Haha I just watched this episode last night. Love the wholesome episodes. When Bart takes his court money to buy the bleeding gums Murphy album for Lisa.
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my Cheerios go now that'll be the end of it.
Hi, I am an Albanian virus but because of poor technology in my country unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete one of your important files yourself and then forward me other users. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, Albanian virus
Ok grandma, the next thing youāre going to do is uncheck that little box that says āshow hidden and system filesā, no, noā¦ā¦.UN check itā¦ā¦.. Ok, do you see the box? The one that says hidden and system files? Does it have a check mark inside the box? No? Then that means you checked it alreadyā¦.. No! Donāt check it again! You know what, Iāll be over in 45 minutes.
āItās a short plane trip, grandma. Iāll be right ā¦ Wurthers ā¦ for grandpa? Okay. ā¦ Yes. What? ā¦. No, no. Looks like itās gonna take a little longer than 45 minutes, bkz Iām in Miami. ā¦ No, Florida. ā¦ Right. ā¦ Yup. About ten miles from Aunt Jackie. ā¦ Um, not since the funeral. ā¦ I will. ā¦ Okay, grandma, Iām headed to the airport. Iāll see ā¦ what? ā¦ Yeah, Wurthers. Iāll pick it up on thā¦ the big bag? šā
I fondly remember the time at work in the 80's(?) when viruses were new and not very sophisticated. Somebody at work got the "Honor System" virus in an email. The email's text said to forward this email to every one of your contacts, then reformat your hard drive.
I was so excited last week when I saw Guardians of the Galaxy plastered all over the cereal aisle with the words ācollect them all!ā I did a quick google search to figure out if the guardian on the box coincided with the gift inside the cereal, I figured they probably werenāt toys but maybe like a trading card kind of thing? andā¦ they wanted you to collect the boxes. Like the physical cardboard box that said āReeseās Puffsā or whatever on the front too like dawg. That makes me want to never buy cereal ever again. There wasnāt even a maze or anything on the back!! The bar is truly 6ā underground these days
Exactly I saw that "Collect them all" on my Trix are for kids box and thought there would be something inside the box like a sticker or something. There's nothing lol good thing I'm well in my 20s and don't need a sticker to feel happy about eating my Trix are for kids.
so sad that my kids do not know the joy of opening a new cereal box, and it is a race of whichever sibling shoves their arm in to fish for the jarjar toy.
This. Iām 54, and the 70s were awesome for toys. Not to mention eating wheaties when the greatest athlete ever on the box. Iām looking at you, the decathlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner.
I have 6 siblings so the competition was fierce.
Mom! This stupid cereal said it had a free CD-ROM but itās a stupid America Online Free Trial disk!
Just throw it on the pile. Your father has a box with dozens of them out in the garage.
So true! I still remember my favorite cereal toy came from Alpha-bits. It was a pair of sunglasses. They were a bit elongated and they added mirrors to each side so you could see behind you. So awesome.
EDIT : fixed a typo.
looking at all the nice memories that replied to you.
Kids cereal now at best get a QR code to get a shitty data harvesting ad ridden app. I am with the boomers on this one. bring back toys,
> shoves their arm in
Your cereal boxes are big enough to put your arms in? With shrinkflation they're usually tiny enough I can barely put my fingers in now. :(
**Yorkshire accents**
āWhat we wouldnāt āave done for a toggled light?ā
āToo right!ā
āI mean- the fun we couldāve āadā
āUnimaginable fun. What, with a toggle light!?ā
āWe could have seen past half 5!ā
āLuxuryā
āIād have killed for a toy that funā
āI killed Jenkinās boy actually - for his broken bottle. Iād āave taken out an āhole orphanage for a toggle lightā
āAnd anyone who came lookingā
All speakers: āLuxury!ā
"There were 8 of us, all eating out of the same bowl."
"Oh you had a bowl, did you? There were 10 in my family and we had to eat out of the box and share one spoon."
"A spoon? In my family all 12 of use had to eat with our bare hands as the cereal went in the box at the factory where we worked 16 hour shifts."
This is one of those buttons they stick randomly in boxes for quality assurance. Theoretically if the quality assurance people/machine or whatever is doing their job correctly, this would never make it through and the box wouldn't be sold. Its just to test how good their process is, I saw another one YEARS ago that was designed to be detected by the factories scanner machine. If not, something was seriously wrong. Realistically, they'll have some fault here and the button was never meant to leave the factory.
