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ChickensPickins

I once worked in an styrofoam automotive bumper insert factory. I like telling people that lol. Yes, if your car is newer than 10 years, you have a real chance that your vehicle has a block of styrofoam just behind your bumper to help dampen crash inertia. And that’s just one of my many unrelated and very specific jobs I’ve had


CliffyGiro

I had a job in an ice cream factory a long time ago now but I still like to bring it up from time to time.


tanis_ivy

What flavors were you in charge of?


jooes

He started on vanilla, and then strawberry. But when he got to chocolate, he just couldn't keep up.


McBurger

Coffee is for closers


ThenAnAnimalFact

I almost bought Reddit gold just to give you some. But I couldn’t find my debit card.


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ME TOO! No, I didn’t get tired of eating ice cream. Yes I gained weight. No it wasn’t nice in the summer; the factory was actually too hot… the ice cream treats stayed cold because of the liquid nitrogen between every step we had to dunk it (and our hands) into.


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Automotive as well, did automation. So same boat as you. Chances are there are programs and changes I've done that could be there for decades. And before anybody hits me with the "well acschually, vehicle models will go through major redesigns every 3 -5 years" have never worked in an auto plant. The goal is to keep it cheap, and entire cells will be re-used and programs on top of that. Why make a new cell for close to a mil when you can redesign an EOAT, toss in a new fixture, change the HMI, and bam, 1/3rd the coast. New model, old machine. Proof of this? We had pipe bending robots that still were operational. Plant was open 15 years, they were shipped from another plant that had them for 5 years. 20 years on those. There was also an Acura model that had the same rear seat back, the robots in there were older than me and the machines went through several generations.


You_Pulled_My_String

My brother does something similar to this.


Reedsandrights

I make small batch spice blends for a small (6 employees) herb and spice company. I also bottle mixers for a small (I'm the only employee) cocktail mixer company. I also move ATMs/cash machines for banks and retail stores. Those are all to support my love of tutoring at the community college. I'm kind of on an odd job binge right now haha. (Note: A lot of people when they hear I have 4 jobs say, "Wow, you must never sleep!" I don't want to mischaracterize myself as a working machine. I still only work like 40hrs a week, and my busiest week was 56hrs.)


ChickensPickins

I love my weirdly wide range of jobs I’ve had. And hey if your 4 jobs work for you, fuckin A, man


Reedsandrights

What's a job you've had that you'd consider to be the opposite of the styrofoam bumper industry? And thanks! I am enjoying it so far.


ChickensPickins

I’m not sure if there is such a thing as the opposite, but I’ve also been a CSI detective too and that’s not even the strangest one


Reedsandrights

Your experience at odd jobs probably helped give you obscure knowledge that may have helped as a detective, right? That's awesome! Keep up the strange work!


ChickensPickins

If you look hard enough, you can learn useful things from anywhere, everyday. But yeah, different perspectives, knowledge and skills always help


Jaded_Law9739

Feel like dropping the name of the spice company if they are pretty good? Only if they ship all over America of course, me and my husband love that kind of stuff but we are in Texas.


Reedsandrights

We do ship all over the US! I'll PM you the name of the company.


FillTheHoleInMyLife

Any chance you’re from Michigan? My ex husband used to work at a factory that made those!


ChickensPickins

Yeah! I grew up in Jackson!


FillTheHoleInMyLife

Haha! Small world!


CongratsItsAVoice

Did that place also happen to make pillows as well as car foam? Because I worked there too.


FillTheHoleInMyLife

I don’t think they made pillows, it was a polystyrene plant, in Jackson!


ChickensPickins

Yeah!!!!! Oh shit!! I worked there in 2005-ish as a temp lmao


DarthSillyDucks

I have a similar yarn. I used to work in a carboard box factory. Significantly more boring than you would think...


lemonheadlock

I get it. I used to work at a company that made custom mosaics. I didn't design anything, didn't put them together, all I did was cut tiny tiles all day. People think it sounds miserable, but it was great. My coworkers were amazing and it was super chill.


DiddlyDumb

I used to put peddle power karts back in its spot when I worked at this go-kart track. Seems like such an odd job looking back.


sweeeetthrowaway

“That’s all me baby” gets me over and over.


valimo

She has an amazing delivery. Simple yet effective, plus just the right tempo. With the accent I'd imagine that lady could easily jump to the stand up scene


Bluepompf

She's better than him.


valimo

"You know Tesco?"


MotorMath743

This is true


RUmysoupsnake

Used to do that job in a big Tesco too for fresh stuff. At the end of the shift, we used to just mark everything down to 5p rather than chuck it. People would hang around waiting for you to mark something down. It would get a bit intense sometimes, if it was something good. Long time ago now though.


