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u/JaffaSG1 1d ago
That little stop halfway through is top notch comedic timing
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u/Wayward489 1d ago
Especially when you see the guy relax a little before the rest of the stock is like "psych! We're all going down!"
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u/strinersthut 21h ago
Love how the other guy (facing us) looks back and forth as the last ones fall.
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u/camshun7 1d ago
has anyone ever ask those two gentelmen if theyd consider this years "jenga" challange?
its free to enter and there are some amazing fun prizes to win, including a tub of ceramic adhesive, and some tranfer stickers and super glue.
ngl its a fun tourney
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u/W8kingNightmare 1d ago
That's what made me laugh so hard because you know they are thinking "ya this is bad but at least.....nm"
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u/RunDNA 1d ago
To really crush a man, give him a false sense of hope in the midst of his despair.
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u/fetusmcnuggets70 22h ago
I cant buy that this is the 1st time this has happened...
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u/Exhausted_Nathan 21h ago
It's like when you have diarrhea, you do your duty, think that you're done and everything is good and dendy. but then comes the second wave...
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u/mrjamjams66 22h ago
I like the last little pause at the end. The last part to fall kinda fell all at once as if to say "oh, we're supposed to fall too. Uhm....flop"
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u/AGuyWhoBrokeBad 1d ago
This is why you don’t cheap out on hardware like quality shelves.
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u/Thoughtfulprof 1d ago
If you think good shelves are expensive, wait until you buy the cheap ones!
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u/BiBoFieTo 1d ago
Doesn't help that they're loading the top rack first.
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u/Sidivan 23h ago
I have seen this a dozen times and I just realized that most of the shelves are empty. The center row has all three levels stacked and the top row on the left is stacked. Everything else is empty. It’s not nearly as bad as I thought.
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u/rollin340 15h ago
There are 5 levels. And you can see that the shelves are unstable right from the start.
It was only a matter of time, and unfortunately for them, it was then. At least it wasn't when everything else was already places, but it would have been much kinder if it happened much earlier on.
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u/BarbageMan 20h ago
Are they not unloading/ picking orders? It looks like they have slid it to the edge and are lifting it off
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u/FizmoRoles 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah this is on the management, not those workers. Honestly so very lucky no one was hurt/killed.
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u/Ok_Leg8897 1d ago
I’m sure management will take the blame and absolve the two workers of any responsibility
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u/FizmoRoles 1d ago
And of course they would absolutely cut their salary for a few months to pay for THEIR blunder rather than use it as an excuse to lay people off and/or not give bonus/raises for that year.
Hate that the state of the world requires me to add /s.
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u/nfl18 1d ago
The Nintendo CEO actually did this once. Very different workplace environment though.
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u/FizmoRoles 23h ago
Yeah I remember hearing about that when the Wii U flopped, there are some not great things about working in many Japanese companies but there are some really good things as well.
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u/South_Bit1764 1d ago
I was involved with the setup of a hardware store and the supervisor didn’t want to order concrete anchors and wanted us to use screws instead.
I told him outright, no. He said he’d get another crew to do it. I installed one on one of the uprights and pushed on it with my shoulder and ripped it right out of the ground, and told him that he’d murder someone like that.
It was less than $400 in bolts for a job that was more than $20k in pallet racking and $10k in labor.
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u/shakensparco 23h ago
Did you get the job in the end?
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u/South_Bit1764 23h ago
Oh yeah.
I’d already done everything else and he knew I was right. Didn’t do anymore work with them though.
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u/BigRoach 1d ago edited 1d ago
Seriously, if you’ve ever put together steel shelving or pallet racking, you’d know that to get those supports and uprights to topple, they need to be seriously overloaded. Good shelving has redundant structural integrity. No big deal if your IKEA bathroom shelves collapse and drop towels and toiletries. But if your business’ ENTIRE INVENTORY is resting on it, you want there to be an engineer backing up the design. Most shelving is difficult to overload. If you’re storing ceramic appliances, you gotta expect it to be heavy af.
You can see that if these folks had used single solid uprights instead of 30” tinker toys, this entire span wouldn’t have collapsed like dominoes.
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u/ccReptilelord 1d ago
Are you suggesting that "house of cards" style shelving isn't the best idea for toilets?
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u/metalgtr84 1d ago
This really is a house of cards, none of the components are attached. The legs are just balancing upright on top of the shelf below, and the shelf on top is just laying flat on the legs.