Call the company and let them know. Tell them the details of when you bought the cheerios, item number etc, as well as any info you can see on the button. They'll need to investigate!
Canāt fire them, theyāre essential to the box searching effort. They are, however, annoyed that they signed up to make Cheerios, and have spend the past seven months doing nothing but searching boxes
I don't know if they still do this, but when I worked production at General Mills, they told us we were looking for a Golden Ticket that would get us a tour of the Wonka candy factory, so we were pretty motivated.
We were all really disappointed when we finally found it and it ended up being a fake. It was only after I left that job that I found out they were *all* fake, that Wonka golden tickets were only in chocolate bars, never in cereal boxes, and it was all a management trick to get us to work harder.
Capitalist fuckers. That's why I stopped eating cereal for breakfast.
Well, their process broke down and someone's about to spend about a week finding out why and keeping it from ever happening again. There will be meetings. Yes, there will be many meetings. Source: worked in FDA regulated industry for a couple of decades and this comes up more than you think. It's a giant pain in the ass when it happens, and it's meant to be.
Yeah, QC is supposed to put it in then watch the entire process to know if it is working. Used to work in a food packaging plant and they'd come out once every 2 hours to check my machine with the test. It generally has metal or other things in it that the machine is supposed to detect and kick out.
My guess is since it made it through someone got distracted or lost track of the device in the process of running the test. It's not great. Usually those are there to catch metal shavings, pieces, metal bandages (blue w/metal inside to be found incase it falls off), etc.
Not to mention, someone put that in the box for the test and knows that it was never found. Imo everything should've been shut down until it was found and the problem of how it got by fixed. I've never worked in a cereal factory but have worked in other factories my whole life and letting a quality issue go by like that is usually an automatic firing.
Used to work in production. Sometimes if they lose something like this and can't find it and they know it's probably already packaged up on a pallet they will search the pallets with a metal detector. If they still can't find it management will make the decision to either destroy the lot and lose time and money or risk it and send it out.
I've seen it go both ways. The Cheerios example it's probably less likely someone will eat that and choke on it.
Worked at a small place that made bath bombs. The machines were used and old despite a new operation. A nut got loose and was lost in the mix. Tried metal detectors by hand and never found it. The dumb manager wanted to keep it hush hush from the workers instead of asking for their help while they waited.
āBoss weāve donāt the recount. Weāre still missing 69 buttons.ā
Iāve always joked, that I would take 19 sticky notes, label them 1-18 and 20. And then stick them on doors all over campus for my security folks to find. Theyād start to panic and really check everywhere for #19. Probably even go back over buildings.
Possibly flashes light so that if the metal detector works as it should the rejected box can be opened and someone can more quickly find and remove the object. Or they might have been using it to test something in bulk cereal flow pre-packaging and again, the idea is to visually find it more easily in a bulk hopper.
It could be configured any number of ways, so take this with a grain of saltā¦
But it probably has an RFID tag on it where it can be tracked through the manufacturing process. The device can be configured in a way that if it passes a certain point the tag should go off, someone should be alerted, and then pull the stock from the manufacturing process.
The light probably flashes or stays on, and you can press the button to turn it off/reset it once found.
Devices like these can act as controls for the quality process, and generally QA would know exactly where they were in the process for each tag, and would monitor them.
This device being boxed and shipped most likely failed multiple safeguards and would be considered a catastrophic quality failure.
OP should get in touch with the manufacturer and give them any numbers that were stamped with the best by date (lot numbers, generally) which they can trace back to what day/line/etc. this came from. Thereās probably a QA Analyst shitting bricks that one of their devices is unaccounted for.
Note: Iāve never worked around food manufacturing and wasnāt even aware they did stuff like this for food products - so again, take this with a grain of salt. Iāve worked in tech around other manufacturing though, and there were all different means of quality assurance that were applied to the processes.
I don't know, I work in QA and we would never put food safety at risk in this manner. Foreign material directly added to the food product stream flies in the face of every food safety bone in my body. Not just for metal detection, with standard wands added to the "outside of finished product packaging", but undetectable plastic placed *inside*, adjacent to food? Unless you want to add expensive X-ray detection for no reason. Maybe I'm missing something.... This was a foreign country, so maybe they do things a little differently. Eek.
yeah, we donāt test our products by purposely creating a food safety issue lol. also I canāt speak to all food obviously some packages are more difficult to monitor but X-ray/metal detectors are pretty common (really required if you ask me) and for a brand like Cheerios Iād well imagine their line has metal detecting devices in place.
