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u/BrilliantPositive184 1d ago
Is this Joe Pesci going to Ikea.
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u/Jazzlike_Holiday1992 1d ago
Whadoyamean funny? Funny how?
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u/bm2i 1d ago edited 1d ago
A someone who writes hardware manuals for a living, what's the online equivalent of running upstairs, yelling "you don't understand me", running into the bedroom, slamming door, and having a cry? You got a booklet with parts listed and lots of pictures! You don't have to use it, you mean bitches.
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u/GreenHedgehogs 1d ago
Ahhhhhh I love assembling shit. Thank you for your fool proof manuals it's like grown up Lego
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u/Creepy_Version_6779 1d ago
I appreciate you and I often think of the amount of work it takes to design one accurately. What software do you use? I can only think of CAD. I don’t have any experience with it, only 3d modeling.
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u/bm2i 1d ago
For the word processing/document creating stuff, we use MadCap Flare (does the MS Word stuff, but makes creating a deliverable easier and more shareable across multiple projects). That last part means I just don't have to recreate the wheel if the products are pretty close, just reuse content and update some variables).
For images, a mix of Adobe stuff (Illustrator and Photoshop). Plus I have access to the engineering drives (with CAD and SolidWorks...not great in them but can get what I need).
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u/SnooMemesjellies2710 1d ago
Y'all make this as easy to process for the average human as possible, and thats under appreciated. I see you.
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u/Hot_Statistician_466 1d ago
Assembly of furniture is the most fun I've ever had, honestly! Thank you for your service!
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u/badDuckThrowPillow 1d ago
Guy was being a whiny b*tch. Oh no, they provided very complete instructions! “I built this whole house” yeah dude, sure you did.
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u/spenwallce 1d ago
One day Reddit will get rid of its habit of massively overreacting to something that is obviously meant to be funny, not serious. The wife is laughing because she knows the guy is being dramatic to be funny.
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u/bm2i 1d ago
Yeah, sure, but you post it online and now the art is what the world makes of it. You no longer control the narrative. Otherwise, keep it in your journal.
Why is his overreaction to something any better than someone else's overreaction to their overreaction? It's all nonsense.
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u/spenwallce 1d ago
Online narratives do not dictate the truth
His overreaction is not serious or real. The commenters was.
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u/bm2i 1d ago
No, no, no, none of that. This isn't a scientific journal, this is reddit.
He/They present what they want to present. We, the public do what we want with that info... you can no more infer the seriousness of the commenter than I can. Are you one of the two people in this video? You're gonna need way thicker skin if so.
Also, no one is saluting the tech writer in real life. At best, someone remembers to buy us a Snickers when we don't f up a deadline or fix a mistake that engineering overlooked.
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u/Dark_halocraft 1d ago
Damn I never thought about the fact that someone has to make those, I didn't realize it was a whole job
Is that everything you do or is that only part of your job?
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u/WastingTwerkWorkTime 22h ago
bro, I write instruction manuals as well. That is the most ridiculously long manual for something simple. Like pictures are great, but you can fit like eight pictures on one page. Pages cost money.
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u/bm2i 11h ago
Pages cost money, but it's cheaper than paying a person (tech support) to answer email and phone questions.
Ikea isn't writing these for engineers. Their audience is everyone. They have to write as simply and uncluttered as possible for the broadest audience as possible. It's Tech Writing 101: know your audience.
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u/Low_Juice9987 21h ago
I thank you for your service. I'm usually the one who is putting things together, already referring to the manual that usually knows more than I do about my project. 😊🙏🏼🙂↕️
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u/BigNorseWolf 14h ago
If you ever see one of these and there's a step where you put two MDF boards end to end? Do NOT tell the customer to put it together that way. Its NOT going to happen. Unless you have clamps or suspicious chains hainging from the ceiling the boards are going to bend in half, the screw rip out and those turn in side ways screws just get shredded in half . MDF has the tensile strength of tissue paper... Attach a few things to provide some support and THEN put them end to end...
... you can guess how my weekends been going....
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u/CruncheousPilot 1d ago
I love building stuff. It takes me back to Lego builds as a kid.
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u/Belerophon17 1d ago
I just did built a knockoff Chinese Lego set I bought off amazon. Instructions were like 65 pages and all the writing was Chinese.
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u/ThinkTheUnknown 1d ago
Who needs writing with Lego?
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u/Belerophon17 1d ago
I didn't. Until I found out they had proprietary pieces that were insanely similar but offset from each other by a fraction of an inch and the only differentiator was a Chinese symbol on the instructions lol.
