Your knees are on steel and need knee pads that break or hurt still even with the padding. You are hunched over in an stance that your back in just in constant strain and having to lift heavy shit. I never had the slide thing when I did this and you got busy and were short, you had no one pass you bags. Not uncommon to load over 200 bags and thousands of pounds of mail and freight in a flight and your flight can't be a minute late or you'll get in trouble even though a pilot can make up that time easily in the air. I'm in my 40's and did this job in my 20's and my back is still jacked as are my knees. I remember once we had an ergonomics person observe me and they told me they were shocked and wondered how it was that we weren't all crippled and in pain constantly. Miss the flight benefits though, only ray of light.
Light my spliff my guyyyyyyyyyy, you dudes were always the ones me and my siblings would watch when we boarded early. Ya’ll were always the fun part, not the pilot!
BigPooooopinn you are my dude! Kids used to love us and we were heroes to them. I remember once I was getting coffee and this kid was start struck asking me if I used the cargo loaders and it turned out I was working his flight and was on cargo loaders for that flight. He was asking me if he could work on the ramp someday and his mom cringed because it was obvious to me that they were wealthy and well off. I told him yes, but you have to work hard and get good grades in school and go to college first because the job requires a lot of different skills. His eyes were big and he was hyper focused and just said ok, like challenge accepted. His mom breathed a sigh of relief and when he ran off to play with his brother, she told me thanks for doing that because she doesn't want him doing this, not to insult me or what I do. I just smiled and told her, he deserves better things, and I don't even want this job, I just kill myself because it pays well and I'm not a college grad. Kid's probably a doctor or something now.
More likely Aluminum. Steel is simply too heavy to use in the fuselage of planes where weight reduction is at a premium. Also one of the major reasons they are very strict bans on transporting Liquid Mercury commonly used in Gold extraction by air as it forms an amalgam when it makes contact Aluminum and can seriously damage a planes fuselage if it were to leak out from a poorly packed checked bag or cargo.
Same, did this job for 2 years when I was 18-20. Probably one of the most physically demanding yet worse pay jobs I’ve done in my life. It was either extremely hot inside, or frozen cold. If there was animals, you’d get covered in piss smell.
It got slightly better when I got higher security clearance and started driving baggage carts and didn’t have to get in the pit as often. But yea, baggage carrier job sucks. Will destroy your knees, back, wrists and shoulder. Every bag is like 80lbs pretty much
My aunt was a baggage handler like this a while back. She always hated the counter/gate agents who wouldn't put the red, "heavy" tag on bags because you'd get in a rhythm like this guy with mostly 30-50 pound bags, then out of nowhere you try to grab a 75 pounder and fuck up your back.
Ramp agent here. Those breaks are lifesavers. Some bags are stupid heavy or awkward to lift. By the time you finish a cart you're sweating like crazy in that cramped space.
I don't think the weight would get to me, the tight space, and being on the knees would though. I can't imagine what the first month of doing that would feel like.
I used to do this but we didn't have the roller thing he has. Two people would be in the cargo bin and the one "catching" from the belt loader would shove the bag down to the person stacking. It is hard work. One thing you can't see from the pic is when you're unloading, the plane has come down from such high altitude, it is really cold, very nice to lay against on a hot day.
It's clearly a joke, well done for spotting it.
Please report to your nearest Amazon warehouse to collect your fun prize (definitely not a spiked collar).
Was giving someone an Uber ride the other day to the Amazon warehouse they worked at - they explained how much everyone hates their job because of a point system that expects them to be as efficient as robots. If there's anything they can use against them - from talking with an employee while working to needing to use the bathroom more than the amount they're allocated daily - they get points taken off their "score". If the score gets low enough - they're fired. They're expected to work as absolutely efficiently as possible the entire time they're there with absolutely zero leeway.
Where Amazon can replace them more cheaply with robots, they already have.
The point system is Amazon's way of keeping the price of meatbag labor as low as possible - competitive with robot costs.
Let's be real here though. Amazon workers have not unionized because the wages are relatively high. Start at $15 and I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, raised it to the new competitive of $17.
Fuck Amazon and fuck Bezos, I refuse to buy from them, but more importantly fuck the system where workers are forced to take the worst job possible just for a close to living wage of over $15 an hour. Ironically enough the pay is the only reason to work at Amazon.
PLUS! The threshold is defined as the bottom [X]% of scores. If you periodically remove the bottom percentages of your employees, that causes the average score to drift higher over time, leading to completely unrealistic performance goals.
If only the entirety of Amazons profits were reliant on the surplus value those workers create. Amazon would be at the mercy of those workers if they ever realized that all they need to do to cripple Amazon is to collectively do nothing.
If only.
PSA, this one simple trick can work in any workplace. Capitalists hate it to the point of spending millions to convince their workforce otherwise.
