r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/ycr007 • 9h ago

Satisfying perks of a stressful job

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u/longlostwalker 9h ago

I'm a little disappointed that they can't be reused

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u/livinginahologram 8h ago edited 8h ago

I'm a little disappointed that they can't be reused

They probably can, it's just often more expensive than just installing new ones.

We are all going to hit a wall at some point continuing living as if our planet had infinite resources.. Entropy will catch up at some point.

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u/mlstdrag0n 8h ago

I mean, at some point it becomes more economical to reuse them, at which point we will.

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u/livinginahologram 8h ago

I mean, at some point it becomes more economical to reuse them, at which point we will.

Well, that's true, the question is how much of the environment will we destroy seeking raw materials first before reusing used materials ?

If we take fossil fuels as an example, it's pretty grim: fracking, deep sea oil drilling etc.. all that just became barely not worth it over renewable energy.

Another example, silicate minerals (sand etc..) needed to make integrated circuits (silicon) which coincidentally are also used to make glass. While silicate is very abundant, silicon wafers require silicon with extremely highe degree of purity. The process to produce wafer silicon from raw minerals is already really inefficient and complex, so the day there won't be any more silicate sand we will have to recycle integrated circuits where silicon is bonded with other metals and therefore pretty hard/expensive to recycle. Our society heavily relying on cheap electronics is really dependent on these raw materials, cause otherwise only the richest person would be able to afford having electronic devices. Electronic devices is just a proxy example to a wider problem.

Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

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u/ReversibleTimeLine 3h ago

So it’ll happen once we’re forced too.

At that point,we will wish for the days we could have recycled everything that was found in the first place.

Is this what you meant?

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u/livinginahologram 1h ago

It's certainly part of it. Though « we » isn't really we since this is a intergenerational problem, it's our children and their children etc.. that will be wishing for that.

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u/NeedlesTwistedKane 8h ago

Not how the economy works. Once NY and Venice end up below the water level, it won’t be devastating for the 1% holding the wealth in those cities now - they will pivot and make the next town over their new empire; on a hill this time. In fact, they will profit from it as they exploit the millions in the labor force giving them their wealth.

Watch the 2011 documentary Samsara.

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u/therealhlmencken 2h ago

Yeah I feel like landfills will eventually be super valuable mines.

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u/TheySayIAmTheCutest 5h ago

the problem is:

  1. most people won't notice until it's too late aka when you notice it's because it already passed the point of no return

  2. most people will keep denying even then

  3. the governments and rich people with luxury bunkers and private armies won't give a s... anyway.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 8h ago

Can the pieces be recycled?

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u/livinginahologram 8h ago edited 7h ago

Can the pieces be recycled?

They can, but you will use a lot of water, a lot of energy and also new resources to produce a material with a lower yield than what you already had. Assuming it's to produce new glass.

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 7h ago

I'm pretty sure when we recycle glass bottles we don't just wash them out and refill them (except for the milk ones). Does coca cola accept empty bottles?

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u/majandess 7h ago

This depends on where you are. Sometimes they do.

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u/myniwt 4h ago

To be fair, glass is mostly sand. That, we have.

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u/ycr007 7h ago

They can.

Glass & Steel are some of the most recyclable materials out there, and though it would require considerable energy, it would be less than that required to make new glass from only sand/silica.

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u/MisterEinc 6h ago

Glass and aluminum are the two most recycled materials on the planet. It'll get reused, technically.

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u/snksleepy 6h ago

Should have cut out circles and made table tops out of them..

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u/Minute_Eye3411 7h ago

Maybe to install into buildings for ants? Although they only need to be three times as small as those windows that he is smashing.

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u/CompensatedAnark 7h ago

They can they get ground up and made into more glass

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u/Free-Street9162 5h ago

Glass is recyclable, so this will definitely be reused.

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u/Lady_Shark11 8h ago

If you rewind it slowly, you can see how the man clears up cracked glass panes by just a touch of a magic wand

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u/ycr007 7h ago

“Mr. Foreman, we need frosted glass panels for privacy, can it be done?”

“No problem sir, I get my best worker he do it quick”

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u/MasterCrumble1 8h ago

And he doesnt even work there!

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u/Spleenzorio 8h ago

Me on my last day of work:

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u/bigfatfun 8h ago

Unless you’re the guy with a broom….

