World War I workers manufacture automatic rifles at a factory in the United Kingdom - HD Stock Footage

[Olham]

[Hauksbee]

Automatic rifles produced automatically. (Was there supposed to be sound with that?)

[Olham]

No, that footage was soundless, Hauksbee.

[Skyviper]

And here I was messing with my sound setting :P

[Olham]

Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

(Sorry, gents, I should have mentioned it!)

[JimAttrill]

I must say it all looked most depressing.   I don't know if any of you read the book 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' which was something about a worker who spent all his working time on an automatic lathe.   I once, as a job from school to make some money, worked on a production line making Bata shoes or rather sandals.   Unfortunately I could see a clock from where I stood and watching the second hand go round was terrible.   Some of the people had been there on the lines for up to 8 years but I could only stand it for 3 weeks. 

 

Later on I went on a tour of Ford's Dagenham plant when they made Escorts there.  Mind-blowing depressing jobs.  No wonder they went on strike all the time. 

 

I think it is a great thing that most of these jobs are now done by robots.   Then the 'workers' can stay at home and watch TV. 

[Olham]

... I could only stand it for 3 weeks. 

 

I guess they would kick me out for being absent-minded, after only 1 or 2 days.

 

 

 

I think it is a great thing that most of these jobs are now done by robots. Then the 'workers' can stay at home and watch TV.

Yeah - where communism failed, capitalism managed to make the machines work for us.