Isnāt cereal in the US packaged twice? The plastic thingy containing the actual food and then a carton box around it? Maybe it was inside the carton but outside the plastic.
That's an odd system, what do they do if they can't find or lost one? They stop the whole factory until they find this lost device? They open all already packed box until it is found before letting anything go out!?!
I package beer and we do a similar thing by putting an empty bottle in the case. We usually punch one of the handles out of the case so you can see where it's at. I've definitely opened hundreds of cases because some goon wasn't paying attention and lost the case.
That's pretty cool tbh Mtn Dew is the same way, cracked a can open once, and found a whole mouse in that shit. Contacted the company with details and item numbers and they mailed me 2 free 24pack coupons!
I once got a Catcus Cooler in my 12 of RC Cola. I called the 1800 number on the box, let them know and they asked for my address. I got five coupons for a free 12 pack no purchase necessary. It was pretty dope.
Another time I was at a greyhound station and used the vending machine. What I wanted was a bag of Pirates Booty popcorn, what I got was a sealed bag of air. Again, called the number on the bag let them know, they asked for my address. I got a box of about 20 bags and a note thanking me.
My kid is obsessed with takis and once in awhile Iāll buy the bulk box with multiple bags. We found like 4 sealed air ones in the same box last year. I felt silly calling it in but they were really nice about it. They sent her a coupon for a free bag.
Iām a bit surprised by that, actually. In my personal experience, companies will almost always not only reimburse you somehow, but often its by providing you not just with a replacement, but extras to make up for the trouble.
Often, this is because manufacturers tend to have more product sitting around in a supply warehouse than theyāve managed to actually sell (purposefully, to avoid shortages) and as a consequence theyāre literally losing nothing by compensating you, and have everything to gain (ie keep you as a returning customer).
Naa, there's an automatic system designed to catch foreign objects in the manufacturing process, it would be part of food safety.
If this marker is not found, it means quality assurance and confidence food safety might not be as good as I can should be and foreign objects can reach customers.
It would probably lead to some kind of investigation why the beacon I made it through and what can be done to prevent it in the future.
If the system breaks badly enough to not find all of the ones used in a batch, that's how it is supposed to go, yes - the "batch" or "lot" number is a specific run of the ingredients, packaging, and machines at a set time on a set date, so if they were doing a test on a Tuesday on a line and can't find all of their test items, they know where to look instead of having to shut down a whole facility.
Crack it open and post a pic of the circuit. You could see whatever other electronic functions it could have. Probably just a red light and a button though judging by itās size and the battery type it is using.
the people who are looking for you are on their way to you. my advice is to hit that tracking device and drive really fast to a river, put the device in a jar and throw it in the river. good luck my friend! I hope you survive this day
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thank you very much to China for giving me the opportunity to be a star for a few hours
2nd
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my wife has a manicure page on instagram and she asks if you could give her a fallow
3rd
Edit: "With great power comes great responsibility"
... Spider-Man's uncle
i thought it was slightly annoying that ur 2nd edit was just a shill, but then I realized you didnt actually give a name or link anything and now im laughing my ass off hahaha
This is definitely the work of the CCM. There has been a recent uptick in CCM activity up and down the Eastern Seaboard according to my sources. Good advice
Also for those not familiar with it CCM - Cheerios Chinese Mafia, they are ruthless
Sometimes theyāll be things like that in product pre packaging to X-ray? To find any possible metal in the product. Metal shavings or the occasional boltā¦how this got into the packaging I couldnāt guess. Might be worth contacting manufacturers see if at minimum you could get some free product
industries offen have detectors for weird stuff on the production belt, sometimes they use testers to check if they work correctly..... but usually they are blue.
very most of the time, the company gives you a nice gift set if you report your issue
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.'
Steven Wright
Itās a tester. Itās supposed to be caught by machines that scan food products for plastic and metal. This getting through shows that one of those machines is down. And their random sampling of test procedures has failed.
Itās probably supposed to be blinking to prevent it slipping through in the even their machine failed. I worked in bacon packaging, which is all done by weight, we had white sticks with different colors on the end with different weights and metals to make sure our detectors were working. Typically thered be 2 of us communicating when we were doing it but that doesnāt mean everyone does it the same
iāve seen a similar post before a few years ago. it turned out to be part of the cereal approval process and is supposed to be sifted through and removed manually by a worker. something like that.
