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Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @10:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the 19-meters dept.

mrpg writes:

An exasperated Amazon customer has posted a video of 62ft of wrapping paper snaking through his house - that was used to "protect" dog food.

Nick Taylor said the box used to deliver the bag of food was "big enough to live in" and claimed the food didn't need to be packaged at all.

Nick laid out the 19-metres of packaging paper in his home in Bath and posted the video to Amazon's Facebook page.

The trail starts in what appears to be a utility room and leads in to a dining area before entering the kitchen itself.

From there the paper enters the hall, where the dog food can be glimpsed in its heavy plastic packaging.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/exasperated-amazon-customer-films-62-12259048

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by lentilla on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:37PM (1 child)

    by lentilla (1770) on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:37PM (#661140)

    Sure, the employee is behaving childishly and disrespectfully but my gut feel is that there is an underlying reason for this beyond the simple interpretation that the employee is a sorry excuse for a human being. I'll wager the employer is treating the employee disrespectfully and the employee is acting out. Yes, it's dumb, but that's what happens when people get in a bad situation.

    Most humans go to work primarily for the paycheck, and packing boxes is not particularly fulfilling for most people. So yes, the employee's life needs to be altered - but probably not by being fired.

    An alternate speculation is that the employee in question is far too smart to be packing boxes and really needs to be moved to a more appropriate position. (Or flipped around: has considerable potential to provide far more value to their employer in a more challenging position.)

    Or; of course; they could just be a sorry excuse for a human being.

    Anyway, it's all speculation. But I do care about other people. Some are more capable - many less - but mostly they are OK people bumbling through life just like you and me. In this case, empathy comes easily - I know that I'd go completely spare if I had to pack boxes every day.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @06:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @06:13PM (#661196)

    The working class needs to organize. Childish actions will do nothing to help.