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[-] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 99 points 1 day ago

Hershey is going to start making chocolate??

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 day ago

Their brown wax seems to be selling well enough. Not sure why they would change it up now.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

Too many people are sticking a wick in the 'chocolate' and getting some very long lasting candles and, like most big companies, they really didn't like people getting any real value for money so they've dropped the wax.

Obviously it'll still taste like shit, just not waxy shit.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

I thought they only sold brown-colored sugar.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

ITS THOSE DAMN MARS FAMILY AT IT AGAIN!!

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 96 points 1 day ago

It's definitely Willy Wonka's American branch factory

[-] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

I was gonna say Slugworth haha getting that corporate espionage goin'

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

Just copy paste the job description to Google and it'll likely end up to the original job posting. These recruiters are so lazy they don't think anyone will ever get to their secret client lol.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 23 hours ago

This is the real LPT. Recruiters are so annoying to deal with. Avoid them if you can.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 22 hours ago

To be fair it it could very easily be a contractor for Hershey's, or a vendor that works on/sells their equipment.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 41 points 1 day ago

What the actual fuck... I need to find someone who is deeply familiar with the types of jobs a person could have.

If you told me "chocolate technology specialist" was a thing, I'd have probably gone to college for it. Instead I'm stuck in a factory, just dreaming about chocolate... And then going home and eating it lol

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

I know someone who did go into food science to get into a chocolate production factory - they were done eating chocolate for good after their first 6 months.

Turns out all you can eat samples is a great way to get food fatigued real fast.

[-] choco_crispies@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

Not if you work at a brewery.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Only if you are an alcoholic.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

The best way to hate something you love is to make it your job.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

That's no fucking joke. I started with a passion for learning about computers. I love what I do now because I'm a one man company and answer only to myself and my contracts, but I didn't turn on a computer outside of work for fucking years because of the burnout.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 1 day ago

I was once at some children party thingy where they had free cotton candy. My friend and I ate so much that we completely swore off of the stuff for all eternity.

Then I went and got married to a gal with a cotton candy machine...

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

My brother in law did similar…worked in a chicken factory, not in production, for a while…put him off chicken for a year or so.

[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm a system integrator, and though I don't do it right now, I'd consider myself an expert in dairy. I could see someone specializing in chocolate similarly.

The reason people don't know about these jobs is because they aren't advertised very well. My MS in mechanical engineering barely touched on it and I sort of fell into it on accident by knowing someone in the industry.

Edit: thinking about it for a moment, I actually did some work for a European chocolate producer about a decade ago

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

How does one find about these jobs? I think my dream job will be something obscure like this but I don't know what to pick for university because I don't know what obscure job it'll be.

[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It depends what you want to do. System integration is sort of the broad name for people in my field. Its a software stack sort of like how networking layers work. Controls->scada->MES->janky messaging connector->SAP with other random stuff sprinkled in. The Wikipedia article has an OK introduction to it.

If your interested take a controls class that actually uses Rockwell or Siemens PLCs, not the theoretical stuff. There is also open source stuff that runs on arduino or other controllers.

Or see if you like programming. Python is used for inductive automations Ignition SCADA and visual basic/C# is AVEVAs wonder ware. Their are others out there, these are the ones I've used.

[-] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 points 21 hours ago

You can wind up in some pretty weird jobs just by putting in the right terms off your resume into job boards. When I was looking for jobs a few years ago, "bilingual supervisor" on indeed landed me a two year stint as the supervisor for the night shift in a pharmaceutical plant. I managed to get that despite not simply lacking a degree in a relevant field, but a college degree at all (working on it now), but simply because I was masochistic enough use SAP at work for 5 years and apply for another job that needed someone who could make sense of it, and I could speak Spanish.

If you have a degree, I'm sure there are more options that would open up for you, but you might only find them searching for things in pretty vague terms and seeing if anything pops up as being interesting. The downside is, you'll probably see a lot of irrelevant stuff, but you also come across some wild stuff. After I got laid off from that job and had sent out applications from normal searching of job boards, I took a look at some less specific searches and came across some weird stuff, like a company that was hiring a production supervisor for their facility making probiotic dog yogurt.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 10 points 21 hours ago

It is a mystery.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago
[-] Pistcow@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

*Palmer, dollar store "chocolate".

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

You could just say USA chocolate.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

You'll be working for Slugworth

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

The Hershey ice cream company, which (this is real) is not associated with the famous chocolate maker

[-] LordOfTheFlatline@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago

Clearly someone at the company has been betrayed hard enough to become a supervillain. They seek to destroy the company from the inside. The job is for hacking the chocolate making machines and committing arson.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

They want the OP to steal an Everlasting Gobstopper.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Wait do people seriously apply to mystery companies? I'd interpret this as the company knowing their reputation is bad.

Tell you what, I'll apply if you don't need to see my name until I'm hired.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It's not always because their reputation is bad. Sometimes they have a really bad employee that they want to replace, but who will definitely know if their job is posted. This happens a lot at the executive level.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

And a lot of recruiting companies are afraid you'll bypass them and go apply directly, thus cutting out the middle man and they're not allowed to send out goons to break your kneecaps.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

It’s a legal thing in the EU. Neither side can see the others details.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

I can understand not wanting discrimination on employees, but we really ought to be allowed to google businesses before spending our time applying. Some of them are blatant scams!

[-] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Damn, I didn't know anyone was hiring for industrial espionage! Never heard of that career path.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Kirby vacuums. They need someone familiar with chocolate because a vacuum can clean chocolate

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Maybe they’re planning to start making chocolate.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Wilbur Buds > Hershey Kisses

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Ew, Hershey chocolate is gross. It tastes like vomit. No wonder they're hiring anonymously.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, is this a situation where many chocolate companies conglomerated to a specific area?

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