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I love that seemingly random trades that we largely take for granted have these case studies that result in awards for things us muggles never think about. A g

I love that seemingly random trades that we largely take for granted have these case studies that result in awards for things us muggles never think about. A garage I went to subscribed to a trade magazine for towing and recovery companies and left the issues in the waiting room. Sure enough, they had a recovery of the year type of award.

UltraSane 28d ago
I worked at a company that got a magazine dedicated to managed printing services.
- cael450 28d ago
  I used to work at a local paper that also ran a quarterly trade magazine on the chicken processing industry.
  - Ekaros 28d ago
    I feel like that sounds less weird when you really start to think about it. There is lot of chicken being processed. And the margins must not be great and competition between suppliers must be at least somewhat fierce... So there are good use cases for capital if you are in that market.
jahnu 28d ago
There are awards for the best awards https://awardsawards.conferenceawards.co.uk/ https://awardsawards.conferenceawards.co.uk/
- senordevnyc 28d ago
  We need a few more of these so we can have the Awards Awards Awards.
- roryirvine 28d ago
  I suspect awards are one of the more profitable niches of the wider events industry. They're cheaper to produce than a full-scale conference (needing just a 1 day hire of a hotel ballroom or similar) and are easy to sell - every business or team nominated for an award will pay for a table, as will various suppliers and vendors who see it as a great marketing opportunity.
  - xhkkffbf 28d ago
    I was at one committee meeting when the annual award ceremony came up. One person was considered for an award because she had a big family with many cousins and nieces. All the better to sell tables.
  - notahacker 28d ago
    you know an award is actually legit when someone from a trade body contacts you the week before sounding slightly put out that nobody from your member company is flying to Europe to attend their event even though you did fill out an application form, you assume their event must be a bit short of attendees but reluctantly dip into the small startup budget for a single person to fly out there because "something something networking", and then your colleague gets surprised by actually winning it whilst surrounded by the teams everyone else sent. on the other hand, I found it hilarious one of my father's old companies publicly sponsored a special new category of award at a legit-seeming construction event. You'll never guess who won...
- kmoser 28d ago
  It looks more like awards for events, e.g. "Most Creative and Engaging Event" and "Best Event Series (over 1800 attendees)," none of which seem to have anything to do with the quality of any awards given at those events. What am I missing here?
delecti 28d ago
It makes me feel uninformed about the world, but in a good way. It leaves me mildly awestruck when I learn about some new invisible corner of our society that has so much more depth than I realized. I appreciate elevators more (both from a safety perspective and as a convenience) knowing there are people who care so much about them.
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morpheos137 28d ago
Muggles? You me unskilled overpaid llm prompters who are amazed by the world of real work?
- mauvehaus 28d ago
  We can't all be wizards at everything, as evidenced by the electrical "surprises" I keep uncovering in this house I own that was built by a plumber.
  - morpheos137 27d ago
    Curious what? Residential wiring is just about the simplest building trade there is. Plumbing is actually far more complicated, you got to figure slope and elevations and make junctions that hold pressure for years or drain pipes that flow waste water for years. Electrical is prettly plug and play by comparison. Commerical and three phase gets more complicated.
    - toast0 27d ago
      > you got to figure slope and elevations I mean, you should... but there's still a lot of wiggle room on the way from doesn't meet modern code / never met code / shouldn't be done / is unsanitary or unsafe / will not work. Residential electric is easier to do in ways that work but are either not to code or not to common best practice. The handier the previous owner was, the more new ways to do things you can learn. If a previous owner was in the trades and also heavily involved in the initial build, expect lots of weird repairs. :p
      - morpheos137 27d ago
        Again electric is not complex.I would say modern residential wiring is pretty fool proof. The majority of the work involves stripping wires and tightening screws. 120v is quite low vs street or transmission line voltage. Yes mis-wiring can kill you or burn down your house but it really takes some effort + stupidity. Nail into a wire, arc fault breaker trips, similiar for other faults. The electric code is far more nanny than plumbing code. Sure if you run a 40 amp dryer off 14 gauge romex with a 40 amp breaker you may have a fire but more likely the wire gets hot maybe melts the insulation and shorts and trips the breaker regardless. everything in wiring is over engineered to prevent fire and death even in the case of improper installation or damage. Meanwhile let's say you plumb a gas line wrong and gas leaks into the house and blows up or boiler explodes from lack of functioning pressure relief valve. Electric has defense in depth as it has layers of fail safes.