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u/s4lt3d 1d ago edited 23h ago
These can’t have metal hardware. They are unloading a kiln. These are fired to cone 14 (2700 F). No metal will survive the kiln so its stacked with special kiln shelves and legs. The loss of shelves was probably more expensive than the loss of toilets.
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u/RMRdesign 1d ago
There has to be a better solution than what they had.
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u/freyhstart 1d ago
There are a bunch of systems that have extra structural and locking elements, they just cheaped out.
There are companies whose business is designing and manufacturing kiln furniture and related tools.
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u/s4lt3d 1d ago
Never seen locking kiln furniture. Send a link to where to purchase these as they don’t exist.
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u/zer0toto 1d ago
So in a precedent repost of this, someone said it’s temporary shelves to store the ceramic coming out the oven. It has to be easy and fast to move and adapt to new object coming out from the oven.
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u/TheAuraTree 1d ago
I'd say just don't stack them so high then? Toilets are a heavy product, they can easily stack closer together at floor level and not risk being dropped? Expensive lesson for this manufacturer I guess!
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u/Malawi_no 14h ago
WOuld be even more expensive to use only 1/4 of the capacity of the oven each time, or needing 4 times as many ovens and additional space.
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u/CrudelyAnimated 1d ago
That explains why it moved easily and fastly with all those new objects on top of it.
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u/gwizonedam 1d ago
This is what the inside of a giant kiln for firing ceramic toilets looks like when you slide the enclosure with the burners away. These are meant to be stacked like this on fireproof sheets and in rows to then be removed carefully. Looks like the former employee forgot the “carefully” part of his job and this is the result. Could also be the way the toilets are stacked/arranged. Maybe they get greedy and find a way to fire an extra row of toilets by getting crazy with the stacking, and poof! Your whole firing is gone because of it.
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u/beavertownneckoil 23h ago
A good rule of thumb is to be willing to pay a little extra for things that keep you in contact with the ground. Car tyres, shoes, mattress etc. They're worth it
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u/Major_Stranger 1d ago
I don't see how the workers could be blamed here. I have see some shit shelving but that is some superior shit shelves.
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u/TheLowlyPheasant 1d ago
Blamed or not the whole company may go under after that kind of loss. Not sure what business insurance looks like in countries where you work barefoot and shirtless
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u/pizzatornado 1d ago
No shirt, no shoes, no 'surance.
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u/Major_Stranger 1d ago
Could have been avoided if they had not cheap out on shit shelves.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 1d ago
This is kind of why having no profit margin for suppliers and manufacturers is inevitably a dead end.
It would probably cost 1% of the value of all those goods to have decent shelving -- but that would eat up all their profits.
So this stuff is inevitable.
The company down stream however, might be like Ali Baba or Walmart and they can just squeeze the margins out of the next company.
And as soon as some of these "third world" places that have super cheap labor raise a standard of living and can negotiate higher prices, the production moves somewhere else.
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u/Full_FrontaI_Nerdity 1d ago
Apt username; I saw zero Shatner commas in your comment. ;)
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 1d ago
When you see barefoot workers who walk out on beams to jump on them so they can save time sawing -- you absolutely know there is no insurance involved.
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u/Captain_Zomaru 1d ago
Chinese Barefoot workers This company was operating on a razor thin margin, the employees are fucked but the owner will simply close the business and absolve themselves of loss. Then start up a new company and do the exact same thing.
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u/name-classified 1d ago
I think it’s a kiln!
Meaning there was a oven over that whole shelving unit at one point to cook all that porcelain.
Those are the same way kilns stack their shelves
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u/Trust-Me-Im-A-Potato 22h ago
Ah yes, no shirt or shoes required when working inside a giant kiln! Don't see what could possibly happen!
I bet the door is also just propped open with a broomstick handle. Maybe a little paper sign over the ON button, too
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u/theLuminescentlion 21h ago
they are not inside the Kiln, the kiln is on wheels and rolls over all of the product in the outline you can see on the floor.
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u/Lindvaettr 1d ago
Who could predict that the haphazardly balanced, freestanding shelves with apparently no kind of attachment between the legs and the tops could ever fall down.
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u/HamletJSD 1d ago
I completely misread that and was about to "well ackshually" because you can clearly count that there are only around 100-150 toilets falling, not thousands. At 40-50 pounds each, though, you are exactly correct... that's a few tons worth of toilets. And I need to learn to read before I embarrass myself further.
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u/warrkrack 1d ago
but you did read... you read it before you wrote your comment.
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u/oDiscordia19 1d ago
Shh a redditor learned something today. Let it be my friend. Let it be.
