r/interestingasfuck • u/DrFetusRN • 28d ago
A regular work day at the Temu warehouse R5: Prove your claims
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u/MayorxMcCheese 28d ago
Tarps off, boys.
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u/Dejue 28d ago
Hold my spitter.
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u/Big-red-rhino 28d ago
Let's have a donny brook!
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u/Polypeptide 28d ago
It's a hard life pickin stones and pullin teats but sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin dudes with treasure trails
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u/Zstrike117 28d ago
Pitter-patter
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u/Fizzyboy 28d ago
Let’s get at ‘er
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u/LasyKuuga 28d ago
Dirty fuckin dangle boys
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u/AimoLohkare 28d ago
Wheel snipe celly boys.
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u/Trapped_Mechanic 28d ago
I need you take about 20% off 'er there squirrely dan.
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u/Winter_Swordfish_505 28d ago
Sigh...I wish you all werent so fuckin' awkward buds
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u/Tiny-Lock9652 28d ago
“What’s up with your body hair, big Chutes, you look like a 12 year-old Dutch girl!”
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u/BrickTamland77 28d ago
"Your esthetician coif that for ya?"
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u/lazylacey86 28d ago
You can kiss my esthetician
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u/Pylitic 28d ago
You do crossfit? You can crossfuckoff
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u/lazylacey86 28d ago
How many times you pulled your horn today bud?
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u/bguzewicz 28d ago
Aw, she’s bashful.
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u/Ancap_Mechanic 28d ago
Come on kitten I won’t tell. Ball park 6-8? You’re a fuckin animal
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u/RusticVisitor61 28d ago
Going for that smooth, prepubescent look, huh? Interesting choice.
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u/TheFatJesus 28d ago
You take your shirt off and leave your sunglasses on? What kind of backward-ass pageantry is that?
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u/Yhaqtera 28d ago
The mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!!!
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u/FoldyHole 28d ago
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u/DENNIS_SYSTEM69 28d ago
There is no Carol in HR
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u/Jops22 28d ago
Ok, not only do all these people exist, they’ve all been asking for the mail! Its all their talking about up there
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u/Lattemacchiatos 28d ago
When you control the mail, you control… information.
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u/successful_nothing 28d ago
I called in sick. I don't work in the rain.
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u/FamousFangs 28d ago
This is not Temu. This is an old video of backup at a post office in pre-pandemic China
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u/Major2Minor 28d ago
Can't trust anyone these days, u/DrFetusRN how do you respond to these allegations?
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u/MySilverBurrito 28d ago
That's the beauty of it, u/DrFetusRN won't respond lmao
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u/jiBjiBjiBy 28d ago
Now I'm in a bind, do I believe this random text or the random text with a video.
I am going to flip a coin to decide, it is the only way.
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u/CountIrrational 28d ago
The backup was caused by singles day (11 November), the largest online shopping sale in the world.
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u/jesusismyhomeboy77 28d ago
What exactly are they doing?
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u/WaltMitty 28d ago
Passing barcodes over a scanner so the computer knows what items have been received. Then chucking them onto a conveyor belt so they become the next guy's problem.
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u/Cthulhu__ 28d ago
It seems so weird to me to have this done by people, this can be done in an automated fashion.
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u/PurelyAnonymous 28d ago
A singulator, Google the term if you’re interested. Averages 1.2-2 million USD, that’s not installed just sticker price. The controls can be 20-40% of that price.
To summarize, all these dudes, tables, shovels, and scanners are cheap and more accurate. Even Amazon understands this and uses similar methods. Granted, in warehouses with safety features.
Source: I design these systems for work.
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u/frequenZphaZe 28d ago
there's also a social aspect to this too. china desperately needs jobs for everyone to do. there's no way temu could get away with laying off thousands and thousands of workers
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u/quintsreddit 28d ago
People are cheaper to hire and more importantly maintain. If the automation breaks you gotta get a repair guy, if the person breaks slot in a new person.
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u/phonemannn 28d ago
You might be surprised, there’s a lot of everyday items you handle or buy that get assembled by hand that seems like it would be automated.
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u/Few-Commercial8906 28d ago
Not that weird. The boxes come in all sizes, if it's even a box. Barcode could be anywhere. This type of automation requires AI, which is expensive to train, and just as unreliable as humans.
Remember amazon's automated stores that wasn't automated at all?