UltraSane 28d ago

I worked at a company that got a magazine dedicated to managed printing services.

cael450 28d ago
I used to work at a local paper that also ran a quarterly trade magazine on the chicken processing industry.
- Ekaros 28d ago
  I feel like that sounds less weird when you really start to think about it. There is lot of chicken being processed. And the margins must not be great and competition between suppliers must be at least somewhat fierce... So there are good use cases for capital if you are in that market.

jahnu 28d ago

There are awards for the best awards https://awardsawards.conferenceawards.co.uk/ https://awardsawards.conferenceawards.co.uk/

senordevnyc 28d ago
We need a few more of these so we can have the Awards Awards Awards.
roryirvine 28d ago
I suspect awards are one of the more profitable niches of the wider events industry. They're cheaper to produce than a full-scale conference (needing just a 1 day hire of a hotel ballroom or similar) and are easy to sell - every business or team nominated for an award will pay for a table, as will various suppliers and vendors who see it as a great marketing opportunity.
- xhkkffbf 28d ago
  I was at one committee meeting when the annual award ceremony came up. One person was considered for an award because she had a big family with many cousins and nieces. All the better to sell tables.
- notahacker 28d ago
  you know an award is actually legit when someone from a trade body contacts you the week before sounding slightly put out that nobody from your member company is flying to Europe to attend their event even though you did fill out an application form, you assume their event must be a bit short of attendees but reluctantly dip into the small startup budget for a single person to fly out there because "something something networking", and then your colleague gets surprised by actually winning it whilst surrounded by the teams everyone else sent. on the other hand, I found it hilarious one of my father's old companies publicly sponsored a special new category of award at a legit-seeming construction event. You'll never guess who won...
kmoser 28d ago
It looks more like awards for events, e.g. "Most Creative and Engaging Event" and "Best Event Series (over 1800 attendees)," none of which seem to have anything to do with the quality of any awards given at those events. What am I missing here?

delecti 28d ago

It makes me feel uninformed about the world, but in a good way. It leaves me mildly awestruck when I learn about some new invisible corner of our society that has so much more depth than I realized. I appreciate elevators more (both from a safety perspective and as a convenience) knowing there are people who care so much about them.

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morpheos137 28d ago

Muggles? You me unskilled overpaid llm prompters who are amazed by the world of real work?

mauvehaus 28d ago
We can't all be wizards at everything, as evidenced by the electrical "surprises" I keep uncovering in this house I own that was built by a plumber.
- morpheos137 27d ago
  Curious what? Residential wiring is just about the simplest building trade there is. Plumbing is actually far more complicated, you got to figure slope and elevations and make junctions that hold pressure for years or drain pipes that flow waste water for years. Electrical is prettly plug and play by comparison. Commerical and three phase gets more complicated.
  - toast0 27d ago
    > you got to figure slope and elevations I mean, you should... but there's still a lot of wiggle room on the way from doesn't meet modern code / never met code / shouldn't be done / is unsanitary or unsafe / will not work. Residential electric is easier to do in ways that work but are either not to code or not to common best practice. The handier the previous owner was, the more new ways to do things you can learn. If a previous owner was in the trades and also heavily involved in the initial build, expect lots of weird repairs. :p
    - morpheos137 27d ago
      Again electric is not complex.I would say modern residential wiring is pretty fool proof. The majority of the work involves stripping wires and tightening screws. 120v is quite low vs street or transmission line voltage. Yes mis-wiring can kill you or burn down your house but it really takes some effort + stupidity. Nail into a wire, arc fault breaker trips, similiar for other faults. The electric code is far more nanny than plumbing code. Sure if you run a 40 amp dryer off 14 gauge romex with a 40 amp breaker you may have a fire but more likely the wire gets hot maybe melts the insulation and shorts and trips the breaker regardless. everything in wiring is over engineered to prevent fire and death even in the case of improper installation or damage. Meanwhile let's say you plumb a gas line wrong and gas leaks into the house and blows up or boiler explodes from lack of functioning pressure relief valve. Electric has defense in depth as it has layers of fail safes.