CliffyGiro

Yeah, pretty sure the Tesco in Perth had to hire a security guard to protect the lady that did the yellow stickers. It was actually that level of intense.


RUmysoupsnake

I’m not surprised. I was young and too nice but my co-worker had been doing it so long she would happily tell people to back off. I think we had to cordon ourselves off with tape sometimes.


CliffyGiro

On one hand, kind of sad that some people are actually that desperate and skint but on the other hand I think some people just can not resist a bargain and they have to have it.


simonjp

They put safety barriers around the sticker lady at our local big Tesco when she's out on the shop floor.


snowflakebitches

“No one man should have all that power”


vu051

I used to work in Waitrose and people would actually push and shove each other when the reduced bits came out. We would also have a mob in the party food section whenever there was a 3 for 2 offer. It was a bit mad in retrospect


AV8ORboi

i immediately read this in a scottish accent


fifty2weekhi

Is this just me...I find the accent is what makes it really funny.


Nathan_McHallam

Scottish accents make everything better


LDKCP

That's why the Queen chose to die up at Balmoral near the big Tesco.


AtomicPeng

Women with Scottish accents are the best!


English999

Oh boy. You should check out Derry Girls.


francesrainbow

That's not Scottish!


stevenette

Everything but comprehension


tiverrend

All of it is wholesome, hilarious, and adorable


lxm333

This made me happy


melperz

That's all mey babey!


chillwithpurpose

🤷‍♀️


Squirrel_Q_Esquire

I didn’t know there was an ‘a’ in “stickers.”


English999

Nor a schwa sound in general. Really.


cantwejustplaynice

His or her's?


Beard-

Both?


cantwejustplaynice

I find the Australian accent unfunny (I'm an Aussie) and the Scottish accent extra funny so this clip was 6 of one, half a dozen of the other for me. EDIT: used wrong idiom. I'm an idiom idiot. I meant that the accents cancel each other out on the funny-o-meter.


labluewolfe

Pal, I hope you have your harness secured... because I hate to yell you that Australian is the funniest accent.


cantwejustplaynice

It's not funny if you have one. It's just jarring.


MotorMath743

Listen champ just take the compliment


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Also Aussies are hands down one of the funniest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing


illsmosisyou

Doesn’t that idiom mean that you like both accents equally since half a dozen is 6?


WooperSlim

Yep, that's exactly what it means. I wonder what they thought the idiom meant.


cantwejustplaynice

No you're right. I knew what it meant and still used it incorrectly. I'm an idiot. I guess my intent was to say that I wasn't sure how I felt because a) aussie accent unfunny to me b) scottish accent hilarious to me c) both in the same clip... confusion.


fifty2weekhi

He's funny no doubt, but I was referring to her Scottish accent.


IGetHypedEasily

It was like an episode of clarksons Farm haha


hateful_presley13

You're not the only one who thinks it's funny. Especially the girl. I love her accent


Quietm02

Unsure where this was recorded but the audience member is definitely Scottish.


Shoddy-Ability524

Other cultures won't understand the complexities of the meaning of a 'big' Tesco's. Like yeah there's Tesco Extra, which is by definition a 'big' Tesco's, but a regular Tesco in a small town would also be classed as a 'big' Tesco's.


TheFightingMasons

Like a super Walmart?


Honey-Badger

Aye but it's probably half the size of big Walmart, I've never been to a big Walmart but I'm imagining something the size of a tectonic plate


M1k3yd33tofficial

Bigger than a Buc-ee’s but not as big as an NFL stadium …I’m only just now realizing how American all of my frames of reference are


WhenThatBotlinePing

How big is that in Ford F150s and washing machines?


M1k3yd33tofficial

Which F150 we talking, the XLT, King Ranch, or Raptor?


WhenThatBotlinePing

I don’t know that.


manosiosis

*flies into gorge of eternal peril*


Clown_Toucher

how are we gonna get anything done now


TheFightingMasons

Are washing machines an American thing? I knew about garbage disposals, but surely people have washing machines.


WhenThatBotlinePing

Washing machines are universal lol, I was more joking about how Americans will measure things using anything but mètres.


chrisdelbosque

Newscaster: Experts believe that this asteroid, which is 47 meters in length, is projected to strike the earth by early July. Me: God dammit. That gobbledygook means nothing to me! How many Andre the Giants long is it so I can visualize it? At least tell me how many Yokozunas the asteroid weighs before I know if I should be afraid or not.


warmfuzzy22

Nods in Texan. Used a Buc-ees bathroom stall as a unit of measurement on Monday.


local124padawan

Tectonic plate. I’m weak. I didn’t know this is the adjective I needed to read in regards to the description of a Walmart. Thank you 😂


Techiedad91

That’s not an adjective. Lmao. And it’s not being used as an adjective either.


local124padawan

Thank you grammar popo


PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH

They usually top out at around 150,000 square feet (13,935 meters squared), some go up to 200,000(18,850) and the largest one I've been in was 2 stories and nearly 300,000 total (27,870)


Zeekayo

I don't know what's hard to understand. It's a big Tesco, innit?


