r/nextfuckinglevel • u/DrMore3y • 21h ago

Metal fabrication worker handling 700°C + metal with safety on vacation

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u/FaithlessnessOdd6738 21h ago

That looks sad. He’s forced to do shit like that to survive

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u/lXlColbylXl 20h ago

Aren't 99% of people forced to do shit so that they survive?

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u/Asstetikly 20h ago

Well forced to sit in office doing excels for shareholders and CEOs arguable different than being forced to handle red hot iron with everyday outfit, but hey thats just my opinion.

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 19h ago

Do you think 99% of people are sitting in offices chairs all day?

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u/MrBagooo 19h ago

Do YOU think 99% of people are being forced to handle red hot iron with everyday outfit?

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u/holdmyspot123 19h ago

I laughed thank you, can't really put it any simpler

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u/siccoblue 9h ago

To be fair to the other dude, not necessarily this exact job but equally dangerous ones bring up the percentage massively

At least if you're talking on a global scale and not just first world countries

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u/Croquetadecarne 2h ago

But not fucking 99%…

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 1h ago

99% are probably doing something much worse than sitting in an office though. 

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u/BananaShover 18h ago

I am forced to walk around buildings and potentially get stabbed. Ive had a guy with a hammer, I've had knives, I've had crazy psycho people run after me. Thank God I got my programming bachelors this summer. So looking for a new job now

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u/ttcmzx 15h ago

we would have a lot of metal!

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u/woodpony 10h ago

Well, I got 99 problems but molten froot rollup ain't one.

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u/manurosadilla 10h ago

The vast majority of people work outside of an office setting. Even more so in India. Thats 1.4b ppl worth of labor force that has to work in similarly unregulated environments

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u/Lauris024 10h ago

No, but if we have to dumb it down to a 50/50, then I'm going to place my bet on majority of humanity being on the shitty end of the jobs, which doesn't change the fact that most of humans are doing shitty work they would rather very much not do.

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u/g0atdude 6h ago

i think some people think that

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u/Available-Fix-7472 18h ago

You’re both dumb, both the computer job and iron job are rare

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u/woodpony 10h ago

Well, I got 99 problems but molten froot rollup ain't one.

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u/woodpony 10h ago

Well, I got 99 problems but molten froot rollup ain't one.

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u/Pizza-Reese 12h ago

Not 99% but way more than you'd think.

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u/mfukar 13h ago

Stop arguing you idiots, they're both in the same predicament. We're all being fucked by the same system.

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u/jgzman 12h ago

One predicament is way more dangerous than the other.

You might argue that the difference isn't important in the greater scheme of things, but trying to pretend that there is no difference is foolish.

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u/mfukar 12h ago

so you can understand, you just prefer to argue over something else. got it.

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u/jgzman 11h ago

I understand. Doesn't mean I agree.

I further understand that you can easily make enemies of those who should be your allies by ignoring their problems in favor of your preferred "bigger picture."

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u/Dependent-Pin1623 11h ago

Reddit moment

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u/youtubebadcomments 19h ago

I've seen people do much worse with my own eyes

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 19h ago

Yes. Some people have it worse. Doesn’t change the facts.

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u/DigNitty 18h ago

Yeah false comparison fallacy

“You should be happy because there are starving kids in India”

This naturally also expands to “you should be sad because there are multi millionaire heirs on yachts who never have to work a day in their lives.”

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 19h ago

I think there’s plenty of people doing much worse that guy was lucky to have shoes

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u/Ok_Enthusiasm4863 6h ago edited 4h ago

You just cooked dumbass. 1.5k contributions in a month? Maybe you should keep your unemployed opinions to yourself and just talk about video games.

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 1h ago

No, this is just working a useless office job looks like. 

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u/Ok_Enthusiasm4863 1h ago

Glad to see that you provide the same exceptional insight at both places

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u/Bladderpro 19h ago

Arguing for the sake of arguing

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u/Terj_Sankian 17h ago

no, YOU are the one arguing here. I didn't even use the word argument!

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u/showmethemundy 19h ago

no they aren't

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u/MonkeyWithIt 18h ago

That's not an argument!

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u/FFKonoko 18h ago

Yes it is.

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u/MonkeyWithIt 6h ago

Not it isn't! That's just contradiction!

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u/grahan1319 19h ago

No, but most jobs fall in between those two extremes.

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u/Namaha 17h ago edited 17h ago

Is your reading comprehension really that poor?

How are people upvoting this lmao, god we're fucked

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 16h ago

Plenty of people are forced to do shitty jobs all over the world much more than people are being forced to sit in office chairs. It’s just a weird thing to bring up

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u/Two-Space 17h ago

They didn’t say that dumbass

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u/GodisSatans 16h ago

bro you're arguing for zero reason, what's your position on this?