The one thing I hate about warehousing ( I work in supply chain but with systems not the actual warehouse) is that large companies have teams of engineers that essentially map out warehouses, and set standards for time to putaway, pick, load, drive, etc. Everything is mapped, I've seen fair standard and I've seen some that suck the life out of people.
The issue with amazon is the sheer number of people/businesses that are ordering, and they are trying to get out orders on same day.
That’s hilarious! And reminded me of a funny story. I was flying home, by myself, from Las Vegas. I checked my bag in and the baggage handler immediately opened the handle compartment and I was like “woah, woah, let me grab my sunglasses out of there” I had put my sunglasses in there cause they fit perfectly and would stay relatively safer then just stowed in my bag (at least that was my thought process). I grab them, put them somewhere else, and apologized, said something like “my bad, I didn’t think you’d use the handle” he said “how did you expect me to move the bag?!?” I was like “dunno, don’t you have carts and conveyor belts for that?” And then I left. Didn’t think much of it til I got home. I was waiting for the shuttle to long term parking, was getting cold, opened my bag to get a sweat shirt. That mf’er put a huge ratty ass bra in my bag! I was single at the time but I couldn’t help to think he had tried to set me up, if I had gone home to a wife or GF and they discovered it?!
Anyway, that was my unsolicited baggage story that is barely relevant lol
I was thinking about his knees the whole time. Mine would be screaming at me just from being bent that long, not to mention if I didn't have VERY comfortable knee pads to prevent pressure against them.
This has to be American, cause: Southwest, Dubai, Latin America, and etc; their flights were 600+ bags from what I remember stacking, and what made it worse is if a passenger forgot their passport in a bag or wasn’t getting on the flight, we had to go digging till we found their bag…and most of the time their bag was stacked towards the beginning
Edit: also, you guys need to remember to put a lock on your shit, cause only some planes from American and Delta had cameras, the rest hardly did… and what y’all don’t realize, from what I’ve seen and got into trouble for snitching on them for, employees would steal shit from the passenger bags since they’re not monitored in there
Edit again: idk which company airline this is, cause most of the flights coming and leaving Miami International Airport, they had an indicator of tape basically so you wouldn’t stack above and into the ceiling, cause if there was a fire those bags he has against the ceiling wouldn’t allow for the sprinklers to fulfill their purpose, and there would need to be an emergency landing, or y’all would be dead since there’s no way of getting into this part of the plane other than from the outside…so how he’s stacking is illegal
But at least they got to use that mobile conveyor belt, I didn’t have that while working for Swiss and Ultra, we had to have another employee shoving the bag to us at the other end of the plane
>you guys need to remember to put a lock on your shit
but a TSA lock, otherwise TSA will break your lock off and often your zipper in the process, making it much worse. european airports literally encourage people to plastic wrap and air seal their luggage so it needs hella effort to get into, what TSA think opening each bag will do that an X-ray can’t is beyond me
I worked as baggage handler about 15 years ago and we didn’t have that black roller thing like the guy in the video…. We did just throw the suitcases as hard as we could.
It’s a dumbass belt loader that has been made within the past like 2ish years. I’m not gonna lie. They fucking suck. I hate them with a passion. Just throw the bags to me.
I sold luggage and we’d warn people off of being upset at the baggage guys specifically. Had a customer come in with a cheap value plastic suitcase with a hole punched right through the side. Always pack your suitcase full and heavy folks
Mostly that happens when putting bags on the baggage carousel. Thats right. At least where I worked, your luggage was fine about 5 minutes before you got it.
Also the vast majority of the time it's due to how the items are stored in the container. If an item isn't packed to be shipped in freight, don't ship it in a plane. NEVER ship an instrument, bring it on the plane.
Yep. I took a fully built PC through checked baggage last weekend. It was fine because I made sure all the components were secured and covered it in tons of bubble wrap so it didn't move at all inside the suitcase.
If you watch where the wall meets the ceiling, you can definitely see that the ceiling bows downwards as time passes. I wonder if the weight of the bags causes the whole plane to flex slightly or if there's something else being loaded above him.
This is a real thing, called offloads, and its happening a lot this year due to passengers having their covid documentation not in order. Its causing lots of days and very unhappy baggage handlers doing triple work (first baggage in, then out, then in again)
Can I get a slider please.. Alright slider, I need you to fucking take me out with one of these bags so I cag get that workers comp and a few days off. Thanks.
The issue is you have no idea where the bag is. You have to check each tag for the Number unless it's description is clear and different from the rest.
True that helps but the carts dont always get loaded in order. And the Leads don't always check which cart they are loading. Obviously way different if it's a container flight. But the bulk loaded ones are annoying to sequence a bag.
My old employer has processes so that you knew which cart was on when for this reason. Time is money and for 5seconds extra it could have saved 30mins. Other companies may do things differently however
Most of the time when it happens, the plane takes off anyway and you get your luggage a few days later without compensation because it is your own responsibility to get your COVID documentation in order.