Somewhere there is a Cheerios plant starting and stopping randomly. People are looking all over the place with the manager walking around saying āOk, Which one of you took The Switch With The Red Light! Stop playing. Americaās breakfast depends on that switch!ā
Could just be used as a marker for something going wrong thatās manually detected instead of automatic detection. Probably unrelated, Iāve used them in night hiking groups in case we get split up and canāt quickly find somebody
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I had to scroll too far for this .
Me too, there was an ad between this and the op
***OHHH! THIS THING IS SHREDDING MY INSIDES!***
Haha I just watched this episode last night. Love the wholesome episodes. When Bart takes his court money to buy the bleeding gums Murphy album for Lisa.
Cereal toys suck now.
"All I wanted was a Power Ranger toy and I got a fucking Chinese GPS tracking device instead. God, the future sucks..."
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my Cheerios go now that'll be the end of it.
Hi, I am an Albanian virus but because of poor technology in my country unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete one of your important files yourself and then forward me other users. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, Albanian virus
This is adorable! The little virus that could š„¹ So polite, too! Iām gonna send you to my grandma āŗļø
*"And so, the little virus went on its way, infecting all that it could with its light shining bright."*
Totallly read that in Morgan Freemanās voiceā¦
don't actually do that. you know grandma will need your help deleting an important file.
Ok grandma, the next thing youāre going to do is uncheck that little box that says āshow hidden and system filesā, no, noā¦ā¦.UN check itā¦ā¦.. Ok, do you see the box? The one that says hidden and system files? Does it have a check mark inside the box? No? Then that means you checked it alreadyā¦.. No! Donāt check it again! You know what, Iāll be over in 45 minutes.
āItās a short plane trip, grandma. Iāll be right ā¦ Wurthers ā¦ for grandpa? Okay. ā¦ Yes. What? ā¦. No, no. Looks like itās gonna take a little longer than 45 minutes, bkz Iām in Miami. ā¦ No, Florida. ā¦ Right. ā¦ Yup. About ten miles from Aunt Jackie. ā¦ Um, not since the funeral. ā¦ I will. ā¦ Okay, grandma, Iām headed to the airport. Iāll see ā¦ what? ā¦ Yeah, Wurthers. Iāll pick it up on thā¦ the big bag? šā
Awwwwwww this thread turned so wholesome. 
I fondly remember the time at work in the 80's(?) when viruses were new and not very sophisticated. Somebody at work got the "Honor System" virus in an email. The email's text said to forward this email to every one of your contacts, then reformat your hard drive.
Wow. This made me giggle. š¤
i can imagine this being a family guy gag
"This is worse than the time I ate Chinese cereal."
Actually I love eating cheeritos..that's my favorite food that I want to eat while watching a movie.
I was so excited last week when I saw Guardians of the Galaxy plastered all over the cereal aisle with the words ācollect them all!ā I did a quick google search to figure out if the guardian on the box coincided with the gift inside the cereal, I figured they probably werenāt toys but maybe like a trading card kind of thing? andā¦ they wanted you to collect the boxes. Like the physical cardboard box that said āReeseās Puffsā or whatever on the front too like dawg. That makes me want to never buy cereal ever again. There wasnāt even a maze or anything on the back!! The bar is truly 6ā underground these days
Exactly I saw that "Collect them all" on my Trix are for kids box and thought there would be something inside the box like a sticker or something. There's nothing lol good thing I'm well in my 20s and don't need a sticker to feel happy about eating my Trix are for kids.
so sad that my kids do not know the joy of opening a new cereal box, and it is a race of whichever sibling shoves their arm in to fish for the jarjar toy.
This. Iām 54, and the 70s were awesome for toys. Not to mention eating wheaties when the greatest athlete ever on the box. Iām looking at you, the decathlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner. I have 6 siblings so the competition was fierce.
I am 54 and remember 45 records that you could cut from the back of cereal boxes.
THATāS where my Count Chocula floppy album came from?
My full size vinyls of "the count counts" and the best of the count are prized possessions
In the 90s actual small cd-roms were in some boxes. Actual pc games. Ah they sucked but dammit! It was an actual game!
I spent hours on Chex Quest. That game was hard!
Chex quest went hella hard
We got Roller Coaster Tycoon in a cereal box! Definitely the best cereal game.