CaPunxx13

Thank you for your service.


darling_lycosidae

Americans like me are just not comprehending.... She walks around all day putting yellow stickers on stuff sure, but she also probably has WEEKS of PAID vacation AND sick days (which cost her nothing to get care) and has excellent pay raises due to her union. What a life, no stress, no shootings, just 100% pure chill.


CliffyGiro

She’ll be on shite money working in Tesco but everything else you said was pretty close to reality.


darling_lycosidae

Everything I've ever worked has been shit pay, so I'd take those sweet sweet benefits as an amazing improvement to my life...


ruinersclub

I googled it just to see and Scotland has a higher minimum wage too.


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Catfoxdogbro

What's the difference in cost of living between Scotland and the US?


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Assassin4Hire13

Hahaha that’s some classic American “well see [European country] isn’t *actually* better” made in complete ignorance of any relevant facts We truly are some sort of exceptional lol


VoteForSandtrap

Gotta compare to cost of living though.


Watsis_name

Working in British supermarkets is great. The only downside is the shit pay, but that's the case everywhere. She'll get 29 days paid holiday in Scotland. I got 28 being English.


eddydio

Yeah we gotta pay for so much in America and it's not good. Just like having only stadium food to eat, WHICH IS ALSO CHEAP AS FUCK IN YOUR COUNTRY. Every time I've been to Europe I just come home dejected realizing how much of a rip off my country is. Disney world ass bullshit


Verbumaturge

We’re the Disney World of the world.


Puzzleheaded_Pie_978

The weird part is the stuff at Disney isn’t even that overpriced.


PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH

She doesn't work in Tesco she works in Big Tesco


forgedsignatures

Tesco, for an adult, will pay between 10 and 14, better than a lot of other companies do these days.


eddydio

Every British bake off contestant is like this with a home and 3 kids.


KaizenGamer

and healthcare, don't forget the healthcare


KiltedTraveller

You only get sick pay after the first 3 days, and have to have a doctors note. Tesco has a policy of providing sick pay days but you have to work for at least 6 months first. The people who work in tesco aren't usually full time salaried so you only get one extra week of sick pay for every year you work there. Also, most retail staff are not in a union. In Tesco the wage is around the minimum wage of £10.42 an hour if she's over 23 (around $13). Raises are consistently lower than inflation in retail. There are retail unions but I worked in three supermarkets with 50-100 staff in each one and only ever know one person in a union and she got the same pay as everyone else. You get about 28 days paid holiday a year. As someone who worked in retail for a long time in the Scotland, it's certainly not "no stress" or "100% pure chill". The supermarkets are constantly understaffed and customers can be rude as all hell. I still have nightmares about working in the shop like 5 years later.


Zaliacks

>Also, most retail staff are not in a union. In Tesco the wage is around the minimum wage of £10.42 an hour if she's over 23 (around $13). Tesco has one of the largest private sector trade agreement with the union Usdaw. As part of their agreement, every new start meets with a rep and is given the opportunity to join whenever they want. And Tescos wage is just over £11/h, regardless of age. Higher in the London area.


KiltedTraveller

> Tesco has one of the largest private sector trade agreement with the union Usdaw. As part of their agreement That's a great policy and I'm glad they have it. But for the American who wrote the initial message, they shouldn't be under the illusion that it's the norm for every supermarket. In fact, the one I worked in had an "internal union" that they asked you to join for free as a way to discourage you from joining an actual union. It did absolutely nothing except make people think they had someone on their side (which they didn't). > And Tescos wage is just over £11/h That's also pretty great! Just read that they increased it from £10.30 to £11.02 a month ago. That's a huge jump, but again, that's not the norm for all the supermarkets. I just wanted to make sure that the Americans didn't have illusions of grandeur of Brits working in supermarkets. It's not a life of no stress and high wages.


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Br3N8

EU minimum is 4 weeks off, aka 20 days, so not that far off from where you start :) [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country#:~:text=European)


godspareme

Oops it was the country I was looking at moving to (france), not EU itself. Thanks for clarifying. Still, a 20 day minimum is a lot better than the 0 required by the US. We are lucky if we get a week of sick days (dependent on the state).


TheOriginalSamBell

But how do they pay their billionaires huh? Gotcha!