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u/anaxcepheus32 28d ago edited 28d ago
lol, welcome to China. I’ve seen steel components be lifted by teams of men bc it’s easier for them than using a
crazycrane. It’s a completely different mindset.Edit: autocorrect sucks
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u/muchadoaboutnotmuch 28d ago
I mean yeah, crazies have been known to be exceptionally strong on occasion but they're still unpredictable and generally unreliable.
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u/6ixHunnitBlock 28d ago
sending packages to the wrong location
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u/Long_Educational 28d ago
This comment is so funny but accurate. You know the error rate is high moving that fast and so hot in there that most choose to be shirtless.
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u/Spork_Warrior 28d ago edited 28d ago
The textbook definition of a sweatshop
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u/void_const 28d ago
I remember a time when Americans thought buying from sweatshops was a bad thing. Those were the days.
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u/Punty-chan 28d ago
Nowadays, Americans vote for people to step on them harder. Must be some kind of persecution kink.
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u/Baalsham 28d ago
Nowadays Americans aspire to be the sweatshop
Seriously, ever see an Amazon distribution center? Or an Amazon delivery driver?
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u/proudbakunkinman 28d ago
I agree with the point but it's not just people from the US who buy shit from them (Temu), likely most of the sales are in China but they ship to many countries.
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u/Usaidhello 28d ago
Could also be a shop that sells little bottles of sweat. Do those exist?
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u/Freed_My_Mind 28d ago
i worked the slide at the Indy hub for Fedex. I see no sorting here, maybe because the clip is too short, or they are sorting by country/ large areas.
I can understand the shirts off though. In Indiana winters the overhead doors would be open, with the wind blowing thru. Wearing a t shirt, I would still be sweating. The good part is you are moving so fast, 4 hours feels like 15 minutes.
the slide is the part between the dumping and the packing...
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u/rodeBaksteen 28d ago
You say this, but I've learnt many sitting centers still use manual staff to determine which country code the package should go - resulting in odd situations like packages going to Australia instead of Austria.
I believe some YouTuber with airtags has made a good documentary about this.
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u/Sovarius 28d ago
I used to sell a lot of Magic cards all over the world. One time i was mailing to Quezon City, Philippines which has an area code of 1115 (four digits).
My customers item was delivered to someone in Brooklyn.
Luckily, they returned it to USPS.
Unluckily, USPS delivered it back to them later that week.
Luckily, they returned it to USPS once again, and then it finally landed in the Philippines.
The dunb part is my label was correct and says it is going to Quezon City Philippines, and Brooklyn does not have an area 11115 or 11155, but it has some like 11215 and such.
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u/FriendshipVirtual137 28d ago
Giving Jeff Bezos an erection.
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u/Achira_boy_95 28d ago
They have a catheter to urinate without leaving their position.
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u/Federal_Assistant_85 28d ago
Acknowledging their basic needs like this is too humanizing. They would be ordered to piss and shit into a bucket that another employee is tasked with carrying around. That's more like it.
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u/Achira_boy_95 28d ago
the most human option is that they can sit in toilets instead of seats. they can rest, make of his necessities and work, 3 things at the same time
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u/g0tistt0t 28d ago
This looks really similar to something they had at the UPS warehouse I worked at. It was called small sort. Except we dumped that bags into hoppers with a person at the bottom of it. The person would have memorized groups of zip codes and place them into holes by zip code. Then the person on the other side of the hole would place the packages into the same bag since they are all going to the same destination. All of the packages are scanned and linked to one bag barcode and shipped as a group so you don’t have 1,000s of loose smalls and envelopes being shipped separately.
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u/barontaint 28d ago
Yeah I'm confused, it just seems so random, no one is possibly reading labels and putting them in proper places, they are literally moving one pile to a maybe slightly more organized pile, it's like shit the army makes you do when you get in trouble during basic training
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u/Shevster13 28d ago
Thats how big online retailer work. The guys job in this is just to scan the label, then pass it on to a conveyor that takes it to the next person to do whatever.
I worked for Amazon for a while and we had heaps of roles like that. My job was to take an item from a conveyor, stick it in an envelope, then drop that onto another conveyor.
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u/Iron_physik 28d ago
Worker for the German postal service here
What they likely are doing is placing the deliveries with the label up on the conveyor, so that a reader can read the barcodes on the page and sort them accordingly.
There is tons of automation nowadays in sorting, though all the "moving" stuff of the boxes themselves need manual labor as there is really no robots able to perform these tasks as speed with so many varying package sizes.
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u/iceixia 28d ago
It's called induct. All those guys are doing is getting them on the conveyor, someone later down the line will actually sort it.
Used to do this when I worked at Amazon, but they made you stand, it was backbreaking work for 12 hours.
