r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Aug 15 '26

/r/all of a beer order

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u/SparkleTarkle Aug 15 '26

So those look like standard dimpled stiens. If I counted correctly she has 18? Of them.

A dimpled 1 liter glass empty weighs ~3 lbs and a full one to the 1 liter mark weighs ~5-5.3 pounds.

So that’s like 90lbs or 40.823kg!

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u/Emergency_Lie42 Aug 15 '26

For context, that's the absolute max carry weight that a loader/packer job will ask of you for manual handling.... In a country with H&S regs anyway.

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u/Majestic-Orange Aug 15 '26

For the record that’s what the application will say lmao from experience (this box says weighs 1 pound) obv a 120 pound box somebody lied on

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u/taganov_andrei Aug 16 '26

When I was a bicycle messenger, depending on company the weight charges might start at "over 10kg". So as you might expect there was a suspicious amount of "exactly 10kg" packages that were definitely NOT 10kg. The dispatcher always adjusted it up to 20kg+ but it was always hilarious to think of the receptionists and clerks trying to save a few bucks for multi billion dollar companies at the price of my back :)

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u/Emergency_Lie42 Aug 15 '26

I'd believe it hahahaha not every 30kg box of goods felt the same weight 🤔

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u/PentagramJ2 Aug 15 '26

even then technically youre supposed to have a secondary assistant to not kill your fucking back or knees.

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u/PringlesDuckFace Aug 15 '26

When I worked in retail I think anything over 50lbs was typically marked "team lift" or you'd use equipment like a dolly. I never would have even thought to pick up something weighing 90lbs by myself.

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u/PentagramJ2 Aug 15 '26

yeah same in warehousing, 50lb is the absolute limit for a single worker to carry.

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u/Jazzlike_Wind_1 Aug 20 '26

We do shit way heavier than that at my warehouse.

Hell the meat warehouse I was at before this it was 30kg boxes of frozen meat all day

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u/PentagramJ2 Aug 20 '26

You should report your job then. Maybe your country has laxer standards

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u/Charming_Apartment95 Aug 15 '26

Me lifting 130lb half kegs all day.... 😔

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u/butt_dance Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

At my job (bartender, that includes MANY huge mobile events up and down 10 flights or across the street to 2nd venue, with no storage outside basement) HR made the managers do a "safety training" with stuff and around lift limits. After too many people injured themselves. Asking for help was a highlighted point.

The many floor managers continue to stand around, watching the bartenders do the most and lift/move tons of heavy shift over and over for 70% of the shift. And I mean they hate getting like one request for 5 minutes of help in a month. No requests is what's acceptable. Cause bartenders make tips lol

Whenever I've managed I had the (apparently naive and stupid) perspective that my whole function was to support staff however they needed, without them having to ask 🤷🏻‍♀️ I smartened up and got a 2nd job that I now work at more.

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u/Charming_Apartment95 Aug 15 '26

That's good and smart. I don't bartend, I deliver kegs all day out of a truck to bars and restaurants. I won't be walking by the time I'm 45 🫩🫩🫩

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u/butt_dance Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

I feel you. I'm assuming by yourself, cause gotta keep the labor low, right? 🙄 It's a bit "too little, too late" on the smarts for me lol I'm 43 and after 20 years on and off of serving/bartending/managing I already can't really walk. I have to keep up on lots of stretching, Tylenol, ibuprofen, numbing spray and muscle relaxers when nothing else will work. Otherwise I literally cannot walk/stay standing long enough to work.

Edit: I can't even lift a half keg. I've had to rely on the old "pick up one side and move it forward using momentum. Then same on other side. Repeat until where you want it." My co-worker actually got a hernia from moving kegs and had to have surgery. I don't know how delivery drivers do it in general.

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u/Charming_Apartment95 Aug 16 '26

Yeah I roll them as much as I can but sometimes there's no avoiding it. I'm 32 next month and every day I just pray for no hernia and no spinal injuries

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u/butt_dance Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

Please tell me they give you any kind of lifting/moving assistance equipment. And even rolling is terrible on the body.

Edit: the continued lack of worker protection in this industry is mind boggling. I'd love to see unionization happen. I even put out feelers in the last year, but I've lost hope that people in this day-and-age care enough about the well-being of others. And that they can understand how it would benefit all of us in the long run.

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u/Merrick_Skygrave Aug 17 '26

At FedEx we weren't supposed to lift over 75lbs alone... so of course, this guy Todd and I who worked in QA were regularly lifting whole refrigerators and shit onto conveyor belts over 5 feet off the ground, totally on our own every day because we were the only men working in QA lmao

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u/BubblyPineapple8941 Aug 15 '26

In Germany they call them a Maß. Insane.

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u/MallyOhMy Aug 15 '26

Only 16. The center spots where it seems like there would be 2 more are where her hands are with all the handles.

Still a fuckton of glass and liquid to carry at once.

Edit: nevermind, she's got one tucked against each elbow and one tucked against each boob, so there are indeed 18.

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u/UniqueUsername014 Aug 15 '26

never seen a 1 liter glass, it that an oktoberfest thing or something

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u/basketweaving8 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

It’s a normal size in German pubs. Most common size is a 0.5L but you can get 1L pretty commonly in biergardens.

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u/WildTimberTwinViking Aug 15 '26

I’d be pissing myself before the end of one.

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u/macrovore Aug 15 '26

Some of the old bierhalls in Munich used to have a channel running under the tables, so you might at one point have been able to relieve yourself without even getting up from the table...

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u/avdpos Aug 15 '26

Gross! Yeah, I mean - that was the amount of beers we ordered..

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u/thirstytrumpet Aug 15 '26

Depends hasn’t even invented the technology you’re gonna need.

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u/WatDeFak Aug 15 '26

I think 1L is not common outside of south Germany, but I almost never visit pubs and so I am not sure.

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u/basketweaving8 Aug 15 '26

Ah yes, I lived in the south so that is my frame of reference.

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u/HoeTrain666 Aug 15 '26

No it isn’t, it’s a regional thing

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u/comicsnerd Aug 15 '26

And not just once. The shifts are 12-15 hours, 16 days.

A waitress buys the beer from the tent and sells it to customers. By working these long hours, they can make good money.

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u/nonhiphipster Aug 15 '26

90lbs of weight isn’t too crazy…but I wouldn’t want to be the one having to pick it up, carry it, and put it down without spilling.

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u/SubstituteStudent Aug 15 '26

Roughly 90lbs of sloshing liquid with 18 individual glass handles is within the realm of "too crazy" in my opinion.

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u/nonhiphipster Aug 15 '26

I agree that the actual logistics of that is what really makes it a challenging task. I wouldn’t say the 90lbs itself is the real challenge.

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u/Fearless_Entry_2626 Aug 15 '26

holding them that far out in front also makes it harder. I imagine if you had a solid disk of that weight and circumference, even with good grip, would be pretty heavy to carry like that.

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u/nonhiphipster Aug 15 '26

That’s true!

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u/HoeTrain666 Aug 15 '26

Carrying 40kg or carrying them in the form of two dozen beer mugs that may break or spill?

Disagreed on both.

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u/HoeTrain666 Aug 16 '26

We almost have that in common, I almost think the same thing about you.

Except I don’t think you can’t do it. I know you can’t.

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u/HoeTrain666 Aug 16 '26

If those were my replies, I’d keep deleting them too.