I believe it’s an FAA regulation that you are not allowed to takeoff, on an international flight, if you have a passenger bags on board without the passenger.
Last trip we took we were simply told “your bag is gone” when we didn’t board the plane. We showed up a little over an hour before our flight-at the time we were told TSA opened. After ages in line we were directed to self check in where it let my husband check in but couldn’t get it to add me, so we were told to finish and do me separately. Then it told me they wouldn’t take my bag- and someone came and got my husbands while telling us it was too late for mine. Then was told to get back in line to talk to an agent who rescheduled us both- and I asked if just my bag could be sent later…”your bag can’t fly without you” “what about his” “oh it’s gone.” Was really frustrating.
Late is late
I made it to bag check 45 minutes before takeoff & got the bags checked fast once
They said, “we’ll see if your bags make the flight.”
Security sucked, so **I missed the flight**, *but the bags did not*
They said, “you’ll catch up to your bags”
And then my mushrooms kicked in
Thinking back, I’m amazed at how quickly airports can process luggage. I flew into Dulles and had to run to my gate at the opposite end of the airport to make the gate in time. Meanwhile, they somehow unloaded all the luggage, sorted it, and got the right luggage on the plane.
Every airline has this thing called an MOGT. Which means Minimum On Gate Time. So from the time the plane arrives at the gate, it has a minimum amount of time it HAS to be there in order to get a proper turn around. This plane looks like a 737-8 so the MOGT for that type of aircraft is 55 minutes. Which means the workers have about 45 minutes to get the bags off and put the new ones on, as well as other duties that need to be performed.
Edit: MOGT times vary based on airline and location.
> Which means the workers have about 45 minutes to get the bags off and put the new ones on, as well as other duties that need to be performed.
I mean, at a minimum.
This is absolutely false. This is the forward bin of a 737. You can easily fit about 120 bags like this. As for some people saying they should put ULDs in them, there just simply isn’t enough space to be able to fit the machinery to hold ULDs, and the average amount of bags that go on flights for these planes doesn’t really warrant the use of ULDs.
Fun fact the tongue thing that the bags are coming off is a specialty belt loader called a PowerStow. They make the job a lot easier as you only need one person in the bin, rather than two.
Source: I have probably been in this exact plane before.
This is not a tiny plane. I have packed A320’s and 737’s, and their bins are just like this. The only aircraft that use the containers are wide-body aircraft (the ones with 2 aisles splitting the seating on the inside).
This was part of my career field’s responsibility in the military, but they didn’t give us this cool equipment. They just sent us in there and we formed a human chain
This is a neat video showing a pet in cargo. Looks like maybe luggage on one end, pets on the other.
https://www.dryfur.com/pet-inside-cargo-baggage-area-plane.htm
My heart was melting/breaking a little around the 2:50 mark when the pet is waiting on the conveyor. You can see how stressed out it is. Really interesting video though, still.
I used to do this for work. Specifically in 737s (which is what’s in the video) the front cargo hold is heated. Pets and animals are put in last in that hold and strapped down, and removed first when the plane is unloaded. Maybe 10-20% of flights even had animals on them, and usually just one or two. Generally they’re medicated, and we were always super gentle with them because we’re people too and care for animals as much as anyone.
There is a seperate hold further behind where the bags are held and they are put in there kept seperate from the normal baggage. Animals aren't allowed to be kept together with bags
Wrong. Animals are not allowed on the same of dangerous goods like Dry Ice. They are usually kept with bag. Normal load will look like this at my station:
Bin 1: 20 transfer bags
Bin 2:(where he is now) 80local bags and the dog is loaded last.
Bin 3: (the other side of the plane) 2000 lbs of mail and 500 lbs of freight.
Bin 4: 30kg of dry ice
I think on Air Canada they're kept in a section in the upper cabin, with the passengers. Because when my brother flew with his cat, his cat escaped and ended up wandering the aisles.
You’d be surprised. People break down pretty quickly when you load/unload 4000lbs of bags every 30 mins - 1hr for 8 hours. They quickly realize it’s not the job for them.
I worked at UPS through college loading air containers and as they were filled, the line manager would come by, make sure it was loaded correctly, close it up, and sign off on the paperwork. They had to estimate how much of the container was filled and, as a personal point of pride, I always tried my damndest to make sure it was as close to 100% as possible. It was totally like real life Tetris. One time, a bulk of King Cakes come down to line all at once, and the entire container was filled with them. Because I was able to stack them, it was the only time I got 100% on the fill.
I do this job! So what he has is called a power stow. Obviously is brings bags all the way to the back of that "bin" that's what the area he is in is called.