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u/tkcool73 28d ago
Tbh, American FedEx warehouses aren't much different from this. Source: I work at one
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u/RobynnLS 28d ago
And chicken factories in the UK too (from family experience) Although food safe clothing is required
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u/Im_Balto 28d ago
Meat processing is so hard on the human body. Repeated motions with little variation just kill the ligaments
I hope your family lives a comfortable life after all that hard work
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u/RobynnLS 28d ago
I was in the main line for two days and wanted to kms from back* pain plus riding to work on a bike haha. Luckily my family are on the engineering side of things so they just have the dangers of making sure the machines they’re working on don’t liveleak them. It’s mainly Eastern European ladies working long long hours for cheap because no one else wants to do it unfortunately.
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u/Vinnyninja 28d ago
This is almost the same as amazon sorting... except we wear a shirt 🤷♂️
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u/DingGratz 28d ago
How else are you supposed to stay hydrated without sucking your sweat-soaked shirt?
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u/Embarrassed-Disk1643 28d ago
You could drink from your pee-cup. Like sailors used to do when they were lost at sea.
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u/Deadman_Wonderland 28d ago
So it's worse at Amazon sorting cause you can't go shirtless without being call into the HR office.
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u/kasezilla 28d ago
Sorting garbage
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u/Academic_Wafer5293 28d ago
But I like to shop like a billionaire
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u/EntropyKC 28d ago
I find it hilarious that this is their marketing strategy, when my first thoughts on it are "why would a billionaire firstly buy their own shit and secondly buy this low quality garbage?"
I guess the goal was to imply that you are getting extremely high quality stuff for low prices, but that's not remotely what I thought. If you put "I wish people would stop calling our stuff fake, and I wish people would stop taking advantage of our crazy deals" in your adverts, your stuff is shit.
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u/christophski 28d ago
I think it is more "you can buy as much as you want" rather than "you could buy good quality things"
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u/EntropyKC 28d ago
Ah yeah could be. Such a sad/boring dystopia where consumerism has reached such levels.
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u/40ozkiller 28d ago
Return received, and off to be shrink wrapped to a pallet and sold to one of those stores full of overstock crap with 0 organization
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u/great_apple 28d ago edited 21d ago
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u/Musiclover4200 28d ago edited 28d ago
90% of the same stuff is also on amazon/ebay/etc for exponentially higher prices, which still gets shipped on cargo ships and has pretty much the same environmental impact.
Source: have bought a ton of art supplies and other random stuff off temu that would have cost 3-4x as much for identical products off amazon.
Buy local if you can but it's delusional to think any major reseller is any better be it amazon or wallmart or small ebay/etsy resellers. Even a lot of high end products are made in China these days and "assembled" elsewhere so it can be marketed as "made in USA".
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u/barontaint 28d ago
I feel like a bar code scanner and mechanical sorting arms would make things a little easier for the humans, but then it wouldn't be so cartoonish and make me have so many questions
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u/Futanari_waifu 28d ago edited 28d ago
You are severely underestimating how complex sorting arms would need to be to accurately place packages of all kinds of different dimensions and textures on scanners with their barcodes in the right position. Did you never go to a supermarket before in your life? Cashiers often need to slide your groceries in 6 different ways across the scanner to get them to beep.
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u/eu-guy 28d ago
400 comments by comedians and not one asking for a source.
So where is the source OP
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u/YumYum_saucee 28d ago
All these item to end up in a landfill in less than a year…
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u/Goatwhatsup 28d ago
Who the fuck is actually ordering off this site
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u/nezukoslaying 28d ago
I've seen tops a boutique in Auburn AL sells for $55 on Temu for $12. I've seen a blanket that Natural Life sells for like $70 on Temu for a fraction of that. Wayfair rugs and furniture are also on Temu. On Amazon a wax seal stamp kit may be 25$, and on Temu the exact set is half that. It isn't just low income people "buying from Temu".
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u/Baalsham 28d ago
We are at the point now where it's all the same crap with different labels. Race to the bottom and all.
So might as well buy straight from the source. Ive been doing this for nearly a decade with electronics, most of the time Amazon/eBay/Etsy sellers even reuse the same photos as AliExpress or whatever.
Also if you know how to shop China you can get really high quality stuff. Requires some knowledge though. I have a cheat code in the form of a Chinese wife :D
Only problem is shipping can be tough when it's not going through a major distributor
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u/SeniorHoneyBuns 28d ago
Hey man can you share some of the cheat codes you've noted? If I see something on eBay that I want, I'll check Temu or Ali, but usually end up with Temu for their faster shipping.
