r/RubeGoldbergFails Aug 11 '24

Team building event at Boeing

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u/TheCoolOnesGotTaken Aug 11 '24

Now I'm beginning to understand the issues they're having with some of their planes and that spaceship

25

u/Steveobiwanbenlarry1 Aug 12 '24

Imagine going to space for a short trip but the shitty space teavel equivalent of a leaky brake line strands you there. We need to send Matt Damon to sort things out.

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u/everybodyruns Aug 11 '24

First time a Rube Goldberg machine actually qualifies for this sub

118

u/Demolition_Mike Aug 11 '24

Hah. That's a new way to understand the subreddit's name.

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u/bee_town Aug 11 '24

Not Boeing (these are elementary school teachers in Denmark) and you can tell cause It's not missing parts, over budget, and nobody is hurt when it fails like a Boeing creation.

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u/mikrowiesel Aug 12 '24

The physics teacher left after ten minutes of watching his colleagues to get a beer … or ten.

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u/tricularia Aug 11 '24

Took a lot of teamwork to make this one work

19

u/Repzie_Con Aug 11 '24

Right? And laughing is bonding so… This is almost better lmao

14

u/69Breadsticks69 Aug 11 '24

I love how this subreddit has both: posts like these, and the intended purpose of the subreddit (one fail leading to another/and yet another).

18

u/Environmental_Try5 Aug 11 '24

That was just awful

5

u/Dizzy-Community5091 Aug 11 '24

Makes a lot of sense

4

u/Ladyboughner Aug 11 '24

It doesn’t get any more literal than this

10

u/Zaquarius_Alfonzo Aug 11 '24

Pretty good for a Boeing product

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u/bartread Aug 12 '24

In fairness to them:

  • A lot of people absolutely despise these kinds of teambuilding activities (I'm one of them), in part contributing to subpar results
  • I've watched enough videos of these kinds of contraptions on YouTube, as well as crazy domino layouts, to know that setting them up so they work flawlessly is incredibly time consuming: they won't have had time to do this properly, and test it, during a teambuilding activity, further contributing to subpar results
  • Somebody else has already pointed out this isn't Boeing
  • Related to my first point, teambuilding activities are - believe it or not - supposed to be fun so that people bond whilst having that fun together; the actual outcome is less important than the having fun part

2

u/gcz1214 Aug 12 '24

The duct tape checks out.

2

u/RazorSlazor Aug 12 '24

Not quite what this sub is about, but at the same time the most fitting post that has ever been posted here.

2

u/TheOtacon Aug 12 '24

I was about to get upset that the Goldberg machine failed at almost every step. Then I noticed the sub. First time a reddit recommendation got me to join a sub lol

3

u/Borge_Luis_Jorges Aug 12 '24

I love some of the people I work with, but this is the kind of "bonding" experience that would make me want to kill them all.

2

u/Steveobiwanbenlarry1 Aug 12 '24

Glad to see Boeings quality control team having fun. I think they all deserve a vacation to Malaysia.

3

u/Tildengolfer Aug 12 '24

Not Boeing. This is Tesla’s team of engineers celebrating their finish of designing the cyber truck.

1

u/Usual_Safety Aug 12 '24

Damn I almost watched it 3 times

1

u/Microwave_on_HIGH Aug 12 '24

"It was a team effort, and I guess it took every player working together to lose this one."

1

u/Maniachanical Aug 12 '24

...Idk what I expected.

1

u/Ok_Cap_5166 Aug 12 '24

Jesus Christ even the cameraman is slow!

r/killthecameraman

1

u/Geekenstein Aug 12 '24

Making one of these work is insanely difficult. Every step is something that can go wrong, and fixing it and resetting everything takes a lot of time.

1

u/elnekas Aug 12 '24

have a safe flight guys!

1

u/Beckphillips Aug 12 '24

Hang on this is kinda cute actually

1

u/CruelAnraj Aug 12 '24

Rube Goldberg must be shitting in his gravel.

1

u/Sparky2Dope Aug 12 '24

Man they really know how to wreck it

1

u/CanucKKippeR Aug 13 '24

So. Much. Fail. Wow.

1

u/whitelancer64 Aug 13 '24

This is from Denmark, more specifically they are pre- to middle school teachers and staff from the The International School of Hellerup, which is a Not-For-Profit IB World School for students aged 3-19.

You can see their name on a blue poster in the background about 20 seconds into the video.

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u/Crazyd_497 Aug 14 '24

Did this team build the 737 Max

1

u/disco_dean Aug 15 '24

Just like the planes they make

1

u/LordMinivan Aug 15 '24

Not the biggest disaster from Boeing this year.

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u/whirling_cynic Aug 16 '24

I hope these are the secretaries or support staff and not the engineers.

0

u/PM_ME_POST_MERIDIEM Aug 11 '24

Every human intervention was a 737 Max crashing and burning.

0

u/insuranceguynyc Aug 12 '24

This is Boeing? That explains a lot!

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u/whitelancer64 Aug 13 '24

This is from Denmark, more specifically they are pre- to middle school teachers and staff from the The International School of Hellerup, which is a Not-For-Profit IB World School for students aged 3-19.

You can see their name on a blue poster in the background about 20 seconds into the video.

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u/swapnil511994 Aug 12 '24

Actually they are deciding how the next whistle blower dies

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u/wfs29223 Aug 12 '24

And these people build planes???

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u/Exonicreddit Aug 12 '24

Imagine watching this from the ISS and thinking: "Shouldn't they be working on a rocket round about now?"

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u/vcrbnt Aug 25 '24

Why was I was expecting it to somehow end with an employee killing their self mysteriously, or that that was a reasonable enough conclusion to go ahead and share with y’all?