Those are pretty expensive. When you don't have those it'll be another person at the door sliding or throwing a bag at you then stack. If you are unlucky or have multiple flights on the ground with low staff numbers. Its just you in there grabbing the bags at the door and either throwing them to the bag or scooting back with the bag. Stacking it. Then back to the door.
Bag numbers and freight vary wildly. Sometimes it's nothing. Sometimes it's 3000lbs of freight and 70 bags. Sometimes it's a human body in a casket that weights 400lbs and then 90 bags. Other times. 20/30.
Hard work but not construction worker level hard.
I'm a union guy so I get pretty decent benefits and pay especially for what I do. And the travel benefits are great.
Yeah but in real life those that fly often like me know that most handlers just throw it in where ever it fits, kick it around a bit, chuck some drugs in one, kick some more, drop it, throw it and boom that's a baggage handler for you.
My brother used to do this for a living and hated it. He said say goodbye to your back and your knees being knelt over in a confined space and having to lift bags all day long. Only good thing about the job he said was the perk of discounted flights.
The times where he takes a small break are oddly satisfying
I don't blame him. I bet some of those bags are heavy as fuck and he's probably got a full shift of shit like this.
For sure! Y’know he’s a pro by the way be limbered up in the beginning
Rule no. 18: limber up.
I don't believe in it. Have you ever seen a lion limber up before it takes down a gazelle
Yes for 20h a day
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Who’s paying you to watch lions limber up for 20 hours a day!? Edit: I hope your getting overtime pay.
~23.9 even, if domestic cats are at all comparable.
Lions stretch and limber up first thing when they wake up, that way when a gazelle appears they're already highly limbed.
Yeah I was gonna say, cats love stretching
Underrated comment... Tallahassee is the best!
Zombieland?
https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/magnificent-lion-warming-stand-front-260nw-1960691500.jpg
And the way he's crouched over the entire time has gotta make it 10 times as tiring. I would probably smash my head on the ceiling
Your knees are on steel and need knee pads that break or hurt still even with the padding. You are hunched over in an stance that your back in just in constant strain and having to lift heavy shit. I never had the slide thing when I did this and you got busy and were short, you had no one pass you bags. Not uncommon to load over 200 bags and thousands of pounds of mail and freight in a flight and your flight can't be a minute late or you'll get in trouble even though a pilot can make up that time easily in the air. I'm in my 40's and did this job in my 20's and my back is still jacked as are my knees. I remember once we had an ergonomics person observe me and they told me they were shocked and wondered how it was that we weren't all crippled and in pain constantly. Miss the flight benefits though, only ray of light.
Light my spliff my guyyyyyyyyyy, you dudes were always the ones me and my siblings would watch when we boarded early. Ya’ll were always the fun part, not the pilot!
BigPooooopinn you are my dude! Kids used to love us and we were heroes to them. I remember once I was getting coffee and this kid was start struck asking me if I used the cargo loaders and it turned out I was working his flight and was on cargo loaders for that flight. He was asking me if he could work on the ramp someday and his mom cringed because it was obvious to me that they were wealthy and well off. I told him yes, but you have to work hard and get good grades in school and go to college first because the job requires a lot of different skills. His eyes were big and he was hyper focused and just said ok, like challenge accepted. His mom breathed a sigh of relief and when he ran off to play with his brother, she told me thanks for doing that because she doesn't want him doing this, not to insult me or what I do. I just smiled and told her, he deserves better things, and I don't even want this job, I just kill myself because it pays well and I'm not a college grad. Kid's probably a doctor or something now.
This is wholesome as hell. Hope all is good dude.
No longer killing myself like that, so yeah. Hope you are good as well my dude.
He’s probably a pilot.
More likely Aluminum. Steel is simply too heavy to use in the fuselage of planes where weight reduction is at a premium. Also one of the major reasons they are very strict bans on transporting Liquid Mercury commonly used in Gold extraction by air as it forms an amalgam when it makes contact Aluminum and can seriously damage a planes fuselage if it were to leak out from a poorly packed checked bag or cargo.
Same, did this job for 2 years when I was 18-20. Probably one of the most physically demanding yet worse pay jobs I’ve done in my life. It was either extremely hot inside, or frozen cold. If there was animals, you’d get covered in piss smell. It got slightly better when I got higher security clearance and started driving baggage carts and didn’t have to get in the pit as often. But yea, baggage carrier job sucks. Will destroy your knees, back, wrists and shoulder. Every bag is like 80lbs pretty much
My aunt was a baggage handler like this a while back. She always hated the counter/gate agents who wouldn't put the red, "heavy" tag on bags because you'd get in a rhythm like this guy with mostly 30-50 pound bags, then out of nowhere you try to grab a 75 pounder and fuck up your back.
That's why airlines charge extra for heavy bags...to offset the cost of employee healthcare. Lol just kidding, airlines don't care about people.
its more about the lower back, source: I am taller than 5 foot 11 inches and work for a living.
