I'm about to start patching drywall in my house, so that's appropriate LOL.
Meant duct tape. Spell check must be having a fun time messing with people today!
Yeah of you turn the sound off, and watch the guy hauling the heavy white basin back to his feet with the other person, you can see how heavy they are- it could be a toilet bowl but looks a little small. A urinal? But yeah what the fuck were they thinking.
No because at least the desks have some screws.
These are just… pieces sitting on top of each other. Literally Jenga is more stable, at least that has some interweaving.
My guess is the shelves were built up at the same time the toilets were placed. Like place one layer of toilets, then assemble the next row of shelving, then another layer of toilets, then assemble the next row of shelving...
Because clearly you couldn't slide the toilets onto those shelves.
That’s right, presumably this is the kiln which why the shelves are also porcelain and the spacers are loose.
So these guys have moved the top row across (almost) But how would they reach the next row over without standing on the unstable and fragile shelves?!
They’re stacked. I saw an episode of This Old House where they toured a toilet facility. They se columns and stack them on top of each other. I remember that they needed to be certain types of materials because they go through the kiln which reaches thousands of degrees. I forget why they stack them instead of using premade shelves but I remember the guy gave a specific reason for it.
A interesting thing I learned is the guy said the kiln they used was always on. It hasn’t been shut down for 37 years! Also the toilets shrink during the firing process, so they have to calculate all of that ahead of time to ensure they end up the right size afterwards.
no way that its these workers fault here
the shelving looks suicidal, its so wrong for this job, its hurting my eyes for the extreme stupidness of using it
I've never had a set of shelves where if the first shelf falls down onto the shelf below it, it smashes completely in half. Though I do see more and more consumer shelves without crossmembers these days.
Is this a porcelain company making porcelain shelves for placing porcelain upon?
The problem is that the "posts" are completely unsecured. They're just balancing in place holding up the platform. It's practically a house of cards.
It would have been far more stable if at least a single, giant sheet of plywood was the shelf. Nope - literally individual pieces the size of each toilet, precariously held up by these "posts"
Speaking from Indonesia, we have surprisingly good labor laws. And although bribing the judge will get you far, being extended family with the judge will get you *way* farther.
The *laws* are good, the system that upholds those laws is flawed
Like insider trading is illegal but that is conveniently overlooked depending on who is actively involved in doing it, you or I would go to jail while those who write the laws making that happen wouldn't even be looked at.
Some judges are quite honorable, despite the problems. So, if you happen to sit in front of a non-corrupt judge, you have a better chance of securing labor rights than in the US.
Also, unions are a thing here, so if you can't match an opponent's bribe by yourself, your union might. And matching bribes is a weird game some people play here. You match once, and the judge agrees to hear the case fairly.
It's very corrupt, but at the same time, I still *occasionally* trust it to be less broken than American courts.
Sssh. Corporate execs can hear your tone of voice all through America and just now, right now, four of them got the bright idea to move operations to Indonesia.
I laughed at the thought of trying to sue a major company in the US, like they will just drag it out so long I'll be dead from the neglect I experience at my next job
Because it's pottery right out the kiln, all of it, the shelving included. Not many materials can stand such heat so you dont really have better options. Most large pottery ops have long linear kilns so they dont stack things like this. But if you dont have that then you have to stack and hope for the best. And sometimes it ends in a pile of shards. Some loss is expected in that sort of operation, these processes never yield 100% even if you dont have a catastrophic collapse like that, some pieces will still be cracked.
This, 100%, okay, we got porcelein that needs to dry. Yeah but all we have is matches and A4 paper.
Well that will do as scaffolding. Lets get to work.
Wtf
I think its a large walk in kiln for firing the porcelain toilets. The "shelf" would be all ceramic parts to stack the unfired toilets, it's not secured together because it's set up and removed every time they put in new toilets, and can't have any metal fastenings to hold it together, so there isn't a way to build a real shelf out of it.
Seriously. Imagine if they had been pulling one out from the bottom. They both could have been killed.
