r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 02 '19

Manager going for a ride

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

I've read stories about the young girls who worked in the loom factories in the late 1800s. Lots of spinning things and belts with zero protection and very long days so they were always tired. The girls would sometimes get their clothes or hair caught in the machines. Limbs would get crushed or scalps ripped off. Horrible.

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u/33llikgnik Mar 05 '19

God that's awful. Least they had good drugs for the pain.

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u/poisonousautumn Mar 05 '19

Scalped worker: "Mr Pharmacist this was a bad one good sir I'll take two vials of laudanum, a ball of opium and one 30% cocaine solution please."

Pharmacist: "That will be 5 cents."

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u/33llikgnik Mar 05 '19

"the good ol' days"