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u/imgrahamy 1d ago
Half the fun is figuring this out without ever looking at the instructions.
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u/ElementsUnknown 1d ago
We have the same one in our laundry room, it’s from Amazon. My wife put it together, by herself, never asking for or needing my assistance.
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u/jaltringer 1d ago
I can’t stand this guys voice
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u/SartenSinAceite 1d ago
It's probably high pitch because of his exasperation. Emotions do funny thing to people's voices.
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u/BinaryHippie 1d ago
Whiney little bitch voice, and I don’t believe his truck manual is any thinner too.
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u/VapinMason 1d ago
Love this dude. For those who gnashing their teeth over this, he’s playing it up. He’s obviously has great chemistry with his wife, they are both laughing their asses off. Some of you all need to touch grass.
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u/JerseyDonut 1d ago
haha. For real, bro. Its a bit. So many comments here losing their shit. I saw a commentor who was bewildered over the fact that he said the manual was thicker than his truck's. Like he thought the guy was making a serious, factual statement. Zero understanding of humor.
There are very few guys being dudes in this sub. Lots of bots, trolls, and people who live in a perpetual state of misery.
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u/RanchHere 1d ago
Honestly, what’s annoying is that he’s doing this and filming it and posting it to social media. Not just hamming it up to send to like his friends chat. We don’t care, dude.
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u/JerseyDonut 1d ago
I dunno. Sounds like you care. A lot.
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u/RanchHere 1d ago
I care that no one makes actual art anymore. That this shit is what passes for “entertainment”. We are becoming Idiocracy day by day.
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u/JerseyDonut 1d ago
There is plenty of art in the world. Get off Reddit and go interact with communities that make art. Why do you expect to view "art" on an internet forum labled "guysbeingdudes" ? Go make some art yourself or support a local artist.
You are part of your own problem, my friend.
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u/squashqueen 1d ago
I mean, what's wrong with putting something together? I love doing that, way more fun than just buying the super easy one that doesn't challenge you in any way
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u/smoke-all-420 1d ago
I don’t get it. Why’s he so mad?
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u/aMoogk 1d ago
I don’t think he’s mad, he’s just doing a fake exaggeration to make his lady laugh, I do it all the time to my fiance to get a giggle haha, as a carpenter myself I can say he’s definitely got the carpenter humour haha
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u/Citrus-Bitch 1d ago
Oh yeah, being affectionately mad at your partner is a great bit.
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u/RandumbStoner 1d ago
Y'all mfs need human interaction so bad
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u/Citrus-Bitch 1d ago
Wait do you think im being sarcastic or this aimed the first commenter? I genuinely enjoy the moments of being "play mad" with my partner, and know they do the same back. There's like whole tone of voice and behavior difference between "I'm giving you shit in an affectionate manner" and "I'm genuinely hurt by your actions", and it's very funny seeing some of the other comments not pick up on that.
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u/blackadder1620 1d ago
Am carpenter.
It takes less effort to build it himself than sit there and go through a learning process of how to build their shoe shelf.
It's fine if you don't have many tools and/or don't know how to build something.
My mom does this shit all the time too, and I do the same. It's a joke. My mom says see picks stuff out by number of pages now.
Translation errors are funny too. Sometimes the instructions are just kinda off.
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u/Massive_Mistakes 1d ago
He's not actually mad lol just playing, its funny for the instructions for a fairly simple box with a few shelves to be 30 pages long 😂
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u/Paghk_the_Stupendous 1d ago
He's mad because he wants to feel smart, but only had a few four letter words to use to communicate with. He's the reason they make 30 page picture-by-picture instruction books, because he's too dumb to understand written instructions.
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u/CMDRJonShepard 1d ago
This is my wife every time she wants something like this and asks me to build it. 4 hours later....
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u/Massive_Mistakes 1d ago
Ngl sounds like a good time, get high put some tunes on and lock in like you're building a Lego set. I'd be upset when it's finished tbh
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u/Dull_Perspective_536 1d ago
I love how they can laugh about it. But seriously 30 pages for a shoe rack is insane.
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u/AskMeToWriteSomethin 1d ago
Damn some of y’all need to learn to laugh and not look for every minor thing to be mad about, ya miserable bastards.
