. Without safety, because there aren't any attachment points on any of the storage structure. I wonder why.


Pro click. This is basically one of those dystopian hives that they grow people in in The Matrix, except for pallets.

Is there anything special about this kind of storage? It seems like it would be a very costly storage option, the racks alone must cost a fortune. The place didn't look refrigerated or anything, though that would explain the premium for denser storage. Fancy cheeses aging maybe?

The Dark One
Aug 19, 2005

I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!
It's much more compact.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
https://i.imgur.com/3ZdWkp2.mp4

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

*taps for sound*

:stare:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
What’s is that stuff? Granite?

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016


Thomas Midley III?

ChairMaster
Aug 22, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Looks too darkly coloured to be granite, could be limestone or basalt or something.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

RabbitWizard posted:

After this, my videos won't blow your socks off. But I worked at a (little bit different) place like this. If you want to get a sense of scale of those places, they might be interesting. I never bothered to upload them before, so OC, don't steal!

I had to put poo poo audio over them because Youtube doesn't seem to have an option to just remove it. So mute them! Also, I couldn't find the option for the auto stabilization :(
I'm standing where there pallets are normally placed. A coworker is driving me around, he's in a cabin behind me. There's a manual mode for when we humans do things. Everything is quite slow.
Video one is driving forward with manual controls. Video two is going up with manual controls.

Then, there's automatic mode, which drives to a position at ~3 meters/second. This is the third video, which is the most exciting one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprCDk3BREk&list=PLzk9Q1XB-ZCrJPhJzb6-JO_OHpLyHqWG_ (This should be a playlist of 3 videos without me talking, if it isn't, please tell me!)

Those lifts could pick up or set down pallets on the right or left, up to 750kg. There were 20 lanes. ~10,000 pallets were put in/picked out each day.

For OSHA, one time a lift got stuck at the top and instead of putting on the climbing equipment and climb 45 meters of ladder (it's harder than you think!), we just drove the lift in the next lane up and walked to the other one. Without safety, because there aren't any attachment points on any of the storage structure. I wonder why.

Last week's Doctor Who episode was literally about your workplace.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Burt Sexual posted:

What’s is that stuff? Granite?

Marble, just dirty. They do that in Italy when they're getting slabs of it down for cutting up. Average number of fingers on each one of the workers at the top would probably be <4 per hand. Average numbers of hands would definitely be <2.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Buttcoin purse posted:

So is it muddy there or something? Is slipping over in a way that you can knock out teeth somehow a risk that can't be mitigated in your workplace? I suppose that losing a few teeth probably won't ruin your life - I guess you can get replacements that work pretty much like the originals, not like if you lose a limb or something - but it seems kinda bad if that's normal?

Some locations are muddy, some are dusty. It's generally from the situations I've heard just to do with being a dumbass and not taking their time doing stuff. Meanwhile this is a company that has remote access cameras to every cab. Any signification bump that occurs automatically records what happened, then uploads it to the monitoring office where an investigation is undertaken - likely before the driver even knows they jumped a curb/hit a pothole.

It's usually nothing serious, but if they see the driver without both hands on the wheel (or one on gearstick and one on wheel) they get written up. The best one I saw was one of our drivers smoking a cigarette, scratching his nuts and hit a pothole at speed. Remember these are flammable/explosive gas trucks.

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014


Probably not safe to use while wearing a tin foil hat, right?

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon

Uncle Enzo posted:

Pro click. This is basically one of those dystopian hives that they grow people in in The Matrix, except for pallets.

Is there anything special about this kind of storage? It seems like it would be a very costly storage option, the racks alone must cost a fortune. The place didn't look refrigerated or anything, though that would explain the premium for denser storage. Fancy cheeses aging maybe?

I'll talk a bit about it, beware of :words:

This place was open 16 hours a day. It was the main storage for Germany for a P&G company that deals with hair products. There were trucks coming and going on dozens of loading bays all day. ~10km of conveyor belts constantly moved pallets into the storage and out. The storage space was about 50,000 pallets.
When a truck came in it was unloaded by forklifts which put the pallets down on one of the multiple input feeds. They were automatically scanned, weighted and then assigned a storage place and moved to it.

Some pallets just stayed there a while and then got requested to put on trucks to other locations. Some pallets were requested for something else. They first went to a place where the saddest people worked the saddest job I've ever seen :smith:
You have two conveyor belts coming up to a station. 2 pallets arrive. A display shows a number. That's how many packages you move from the right pallet to the left. After you are done, you press a button. The pallets move away and you get two new pallets. And a new number.
...
The pallet the stuff got removed from went back into storage. The other one went to a station where someone opened the packages and threw the contents onto smaller conveyor belts. They went to dozens of individual packing stations where another once-a-human scanned them and packed them, then put their packages on another belt.

The smaller packages went to a cool robot arm that stacked them neatly on a pallet and shrink wrapped them.

OT starts here: I heard that work was done by 3 people before but they complained to HR that their workload was too much. So P&G reacted accordingly.

Sometimes stuff wasn't needed any more. They had one full time employee that did the following every day:
Getting pallets, opening up each box, empty the contents into a giant bin on a forklift. After each layer of product, use black spray paint. When the bin is full, drive it to one of the garbage containers.
On some days he threw away maybe 1000€ of products, on some (we googled sometimes) we guessed up to 20k.