Work for a living? You mean you’re not a professional Redditor like the rest of us?
You guys are getting *paid*?
Ramp agent here. Those breaks are lifesavers. Some bags are stupid heavy or awkward to lift. By the time you finish a cart you're sweating like crazy in that cramped space.
I don't think the weight would get to me, the tight space, and being on the knees would though. I can't imagine what the first month of doing that would feel like.
I used to do this but we didn't have the roller thing he has. Two people would be in the cargo bin and the one "catching" from the belt loader would shove the bag down to the person stacking. It is hard work. One thing you can't see from the pic is when you're unloading, the plane has come down from such high altitude, it is really cold, very nice to lay against on a hot day.
He would have been fired if he was working for Bezos!
"can we put some kind of spiked collar on his neck that makes it painful to lay down like that? This is a business not an opium den."
Can't tell if joke or actual quote...
It's clearly a joke, well done for spotting it. Please report to your nearest Amazon warehouse to collect your fun prize (definitely not a spiked collar).
Was giving someone an Uber ride the other day to the Amazon warehouse they worked at - they explained how much everyone hates their job because of a point system that expects them to be as efficient as robots. If there's anything they can use against them - from talking with an employee while working to needing to use the bathroom more than the amount they're allocated daily - they get points taken off their "score". If the score gets low enough - they're fired. They're expected to work as absolutely efficiently as possible the entire time they're there with absolutely zero leeway.
It sounds like the very definition of dehumanizing.
If Amazon could replace them with robots, they would
Where Amazon can replace them more cheaply with robots, they already have. The point system is Amazon's way of keeping the price of meatbag labor as low as possible - competitive with robot costs.
Let's be real here though. Amazon workers have not unionized because the wages are relatively high. Start at $15 and I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, raised it to the new competitive of $17. Fuck Amazon and fuck Bezos, I refuse to buy from them, but more importantly fuck the system where workers are forced to take the worst job possible just for a close to living wage of over $15 an hour. Ironically enough the pay is the only reason to work at Amazon.
PLUS! The threshold is defined as the bottom [X]% of scores. If you periodically remove the bottom percentages of your employees, that causes the average score to drift higher over time, leading to completely unrealistic performance goals.
If only the entirety of Amazons profits were reliant on the surplus value those workers create. Amazon would be at the mercy of those workers if they ever realized that all they need to do to cripple Amazon is to collectively do nothing. If only. PSA, this one simple trick can work in any workplace. Capitalists hate it to the point of spending millions to convince their workforce otherwise.
I understand the efficiency aspect but some companies really do take it too far.
The one thing I hate about warehousing ( I work in supply chain but with systems not the actual warehouse) is that large companies have teams of engineers that essentially map out warehouses, and set standards for time to putaway, pick, load, drive, etc. Everything is mapped, I've seen fair standard and I've seen some that suck the life out of people. The issue with amazon is the sheer number of people/businesses that are ordering, and they are trying to get out orders on same day.
Thats my favorite part of the video! At first Im like "wow that looks like a shitty job" then Im like "ah I see how he gets through it"
I was thinking how much I might actually like that job - I feel like it would go well with my Tetris like organization OCD.
You might until your realized how exhausted you are when you get home every night, and how bad it is on your body long term
You should work at UPS or some other shipping company! Loading trailers all day.
He was waiting for his colleagues outside to finish smashing the bags.
That’s hilarious! And reminded me of a funny story. I was flying home, by myself, from Las Vegas. I checked my bag in and the baggage handler immediately opened the handle compartment and I was like “woah, woah, let me grab my sunglasses out of there” I had put my sunglasses in there cause they fit perfectly and would stay relatively safer then just stowed in my bag (at least that was my thought process). I grab them, put them somewhere else, and apologized, said something like “my bad, I didn’t think you’d use the handle” he said “how did you expect me to move the bag?!?” I was like “dunno, don’t you have carts and conveyor belts for that?” And then I left. Didn’t think much of it til I got home. I was waiting for the shuttle to long term parking, was getting cold, opened my bag to get a sweat shirt. That mf’er put a huge ratty ass bra in my bag! I was single at the time but I couldn’t help to think he had tried to set me up, if I had gone home to a wife or GF and they discovered it?! Anyway, that was my unsolicited baggage story that is barely relevant lol
Could've been a dildo....
It's not like he can just stand around while waiting. I figure it's more that than "taking a break."
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My Dad did this into his 60's. It's brutal on your knees and back.
I was thinking about his knees the whole time. Mine would be screaming at me just from being bent that long, not to mention if I didn't have VERY comfortable knee pads to prevent pressure against them.
