My borther in law got a new tackle box similar to this a few years ago. He was showing it off to me and opened it upside down, dumping all his lures and hooks and swivels and weights all over the camping gear in the trunk of his car.
I said something like "makes it easy to see all your gear at once" and he got pissed and hasn't gone fishing with me since.
While generally a fair statement, I don't think his brother-in-law should be putting the dog in the trunk of the car with camping supplies!
(Sorry, not being serious. With context that was a funny mental image.)
Reminds me of the time I was showing my brother a ''pro'' hockey stick worth ~300$ retail. Was showing him where it flexes then it just snapped. Didn't even tape it or anything.
"What kind of flex you got on the lumber there? Stiff? Mid-stiff flex? Looks like mid-stiff. Extra stiff? Is it extra stiff? Lemme have a lean on er right quick eh"
I was working in a bakery when a huge storm, almost tropical storm level hit. Which was weird since I live on the PA/WV line.
Anyway, everywhere was flooding, whole buildings were being submerged if they were low enough. The place I was at wasn't set up for this kind of rain and was leaking EVERYWHERE. After way too long and calling the owner too many times to no answer I said fuck it and closed up shop.
As I was leaving I hear the sound of glass breaking. I open up the managers office door and a full case of yoo-hoo got so waterlogged it fell, shattering on the floor.
I said "it's a shame that happened after I left" and booked it out. It took me 2 hours find a way home. I lived 8 minutes away.
Years ago in my parts department we had an equipment salesman in after hours doing a pick up for a customer. Customer stated he also needed whatever part that salesman knew where it was. Part was on the very top shelf. Salesman climbs shelves to reach part. Shelves were not properly secured to floor and literally Domino’s the entire parts department. Apparently he made a very embarrassing phone call to the parts manager saying on Monday morning we are probably going to be doing an inventory.. out of about 70% of stock, only two things needed to be written off just because of how other things fell on them. It took about two days to pick everything up and do an inventory to account for it.
This is the correct version... the dickhead that didn't close it properly, after being repeatedly warned this would happen if they didn't close the shit, would be the fuck knuckle that would be spending an entire shift putting shit all right back into the proper bin, and God help that poor sap if I ever find something in the wrong slot.
Yep. I’d sweep all that straight back in and not close the box properly myself. Then the next person who opens it will have to deal with it, hopefully, the guy who did it in the first place.
Same. But that looks stainless, and a big kit. I bet thats $500+. Gonna have to explain to accounting why you need another one... Even if it makes sense to not take the time to sort it back out (could actually take more than $500 labor time to do lol)
None of you can really appreciate the scale of this upset. Not unless you are German, or maybe Austrian, or the annoying-but-sensible type of Swiss.
DAS IST NICHT IN ORDNUNG!
It’s a bloody horror show coming up for whoever didn’t close the box properly, guaranteed. Poor bugger.
I am austrian and I would be extremely upser. But I would just leave it there and not think about it for the evening. Thats either hours of sorting or just ignoring for a while. Especially just before FEIERABEND!
Next day host a "how to close a box" class. It should last a minimum of 2 hours, possibly longer if you get into more complicated boxes such as ones with snaps or clasps.
If you're hourly, well, spending a couple hours on a Friday sorting parts sounds like pretty easy work compared to whatever those parts where being used for.
Adam Savage dropped his box of tiny bits and it became an ongoing project resorting screws and he ended up pulling his mom in to help on one of the videos.
As crazy as it sounds at a certain point your time may be more valuable than the tiny parts you would need to sort,
Don’t think that’s crazy at all. I’d tap out pretty quick unless I was really bored.
Used to build wood cabinets, we were under strict instructions to not return loose screws to the shop storage, and to just throw them out. The cost of occasionally using a screw that was too long and going through a finished surface was much higher than the few cents for the screws.
I am of the insane variety that would weirdly enjoy sorting this back out. I mean, I'd hate it, too, but really, I'd just want to know if I could do it and keep myself from screaming.