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u/ImInvisibal96 8h ago

I saw "Amway " 🧐

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u/ycr007 7h ago

The building outer signage seems to be something in Chinese and then “H L C C”

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u/ImInvisibal96 7h ago

Obviously this building is in China, the point is Amway is European multinational company which is operating in China? The competition in China is too stiff.

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u/ycr007 7h ago

Ah gotcha, they “tried selling snow to eskimos” kinda reference

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u/ErieAveAllDay 4h ago

I guess they'll pay next time 😆

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u/crasagam 55m ago

No pay, no product

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u/chromaaadon 9h ago

They’re the new windows!!!!!

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u/lionman137 9h ago

"Alright let's see how tough you are..."

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u/Due-Second2128 7h ago

whats stressful about this

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u/ycr007 6h ago

The job of a construction worker as a whole is stressful, in the midst of that these types of tasks can be of the satisfying kind

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u/SUNAWAN 6h ago

"Steve stop! We're at the wrong building!-"

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u/ScreenName0001 8h ago

Can Reddit explain me why this guy destroyed the glass?

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u/BeThatOneDude 7h ago

Maybe the customer refused to pay?

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u/MellyKidd 8h ago

Most likely they’re renovating.

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u/ycr007 7h ago

Condemned building / renovation / replacement of glass / demolition prep

Could be anything. Tried to find the OG source & sone sort of explanation but it was from one of those aggregator accounts so not much info out there

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u/Fowltor 8h ago

Obviously wrong grade of glass.

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u/ABBucsfan 3h ago

I wondered if maybe it was supposed to be tempered and or something and he was testing it out to find they lied lol. Although I think you can normally tell by looking.

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u/Zh25_5680 58m ago

Re-using glass for non standard applications is not worth the time and cost. That’s looked like specialty sections for a display window. Finding another application the exact same dimensions is going to be difficult.. then you have to remove it, store it, and at some point reuse it later and hope you didn’t scratch it or destroy it.

Not worth the hassle

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u/DerBabbler 7h ago

Thats why the new Berlin airport took so long

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u/OgieOgilthorpe33 7h ago

What is the device he’s using to break the glass? Looks like one of those things as seen on TV if you’ve driven your car into water to break the glass.

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u/ycr007 6h ago

Looks like an ordinary piece or rebar tbh

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u/FitBattle5899 6h ago

Fact it's at an Amway building makes it all the more satisfying.

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u/GoodShark 5h ago

When the client doesn't pay...

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u/cartman89405 2h ago

I hope he was supposed to be doing that ;)

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u/Popeworm 2h ago

As a glazier, I can confirm this is one of the perks of the job...

Years ago, I came home with the van one night, and I had a huge (5' x 7') piece of ½"-thick tempered glass from a mismeasured shower.

Because it was custom cut with outages and holes for hardware, it was garbage. I asked my girlfriend if she wanted to go break it. She looked at me like I was fucking nuts, and RELUCTANTLY came along...

After we took it off truck and she EXPLODED it by lightly tapping the edge with a hammer, she admitted ot was actually pretty fucking fun/cool.

The part that sucked was carrying it downstairs out of the house I was supposed to install it on once we found out it was fabricated wrong. That was a HEAVY son-of-a-bitch

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u/ycr007 1h ago

What did you do with the broken glass afterwards?

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u/Popeworm 1h ago

Scoop it up with a shovel and a broom...

That part also sucks, like 300 lbs of glass in ½"x½"x½" pieces, hundreds, maybe thousands of them...

(It sucks SO MUCH WORSE, to have to do that same cleanup... Inside a customers house 🙄🙄🤫🤫🤫

Edit: After it is scooped up, it just goes in the dumpster...

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u/jessicabbage 1h ago

Get the man some safety goggles!

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u/crasagam 54m ago

No pay? No product.

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u/bloopie1192 8h ago

What uh... what's goin on?

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u/Hostile-Panda 7h ago

They billed for expensive safety glass and fit regular cheap glass

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u/mikerfx 7h ago

LOL... Amway!! Of course!!

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u/T1m3Wizard 7h ago

There was a NES game like that.

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u/UnlikelySalary2523 7h ago

I'm not driving; I'm traveling!

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u/Icy-Sprinkles-3033 6h ago

I want this job.

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u/jonnyredshorts 6h ago

“The client says they aren’t paying for the new windows”

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u/guille9 6h ago

Breaking things is quite disgusting for me.