nigel99 144 #1 June 13, 2013 Our Health and Safety rep has just posted a notice that anyone washing dishes needs to wear gloves, respirator and goggles. Another notice states that if you come into contact with paint, you must destroy the clothing and shower. Bear in mind - this is domestic dish washer liquid in an office, and the only paint is on the walls!Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkycndo 0 #2 June 13, 2013 nigel99 you must destroy the clothing and shower. I can understand destroying the clothing, but why would you have to destroy the shower as well?50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phreeloader 0 #3 June 13, 2013 a while back they installed a small shelf on the wall, near the door in all of the restrooms ... this is a very basic stainless steel shelf. maybe a 12" wide mounted about 4 1/2 feet from the floor. about a week ago a label was added to one of these shelves that said "do not sit or climb on shelf, Max allowable load 25lbs" ... the part i found most strange is that out of 12 restroom (3 mens / 3 womens in 2 diffrent buildings) the label was only added to one (i haven't acutally inspected the women's restrooms.. but i've been told) So this leads me to belive that someone actually climbed up and sat on that shelf... and since it faces the door, i'm always a little leary about what i'm gonna find when i go in there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #4 June 13, 2013 Once, I got some work done. I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phreeloader 0 #5 June 13, 2013 turtlespeed Once, I got some work done. Whoa! .. this one shoulda started out "No shit, there i was!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #6 June 13, 2013 Customer complained and we had to put warning labels on all our rectifiers...AND retro-fit those in the field already because, yes, one of their guys actually did it.... WARNING! Do NOT urinate on the rectifier.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #7 June 13, 2013 We had an elevator that forever and every day almost was getting temporarily stuck between floors. Then I found out why.... See, there was this hottie nympho on the production floor.....My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #8 June 13, 2013 Working in NYC, heavily unionized, we had to wait all freakin' day for some IBEW bozo to come flip a circuit breaker.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #9 June 13, 2013 I recently hired someone to join my team. She was working for another division of the company and would transfer into my division to take the job. I wanted to offer her a raise of about 10% to join - she was a strong candidate, and I wanted to give her a good incentive to make a change. HR said "Because it's the same job level it's considered a lateral move and you can't offer a raise at all." So, after much back and forth, they agreed that I could make her an offer to transfer at her same salary, and then give her a 10% merit raise effective her first day. I got what I wanted, and HR didn't break their precious rules. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #10 June 13, 2013 In my job I get 10% night differential pay when I have to work past 6 pm. The people who leave the control room for a desk job lose that pay, so they get an additional 4% bonus to cover not "getting" to work at night. What's the point? The best was under the Bush (W) administration when the FAA tore up our legal contract and forced a new one down our throats. The FAA suddenly had no $$ for annual cost-of-living raises for any controllers actually doing their job. However, all managers and desk jockey wanna-be's continued to get COLA's. The ultimate F-you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #11 June 13, 2013 I headed up the Emergency Response Team at an aerospace manufacturing facility that was SO full of hazardous waste and exotic materials that the fire department wouldn't come on the property without an escort from one of 'us' schooling is the stuff. One night there was a fire in one of the secret-squirrel machines...it did precision grinding on parts in an enclosed environmentally controlled condition. The machine was 10 feet high and 6 feet across, you could flood it with various gasses or make a vacuum depending on what material was being worked. The worker-bee needed to completely clean out all grindings from the prior job before starting another...which on this night the lazy SOB failed to do. So a spark hits a 5 pound pile of various metal dust and starts burning...HOT! We evacuate the building, call the fire department which waits in the parking lot for instructions... Inert gas wouldn't put it out, nor would making it a vacuum...the whole side of the machine is glowing orange, so I put on my monkey suit & Scott Bottle of air and go in to open it up, and start shoveling out the burning dust pile. As I'm laying the tools I'll need out in front of the access door...which is on the side of the machine next to a 1/2 wall separating the machine from another work area... ...I hear a hissing squeal, like somebody stomping on a giant cat, then a roar like a hurricane in a closet. . . then KAAABOOOOMM - - whole thing took a few seconds. Next thing I remember is being in freefall...'Back-flying' across the room until I hit the concrete wall 25 feet away. Took me a minute to figure out where I was and what was going on...good news is - fire is out. BAD news is - machine is GONE! ~~Turns out the new plant superintendent went into the building against both protocol AND orders from the fire department. Mr. know-it-all, pulled a lever flooding the inside of the machine with what he thought was argon ...but pulled the pure O2 lever instead. I was rather upset that evening... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildcard451 0 #12 June 13, 2013 airtwardo I was rather upset that evening... Sweet fuck. I am sure you know how lucky you are to be alive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #13 June 13, 2013 airtwardo I was rather upset that evening... Speaking of which . . . How is your plasticine Blood Pumping?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #14 June 13, 2013 turtlespeed *** I was rather upset that evening... Speaking of which . . . How is your plasticine Blood Pumping?I was doin' good for awhile there...but rough past 2 months. Got pumped full of drain cleaner last week, dunno if it helped or made things worse. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #15 June 13, 2013 airtwardo ****** I was rather upset that evening... Speaking of which . . . How is your plasticine Blood Pumping?I was doin' good for awhile there...but rough past 2 months. Got pumped full of drain cleaner last week, dunno if it helped or made things worse.You should have used Roto-rooter not Drano!I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #16 June 14, 2013 airtwardo ~~Turns out the new plant superintendent went into the building against both protocol AND orders from the fire department. Mr. know-it-all, pulled a lever flooding the inside of the machine with what he thought was argon ...but pulled the pure O2 lever instead. I was rather upset that evening... F&%$! Man, I'm glad you lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #17 June 14, 2013 JohnMitchell *** ~~Turns out the new plant superintendent went into the building against both protocol AND orders from the fire department. Mr. know-it-all, pulled a lever flooding the inside of the machine with what he thought was argon ...but pulled the pure O2 lever instead. I was rather upset that evening... F&%$! Man, I'm glad you lived. Not really a scratch on me, the air bottle took most of the hit, the fire suit was thick - acted like padding. Had to cut the laces on my boots off, they melted at the knot. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigel99 144 #18 June 14, 2013 Amazing you were uninjured and interesting story.Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,390 #19 June 14, 2013 If Twardo was a cat, he would have run out of lives long ago. "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #20 June 14, 2013 ryoder If Twardo was a cat, he would have run out of lives long ago. Wife said the same thing, that's why no B.A.S.E. & motorcycles when the kids came along....guess what, kids are GONE now! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lurch 0 #21 June 21, 2013 Working in a bottlemaking plant. Powering up a huge machine makes 38,500 bottles an hour. Guy is supposed to be training me how to turn on machine utilities. Goes behind, starts turning valves. Coolant in, coolant out, air in... (600+ PSI) then he hesitates, grabs another valve, hesitates again, then turns it. It was an air main depressurization dump valve venting 600 PSI into an exhaust muffler. Only meant to make sure the line was open to the room before taking it apart. I saw what was going to happen, said "No, Mike!" And dropped the visor of my hat in between my eyes, and that muffler. Loud hissing roar, then BOOM Like a shotgun blast from 10 feet. Shockwave almost knocks me off my feet. Followed up by a blasting hiss till Mike regains some of his wits and closes the valve. I raise my head cautiously, there's an incredible confetti cloud of the hard packed fiber muffler packing material and a rain of metal fragments falling. I look down and I've got a large jagged chunk of 1/32 thick heavy metal mesh screen stuck firmly in my chest. I happen to have been wearing a hard leather biker jacket at the time since I just got to the plant. The jacket stopped it cold. Took an effort to pry the shrapnel out of the jacket. I still have the jacket, turned it into a wingsuit over a decade later. I figured, I had a lot of luck stored in that jacket... -BLive and learn... or die, and teach by example. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jailbot 0 #22 June 21, 2013 Student during the fall and spring, welder during the summer. The shit I manage to see in only 3-4 months of work is astounding. Today for instance (I work nights), moving an aluminum semi trailer wall (53ft by 10ft) to be fit on its frame. Have to maneuver around obstacles and such to reach the final destination. Coworker makes me take the high side while he is on the ground level. I explain to him that he won't be able to see when I walk up a platform so we can swing the wall over. Declines to go on the high side and I can't say much because he's worked there much longer. Start to move the wall back, getting very close to our automated seam welder. Try to wave him off but he can't see me, I try to pull the wall to the side, but he pulls it back thinking the crane swung it. He brings it in way too close, almost pinching me between the seam welder and the wall itself. I jumped out of the way. Shortly after the wall slammed into the seam welder and kept going until he stopped the crane. The wall made it out without more than a scratch and the seam welder was undamaged. Needless to say, I'll run the fucking crane next time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