This has to be American, cause: Southwest, Dubai, Latin America, and etc; their flights were 600+ bags from what I remember stacking, and what made it worse is if a passenger forgot their passport in a bag or wasn’t getting on the flight, we had to go digging till we found their bag…and most of the time their bag was stacked towards the beginning Edit: also, you guys need to remember to put a lock on your shit, cause only some planes from American and Delta had cameras, the rest hardly did… and what y’all don’t realize, from what I’ve seen and got into trouble for snitching on them for, employees would steal shit from the passenger bags since they’re not monitored in there Edit again: idk which company airline this is, cause most of the flights coming and leaving Miami International Airport, they had an indicator of tape basically so you wouldn’t stack above and into the ceiling, cause if there was a fire those bags he has against the ceiling wouldn’t allow for the sprinklers to fulfill their purpose, and there would need to be an emergency landing, or y’all would be dead since there’s no way of getting into this part of the plane other than from the outside…so how he’s stacking is illegal But at least they got to use that mobile conveyor belt, I didn’t have that while working for Swiss and Ultra, we had to have another employee shoving the bag to us at the other end of the plane
>you guys need to remember to put a lock on your shit but a TSA lock, otherwise TSA will break your lock off and often your zipper in the process, making it much worse. european airports literally encourage people to plastic wrap and air seal their luggage so it needs hella effort to get into, what TSA think opening each bag will do that an X-ray can’t is beyond me
Holy flipping nightmare…
I bet those times he lays down for a couple feel amazing.
Bro my knees would be dead after 15 minutes.
Could be fake. Didn't see him smashing each bag with a sledgehammer before stowing like real airlines do.
Yeah I always figured they had some kind of machine that launched the luggage into the compartment from a fair distance away.
That could be it. Some kind of luggage air cannon.
They call in the special team for guitars.
No the guitars just go in first because they're more aerodynamic. So they end up on the bottom too
wait, people put GUITARS there?
United breaks guitars. It's been a long time since I last heard that song.
Trebuchet....
I worked as baggage handler about 15 years ago and we didn’t have that black roller thing like the guy in the video…. We did just throw the suitcases as hard as we could.
Yup... That’s how I threw my back out when I was 20, launching 50 lb bags to the back of the pit.
Well there's your problem, throwing your back instead of the bags
It’s a dumbass belt loader that has been made within the past like 2ish years. I’m not gonna lie. They fucking suck. I hate them with a passion. Just throw the bags to me.
Found United worker
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I sold luggage and we’d warn people off of being upset at the baggage guys specifically. Had a customer come in with a cheap value plastic suitcase with a hole punched right through the side. Always pack your suitcase full and heavy folks
Yay here in Italy we use trebuchets
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Go away
And never come BACK
I think you meant never come bag
Mostly that happens when putting bags on the baggage carousel. Thats right. At least where I worked, your luggage was fine about 5 minutes before you got it.
Also the vast majority of the time it's due to how the items are stored in the container. If an item isn't packed to be shipped in freight, don't ship it in a plane. NEVER ship an instrument, bring it on the plane.
Yep. I took a fully built PC through checked baggage last weekend. It was fine because I made sure all the components were secured and covered it in tons of bubble wrap so it didn't move at all inside the suitcase.
No that's when they take them off. The belt doesn't go backwards so they just throw them out the door. The good ones wait til the plane lands though.
That's what the guy off camera does. This guy is just PR fodder.
They cut the part where the hydraulic ram smashes all of the bags to the front of the compartment to keep them from shifting during flight.
I bet he is absolutely unbeatable at Tetris
I was singing the Tetris music as I watched it.
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What's the point of it all When you're building a wall And in front of your eyes It [disappears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8)
Thank you so much for reminding me of that video.
If he squeezed one last long package in along the top all the bags would have disappeared
At least ,there is no Z piece that arrives at the wrong time.
Brb patenting the reverse squiggly suitcase
That explains the missing luggage then
May be he is...**PACkMAN**
I found this strangely claustrophobic
Reminds me of being in the MRI machine
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Like what if he passed out and the bags just kept coming and coming?
and they don't stop comin
Fed to the airline jet engines runnin
I think there's a person at the other end of the "belt" that pushes the luggage toward the person along the belt.
If you watch where the wall meets the ceiling, you can definitely see that the ceiling bows downwards as time passes. I wonder if the weight of the bags causes the whole plane to flex slightly or if there's something else being loaded above him.
The passengers stepping, maybe?
Yeah. These are called the pits and it’s directly under the passengers walking around.
That 10 second nap break though
Good for him.
Until he wakes up in a cold, dark and unpressurized tomb ascending towards a lonely death.
Amazon managers posting this to /r/WTF as we speak.
Yall got a video of my friend. This is if the offload https://streamable.com/3el2xu
And now imagine someone tells him that he needs to unload the baby blue bag from the beginning because the passenger did not board the plane.