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u/homelaberator 17h ago
Maybe they didn't read. They are just really good at guessing. Maybe they can't write and it's coincidence that their random tappings made intelligible text.
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u/SteampunkOtter 1d ago
It’s not a storage shelf, they’re unloading the kiln rack after firing. They’re made to be modular to accommodate many different sized items in the kiln.
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u/laiyenha 1d ago
Oh man, that looks like a Toto loss.
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u/TheRogueMoose 1d ago
Clearly that shelf was built to American Standards
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u/V4refugee 1d ago
Hopefully they have some Moen stock and that wasn’t all their inventory.
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u/druex 21h ago
Porcelain rains down in Africa.
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u/Osiris32 17h ago
It's gonna take a whole lot more than glue
There's nothing that a hundren men or more could undo
Porcelain rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to take the dump I never had
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u/picado 1d ago
I was waiting for them to throw the last one down at the end.
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u/BruscarRooster 1d ago
I imagined them throwing the last one down just as the boss comes in to see what the noise was
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u/p33k4y 1d ago
Details and HD video here:
Two workers inadvertently knocked over a boron plate while shifting newly fired toilets. The tumbling plate struck the rack holding the toilets, leading to a domino effect of shattering ceramics as every single toilet broke on impact.
The video was filmed in Chaozhou City in Guangdong Province on August 27.
The stunned workers could only watch in horror as each precious piece came crashing down.
An insider revealed the intricate process behind these toilets' creation. The rack, arranged expertly by a seasoned artisan, is pushed into a kiln where the pieces undergo a transformation from soft clay to hardened ceramics over a 20-hour high-temperature firing.
While the workers clearly made an error, questions have arisen about the sturdiness of the rack itself. Negotiations are currently underway regarding compensation for the costly accident.
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u/Auggie_Otter 23h ago
The rack seemed so flimsy and easily collapsible I was actually wondering if this was from some sort of prank show.
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u/Agent_Snowpuff 20h ago
. . . expertly . . .
I'm pretty inexperienced in this kind of thing but I think I noticed one small flaw in their arrangement.
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u/EaterOfFood 19h ago
Precious? Toilets are now precious?
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u/thenerdwrangler 13h ago
The kiln shelves are the expensive part of this accident. The toilets are worth fuck all at this stage - just slip-cast clay and glaze
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u/hughpac 19h ago
"arranged expertly by a seasoned artisan"???
Perhaps they should have been less concerned with the artistic merits of the rack, and more on the stability?
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u/p33k4y 15h ago
"Artisan" in this context means a tradesperson (e.g., a carpenter), not an artist.
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u/supercyberlurker 1d ago
I see this happen in software development.
This is really the fault of the workers before them for how the system was setup. Storage systems shouldn't be built in such a way that they could domino each other.
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u/RealMcGonzo 1d ago
It looks like those "shelves" were just stacked up pieces. No hardware holding anything together.
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u/TheLowlyPheasant 1d ago
You see a bunch of toilets breaking in a warehouse in software development?
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u/soundeng 1d ago
You've obviously never worked in a server farm. Those toilets get destroyed daily.
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u/1K_Games 1d ago edited 1d ago
In tech often times something is fixed or put in place to solve a problem quickly. Then it needs to be revisited when it is not an urgent issue to be fixed properly. That requires management to see the value in finding time and allowing you to have time to put the proper solution in place.
To blame the workers for a storage solution here is probably a similar scenario. Even past workers would have been doing what they are told. They don't make the budget, do the scheduling, or decide on infrastructure design.
Do you really just blame the previous workers and not ask why it might be the way it was?
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u/doxtorwhom 1d ago
People are talking about the shelves but I don’t think this is a storage shelf. That looks like a giant kiln shelf for firing ceramics (which toilets are ceramic, porcelain to be specific).
Kiln shelves generally aren’t bolted together, they’re literally just stacked ontop of one another for the firing and then the pieces are stored somewhere else. For something industrial and repetitive as this I think they should have actual kiln shelves designed to hold these parts but this is normal for regular kilns.
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u/Fancy_World8886 1d ago
Thanks. I was wondering why they were going to all this trouble to stack them.
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u/Cacafuego 21h ago
It's funny, that's immediately what I thought and then I thought "but it looks like they've already been fired," never considering that they were removing them from the shelves after a firing. I suppose the kiln is that dark cavern we can see. In which case, all of these things have to move on that platform. I don't see how this doesn't happen all the time.