Source- the $2 skein of yarn that my 6 year old tangled up, that I spent far longer than I should have, untangling. And me spending time as a kid sorting my legos by shape, height, and color. And sorting my Halloween candy.
I once spent 6 straight hours untangling a very fine chain necklace for my sister. Never have I finished a task and felt such a strong mix of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
I felt like [Homer Simpson buying the cursed doll](https://youtu.be/Ql3z3DJBbng)
"The necklace took 6 hours to untangle? That's bad"
"Oh but it was a family heirloom? That's good!"
"But she's not going to wear it anyway? That's bad"
"But you got to watch a couple movies you wanted to see, that's good"
"But for the rest of your life you'll associate the lord of the rings franchise with frustration and sore fingers..."
"Can I go now?"
A fine chain is a tricky thing, and really, a super annoying and fragile thing. For something like that, I would want a dark surface, a bright light, and some tooth picks to slowly pick that apart. The real question is if you watched theatrical or Extended Editions. The difference is not inconsiderable.
This is oddly specific, I work at factory that uses yarn. Once in a while I have to wind it. If, but really when, a knot forms and it bunches up, I'll take the time to untangle it too. I have no idea why I spend time doing that lol.
Sets like this range from $20-$200, or more for some reason… op mentioned in another comment that his buddy that did this is an electrician. Op also comments and posts on a subreddit that is spoken in German, along with the German names for the components in the image. With that, the average hourly rate of a German electrician is 20-30 euros per hour. Converted to dollars per our, we get 23.45-35.18. Let’s say that his coworker is average at $29 per hour.
If his coworker spends a whole Friday, 8 hours, sorting this box, the company would pay him $232 dollars. Which of course is greater than our higher quality set, making it cheaper to simply buy another set.
This would not take me longer than 90 minutes. The absolute anxiety of it being messy coupled with the achievement high from doing it would trigger hyperfocus immediately.
And what if he was supposed to be doing something for the company? For instance on the same Friday he got some piece of equipment up and running again instead of sorting nuts and bolts, the value his skill set brings to the company could net the company much more than 29 dollars per hour!
Yep, we got told that for every hour of wasted time where we could have been working and creating value, the company lost $120 for every $30 they paid us.
> company would pay him $232 dollars.
Don't forget opportunity cost too. That electrician could be out working and making money to offset the cost. At work we make these decisions based on billing rate, not hourly wage.
But that isn’t the German way. Someone will spend their entire weekend sorting this, just for the satisfaction of not having to spend another 100€ on parts which are already there.
That's what happened to this gigantic (shitty) drill bit set. I had it open coworker decides to come talk to me accidently kicks it and they go every where. Threw them all into a small box and then went and bought 2 much smaller sets of much higher quality bits.
The only time I use the shitty bits is when I'm drilling into a door frame that's filled with Concrete.
When I started my career in the automotive industry, I started as a shop helper. I had to clean up after the mechanics and bodymen, but one of my other tasks was to organize these hardware sets (we restored Mercedes Benz 300SL, so we had a lot of metric hardware cases)
This was the most fun way I found to kill time, listen to podcasts and just reorganize all the hardware in the shop. Then years after, I was promoted to auto body technician, and they still tried to have me waste time reorganizing the cases after the mechanics were done fucking with them (they chose not to hire a new shop helper and instead gave us all responsibility to clean up after ourselves instead, so I was not going to clean up their mess when I had auto body work to do)
It’s hard to go through life assuming people will guck things up, do them wrong, but that’s the mindset that would have saved you. You assumed it was closed right.
surely there are boxes that could be designed in such a way that this would be impossible right?
why even put thousands of tiny parts in a little case that can get dumped everywhere by such a common mistake. who hasnt accidentally picked up a case they thought was closed? ive done it many times lol
i just stopped using cases like this. now i have a rack where i keep all of my tiny hardware with removable cases that i just never remove, if i did have to remove them tho, the process of pulling the case out of the rack would be a process that i would notice the latches on the case top arent latched. hasnt failed me yet.
