r/woahthatsinteresting • u/wafodumebeseraw • 8d ago

How Qantas treats their customer's baggage

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u/EmbarrassedEscape757 8d ago

Fucking assholes

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u/23826 8d ago

I got news for yah, it's not just Qantas. I've got some friends who work in the industry and they told me they purposely toss the shit out of bags just for the fun it, but also because they just having a bad day and take their anger out on the bags. They aren't paid enough and don't have time to treat every bag with care. That's what they told me. They literally don't give a shit about any bag.

It's very likely this job will be replaced entirely automated robots/machines in the near future. Probably just have a few guys to manage the machines all day.

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u/Noryian 8d ago

Unlikely. The thing is - most of sorting is already done by machines. And it works only until everything fucks up (which during holiday season happens 2-3 times a week) and you have to do everything manually.

Also on a middle sized airport there is already only "few guys" in the sorting area to begin with. In case of my handling company we have only 4-5 guys on each shift which means each one has to load/unload approximately 15k kgs of luggage daily during high season.

But yeah, behaviour like that would led to contract termination. What is presented here is just malice.