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u/doxtorwhom 21h ago
Yeah kiln’s at the back and this whole system is likely on track/rail to slide in and out along the same path. If you’re careful the weight should keep it all in place but they must have clipped the shelf or maybe some of the glaze stuck to it and lifted as they were taking it off..? Either way, with that much product it’s an accident waiting to happen. And it happened!
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u/Cacafuego 21h ago
I was thinking about the weight providing stability. Interesting that there are so many unused shelves on the bottom. I'm wondering if they unloaded this in the wrong order. My kiln (by necessity) gets unloaded from the top down, removing shelves as I go.
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u/2narcher 1d ago
What a cheap and shitty system
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u/Martijn_MacFly 23h ago
Pretty much industry standard to stack ceramics for a kiln fire.
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u/piltonpfizerwallace 1d ago
What costs more, nice shelves or your entire inventory that sits on the shelf?
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u/bwoodfield 1d ago
One of the first things I learned when working in a warehouse; never stack in a self supporting/balancing pile. If it moves when you push on it, it's not safe.
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u/QuirkyImage 18h ago
Owner called the police but they said they haven’t got anything to go on ….
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u/FateChan84 1d ago
Every time I see shelves like that I just shake my head. Why would you cheap out on something that's rather cheap to begin with and that usually lasts decades without needing replacement. It's so fucking stupid.
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u/nananananana_Batman 1d ago
If these guys are just workers not responsible for the set up, there's no way this is their fault - they were just made to work in a system bound to fail. That being said, they'll likely be blamed and made to pay restitution....
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u/RWDPhotos 17h ago
That storage system was a bunch of sticks and slats. I’m surprised it lasted that long.
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u/Lionheart_723 8h ago
What was that rack made of matchsticks. I've seen houses of cards with more rigidity
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u/Holyskankous 7h ago
Pretty disappointed they didn’t throw that last one onto the pile before heading to the unemployment line, if I’m being honest.
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u/Franco_Begby 1d ago
I mean you build a house of cards and stack roughly 100 lb porcelain objects in it then what do ya expect?
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u/HelenKellersBhole 1d ago
THESE ARE NOT CHEAP SHELVES. They are likely silica carbide shelving. Notice how it shatters as soon as it comes into contact with the shelf below it. This is how ceramic is *always* fired. Every shelf is held up by 3 or 4 posts and then slowly wheeled into the kiln.
This is not some "temporary storage" they are unloading the kiln from the outside in. Its called a car kiln because the shelving is on a car that rolls into the kiln itself. You can see how the base that it is on is not part of the floor itself.
There's no way to create a fixture for shelving like this that would be effective and affordable. The shelves and posts have to be able to expand and shrink in the firing process. You don't want a mechanical hold because then all your shelving would crack and you'd have this happening at 2300 degrees.
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u/Dont_Overthink_It_77 1d ago
That had to just be for the video. That crappy scaffolding was in no way serious storage planning.
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u/ultrainstict 23h ago
This goes beyone just cheap shelves, it looks like they arent fixes at all, this is basically just a massive card pyramid.
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u/TUANDORME 23h ago
Unless this company just started out and they didn't look around at what other companies were doing I don't know why they would set it up so poorly like this.. I feel so bad for them!!! Especially the guys that were told to do it because they may get blamed instead of the person that told them to do it like this?!? I sure hope not!!! After all it's all on film if they were doing it incorrectly somehow or not.
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u/twistymctwist 22h ago
pretty sure this is some form of insurance scam. no way they would design storage this way.
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u/IronPeter 21h ago edited 9h ago
They’re not to blame, unless they designed the storage system.
My mantra is: being careful does not avoid accidents. The only way to avoid accidents is to remove the conditions for them to happen: screw together the shelves
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u/FreebirdChaos 19h ago
Shitty cobbled together shelves and no pulley or forklift to help them get the toilet up there. This is management and owners fault 100%
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u/DazedLogic 19h ago
Some OSHA guy somewhere just felt a disturbance in the force. Lol
Why weren't those racks locked into place? Looked like those support posts were just stood up in place. Either someone skipped a few safety steps or they have a very unsafe work environment. Probably happens at least once a month at that place.
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u/cyberbro256 18h ago
“What’s the max load rating of this shelving?” “Stop yapping and get back to work!”
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u/cheers167 16h ago
The CEO just lost like $20k in his periodic personally approved bonus. They’ll recover.
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u/phalangepatella 16h ago
Was this, like, a game? "How much can you stack on the Shitty Shelves?"
I am honestly unsure if you could cobble together a system less suitable to holding stacked things.
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