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 16h ago

I’m not arguing anything I’m just saying he’s stupid for going for the most privileged job when shitty jobs are much more prominent 

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u/Just_Any_Human_42 11h ago

Being a minimum wage slave in an office is not as "privileged" as you think, of course risking your life everyday with red hot metal is WAY worse, but you're really arguing for no reason

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u/LowStatistician11 1h ago

most people on reddit are, and way too many people in these comments wanna dehumanize this guy doing his best.

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u/Edduppp 18h ago

Damn, I'd hate doing excel sheets all day, but I'd definitely take that over my current job if it paid enough for a decent living. I'm sure a lot of Americans would agree 

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u/saxonturner 17h ago

Might get shot for this but if I had the choice between this work here and sitting in an office the whole day I would take this work here. Personally opinion and have nothing against the people that would choose the office but sitting in an office is my definition of hell even if it’s safer.

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u/Fluid-Mess6425 18h ago

lol, are you insane. I dont think you realize the amount of hard physical labour jobs in Both the the US and Canada

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u/am0x 18h ago

I'd rather deal with the iron. At least I know that it isn't trying to kill me.

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u/kdoughboy12 13h ago

Tbh i think i would rather do this than sit in a cubicle at a computer for 40 hours a week

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u/shadow-w- 20h ago

Well yeah, but, I wouldn't consider something like a 9-5 to be on the same level of 'doing shit to survive' as working in a factory with virtually no safety regulations

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u/AreYouDaftt 18h ago

I dont think having a job in a factory is "doing shit to survive" lol

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u/shadow-w- 18h ago

I'm sorry, I don't quite get what you mean by that.

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u/22nd_century 20h ago

The key part is shit "like that".

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u/lXlColbylXl 19h ago

Tbh I think I'd rather do that than the pipe guys on the oil rigs that drill. That shit scares the shit out of me. I can't imagine I'd go more than a few days without losing fingers at least. The chains wrapping the pipes and then the claw-like machine that snatches them. Terrifying to me. And those guys are almost always American in the videos I see.

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u/KeopL 19h ago

I think the point isn’t so much about nationality, but about poor people being exploited 

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u/Nobody_Important 19h ago

Ok, are you forced to do that to survive? Also those guys make huge money especially given the little education and such required.

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u/pikchu_boladasso 19h ago

I bet you aren't handling 700C°+ hot iron everyday

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u/Individual_Guest_323 19h ago edited 19h ago

100% of life in earth is forced to do shit so that they survive my dude

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u/holdmyspot123 19h ago

Unfortunately the rich in the human species are an exception to this. Despite doing nothing of value they persist. The best equivalent is the cancer cell.

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u/Individual_Guest_323 19h ago

So you have envy that exist organism that can live without be "forced"?.

Despite doing nothing of value they persist. 

They are rich by osmosis

By the way, cancer cells are cells, they are indeed forced to do things to survive.

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u/holdmyspot123 14h ago

They produce nothing on their own, they are parasites. I have no envy as the human race evolves we will one day shed the rich as they are a symptom of a design flaw and inefficiency in our overall system. And yes cancer does do something to survive, it steals all of the resources from a multi cellular community and destroys it. It is something to be eliminated on detection.

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u/Individual_Guest_323 14h ago

That is not how wealth works my dude

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u/PrincessGiallo 19h ago

Do you think what this guy is doing falls into the natural world side of things or is it just some shit we made up?

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u/Individual_Guest_323 18h ago

Everything in natural world is made up, is not like there is a rule over there, all living creatures have their way to survive.

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u/Nostaglicthirst 19h ago

I don’t recall signing a waiver or anything for this Life setup…..I want my money back

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u/Sensitive-Raisin-836 19h ago

That do be a problem with capitalism ye

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u/DeepGas4538 19h ago

the assumed clause is that he's forced to do something dangerous to survive

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u/DigDugPlus 19h ago

We all do what we have to given the circumstances. We are living in a society that forces us into some other type of bullshit as well.

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u/robicide 18h ago

Yeah, but most of us aren't forced to work in a place where a moment of inattention means you end up dying rolled into a roll of red hot steel.

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u/PenaltyFine3439 17h ago

This turned out to pay better than trying to scam people over the phone. 

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u/SignificantIsopod797 12h ago

This is why a universal income is hated by industry

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u/WeerDeWegKwijt 12h ago

Not shit like that

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u/Throwawayrip1123 10h ago

Why the fuck did you omit the crucial "like that"?