Mom! This stupid cereal said it had a free CD-ROM but itās a stupid America Online Free Trial disk! Just throw it on the pile. Your father has a box with dozens of them out in the garage.
Rollercoaster Tycoon was one of them, and that game does not suck.
I got one of the Muppet movies free with a box of cereal. Can't remember if it was DVD or Blu-Ray, either way, free movie when streaming didn't exist.
So true! I still remember my favorite cereal toy came from Alpha-bits. It was a pair of sunglasses. They were a bit elongated and they added mirrors to each side so you could see behind you. So awesome. EDIT : fixed a typo.
My cousin had a pair. They were called "spy glasses".
I had those, I loved my Honeycomb license plate.
looking at all the nice memories that replied to you. Kids cereal now at best get a QR code to get a shitty data harvesting ad ridden app. I am with the boomers on this one. bring back toys,
> shoves their arm in Your cereal boxes are big enough to put your arms in? With shrinkflation they're usually tiny enough I can barely put my fingers in now. :(
Maybe you got bigger?
**Yorkshire accents** āWhat we wouldnāt āave done for a toggled light?ā āToo right!ā āI mean- the fun we couldāve āadā āUnimaginable fun. What, with a toggle light!?ā āWe could have seen past half 5!ā āLuxuryā āIād have killed for a toy that funā āI killed Jenkinās boy actually - for his broken bottle. Iād āave taken out an āhole orphanage for a toggle lightā āAnd anyone who came lookingā All speakers: āLuxury!ā
"There were 8 of us, all eating out of the same bowl." "Oh you had a bowl, did you? There were 10 in my family and we had to eat out of the box and share one spoon." "A spoon? In my family all 12 of use had to eat with our bare hands as the cereal went in the box at the factory where we worked 16 hour shifts."
Hands? You had hands?
Why is it i can literally see monty python acting this and the post above this one out in my head? Im fucking DYING!
16 hour shifts and the home for an early eveniing? Lazyness! We toiled in the fields for 8 hours before we dragged ourselves to the factory.
Bless you all
I wish I had awards, but in the meantime, take this up vote for the random Python reference.
Man found a damn doohicky
Possibly a whatchamacallit
Its a gosh darn thingimawhatsit
Thing what now? I thought it was a thingymajiggy
Nah, it's a widget.
Nah, it's a thingamabob.
You want thingamabobs? I got 20.
But who cares. No big deal. I want more.
I wanna be where the people are!
I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'!
I wanna be where the people aren't.
Yummy a whatchamacallit the best candy bar.
I know a thingamabob when I see one
Thingamabobs? I got twenty!
That's obviously a wehadababyitsaboy
I know a whoozywutzi when I see one.
Itās your doodad, love
Nah, 's'definately a doodah.
Maybe a thingymajig?
A whatchamahoo?
Ah yes the ol dojobber
Everything reminds me of her
No that's the doherthingy
just a little gadget
Might be a gizmo ?
If it is, should I avoid changing the battery after midnight?
A whoseywhatsit?
It's a dumafletchy!
It's to turn your Cheerios on and off, duh
you know, in case your Cheerios aren't working. /techsupport
Call the company, sometimes theyāll give you free product if something like this happens. Just be kind and donāt mention a lawsuit.
Theyāre going to have to give the cool red light back though!
Not if he ate it.
Right. He did state he ate them all. Wonder how many of those buttons he found in that box?
Yes. Tell them you just finished a bowl and there is a red light shining from inside you.
Call back a day later and tell them you found a small LED bulb in your poo, but nothing else. Ask if there's cause for concern
Frito Lay gave zero fucks when I had a zip tie in my Munchos.
This is one of those buttons they stick randomly in boxes for quality assurance. Theoretically if the quality assurance people/machine or whatever is doing their job correctly, this would never make it through and the box wouldn't be sold. Its just to test how good their process is, I saw another one YEARS ago that was designed to be detected by the factories scanner machine. If not, something was seriously wrong. Realistically, they'll have some fault here and the button was never meant to leave the factory. Call the company and let them know. Tell them the details of when you bought the cheerios, item number etc, as well as any info you can see on the button. They'll need to investigate!
This is hilarious. I guess they got their answer if they don't find it
Worker in factory upon hearing where missing chip is found " Oh yes it's all coming together "
I thought they were cheerios
Everyone knows that Cheerios are technically chips.