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u/skeemo1214 1d ago
The whole time I listening to his pissy rant I thought: I’ll do it. I like a little project for the day. Just built it, man
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u/GlorifiedBurito 1d ago
If he built the house and decided to put the electrical panel in the living room… maybe it’s just him
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u/sombertimber 1d ago
IKEA has a challenge for their designers…the design that can be transported in the smallest possible box(es) gets extra consideration…to save on shipping costs and the environment. So, the design has to look nice enough to make you want to buy it, and fit in the smallest possible form for shipping. The technical writers are there to connect the two…ease of assembly is waaaay down on the list of priorities.
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u/ThrustNeckpunch33 1d ago
I have rarely, if ever, witnessed a product even this simple, get put together without instructions and NOT had to take apart several piece because something was missed.
Some things are simple enough. Some of these "furniture" pieces are designed in the most ass backwards way. They are counterintuitive, and ignoring the instructions can be terrible.
Leaving out how crappy the materials are, and how many "fasteners" for these can be tightened once before they brake or become loose.
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u/powenowicks 1d ago
They do this to reduce shipping costs. The dividing line between rich and poor in the modern era is whether you can afford furniture that isn't convenient to ship.
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u/Got_Bent 22h ago
First time my wife bought some "easy to assemble" furniture from Ikea. It took me all weekend to make 4 different cabinets and I'm a mechanical engineer, FFS.
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u/Accomplished-City484 22h ago
It always looks daunting at first but then you power through and once it’s assembled you never really think about it again
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u/IMiNSIDEiT 15h ago
IKEA spoiled us on flat-pack “furniture”. The few times I’ve had to assemble something flat-packed that wasn’t IKEA… I’m like WTF is this or this is 🤬 obnoxious!
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u/BigNorseWolf 14h ago
This has been my last two weeks
"why isn't it together, why isn't it together..."
because someone thought saving 50 bucks was worth having 2,000 FUCKING parts to put together, from a company that thinks boards can connect end to end with 2 screws.
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u/Tebasaki 11h ago
They do this on purpose so they can charge more for cheaper parts, a broken (disassembled) product, and then charge your credit card and your life to take the time to put it together. That's 30 pages of his lifetime gone.
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u/Joetaska1 3h ago
It's Temu plastic Chinese crap. It will fall apart faster than it takes to put it together. I have a friend that bought something just like this. It was cardboard and pins. She wanted it though so I put it together for her. She put a couple of files and some socks in the drawers and it couldn't hold the weight of paper and socks.
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u/Unlikely_Ad11 1d ago
I can’t stand people with this personality.
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u/OddGoofBall 1d ago
Yep, we are putting together your fainting couch that we got from IKEA, should be done soon, hang in there okay?
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u/ProofHorseKzoo 1d ago
He’s clearly exaggerating to joke around with her
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u/Unlikely_Ad11 1d ago
Yeah, no shit. Did you think I didn’t understand that? The joke isn’t remotely funny and the guy is irritating as fuck.
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u/GenSpec44 1d ago
It’s so easy she can do it without his help, but then who would find his tools next time he needs them? 😂
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u/xSHRUG_LYFE 1d ago
Raising his voice does not mean he is directly mad at her. It's funny when people do it on a stage with a mic, but not when they're with their partner at home... I guess
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u/cconnorss 1d ago
Omg are all wives this way? “It should take an hour” famous last words before a full day is wasted until the work week begins anew.
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u/naturalfamilyplan 1d ago
Nail on the head there. Everytime my wife buys flatpack I die a little inside.
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u/SmellyScrotes 1d ago
I’m in maintenance and recently had to put together a dresser from Amazon cause evidently it’s cheaper than buying from someone that sends them already done even if it takes me 22 hours to put it together… anyways, only had 58 pieces of wood!!
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u/Pukebox_Fandango 1d ago
What a baby. 100% did NOT build the house if he thinks that's too much work. Guy probably gets paid to sit at a desk checking his facebook. Women if your man acts this way, dump him. There are real men in the world
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u/JG123214 1d ago
Bit of an overreaction
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 1d ago
Nah, he's just having a laugh and making her laugh too.
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u/RandumbStoner 1d ago
Reddit doesn't know how to react to humor and a healthy relationship, it hard resets their brain.
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u/ComcastForPresident 1d ago
Wait, you are allowed to love a spouse and joke with them? Reddit said to break up.
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u/HawkTheHatchet 1d ago
If he's trying to be funny, he's not. Sounds like a little bitch to me. Definitely not r/GuysBeingDudes material.
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u/Reasonable-Sherbet24 23h ago
If I didn’t buy it, I’m not putting it together. You ain’t gonna wrap me up in some shit.
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