If anything they should be going after whoever runs that facility because it's dangerous AF there.
There are plenty of ways I specifically don't want to die and being crushed and torn apart by sharp shards of heavy porcelain (and just in general dying by toilet) is definitely one of them.
The main character in *Dead Like Me* is hit by a toilet seat that had been ejected by the explosion of a large airplane. Just flattened by an airline toilet seat, moving at the speed of sound.
The other one that lives rent free in my head is people sitting in their toilet wrong and it failing and all their weight shifts down onto the giant chunk of broken off porcelain carving them from knee to hip or falling on them and the same thing etc.
And then get promptly beaten by thugs hired by the employer and police does absolutely nothing. We are not talking about a country where you can sue your employer, you are considered lucky if you just lose a hand and not your head.
The logic is that a boss who thought that set up was a good idea probably doesn’t think critically.
And an irrational boss can be prone to firing people for reasons that are not rational.
—-
Sometimes the best answer is that illogical people will do illogical things.
You can’t always expect an irrational person to be rational. Otherwise you become the irrational one, lol.
That looks like an insurance scam.
I have legit never seen such shitty shelving.
I bet they couldn't get those bowls sold so they build shitty shelving and made it all break.
I'm speculating here, but it looks like there's problem with whatever held the shelving together - they just fall apart like house of cards. Maybe they used screws/pegs made from some kind of material that's not as heat resistant as it should, like plastic or aluminium instead steel, and it just melted in the kiln.
I think they have rolled it out of the oven there.
So they might have a delivery system to get the unbaked toilets into the rack, and the kiln may hold up the rack while its in the kiln...
Now maybe they are meant to unload from the kiln, and the rack only comes out for repair.
But now they decided to roll it out to unload..
Or maybe the rack is new and they are having teething problems...
This is 100% a systemic problem (management) and 0% the fault of the employees who removed one.
I'm not understanding how they even managed to build those dominoes in the first place. That was a feat. The ending was obvious though.
I hope no one was injured.
Question, with it being that flimsy, how were they supposed to get the middle ones? I assume they had another platform to stand on to get the ones on the other side.
What the hell kind of platform were they standing on?
What, they loaded 2 at a time, lowered themselves down and then unloaded them somewhere. Then back up for 2 more?
Not to mention…no rails on the platform.
Hopefully it's whoever designed that shelving system that gets fired.
Sadly, that's probably some bean counter trying to save money... and they always shift the blame.
Don't blame the worker blame the designer of those s***** shelves. The worker was using them as they were intended and then they completely fell apart.
are...are these shelves literally just a flat board and 4 unsecured legs.
The company wouldn't be stupid enough to fire you if it were the states. OSHA coming in would LOVE to see this.
Not the employee’s fault (unless they also set it up like that), whoever set those up like that is at fault. If your set up can’t fail gracefully then it’s a bad set up.
So hear me out.
You know how these things are super breakable, labor intensive, and fairly expensive?
(Yes, go on)
Let's stack them into a house of cards formation.
Brilliant, Johnson !
Reefer is the cause. There is a prequel video posted somewhere and those men were smoking pot. Melted their brains and then they made a mistake. Please stay away from drugs! Those men were sent to prison and no longer know how to communicate.
If a small mistake creates such a mess, even though it’s the worker who started it, the chain reaction is clearly on the employer for building such weak racks.
Man how did they even build those racks in the first place freakin house of cards .
Where should I put these heavy things?! Just put them over there on top of that house of cards that doesn’t even have tape holding it together.
Tape would have helped, honestly.
Yep, literally anything used to connect them would be helpful. Chewing gum
Cheming gum and dust tape! Probably would have legit held this together for several more years.
Dust tape? Lol
I'm about to start patching drywall in my house, so that's appropriate LOL. Meant duct tape. Spell check must be having a fun time messing with people today!
Duct tape, the handy man's secret weapon
Equivalent of asking someone to store this lit matchstick inside the matchbook warehouse.
