Boston.com, that recent powerhouse in photojournalism (or at least in presenting it), has gone and documented a process I personally thought was automated: the returning and sending out of Netflix DVDs. As it turns out, there aren’t powerful robots checking each disc and whatnot, just an army of hundreds of worker bees with their noses to the grindstone. I would go insane after a week of this.
[via HardOCP, photo by Matthew J. Lee]
Isn’t that from 2007?
If I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me. They DO mention the Departed as a “recent release.”
I didn’t see one employee listening to an iPod/MP3/CD/radio player in any of the photos. Hopefully they just put them away for the photo shoot, I’d hate to think they’re not allowed, and everyone has to sit there in silence 8 hours a day ripping open red envelopes.
“… and the ability to work up to a sorting rate of 500 to 700 DVDs hourly. ”
Holy crap!