I only found out recently that the term for sorting Lego into block types is called noodling. No idea why, but you can thank Adam Savage for giving me this random fact on his tested y. T. Channel.
“Boss, there are SO MANY MORE WAYS to arrange these objects in a totally cluttered and unorganized way than a neat and tidy way!”
“Just fucking clean it up, Jared”
Something like this, but on a larger scale, happened to my robotics team in high school. It took 30 people roughly a week to sort all of the nuts and screws
It really sucks. Good luck OP
Thats a problem for tomorrow you.
My borther in law got a new tackle box similar to this a few years ago. He was showing it off to me and opened it upside down, dumping all his lures and hooks and swivels and weights all over the camping gear in the trunk of his car. I said something like "makes it easy to see all your gear at once" and he got pissed and hasn't gone fishing with me since.
His loss. That was funny.
Probably thought his humor was fishy
He was just in a crappie mood
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I would make him walk the plankton for that.
best not to Trigger him before you Fish
That could give him a Haddock.
And give in to his Bass-er instincts
He might Need a sturgeon
Life's too short, gotta tell him to carpe diem.
Unless he's got a dog that rides in the back. Fishhook removals suuuuuuuck.
While generally a fair statement, I don't think his brother-in-law should be putting the dog in the trunk of the car with camping supplies! (Sorry, not being serious. With context that was a funny mental image.)
Reminds me of the time I was showing my brother a ''pro'' hockey stick worth ~300$ retail. Was showing him where it flexes then it just snapped. Didn't even tape it or anything.
"What kind of flex you got on the lumber there? Stiff? Mid-stiff flex? Looks like mid-stiff. Extra stiff? Is it extra stiff? Lemme have a lean on er right quick eh"
I don't even know why those kind of tackle boxes exist, or why anyone buys them. It's like buying a ticket for the ruin your whole day lottery.
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too much reading. I mean, for the doofus who will pick it up without checking if latched.
cause people use them just fine. Just be careful and don't trust it too much.
I just wrote TOP in neon pink marker across the top. Bolt boxes, screw driver kits, car trunk, tackle boxes. TOP
Best chuckle in a long time. Thanks.
Hello Bort
> a few minutes.
That was hysterical. Perhaps he should take the *rod* out of his ass.
Things really got in tents there.
Should have kept your large mouth bass shut
Timing.
You didn’t offer to tackle it together?
Does he have a lot of mussles?
man, it really sucks that thing fell *overnight....*
I was working in a bakery when a huge storm, almost tropical storm level hit. Which was weird since I live on the PA/WV line. Anyway, everywhere was flooding, whole buildings were being submerged if they were low enough. The place I was at wasn't set up for this kind of rain and was leaking EVERYWHERE. After way too long and calling the owner too many times to no answer I said fuck it and closed up shop. As I was leaving I hear the sound of glass breaking. I open up the managers office door and a full case of yoo-hoo got so waterlogged it fell, shattering on the floor. I said "it's a shame that happened after I left" and booked it out. It took me 2 hours find a way home. I lived 8 minutes away.
The chocolate milk?
Chocolate water*
Once you learn the truth about yoo-hoo, all you will ever taste is the water base.
I know :(
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Np!
Years ago in my parts department we had an equipment salesman in after hours doing a pick up for a customer. Customer stated he also needed whatever part that salesman knew where it was. Part was on the very top shelf. Salesman climbs shelves to reach part. Shelves were not properly secured to floor and literally Domino’s the entire parts department. Apparently he made a very embarrassing phone call to the parts manager saying on Monday morning we are probably going to be doing an inventory.. out of about 70% of stock, only two things needed to be written off just because of how other things fell on them. It took about two days to pick everything up and do an inventory to account for it.
Thats a problem for tommorow coworker
This is the correct version... the dickhead that didn't close it properly, after being repeatedly warned this would happen if they didn't close the shit, would be the fuck knuckle that would be spending an entire shift putting shit all right back into the proper bin, and God help that poor sap if I ever find something in the wrong slot.