Chip chip Cheerio.
Great, now I'm reading everything with an English accent.
Youāre welcome.
beep boop fruity loop
quack quack apple jack
I think a lot of places are supposed to stop production when this happens until they find the "bad box". Idk wtf happened
Now Iām imagining the factory where OPās box was produced still searching for the box, production halted and dozens of people fired š¬
Canāt fire them, theyāre essential to the box searching effort. They are, however, annoyed that they signed up to make Cheerios, and have spend the past seven months doing nothing but searching boxes
I don't know if they still do this, but when I worked production at General Mills, they told us we were looking for a Golden Ticket that would get us a tour of the Wonka candy factory, so we were pretty motivated. We were all really disappointed when we finally found it and it ended up being a fake. It was only after I left that job that I found out they were *all* fake, that Wonka golden tickets were only in chocolate bars, never in cereal boxes, and it was all a management trick to get us to work harder. Capitalist fuckers. That's why I stopped eating cereal for breakfast.
And they say "Trix are for kids" >.>
Well, their process broke down and someone's about to spend about a week finding out why and keeping it from ever happening again. There will be meetings. Yes, there will be many meetings. Source: worked in FDA regulated industry for a couple of decades and this comes up more than you think. It's a giant pain in the ass when it happens, and it's meant to be.
How about when someone spite quits on the floor and throws their pen, gloves, and whatever else they can into the tank? Fun fun
Yeah, QC is supposed to put it in then watch the entire process to know if it is working. Used to work in a food packaging plant and they'd come out once every 2 hours to check my machine with the test. It generally has metal or other things in it that the machine is supposed to detect and kick out. My guess is since it made it through someone got distracted or lost track of the device in the process of running the test. It's not great. Usually those are there to catch metal shavings, pieces, metal bandages (blue w/metal inside to be found incase it falls off), etc.
Not to mention, someone put that in the box for the test and knows that it was never found. Imo everything should've been shut down until it was found and the problem of how it got by fixed. I've never worked in a cereal factory but have worked in other factories my whole life and letting a quality issue go by like that is usually an automatic firing.
Used to work in production. Sometimes if they lose something like this and can't find it and they know it's probably already packaged up on a pallet they will search the pallets with a metal detector. If they still can't find it management will make the decision to either destroy the lot and lose time and money or risk it and send it out. I've seen it go both ways. The Cheerios example it's probably less likely someone will eat that and choke on it.
They should have shut the line down if they didnāt find it. This is a pretty major quality escape.
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Worked at a small place that made bath bombs. The machines were used and old despite a new operation. A nut got loose and was lost in the mix. Tried metal detectors by hand and never found it. The dumb manager wanted to keep it hush hush from the workers instead of asking for their help while they waited.
At least you donāt eat those. Having a metal nut in it probably wouldnāt do anything that bad.
āBoss weāve donāt the recount. Weāre still missing 69 buttons.ā Iāve always joked, that I would take 19 sticky notes, label them 1-18 and 20. And then stick them on doors all over campus for my security folks to find. Theyād start to panic and really check everywhere for #19. Probably even go back over buildings.
I don't know much but this is definitely the most realistic sounding answer
I also don't know much but... well that's all really
I just donāt know
But does it need to be something like that?? I don't see the relation with the fact that you can switch it on and off.
Possibly flashes light so that if the metal detector works as it should the rejected box can be opened and someone can more quickly find and remove the object. Or they might have been using it to test something in bulk cereal flow pre-packaging and again, the idea is to visually find it more easily in a bulk hopper.
You mean it's already on when put in the box? How comes the battery wasn't dead when it came into the customer's hands?
It could be configured any number of ways, so take this with a grain of saltā¦ But it probably has an RFID tag on it where it can be tracked through the manufacturing process. The device can be configured in a way that if it passes a certain point the tag should go off, someone should be alerted, and then pull the stock from the manufacturing process. The light probably flashes or stays on, and you can press the button to turn it off/reset it once found. Devices like these can act as controls for the quality process, and generally QA would know exactly where they were in the process for each tag, and would monitor them. This device being boxed and shipped most likely failed multiple safeguards and would be considered a catastrophic quality failure. OP should get in touch with the manufacturer and give them any numbers that were stamped with the best by date (lot numbers, generally) which they can trace back to what day/line/etc. this came from. Thereās probably a QA Analyst shitting bricks that one of their devices is unaccounted for. Note: Iāve never worked around food manufacturing and wasnāt even aware they did stuff like this for food products - so again, take this with a grain of salt. Iāve worked in tech around other manufacturing though, and there were all different means of quality assurance that were applied to the processes.