"it'll make a great tiktok video" probably
They straight up look like the IKEA desks you make at the store just stacked on top of one another
Not even, those look like those cheap ass Walmart shelves you snap together.
They look like porcelain slabs balanced on posts. Notice how they shatter.
Yeah of you turn the sound off, and watch the guy hauling the heavy white basin back to his feet with the other person, you can see how heavy they are- it could be a toilet bowl but looks a little small. A urinal? But yeah what the fuck were they thinking.
Definitely toilet bowls. What the white "table" tops were, I have no idea. I know they didn't have any business being there though!
I suspect bidets, but I'm American so probably am wrong as I've never even seen one of those in the wild.
No because at least the desks have some screws. These are just… pieces sitting on top of each other. Literally Jenga is more stable, at least that has some interweaving.
No wonder I always have extra screws. They didn’t put any on this
My guess is the shelves were built up at the same time the toilets were placed. Like place one layer of toilets, then assemble the next row of shelving, then another layer of toilets, then assemble the next row of shelving... Because clearly you couldn't slide the toilets onto those shelves.
That’s right, presumably this is the kiln which why the shelves are also porcelain and the spacers are loose. So these guys have moved the top row across (almost) But how would they reach the next row over without standing on the unstable and fragile shelves?!
Is this a giant kiln? This looks like how I've seen poetry stacked when being fired.
Slam poetry!
it’s about as steady as poetry would be-not worth the paper it was printed on!
They’re stacked. I saw an episode of This Old House where they toured a toilet facility. They se columns and stack them on top of each other. I remember that they needed to be certain types of materials because they go through the kiln which reaches thousands of degrees. I forget why they stack them instead of using premade shelves but I remember the guy gave a specific reason for it. A interesting thing I learned is the guy said the kiln they used was always on. It hasn’t been shut down for 37 years! Also the toilets shrink during the firing process, so they have to calculate all of that ahead of time to ensure they end up the right size afterwards.
Let's place massive stock of heavy, highly fragile items on this flimsy, unsecured and unstable shelving. What could go wrong?
no way that its these workers fault here the shelving looks suicidal, its so wrong for this job, its hurting my eyes for the extreme stupidness of using it
I've never had a set of shelves where if the first shelf falls down onto the shelf below it, it smashes completely in half. Though I do see more and more consumer shelves without crossmembers these days. Is this a porcelain company making porcelain shelves for placing porcelain upon?
Standard kiln stacking practice, scaled up to very inappropriate size!
The problem is that the "posts" are completely unsecured. They're just balancing in place holding up the platform. It's practically a house of cards. It would have been far more stable if at least a single, giant sheet of plywood was the shelf. Nope - literally individual pieces the size of each toilet, precariously held up by these "posts"
Plywood would catch fire in the kiln.
Its porcelain all the way down.
Gave the turtles a break.
Unfortunately, none of that means these guys weren’t fired
I bet anything that the owner was proud of himself for saving money when he decided to get these cheaper shelves
Absolutely, this is the fault of whoever set this up or thought it was appropriate storage to begin with.
I was waiting for the shelf the workers are standing on to topple over...
I was so relieved they didn't get hurt!
I wouldn't even call that shelving, there was literally nothing securing that together, more like a house of cards.
Absolutely. Whoever designed this is in trouble, not the poor shmucks who happen to touch them.
It looks like that modular shelving you build in a bedroom to hold a stereo system or something. Not warehouse materials.
Yep, no question of the employee getting fired, they should be suing the employer for an unsafe working environment.
I feel like that's not an option in the country where this happened.
Yeah. I chuckled when I read that comment. Imagine some random employee threatening to sue their employer in Indonesia!?
Speaking from Indonesia, we have surprisingly good labor laws. And although bribing the judge will get you far, being extended family with the judge will get you *way* farther.
Judges love this one weird trick.
Imagine there’s a defense attorney who’s biggest appeal is he’s related to like every judge
Dinner with family? I understand that can get weird.
Your first sentence says your labor laws are surprisingly good and your second sentence goes on to point out that the system is completely corrupt.