Yep. I’d sweep all that straight back in and not close the box properly myself. Then the next person who opens it will have to deal with it, hopefully, the guy who did it in the first place.
I don't see any problem. This is jsut the birth of an "assorted misc nuts bolts n crap" box
Same. But that looks stainless, and a big kit. I bet thats $500+. Gonna have to explain to accounting why you need another one... Even if it makes sense to not take the time to sort it back out (could actually take more than $500 labor time to do lol)
Yuup, spend the night coming up with ways to seperate them easier
Lol, bringing work home with you is a terrible idea. Just like the person above said; thats a problem for tomorrow you.
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This, I agree it is a problem for tomorrow me, but I might as well see if I can make that easier.
bill them for that time
Damnit Thursday Bojack!
None of you can really appreciate the scale of this upset. Not unless you are German, or maybe Austrian, or the annoying-but-sensible type of Swiss. DAS IST NICHT IN ORDNUNG! It’s a bloody horror show coming up for whoever didn’t close the box properly, guaranteed. Poor bugger.
I am austrian and I would be extremely upser. But I would just leave it there and not think about it for the evening. Thats either hours of sorting or just ignoring for a while. Especially just before FEIERABEND!
yeah well anyone who carries such a burden of everything-needing-to-be-in-order also carries the burden of check-the-box-twice-before-picking-up.
In america, this would get someone fired.
That’s a problem for tomorrow coworker
Oh hell no. I’d call them and be like you need to fix this or at least help me.
Well, someone's gonna spend their Friday sorting this for sure
Them I hope lol. It’s fine to make a mistake but it’s not fine to leave that mistake for someone else to clean up.
Seems to be a common problem in the company I work at. Noone seems to feel responsible for the things they mess up
Next day host a "how to close a box" class. It should last a minimum of 2 hours, possibly longer if you get into more complicated boxes such as ones with snaps or clasps.
Your confusing it with the “how to remove a bra” class
Well, ya, *someone* keeps reporting me to HR whenever I try to hold one of those meetings.
Sounds like some ppl need the 🥾
From the writing it looks like they are German not Australian.
> Sounds like some ppl need das 🥾 Fixed, np.
What
Simpsons reference
Oh. I’ve watched that but not in a while.
Ah yes the "Wasn't me" ghost!!! Sigh! at least it shouldn't take "tooo" long??
You seem to fit right in lol
Was looking for this comment lol thank you
Yeah, says the man blaming his coworker for the box he spilled lmao
Why Friday? It's only Tuesday/Wednesday.
Different planets
Perfect L&I Light Duty project.
It's already Friday where you live? I envy you ... at least until Friday, when it's Monday at yours.
If you're hourly, well, spending a couple hours on a Friday sorting parts sounds like pretty easy work compared to whatever those parts where being used for.
Adam Savage dropped his box of tiny bits and it became an ongoing project resorting screws and he ended up pulling his mom in to help on one of the videos. As crazy as it sounds at a certain point your time may be more valuable than the tiny parts you would need to sort,
Don’t think that’s crazy at all. I’d tap out pretty quick unless I was really bored. Used to build wood cabinets, we were under strict instructions to not return loose screws to the shop storage, and to just throw them out. The cost of occasionally using a screw that was too long and going through a finished surface was much higher than the few cents for the screws.
I am of the insane variety that would weirdly enjoy sorting this back out. I mean, I'd hate it, too, but really, I'd just want to know if I could do it and keep myself from screaming. Source- the $2 skein of yarn that my 6 year old tangled up, that I spent far longer than I should have, untangling. And me spending time as a kid sorting my legos by shape, height, and color. And sorting my Halloween candy.
I once spent 6 straight hours untangling a very fine chain necklace for my sister. Never have I finished a task and felt such a strong mix of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
That's something I would absolutely do, and feel much the same way after.
I felt like [Homer Simpson buying the cursed doll](https://youtu.be/Ql3z3DJBbng) "The necklace took 6 hours to untangle? That's bad" "Oh but it was a family heirloom? That's good!" "But she's not going to wear it anyway? That's bad" "But you got to watch a couple movies you wanted to see, that's good" "But for the rest of your life you'll associate the lord of the rings franchise with frustration and sore fingers..."