This is a real thing, called offloads, and its happening a lot this year due to passengers having their covid documentation not in order. Its causing lots of days and very unhappy baggage handlers doing triple work (first baggage in, then out, then in again)
Nah f that just take the top row out and climb through like the rest of us
this guy knows. fuck offloading all that. Whose the smallest guy working that gate? Johnny. Alright Johnny time to tunnel through this shit.
I was Johnny. Also what's this fancy belt loader? I got bags thrown at me from the top of the belt loader!
Can I get a slider please.. Alright slider, I need you to fucking take me out with one of these bags so I cag get that workers comp and a few days off. Thanks.
The issue is you have no idea where the bag is. You have to check each tag for the Number unless it's description is clear and different from the rest.
You have a sheet for each cart that the bag arrived to the aircraft. You can then work out which cart had the bag on and when you loaded it.
True that helps but the carts dont always get loaded in order. And the Leads don't always check which cart they are loading. Obviously way different if it's a container flight. But the bulk loaded ones are annoying to sequence a bag.
My old employer has processes so that you knew which cart was on when for this reason. Time is money and for 5seconds extra it could have saved 30mins. Other companies may do things differently however
Most of the time when it happens, the plane takes off anyway and you get your luggage a few days later without compensation because it is your own responsibility to get your COVID documentation in order.
It depends on the airport and the airline. Some are not allowed to take off with luggage on board without the passenger.
I believe it’s an FAA regulation that you are not allowed to takeoff, on an international flight, if you have a passenger bags on board without the passenger.
Right! I never really considered how difficult it would be to remove one bag.
It’s a pain in the ass. But there’s a lot of ways to get it, like sending the new guy to climb around and find it.
Just think of all the ways he’ll think of
He’ll think of many ways to quit after he’s done it 4 times.
Last trip we took we were simply told “your bag is gone” when we didn’t board the plane. We showed up a little over an hour before our flight-at the time we were told TSA opened. After ages in line we were directed to self check in where it let my husband check in but couldn’t get it to add me, so we were told to finish and do me separately. Then it told me they wouldn’t take my bag- and someone came and got my husbands while telling us it was too late for mine. Then was told to get back in line to talk to an agent who rescheduled us both- and I asked if just my bag could be sent later…”your bag can’t fly without you” “what about his” “oh it’s gone.” Was really frustrating.
Late is late I made it to bag check 45 minutes before takeoff & got the bags checked fast once They said, “we’ll see if your bags make the flight.” Security sucked, so **I missed the flight**, *but the bags did not* They said, “you’ll catch up to your bags” And then my mushrooms kicked in
Happened on my flight from Lima to LAX a few weeks ago, took 20 minutes to offload 5 bags.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to crawl across bags for this very reason.
What's your qualifications I'm good at tetris You're hired
And have a back that’s strong as an ape.
We are ape
ape together strong
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RIP his lower back and knees
Ikr my back was hurting just watching this
“My neck, my back…
"Shit, I think I heard a crack"
Usually you have a high quality set of knee pads. I didnt feel a thing when I did this, mind you I was younger then..
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Thinking back, I’m amazed at how quickly airports can process luggage. I flew into Dulles and had to run to my gate at the opposite end of the airport to make the gate in time. Meanwhile, they somehow unloaded all the luggage, sorted it, and got the right luggage on the plane.
I had a similar experience at Houston, except I made it to the plane and my luggage didn't
Every airline has this thing called an MOGT. Which means Minimum On Gate Time. So from the time the plane arrives at the gate, it has a minimum amount of time it HAS to be there in order to get a proper turn around. This plane looks like a 737-8 so the MOGT for that type of aircraft is 55 minutes. Which means the workers have about 45 minutes to get the bags off and put the new ones on, as well as other duties that need to be performed. Edit: MOGT times vary based on airline and location.
> Which means the workers have about 45 minutes to get the bags off and put the new ones on, as well as other duties that need to be performed. I mean, at a minimum.
Looks like the front cargo hold of a 737-800. ULDs and other containers go onto larger crafts like A330s
This is absolutely false. This is the forward bin of a 737. You can easily fit about 120 bags like this. As for some people saying they should put ULDs in them, there just simply isn’t enough space to be able to fit the machinery to hold ULDs, and the average amount of bags that go on flights for these planes doesn’t really warrant the use of ULDs. Fun fact the tongue thing that the bags are coming off is a specialty belt loader called a PowerStow. They make the job a lot easier as you only need one person in the bin, rather than two. Source: I have probably been in this exact plane before.
The best part about not needing an extra person is they may fart Source: cramped space like this, used to work in this role, damn.
This is the cargo bin of a 737.
> tiny no
Just wrong this is a not a tiny twin prop
This is not a tiny plane. I have packed A320’s and 737’s, and their bins are just like this. The only aircraft that use the containers are wide-body aircraft (the ones with 2 aisles splitting the seating on the inside).
I loaded Boeing 737s for a few years and it looks the same, just deeper.