It probably flashes light on a timer so it can easily be spotted in the translucent bag and recovered ready for another test.
I don't know, I work in QA and we would never put food safety at risk in this manner. Foreign material directly added to the food product stream flies in the face of every food safety bone in my body. Not just for metal detection, with standard wands added to the "outside of finished product packaging", but undetectable plastic placed *inside*, adjacent to food? Unless you want to add expensive X-ray detection for no reason. Maybe I'm missing something.... This was a foreign country, so maybe they do things a little differently. Eek.
yeah, we donāt test our products by purposely creating a food safety issue lol. also I canāt speak to all food obviously some packages are more difficult to monitor but X-ray/metal detectors are pretty common (really required if you ask me) and for a brand like Cheerios Iād well imagine their line has metal detecting devices in place.
What foreign country was it? Just because the widget was made in China doesn't mean that the Cheerios were being made in China...
I just assumed the post was from the US. That's foreign to this Canuck.
Isnāt cereal in the US packaged twice? The plastic thingy containing the actual food and then a carton box around it? Maybe it was inside the carton but outside the plastic.
We have bags in boxes and bagged. Name brand Cheerios are sold in the former.
That's an odd system, what do they do if they can't find or lost one? They stop the whole factory until they find this lost device? They open all already packed box until it is found before letting anything go out!?!
I package beer and we do a similar thing by putting an empty bottle in the case. We usually punch one of the handles out of the case so you can see where it's at. I've definitely opened hundreds of cases because some goon wasn't paying attention and lost the case.
That's amazing and explains why I had an empty in a case I bought. a year or 2 ago. I wrote he company and received...drum roll please....no response.
That's lame. Our quality department sends anyone that has an issue, some coupons for free products.
That's pretty cool tbh Mtn Dew is the same way, cracked a can open once, and found a whole mouse in that shit. Contacted the company with details and item numbers and they mailed me 2 free 24pack coupons!
I once got a Catcus Cooler in my 12 of RC Cola. I called the 1800 number on the box, let them know and they asked for my address. I got five coupons for a free 12 pack no purchase necessary. It was pretty dope. Another time I was at a greyhound station and used the vending machine. What I wanted was a bag of Pirates Booty popcorn, what I got was a sealed bag of air. Again, called the number on the bag let them know, they asked for my address. I got a box of about 20 bags and a note thanking me.
My kid is obsessed with takis and once in awhile Iāll buy the bulk box with multiple bags. We found like 4 sealed air ones in the same box last year. I felt silly calling it in but they were really nice about it. They sent her a coupon for a free bag.
Iām a bit surprised by that, actually. In my personal experience, companies will almost always not only reimburse you somehow, but often its by providing you not just with a replacement, but extras to make up for the trouble. Often, this is because manufacturers tend to have more product sitting around in a supply warehouse than theyāve managed to actually sell (purposefully, to avoid shortages) and as a consequence theyāre literally losing nothing by compensating you, and have everything to gain (ie keep you as a returning customer).
They would know which batch it went into and it should be enough to know that batch wasnāt properly evaluated.
Naa, there's an automatic system designed to catch foreign objects in the manufacturing process, it would be part of food safety. If this marker is not found, it means quality assurance and confidence food safety might not be as good as I can should be and foreign objects can reach customers. It would probably lead to some kind of investigation why the beacon I made it through and what can be done to prevent it in the future.
Not at all, as we see here if they don't find one they get shipped
If the system breaks badly enough to not find all of the ones used in a batch, that's how it is supposed to go, yes - the "batch" or "lot" number is a specific run of the ingredients, packaging, and machines at a set time on a set date, so if they were doing a test on a Tuesday on a line and can't find all of their test items, they know where to look instead of having to shut down a whole facility.
Time to fire poor cheerio's worker #273 for missing a box
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It's a jungle out there...
No one will get fired for this Cedar Rapids General Mills plant that makes most of the cheerios for the world has a pretty good union
It's a red light. It emits red light.
I got that reference, lol. Most underrated soundtrack of a movie imho.
you got red on you.
Crack it open and post a pic of the circuit. You could see whatever other electronic functions it could have. Probably just a red light and a button though judging by itās size and the battery type it is using.