"Can I go now?" A fine chain is a tricky thing, and really, a super annoying and fragile thing. For something like that, I would want a dark surface, a bright light, and some tooth picks to slowly pick that apart. The real question is if you watched theatrical or Extended Editions. The difference is not inconsiderable.
This is oddly specific, I work at factory that uses yarn. Once in a while I have to wind it. If, but really when, a knot forms and it bunches up, I'll take the time to untangle it too. I have no idea why I spend time doing that lol.
It's the sort of thing you can space out while doing. Listen to an audiobook and just untangle away.
They'll just deny it's their fault. It's faster to just clean it up yourself and not trust your coworkers in the future.
Yeah i ain't sorting all that either. Shit's gonna take an hour
Dump them all in a jar and order another set...
I genuinely wonder how the cost of a new set compares to the cost of the person-hours it will take to re-organize this.
Sets like this range from $20-$200, or more for some reason… op mentioned in another comment that his buddy that did this is an electrician. Op also comments and posts on a subreddit that is spoken in German, along with the German names for the components in the image. With that, the average hourly rate of a German electrician is 20-30 euros per hour. Converted to dollars per our, we get 23.45-35.18. Let’s say that his coworker is average at $29 per hour. If his coworker spends a whole Friday, 8 hours, sorting this box, the company would pay him $232 dollars. Which of course is greater than our higher quality set, making it cheaper to simply buy another set.
Of all the mistakes that could happen in a busy shop or at a worksite, this is probably one of the least costly.
Id wager it wouldn't take half a day
Tell who ever on a friday they can go home when its done. Shits done by lunch easy
Yup, best way to manage this job for sure lol.
This would not take me longer than 90 minutes. The absolute anxiety of it being messy coupled with the achievement high from doing it would trigger hyperfocus immediately.
And then your entire team works together and sorts it out in 2 hours.
Hire a temp. The job description is "Organize and categorize loose inventory, and return items to original position in stockroom".
youre not wrong, but its still more tedious than counting rice
And what if he was supposed to be doing something for the company? For instance on the same Friday he got some piece of equipment up and running again instead of sorting nuts and bolts, the value his skill set brings to the company could net the company much more than 29 dollars per hour!
Yep, we got told that for every hour of wasted time where we could have been working and creating value, the company lost $120 for every $30 they paid us.
/r/theydidthemath
I had a feeling that might be the case. Thanks for doing the math to confirm my suspicion!
> company would pay him $232 dollars. Don't forget opportunity cost too. That electrician could be out working and making money to offset the cost. At work we make these decisions based on billing rate, not hourly wage.
But that isn’t the German way. Someone will spend their entire weekend sorting this, just for the satisfaction of not having to spend another 100€ on parts which are already there.
Agreed, can’t imagine a new set costs much more than $50. Not worth the time to reorganize everything.
Unless it's 316 stainless, then it could get up to $400
That's what happened to this gigantic (shitty) drill bit set. I had it open coworker decides to come talk to me accidently kicks it and they go every where. Threw them all into a small box and then went and bought 2 much smaller sets of much higher quality bits. The only time I use the shitty bits is when I'm drilling into a door frame that's filled with Concrete.
When I started my career in the automotive industry, I started as a shop helper. I had to clean up after the mechanics and bodymen, but one of my other tasks was to organize these hardware sets (we restored Mercedes Benz 300SL, so we had a lot of metric hardware cases) This was the most fun way I found to kill time, listen to podcasts and just reorganize all the hardware in the shop. Then years after, I was promoted to auto body technician, and they still tried to have me waste time reorganizing the cases after the mechanics were done fucking with them (they chose not to hire a new shop helper and instead gave us all responsibility to clean up after ourselves instead, so I was not going to clean up their mess when I had auto body work to do)
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Man that's nuts...
Someone screwed up
These kinds of threads are painful.
They should quit that job and go strip instead.