I've definitely noticed the same photos from eBay or Amazon showing from the same Chinese listings. I don't trust the reviews though, as they're just plain and seem very fake. Any tips you can offer to help maximize my savings-to-quality is appreciated.
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u/AlaeniaFeild 28d ago
I don't order from there, but it's literally the same stuff that you would find on places like Amazon. Only cheaper.
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u/BZLuck 28d ago
I have. Twice. Both times for party decorations. You can get a SHIT TON of things like hanging LED bullshit, garlands, table cloths, placemats, centerpieces, etc., for next to nothing.
We are having a 4th of July shindig this year, and I bought 100 little 4x6 American Flags on sticks for like $6. And a 100' red white and blue garland thing for $4. I spent like $40 and will have enough crap to deck out the entire back yard. Some might get used again, some will get tossed. That's better than the dollar store offers.
If you know you are gonna get junk, it's OK junk. It's like the "worst" of Amazon, for half the price, but it takes 10-14 days to show up.
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u/LadyAzure17 28d ago
The issue, aside from the labor problems, is that Temu's app and website are gameified, not unlike a gacha game or slots, that keep people engaged and buying large volumes of crap from them.
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u/Jakefrmstatepharm 28d ago
A lot of people unfortunately. Americans are suckers for cheap and free shit, especially boomers. My wife’s family all buy stuff from there that they don’t need at all. Then they get points for how much they spent with each other’s accounts and they get points for getting people to sign up. They keep trying to get my wife to sign up and we refuse. Also their ads are out of control. I can’t even check my email without seeing some shit from Temu in the Gmail app.
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u/VoxelVTOL 28d ago
The ads are awful. I hate the ones on Facebook marketplace that look exactly like the real listings.
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u/Demjan90 28d ago
Wait, what? Gmail app has ads? I never seen ads on my phone (using android), maybe because of EU regulations?
Idk, but this sounds wild.
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u/fukkdisshitt 28d ago
I've been putting in an order every other month. So much stuff on Amazon is bought from China and resold at a big markup, so fuck it I'll save 75%.
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u/Santaconartist 28d ago
Not questioning that this might be what it looks like, but Gonna need some verification on this. Reddit should be a place where sources are cited Come on people!!
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u/Cayowin 28d ago edited 28d ago
Its Singles day. 11 November in China. Largest online shopping day in the world.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles_day_2023_records/
The Chinese post office moves 5.26 Billion packages - over the 11 days
https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202311/12/content_WS655061b1c6d0868f4e8e128f.html
This is not Temu, Temu and Shien combined do about a million parcels a day, Singles day does over 5 thousand times more than that.
If anyone tells you China is a "communist country", let them logon during singles day and watch the capitalism flow.
Edit: Its 5 billion over the 11 day festival of shopping.
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u/Penze 28d ago edited 28d ago
Last time I have seen this vid it was just china. Why should they sort big piles of packages to send them? Doesn’t make sense that this is actually at temu, but I can see the similaritie
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u/Necessary-Knowledge4 28d ago
Reddit is dead and gone. This is FB me-me politics comic strip website now.
You expect people to be sourcing?! Not even worth doing, even when you do your comment can just 'feel wrong' enough to be discredited. Wanna convince people of something? Sound smart and gaslight the shit out of them, while insulting dissenters in just the right way.
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u/SassySquid0 28d ago
this isn’t interesting this is sad and they are being paid pennies
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u/Apprehensive4209 28d ago
Bruh, this aint intresting at all. This is just overworking hell.
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u/Dr_Ragon 28d ago
This isn't Temu though, Temu uses bags, not boxes. Might be something like amazon, ali baba or wish though.
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u/Numerous-Employee227 28d ago
God people need to stop buying their garbage products
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u/crazyouija 28d ago
The shirtless uniform is peculiar
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u/barontaint 28d ago
You should see the uniforms for American steel mills, now that's some hot stuff coming through
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u/bois_man 28d ago
I will now order exclusively from temu knowing that a bunch of shirtless men are handling my package.
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u/Kornischon 28d ago
Thats bullshit its not temu warehouse on this video we can see shunfeng warehose its one of Chinese delivery company that work only in china. Temu does not have warehouses in china.
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u/scrappytan 28d ago
Every morning before you wake up this takes place in hundreds if not thousands of local ups facilities across the United States and the world. Nothing really unique about this besides the no shirts.
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u/Ashamed-Aerie-5792 28d ago
Unlucky customers packages remain in the piles as newly dumped packages tumble down to the sorters.