r/Wellthatsucks • u/michaelthruman • 1d ago

Had to gate check my carryon…

…and then watch the fellas manhandle it from my seat while waiting to de-plane. 😑

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u/heyaooo 15h ago edited 15h ago

One job that really needs to be  replaced by Robots, at least in America. 

Do they hate their job that much to be that petty?

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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 13h ago

Do they hate their job that much to be that petty?

Short answer: yes

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u/mybluecathasballs 12h ago

Long answer: yyyyyeeeeeeesssssss

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u/Decent-Impression-81 9h ago

I now dont feel so bad about sending my free bathroom tile through now. I get free 70lb luggage allowances. 

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u/Nikkishaaa 10h ago edited 8h ago

Yes, they do. This is my mom’s job. This is exactly how she operates at work, and says everybody does it. She taught me how to pack my bag to keep things safest from this shit. It’s a horrible job, shit hours, shit pay, often in shit weather depending on where you are located, with a horrible work culture. It destroys your body too. Your back, knees, shoulders and elbows. Literally all your joints. My mom had a stroke at 28 and they believe it’s from the jet fuel exposure. So they dgaf. And she said her coworkers would often throw things MORE aggressively if they’re labeled as fragile. V petty indeed

Edit: in no way am I excusing this behavior, just explaining a little where it may come from

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u/DadOnHook 8h ago

I'm gonna say this with as little venom as possible. Your mother sounds like an unkind, selfish person plagued by an unfortunate employment situation. I understand that everyone does it, and I understand the conditions suck, but this is absolutely no reason to be a completely uncaring douche like the people in this video.

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u/Nikkishaaa 8h ago

Oh I’m totally with you. My mom is indeed an unkind and very selfish person. We have a terrible relationship, if you can even call it that. She was also abusive growing up. Her job sucks but so does she and I agree the conditions being terrible doesn’t excuse behavior like this. Was just explaining where they come from and that it’s extremely common behavior unfortunately. Rampers tend to be awful people. Not all of them, but enough of them that it’s a stereotype.

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u/DadOnHook 8h ago

I understand, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining and giving insight

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bus8683 8h ago

You sound like you never held a shit Job. While I held shit  jobs handling packages I didn't ever handle them the way these people handle baggage, I know a lot of colleagues did and I wouldn't blame them. The job is really bad. And when you're day in day out just with that people literally loose their minds

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u/DadOnHook 6h ago

What gives you that impression? I worked at 2 different fast food joints for about 5 years. I worked at a call center for 3 years. I hated it. However, I didn't treat the customers like shit and I didn't just randomly start destroying food because of how shitty those jobs were. Using your bad job as an excuse to be a bad person isn't some justification. And your weird dismissal of my criticism with this soft-hands-ism is just lame.

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u/Shills_for_fun 2h ago

Maybe they would have fewer issues with their bodies if they weren't chucking 40 lb suitcases like that. Seriously there are terrible ergonomic practices on display in the video. Of course the airline probably doesn't care about burning through grunt labor.

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u/MXY2022 7h ago

How does flinging a bag like they did in the video do any favors for your back or knees?

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u/LikeWhattttlol 5h ago

Inside the belly

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u/Extension-Chicken647 6h ago

My second job was working in a factory where I literally had to walk into a furnace with no protective gear, and I got burned every day. (It was in the USA and we had a safety officer, but he was only there to be the fall guy for the company if any of the workers ever died. Basically a real life Homer Simpson.) The older workers wouldn't do it, so as a high schooler I did the painful work.

Basically if you do a job that's very painful you either quickly burn out and stop caring, or you find a way to make the new workers do all the bad stuff while you do the less-awful parts of the job.

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u/thesuperunknown 10h ago

Yeah, because being a ramper suuuuuucks. It’s low pay for shit hours, often in awful weather, and you’re killing your back and knees all day long.

Ideally they’d get paid better, but then airfare would go up and people hate that, so…

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u/NotNormal___ 10h ago

They could probably raise pay without hurting anything but shareholders profits.

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u/thesuperunknown 8h ago

Maybe, but you know that they won’t.

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u/MollyPesoOffthetesla 10h ago

They can’t afford to travel so they’re mad

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u/jeremyw0918 10h ago

They work for the airline. They travel for free.

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u/Tall_Video_9692 8h ago

This is a great idea if you also believe in replacing as many white collar professionals as possible with AI.

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u/DadOnHook 2h ago

This is a weird rebuttal. Firstly, why would eliminating a job where you function as a glorified conveyer belt impact white collar jobs? Secondly, isn't that kind of the end goal anyways? Ultimately, the idea of ai (in a healthy, functional society) WOULD be to eliminate all "jobs".

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u/Great_Frisian 13h ago

The US will never do that for the sake of "keeping jobs". That's why flaggers are still a thing, instead of just putting up temporary traffic lights.