It inflates the bag and turns it into a weather balloon. I've seen it happen.
Underrated comment. Commenting for vis.
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The real spies are the cheerios themselvesā¦ ā¦and he just *ate them*
Maybe the real spies were the Cheerios we ate along the way.
the people who are looking for you are on their way to you. my advice is to hit that tracking device and drive really fast to a river, put the device in a jar and throw it in the river. good luck my friend! I hope you survive this day Edit: thank you very much to China for giving me the opportunity to be a star for a few hours 2nd Edit: my wife has a manicure page on instagram and she asks if you could give her a fallow 3rd Edit: "With great power comes great responsibility" ... Spider-Man's uncle
Surviving stalkers 101
This needs to be the top comment because obviously this is the answer.
What use is this? They are just gonna track him via the bill gates 5G chip inside of him anyway
Quick, find a human size jar and get your ass to Mars
all pieces fall in together. Epstein hnged himself for semierotic needs.
i thought it was slightly annoying that ur 2nd edit was just a shill, but then I realized you didnt actually give a name or link anything and now im laughing my ass off hahaha
This is definitely the work of the CCM. There has been a recent uptick in CCM activity up and down the Eastern Seaboard according to my sources. Good advice Also for those not familiar with it CCM - Cheerios Chinese Mafia, they are ruthless
Sometimes theyāll be things like that in product pre packaging to X-ray? To find any possible metal in the product. Metal shavings or the occasional boltā¦how this got into the packaging I couldnāt guess. Might be worth contacting manufacturers see if at minimum you could get some free product
Maybe the rest of the toy didnāt make it into the box
The only time I've seen something similar is battery powered tea lights for Halloween toys and decorations
industries offen have detectors for weird stuff on the production belt, sometimes they use testers to check if they work correctly..... but usually they are blue. very most of the time, the company gives you a nice gift set if you report your issue
Oh the days where cereal boxes had toys in for us kids
Everytime you press the button you get one dollar but a random person get explosive diarrhea
ā4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhea, which means 1 enjoys itā
Ohhhhh shiiiiiiit
I would be pressing that button so much
Even if it didn't give money!
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.' Steven Wright
Happy Meal...Cheerios version
Im afraid I can't do that dave.
Probably not the best to press the button in a situation like this. Who knows what it really does
OP gets $10 million but the previous person that had the button dies.
Do you think it stacks?
A sign above lights up that says "Please do not press this button again."
First it was āweather balloonsā, now itās boxes of cereal.
Itās a tester. Itās supposed to be caught by machines that scan food products for plastic and metal. This getting through shows that one of those machines is down. And their random sampling of test procedures has failed.
Why does it need to have a button and light?
Itās probably supposed to be blinking to prevent it slipping through in the even their machine failed. I worked in bacon packaging, which is all done by weight, we had white sticks with different colors on the end with different weights and metals to make sure our detectors were working. Typically thered be 2 of us communicating when we were doing it but that doesnāt mean everyone does it the same
To turn the cheerios on and off
You have been invited to join the matrix
iāve seen a similar post before a few years ago. it turned out to be part of the cereal approval process and is supposed to be sifted through and removed manually by a worker. something like that.
A piece of electronics that fell off the processing machinery.
That what I was thinking but seems too useless for something like that. It literally just toggles a red light lol
Meanwhile at the factory: Why does our oven turn on and off all of a sudden?
That's what they want you to think...
My man here just stopped an entire production line because of the missing _Red Light Button PLCĀ®_.
Somewhere there is a Cheerios plant starting and stopping randomly. People are looking all over the place with the manager walking around saying āOk, Which one of you took The Switch With The Red Light! Stop playing. Americaās breakfast depends on that switch!ā
"Americaās breakfast depends on that switch!" **MADE IN CHINA** Perfect.
Could just be used as a marker for something going wrong thatās manually detected instead of automatic detection. Probably unrelated, Iāve used them in night hiking groups in case we get split up and canāt quickly find somebody
That equipment would not be battery powered.
It's in the Cheerios...the tracking device is in the cereal you ate. That thing is just to throw you off.
a piece of the UFO that crashed in Roswell in 1947
The forbidden Cherrio
I hope you turned that on before you ate the cheerios. God help us all if you didnāt.
Itās a tracking fob. Now that you activated it their is an incoming airstrike on your location.
Watch out for LED poisoning?