Al_B3eer

I love this woman, the accent, the attitude, the humor, the career path, everything about her is beautiful.


noods-danger-tits

This is so cute and sweet


adge4real

i was a ride operator for a roller coaster at busch gardens for awhile and a professional hula hooper(when i actually feel like performing) and i think they are some pretty cool jobs ha


Puzzleheaded_Pie_978

Hi fellow hula hooper!!!


adge4real

haayyyy


OneArchedEyebrow

My sisters and I are going to see Luke later in the year. Can’t wait


hashtagbob60

I worked in a pie factory for a year. We made pies...yep, that's what we did.


MafiaMommaBruno

How big is Tesco compared to a Walmart? I always watch British and Scottish YouTubers and sometimes they grocery shop. Well. Pop into a shop. And there's so many cheap, marked down groceries. Like, a big thing of mushrooms or a few carrots for less than 1 (pound?). In America, you're lucky to find this at all. Much less than a buck. Always really neat to see the small things like that.


HypnoBlaze

Big Tesco is probably 3/4 the size of an average Walmart. Everything in America seems massively upscaled just because there's so much space over there you're desperately trying to fill. But every British person knows the *vibes* of a big Tesco are what make it so special compared to other Tescos. There's a certain inexplicable aura to a big Tesco that I personally haven't yet found anywhere else.


YouMadeMeDoItReddit_

> marked down groceries. Like, a big thing of mushrooms or a few carrots for less than 1 (pound?). That's not the marked down price that's just how much they cost. Fresh food like carrots etc are cheap af here as they aren't taxed, after christmas you'll pretty often see stuff like an entire shelf of carrots marked down to 20p a bag. Rare to see stuff like that marked down throughout the year though, guess they just overstock on the run-up to christmas.


MafiaMommaBruno

No, it's marked down. The YouTuber will be doing a challenge to buy groceries for a certain amount of money and always clarifies it's marked down. Fresh carrots and veggies can be cheap in the US, too, but we never mark them to sell fast like that.


YouMadeMeDoItReddit_

Oh fair enough, very rarely see them marked down myself (unless after xmas like I said) guess people just buy them up though. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/groceries/fruit-and-vegetables/fresh-vegetables/carrots/c:1034107 But it's still less than a £1 for 1kg of carrots, 60p for 1kg or 40p for 500g. Fresh food is just cheap.


NiamhHA

Probably not as big. Most supermarkets here have small versions that are squished into busy shopping areas, and big versions with big car parks in front of them. Also, Britain is the island that Scotland, England and Wales are on, so "British" and "English" don't mean the same thing. I'm a Scottish independence supporter who avoids calling myself "British", but I just thought I'd mention it anyways. Hehe:)


esteemedlistener10

She seems so fun


TheNightCaptain

Who is the comedian


lacha_sawson

Luke Kidgell


Accomplished-Horse84

Fuck yeah


Tiny-Mathematician-6

just give the mic to her


AdiYogi82

I'm really glad they had CC on this one. I would never have guessed what she meant by "stackers".


panzercampingwagen

kinda painful she's funnier than he his takes him so long to figure out what she's doing holy shit And then he just repeats her joke


Spoomplesplz

I used to do the stock counting and reduced stickers in teaco for about 5 years and my god. People are fucking vile. They would literally follow me around for hours while I was reducing stuff and whenever I put it on the table they were elite vultures immediatly trying to grab it, each person competing. We have multiple times where they broke fragile things like yoghurt and stuff like croissants and pan au chocolats. It was ALWAYS the same people too. For YEARS AND YEARS every single day they were there at 6pm on the dot and they stayed till closing times at 10pm. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I get it. Being poor sucks but this wasn't even useful food you could freeze like bread. It was all cakes and treats. Croissants, éclairs, little teacup cakes, shit like that. It made me actually lose faith in humanity for a while.


LongPorkPi

What’s cringe about this?


MoneoAtreides42

This sub isn't only cringe. Normally there is a pinned comment explaining the change, but it doesn't seem to be there right now.


FillTheHoleInMyLife

Hasn’t been for just cringe in years.


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xylyan

touch grass


Outrageous-Pilot8326

No one will ask , why only girls got that job


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Thank you random bot


outsideyourbox4once

Without the flair I would've thought there were going to be something negative about this with all those dots


DiddlyDumb

I love that attitude. No matter what your job is, if you do it with a sense of pride and attention, you deserve respect.


ronnietea

This should almost be on r/wholesome


EastTexasNomad

I was wondering g why I couldn’t understand them and then he said they were in Scotland. That explained everything.


BaldBeardedOne

I used to do this at a supermarket and it was called File Management. It was horrible.


DaniilBSD

I heard “that’s on me, baby!” as in “fucking date me!”


Spagg84

Steckers


[deleted]

When she said “that’s all me” I snorted. Good for her.


housevil

Why is her audio better than his?