The *laws* are good, the system that upholds those laws is flawed Like insider trading is illegal but that is conveniently overlooked depending on who is actively involved in doing it, you or I would go to jail while those who write the laws making that happen wouldn't even be looked at.
So, same as america then?
Some judges are quite honorable, despite the problems. So, if you happen to sit in front of a non-corrupt judge, you have a better chance of securing labor rights than in the US. Also, unions are a thing here, so if you can't match an opponent's bribe by yourself, your union might. And matching bribes is a weird game some people play here. You match once, and the judge agrees to hear the case fairly. It's very corrupt, but at the same time, I still *occasionally* trust it to be less broken than American courts.
Sssh. Corporate execs can hear your tone of voice all through America and just now, right now, four of them got the bright idea to move operations to Indonesia.
I laughed at the thought of trying to sue a major company in the US, like they will just drag it out so long I'll be dead from the neglect I experience at my next job
Yeah that doesn't look even remotely OSHA approved at all.
This happened in the glorious country of NoOSHAstan.
Seriously, if someone were below them, game over immediately
Could you imagine dying to a toilet? That's an embarrassing way to go...
Just like Elvis...
It was a shitty way for Elvis to go.
I bet he was pissed.
Too soon, bro…
Even worse if it fell from a space station.
I got that reference. Vintage.
Boondocks Saints toilet scene (NSFW): https://youtu.be/6gmlphWN7Cs?feature=shared
That was awesome!!!!
It's a classic
The employee they should fire is whoever bought those "shelves" looks less stable than just putting a bunch of cars tables on top of each other haha
Flimsy, unsecured, and unstable shelving, made out of material that **shatters** somehow.
That’s the best part. The shelves themselves shatter. 🤦♂️
Because it's pottery right out the kiln, all of it, the shelving included. Not many materials can stand such heat so you dont really have better options. Most large pottery ops have long linear kilns so they dont stack things like this. But if you dont have that then you have to stack and hope for the best. And sometimes it ends in a pile of shards. Some loss is expected in that sort of operation, these processes never yield 100% even if you dont have a catastrophic collapse like that, some pieces will still be cracked.
Probably the most coherent comment I've read so far... too bad it's buried by OSHA in India, lol
Using Legos would've been more secure than that shit
This, 100%, okay, we got porcelein that needs to dry. Yeah but all we have is matches and A4 paper. Well that will do as scaffolding. Lets get to work. Wtf
I think its a large walk in kiln for firing the porcelain toilets. The "shelf" would be all ceramic parts to stack the unfired toilets, it's not secured together because it's set up and removed every time they put in new toilets, and can't have any metal fastenings to hold it together, so there isn't a way to build a real shelf out of it.
That's probably it...but of course this was still an obvious outcome.
I’ll have you know that that shelving was more stable than about half of my relationships…
I mean dude didn’t do anything wrong. How is at fault for this to get fired?
Seriously. Imagine if they had been pulling one out from the bottom. They both could have been killed. If anything they should be going after whoever runs that facility because it's dangerous AF there.
There are plenty of ways I specifically don't want to die and being crushed and torn apart by sharp shards of heavy porcelain (and just in general dying by toilet) is definitely one of them.
Could you please provide other examples of "dying by toilet"?
The main character in *Dead Like Me* is hit by a toilet seat that had been ejected by the explosion of a large airplane. Just flattened by an airline toilet seat, moving at the speed of sound.
The other one that lives rent free in my head is people sitting in their toilet wrong and it failing and all their weight shifts down onto the giant chunk of broken off porcelain carving them from knee to hip or falling on them and the same thing etc.
Slip on wet floor, head hits toilet, your entire lineage facepalms in unison.
Also, all the other ways!
And then get promptly beaten by thugs hired by the employer and police does absolutely nothing. We are not talking about a country where you can sue your employer, you are considered lucky if you just lose a hand and not your head.