Procter and Gamble is a poo poo company and I will never work for them again. They had an office with employees that were there for 30-50 years. Firing them would have been expensive, because of the severance pay. So they opened a new branch office and moved them there, while honoring their current contracts. After a year, they closed the branch.
"What, you only worked here for a year? What severance pay?"


Banana Republican posted:

That is not a place meant for humans.

Edit: There was a caged area with some boxes somewhere that I asked about. They told me the story of an employee that managed to steal over 50 japanese hand made scissors for professional hair stylists, each about 2,000€. And they never figured out who did it. And that's why there's a cage now with restricted access. So there's at least one happy story I can recall :)

RabbitWizard fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Nov 23, 2018

Crust First
May 1, 2013

Wrong lads.
Some Black Friday OSHA:

quote:

For a decade now, I have made a point every Black Friday of publicly saying the name Jdimytai Damour. Lots of us vaguely know the story — a few years back, a guy was trampled on Black Friday in a stampede of early morning shoppers at Walmart. But I’ve found, in these past ten years since Jdimytai died, that few people know any details of what happened to this man, why it happened, and what’s happened since.

quote:

He died at age 34, on November 28, 2008 in the early morning hours of Black Friday. Yes, he was trampled under the feet of rabid, frenzied Walmart shoppers in Long Island, New York. But the mere trampling itself isn’t the most important part of this event. What’s most important is that Jdimytai — an overnight stock clerk at the Valley Stream Walmart store — was asked by his employer to use his 6 foot, 5 inch body as a barrier for a crowd of over 2,000 people. The same was asked of a few fellow employees who were also deemed to be “bigger staffers,” whose bodies could be used in such a way.

quote:

But another little-known part of the story is just as important a fact as what Jdimytai was asked to do with his body: When OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) followed suit after the Nassau County DA and filed a safety hazard charge against Walmart, the corporation spent over $1 million fighting the charge in courtrooms from 2009 until 2015, when they finally relented and agreed to pay the OSHA fine. The amount of that fine they’d spent over $1 million dollars defiantly refusing? $7,000. Their claim during that time of fighting the charge: “the citation was unfair because safeguarding staffers from crowds wasn’t a federal standard when the incident occurred.”

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2aKsoizx1w

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDi1haA71Q

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012




Lol I follow this channel and saw the first couple vids when they get it.

Love that he uses music from don't touch me I'm scared at the beginning

mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Carbon dioxide posted:

Turns out that if you don't provoke bulls by poking spears into them, they're generally the most chill creatures ever.

Dairy bulls are pretty aggressive and monstrous. They will stomp you to death.. They're over 2,000lbs of hate. They will crush you through the wall of a barn. They may eat you after you've been smushed up, I don't know. I'm not going to give them a chance..

I do know that if you're crossing a pasture with a dairy bull in it, don't. Just don't bother. Cross through the pasture full of females. They'll never squish you into a fine powder. Sometimes they mess with you, but they won't hurt you.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



Good lord, how do you stop a runaway battery fire? Is there nothing you can do to stop it since all the fuel is stored right next to each other?


That's a thing that deffo needs figured out

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless
"We took a working electric Disney car and made it run on Tesla gear. It doesn't work now"

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

KoRMaK posted:

Lol I follow this channel and saw the first couple vids when they get it.

Love that he uses music from don't touch me I'm scared at the beginning

My favorite part is either:

1. The waving good luck cat in the office.

2. The firemen pulling up and staring at it like they're trying to figure out what to do until a battery comes rocketing out and bounces off their windshield.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/uk/farmer-killed-forklift-dog-gbr-scli/index.html

quote:

Man crushed to death by forklift truck driven by pet dog

Just hire a farm hand. Even if you can teach your dog to drive a forklift, they lack dexterity and critical thinking skills.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

KoRMaK posted:

Good lord, how do you stop a runaway battery fire?

The same way you stop a titanium fire. You go somewhere else and wait politely for it to finish.

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

I hate everyone and everything in this video except the helpless dogs who for some incomprehensible reason seem to be running around an active work floor

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Powershift posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/uk/farmer-killed-forklift-dog-gbr-scli/index.html


Just hire a farm hand. Even if you can teach your dog to drive a forklift, they lack dexterity and critical thinking skills.

Wait. What happened to the dog? Was it still there? Did it go back home and (poorly) act like nothing happened?

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


madeintaipei posted:

Wait. What happened to the dog? Was it still there? Did it go back home and (poorly) act like nothing happened?

He went to live on a nice farm up state with your aunt and uncle :unsmith:

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
This happened on my work site today.

Finished lunch break, and went to move my machine to a different hole location, as I was moving it, I heard a squeal, crash and turned around to see a Mazda 3 come to a stop on my table.

Table survived, no need for insurance claim.











Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

wesleywillis posted:

Table survived, no need for insurance claim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnusqx-VnTg

ExecuDork
Feb 25, 2007

We might be fucked, sir.
Fallen Rib

DOBBY IS FREE!!!! FREEEEEEEE!!!!!

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan

The Lone Badger posted:

The lighting at the start of this video always makes me think I'm looking at a nuclear reactor.

The ol' spicy Cherenkov Cheese trick

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009
:vince:

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VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
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Freak Out



KoRMaK posted:

Good lord, how do you stop a runaway battery fire?

The Lone Badger posted:

The same way you stop a titanium fire. You go somewhere else and wait politely for it to finish.

{Laconic} you run away

{Italian} :discourse: you runnadeotherway

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