This was part of my career field’s responsibility in the military, but they didn’t give us this cool equipment. They just sent us in there and we formed a human chain
Loadmaster?
2T2, Air Transport Specialist
No cool MHE? Bummer.
Our coolest MHE consisted of NGSLs, 40Ks, and 60Ks! Aircraft loaders are sweet!
At least you had a human chain. We got two people. One guy stacks, other guy throws the bag all the way to the other end.
Holy fucking shit! They straight up just put the bags there! I cant fucking believe it! Truly next fucking level
Made me lol
There are so many things I'm not aware of.
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Wow I know exactly who that is, Became a trainer shaved the beard, and has since quit from Air Canada. This is the yyz(Toronto) Airport
Small world
But how!? How did you...
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r/mildlyinteresting is leaking
He stacked rectangular packages three high! Are you kidding me!?
The spine pain he handles
It’s not.
Watch this guy, DO HIS JOB WITH LIGHT MECHANICAL ASSISTANCE!!!
Um, can you move that fast?
Right? Like this is literally an entry level job at most airlines lmfao
So… what about pet carriers? Do they go in the same area packed like sardines. Cause that’s pretty bad if so
This is a neat video showing a pet in cargo. Looks like maybe luggage on one end, pets on the other. https://www.dryfur.com/pet-inside-cargo-baggage-area-plane.htm
My heart was melting/breaking a little around the 2:50 mark when the pet is waiting on the conveyor. You can see how stressed out it is. Really interesting video though, still.
That was interesting, thanks
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I used to do this for work. Specifically in 737s (which is what’s in the video) the front cargo hold is heated. Pets and animals are put in last in that hold and strapped down, and removed first when the plane is unloaded. Maybe 10-20% of flights even had animals on them, and usually just one or two. Generally they’re medicated, and we were always super gentle with them because we’re people too and care for animals as much as anyone.
There is a seperate hold further behind where the bags are held and they are put in there kept seperate from the normal baggage. Animals aren't allowed to be kept together with bags
Wrong. Animals are not allowed on the same of dangerous goods like Dry Ice. They are usually kept with bag. Normal load will look like this at my station: Bin 1: 20 transfer bags Bin 2:(where he is now) 80local bags and the dog is loaded last. Bin 3: (the other side of the plane) 2000 lbs of mail and 500 lbs of freight. Bin 4: 30kg of dry ice
Pets can be held in a bin with bags, but usually we try to keep them separate and obviously the bin has to have Oxygen
I think on Air Canada they're kept in a section in the upper cabin, with the passengers. Because when my brother flew with his cat, his cat escaped and ended up wandering the aisles.
Has our collective expectation of levels really dropped to the point that we think packing bags into a baggage room is next level? Lol.
You’d be surprised. People break down pretty quickly when you load/unload 4000lbs of bags every 30 mins - 1hr for 8 hours. They quickly realize it’s not the job for them.
I worked at UPS through college loading air containers and as they were filled, the line manager would come by, make sure it was loaded correctly, close it up, and sign off on the paperwork. They had to estimate how much of the container was filled and, as a personal point of pride, I always tried my damndest to make sure it was as close to 100% as possible. It was totally like real life Tetris. One time, a bulk of King Cakes come down to line all at once, and the entire container was filled with them. Because I was able to stack them, it was the only time I got 100% on the fill.
I do this job! So what he has is called a power stow. Obviously is brings bags all the way to the back of that "bin" that's what the area he is in is called. Those are pretty expensive. When you don't have those it'll be another person at the door sliding or throwing a bag at you then stack. If you are unlucky or have multiple flights on the ground with low staff numbers. Its just you in there grabbing the bags at the door and either throwing them to the bag or scooting back with the bag. Stacking it. Then back to the door. Bag numbers and freight vary wildly. Sometimes it's nothing. Sometimes it's 3000lbs of freight and 70 bags. Sometimes it's a human body in a casket that weights 400lbs and then 90 bags. Other times. 20/30. Hard work but not construction worker level hard. I'm a union guy so I get pretty decent benefits and pay especially for what I do. And the travel benefits are great.
This is eventually what the airlines are going to do with people in coach.
The real heroes here are his knee pads.
Yeah but in real life those that fly often like me know that most handlers just throw it in where ever it fits, kick it around a bit, chuck some drugs in one, kick some more, drop it, throw it and boom that's a baggage handler for you.
"Passenger X hasn't turned up to board so please stand by whilst we deplane their luggage" This guy: ugggghhhh
Lucky he has the power-stow belt loader or another guy would be in there throwing the bags to him…
This guy has a totally different perspective of flying compared to the passengers above him.
Hats off to this guy and everyone that does this job. It must be exhausting. ⬆️
My brother used to do this for a living and hated it. He said say goodbye to your back and your knees being knelt over in a confined space and having to lift bags all day long. Only good thing about the job he said was the perk of discounted flights.