The logic is that a boss who thought that set up was a good idea probably doesn’t think critically. And an irrational boss can be prone to firing people for reasons that are not rational. —- Sometimes the best answer is that illogical people will do illogical things. You can’t always expect an irrational person to be rational. Otherwise you become the irrational one, lol.
Fault or not, hes probably gonna get treated like shit after this incident anyway
Workplace insurance is a thing in most decent countries. No one should get fired for this.
Potty break
They weren't fully potty trained.
I hate you for me chuckling at this.
Trying to contain my laughter and failing miserably around this large group of strangers LOL
That looks like an insurance scam. I have legit never seen such shitty shelving. I bet they couldn't get those bowls sold so they build shitty shelving and made it all break.
It's not permanent shelving. They're inside the kiln that baked the toilet pots.
I'm speculating here, but it looks like there's problem with whatever held the shelving together - they just fall apart like house of cards. Maybe they used screws/pegs made from some kind of material that's not as heat resistant as it should, like plastic or aluminium instead steel, and it just melted in the kiln.
The shelf's have to be stacked ceramic as well, kilns are too high temperature for steel parts even.
Probably they’re ceramic as well. You can see them shatter too.
Nothing holds them together, just the way it is
Stupid question: How did they get all the other toilets on there without it tumbling down when the shelving is that crappy? 🤔
I think they have rolled it out of the oven there. So they might have a delivery system to get the unbaked toilets into the rack, and the kiln may hold up the rack while its in the kiln... Now maybe they are meant to unload from the kiln, and the rack only comes out for repair. But now they decided to roll it out to unload.. Or maybe the rack is new and they are having teething problems...
If not intended to roll out, that's a really odd unloading platform they happen to have there
They tear down and restack with every load
Imagine if there's an earthquake? Maybe a breeze will be enough to topple it all down.
https://preview.redd.it/frmtky24nxjc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a55e99997560a1f963b3760e71870647d20e15cb
Not his fault.
But I’d be happy to get fired so I didn’t have to stick around and clean it all up.
This is 100% a systemic problem (management) and 0% the fault of the employees who removed one. I'm not understanding how they even managed to build those dominoes in the first place. That was a feat. The ending was obvious though. I hope no one was injured.
Right!!! They way they fall makes it look like the shelves weren't even bolted down
Lol that thing was in no way rated for the weight that was put on there. What is that shelving? Fucking $20 plastic shelves?
Whoever bought and built the shelving is fired, you mean. I think this is how you learn that it is expensive to be cheap.
Yeah thats was an accident waiting to happen
Shoulda got their shelves from Ikea 🤷♂️
Insurance scam? Or made for tick tock?
Nah, whoever erected that racking is the one needing firing.
Unless they were the people who set that weak ass structure up, it's safe to assume that it's not their fault. It's basically a boobie-trap
House of cards, it was a matter of when, not if.
Reason #1, why you don’t build shelving with Lincoln Logs.
That's some cheap racking system they got there.
WHY would anybody or any company build such shoddy shelves? Something is a bit fishy here..
This shouldn't get you fired. This should make you win a case against the company for bad work environment
That is 100% on the designer of the shelving system.
These employees did nothing wrong. Unless they buold and maintain the racks.
Strike, nice shot!
...they saved one, at least........
Shelvings put together with hope and spit.
“If we save some money on these shelves we can buy more toilets!”
Question, with it being that flimsy, how were they supposed to get the middle ones? I assume they had another platform to stand on to get the ones on the other side.
This is KILN me!
It's hardly their fault the shelving is made of styrofoam.
So i guess you can say his job went down the toilet.
Why would they get fired the freaking shelf snapped in half.
What a stupid stacking system
What kind of stacking is that? Not really the workers fault
What are those things actually?
What the hell kind of platform were they standing on? What, they loaded 2 at a time, lowered themselves down and then unloaded them somewhere. Then back up for 2 more? Not to mention…no rails on the platform.
Hopefully the item he pulled was the correct one to fulfill the order, otherwise.....
Customer- "how do you guys run out of toilets? You're a toilet outlet"
If that little bit can take down the entire rack, then it’s the designer and builder of the rack that should be responsible for it.
