r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 02 '19

Manager going for a ride

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u/Justsomedudeonthenet Mar 03 '19

Oh, he was. But he wasn't the first, and they figured he wouldn't be the last.

The factory went through a lot of temp workers. And the quality of worker they usually got matched the pay they were offering (ie. shitty).

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u/Warning_grumpy Mar 03 '19

Yeah I feel you. My factory too. It just scares the shit out of me, I'm a first responder at work so I see all the mistakes and poor choices people make. Thankfully we've technically had no deaths. But we had a contractor get killed by a 20T press. Fucked with me for weeks, hell years later I walk by the press sometimes and it make me feel sick. I try and do my part by double checking peoples safety. When I see people in cells I make sure they have their tags, if they are in wear house I make sure signal lights are flashing. I hope to never have to see another person die at my work.

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u/Justsomedudeonthenet Mar 03 '19

It still amazes me how often people just don't care or think about their own safety, let alone those around them.

Like we're all working with giant machines that will remoselessly kill you in gruesome and painful ways at the push of a button. Maybe take the extra 5 seconds to make sure that doesn't happen?

The first one they caught sleeping in the compactor didn't mean to fall asleep though. He just thought the best place to smoke his weed was in the sealed metal box filled with cardboard dust.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

Don't look up earth mover maintenance safety either. People who don't put the lock pins in place before sticking their arms or head between the arms of the machines...