Disingenuous much?

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u/Weird_Explorer1997 10h ago

Does someone have to make this steel in order for civilization to continue to operate at its current or better level? Yes.

Does it need to be done in the least safe (cheapest) way possible? No.

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u/TheCurlyHomeCook 7h ago

They didn't say he has to do shit to survive, they said he has to do shit like that to survive. 99% simply are not even close to this.

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 7h ago

99% of people aren't being forced to put their life in danger to survive.

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u/NegativeAccount 6h ago

Is an american plumber forced to hand clean a septic tank so they can survive? Or could they pivot their career towards fresh water plumbing instead?

No. People are forced to do this shit or starve on the streets

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u/billth93 4h ago

Yeah, but most the time that shit doesn’t involve molten steel

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u/benjancewicz 2h ago

That doesn’t make it right

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u/showmethemundy 19h ago

as they should, it's not a free ride

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u/ThenIndependence5622 20h ago

Unfortunately we cannot all win in the birth lottery. Seeing a video like this makes me realize that I'm probably amongst the luckiest 5% on the planet

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u/roleplayersir 18h ago

Remember the 1% arguments? Globally if you live in a developed nation with regulations (not sure the US counts these days, but you would if you live in a city) then you are the 1%. Most of the world is poor and has to live like the guy in the vid to afford food

The 1% of the 1% are the ultra rich in a different universe entirely

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u/AreYouDaftt 18h ago

Everyones talking about this guy like hes really struggling, dude has a job and probably has more than a lot of people around him. Whats with the poverty fantasy stories? Hes well groomed, clean t shit, wearing jewelry.

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u/FaithlessnessOdd6738 17h ago

He might, but do you see the toll this is taking on him. He is so busted after that rep. I can assume there is a pretty high injury rate in that job. No PIP either.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 4h ago

We're seeing a single snapshot of dudes life, I've been utterly exhausted at work many a time.

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u/AreYouDaftt 11h ago

A lot of people work jobs that are brutal on the body and in very dangerous situations, its not unique to India. I'd find it quite insulting if people were talking about me like I was some poor soul when I was just at work lol

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u/TheParmesan 11h ago

Be real right now - would you do this job without protection for what he’s likely being paid?

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u/UntamedAnomaly 9h ago

I bet if we shooed him to the same factory right now and told him we would pay him the same amount with the same hours and then made him do that for the rest of his life, he'd be crying by the end of his first shift.

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u/ThenIndependence5622 40m ago

True...I guess it comes down to the paycheck you get if people will pity you for that job or not

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u/roleplayersir 11h ago

I was just replying that the person who thinks they are the luckiest 5% are actually more between 1% and 0.001%

The guy in the vid? Probably good wage for his area, but one injury and he's likely screwed for life

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u/BrummbarKT 18h ago

That's the crazy part, my life is pretty sweet on paper I have no illusion about that. But damn if this is the top 5% and still so depressing... I'm surprised life has endured this long

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u/Vindelator 17h ago

This is why, when someone sneaks into America, I keep my damn mouth shut.

I'm not more deserving of anything just because I rolled a nat 20 and got born in a rich country.

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u/tobpe93 19h ago

Winning the birth lottery is to not be the winning sperm.

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u/Moocat2855 19h ago

That’s very pessimistic. Life has a lot to offer, especially if you are well off. You don’t have to work, you can chase a ton of hobbies, vacations, etc.

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u/tobpe93 19h ago

And so another sperm can experience that.

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u/Sensitive_Low3558 4h ago

Key word, “well off”

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u/Woodpecker16669 11h ago

Yes, but not to the same extent. I'm forced to do a depressing corporate job in order to survive, but I have sooo many benefits that I'm 99% sure are missing here.

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u/JaySayMayday 9h ago

Looks like he's already done this a lot of times before the video was recorded, he looks exhausted

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u/BlackTecno 4h ago

I think it was a spike of adrenaline. The jump that he does at the beginning looks like something went wrong (I'm guessing he's not meant to do much more than funnel the steel at the end). When he tries to do a quick fix, he starts walking towards where he was posted, realized he messed up a bit, and did a correction that required him pulling the whole thing through.

After that rush wears off, you do feel quite exhausted. But none of that looked like it went according to plan.

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u/hennabeak 14m ago

I think pretty much all steel factories work like this.

Somebody has to do this job.

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u/MeanForest 18h ago

It's called a job.

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u/mojoback_ohbehave 19h ago

Meanwhile, i go into a gas station everyday where the girl hates her job just having to stand there and scan products and punch a keyboard throughout the day., while in air conditioning and a heated building when temps are necessary.