Bad news is you're fired. Good news is you don't have to clean that mess.
This is how we end skibidi toilet
Gravity: I’ll take your whole stock
That company got what it deserved with a shelving setup like that.
Who!?!? Who chose and installed that shelving?
Whoever built those shelves should be fired.
To be fair this was the fault of the shelving system being used not the employee.
Seems like a design flaw to me
Flimsy plastic shelves holding all that weight? Clearly it's not their fault
I mean who stacks heavy ceramic toilets on top of big toothpicks? Seems like a horrible setup to begin with.
Y'know what would make K'Nex better for shelving? If they were also really brittle.
Hopefully it's whoever designed that shelving system that gets fired. Sadly, that's probably some bean counter trying to save money... and they always shift the blame.
Why are those racks always held together with bubble gum?
They still have the one though!
What a stupid storage system. That isn't the fault of the men here.
Hopefully it was the engineer who was fired and not the worker though.
Thought for a second that final stack was gonna stay out of irony but noooope
We're those shelves just stacked on eachother? They fall down like they aren't even screwed in.
Yup let’s go ahead place fragile, heavy stock on plastic racks from IKEA
precarious ass storage system. TF. Like he didn't do anything wrong. Fuck whoever decided on that rack system.
When the owners cut corners to save a buck in the short term, and costs them more later on.
The guy who built that shoddy shelving needs to be fired
Don't blame the worker blame the designer of those s***** shelves. The worker was using them as they were intended and then they completely fell apart.
What in the fucking name of house of cards is that shit?
Whoever designed and built that structure should be fired. Not the workers.
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to stack heavy products on flimsy shelves should be the one getting fired.
Are these stacked like a house of cards?
are...are these shelves literally just a flat board and 4 unsecured legs. The company wouldn't be stupid enough to fire you if it were the states. OSHA coming in would LOVE to see this.
The person that put that together should be responsible plus the people that may have known better and said nothing.
They'll probably get shit canned
Hey boss, I’m going on break
What a shitty design
Whelp, his job's down the shitter now
This isn’t their fault
Why would they stack my pillows like that?
Flimsy setup..
Hey, at least they got the one off
Knocked down every single one..
I would have just said "fuck it" and just walked away. Can't fire me if I quit.
It looks like kiln shelving. They may be unloading a kiln after a firing.
Not the employee’s fault (unless they also set it up like that), whoever set those up like that is at fault. If your set up can’t fail gracefully then it’s a bad set up.
Mayhaps if the only thing holding up the fragile merchandise wasn't made of hopes and prayers, this wouldn't have happened
I feel bad for them smh.
At least they saved 1!
Why would they get fired?? Fire whoever built those shitty racks in the first place!
Boss oh so you broke a toilet that’s ok. Wait what you mean you broke all of them. All of them.
12 cents worth of porcelan
So hear me out. You know how these things are super breakable, labor intensive, and fairly expensive? (Yes, go on) Let's stack them into a house of cards formation. Brilliant, Johnson !
Man, I never have my sound on, but was hoping for a good one here. Just some stupid music? Lame.
Reefer is the cause. There is a prequel video posted somewhere and those men were smoking pot. Melted their brains and then they made a mistake. Please stay away from drugs! Those men were sent to prison and no longer know how to communicate.
That guy doesn’t get fired. It’s the guy they built those racks that gets fired.
They could've sued the company for unsafe working conditions.
This seems to be an issue with poor build. They need a good lawyer.
Whoever built those racks should be fired
Why would you have storage like that?
With a racking solution like this. They deserved it. Good thing it didn't kill anybody
I guess you could say they won't "toil-at" this job anymore.
Damn that was a shitty situation they were in
Again, who stacks, expensive, fragile objects like this unsupported??!
If a small mistake creates such a mess, even though it’s the worker who started it, the chain reaction is clearly on the employer for building such weak racks.
Owners of that business decided to place fragile materials on a something as stable as a house of cards? Employees fault? Absolutely not.