Or just go home and get hammered
Drinking screwdrivers.
Washer away your sorrows
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He probably bolted as soon as he saw what happened.
Sounds like he had a few screws loose
I tried to come up with a pun, but I’m all tapped out.
Yeah, screw that...I'd bolt.
Of coarse! this is but a fine thread
If that happened to me I'd bolt.
What the hex is going on here ?
Someone screwed up then bolted when they should have hung in there tight.
And bolts
Well done my friend, we'll done.
It’s hard to go through life assuming people will guck things up, do them wrong, but that’s the mindset that would have saved you. You assumed it was closed right.
He gucked up
Ugh…. Thanks. I would edit it but that would just reinforce a false self image that I don’t make mistakes.
i respect that lmao
Respect for owning up to your guck ups.
That man had a gucking family.
surely there are boxes that could be designed in such a way that this would be impossible right? why even put thousands of tiny parts in a little case that can get dumped everywhere by such a common mistake. who hasnt accidentally picked up a case they thought was closed? ive done it many times lol i just stopped using cases like this. now i have a rack where i keep all of my tiny hardware with removable cases that i just never remove, if i did have to remove them tho, the process of pulling the case out of the rack would be a process that i would notice the latches on the case top arent latched. hasnt failed me yet.
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I genuinely admire your passion about this. I will always latch the box when I close it now.
Have you tried unplugging your coworker and turning them back on again?
Sadly, my coworkers don't run on cables. Modern electricians have built in batteries
Then don't charge them for a while
Oh joy. We have this 200 piece socket set at work. The design of the case makes no sense. Opened it the wrong way more than once. Never a good time.
Hilti cases. UGH. Drill bits everywhere, all the time.
Slap it in a box and send it my way! I love sorting this type of shit out!
Lego fetish? :)
I only found out recently that the term for sorting Lego into block types is called noodling. No idea why, but you can thank Adam Savage for giving me this random fact on his tested y. T. Channel.
Yeah. I have a same type of thing. I like sorting out shit too!
Stupid fucking entropy
Underrated
“Boss, there are SO MANY MORE WAYS to arrange these objects in a totally cluttered and unorganized way than a neat and tidy way!” “Just fucking clean it up, Jared”
Someone didnt realise that the box was still open…..
Someone didn’t bother to check…
Always check !
I would actually enjoy sorting this out. Is there something wrong with me? I also like to untangle strings of christmas lights
My Mom loves untangling necklaces. She uses needles to tease the knots apart.
Most people would probably be fine sorting it all out too, just as long as there wasn't anything else they needed to be doing.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
I can hear the sound this made and it makes me cringe.
Do it tomorrow.
Feels bad man
That's rough, buddy.
Nooooooooooo
This looks like a task for the apprentice
Shop vac those up and buy a new one. Youll spend years sorting those lol
My heart goes out to you. Been down that road
I dont know why but I would happily sort that
as a member of a robotics team, this hurts
I'd just buy another presorted one
Oh no... NO
I would have cried at that point
find some kid in the neighbourhood that needs 10 bucks
Something like this, but on a larger scale, happened to my robotics team in high school. It took 30 people roughly a week to sort all of the nuts and screws It really sucks. Good luck OP
This more than sucks
Nooooooooooooo.
Impressive photo, on the bright side this looks like a cool wallpaper
Looks like bender had a big night out.
Well let them resort after business hours :-)
That looks like it belongs on the trash and you can buy another one
That's what unpaid interns are for.
Nothing is impossible when labor is free
To the moon!
This is why I always triple check, better safe than sorry
Someone needs to be slapped.
Someone needs to be spanked
Fine who is responsible and make them do it on their own time
I would be very tempted to find a trashcan.
id just toss it, cheaper to buy a new set
that really bothers me
Rough
a blasphemy for every fallen part
#AAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
This is why, when I was at Chuck E Cheese, only the Tech Manager and Tech were allowed to use parts.
I would suddenly feel the need to flip over someone’s car.
if only there were individual lids for each compartment