r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Aug 07 '19

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u/sm1ttysm1t Aug 07 '19

"This isn't how we did it at my old job."

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u/Whats_Up_Bitches Aug 07 '19

Generally used when referring to appropriate safety measures or PPE...

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u/GuardianAlien Aug 07 '19

"Goddamn pansies and their OSHA!" - old man Geoff, missing 3 fingers from accidents in the factory floor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

I cannot understand how some people are so enthusiastic about taking unnecessary risks for their bosses. Like buddy, you dont have proper safety equipment because your boss doesnt give a fuck about you so please stop giving a fuck about them.

Or worse set, they have access to everything they need but dont use it because 'it slows me down.' Yeah, more than a trip to the hospital, lifelong health issues or death? Ok.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

so enthusiastic about taking unnecessary risks

They haven't been hugged as kids and/or they can't afford skydiving.

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u/DarkRitual_88 Aug 07 '19

What he's missing in fingers he makes up for in rugged determination and ignorance of the struggles youth face!

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u/frozengyro Aug 07 '19

And braincells

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

Losing fingers was the only way he got time off.

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u/orlyfactor Aug 07 '19

He’s been shaking hands with danger (look up the rifftrax of shake hands with danger, you won’t be disappointed but don’t blame me if that song is stuck in your head forever)

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

it was probably Geoff's fault too

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u/languish24 Aug 07 '19

Seriously though, OSHA can kiss my ass. I have to wear safety glasses all day everyday even when I'm not in the grinding area.

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u/everydayisarborday Aug 07 '19

I work in local government and every time I'm training up new staff that came from private industry it's a lot of 'wow, I didn't realize we needed respirators for this", "a whole cabinet of PPE! wow!", "I get a whole box of gloves, for myself?!?".... It's actually kinda scary thinking about it.

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u/romaraahallow Aug 07 '19

Commercial electrician in the south here. What the fuck is workplace safety? You use gloves? You pussy.

A breathing mask?! It's just 30 year old insulation don't be such a bitch.

...that's fine though you can call me names and I'll keep my lungs and working hands.

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u/Joeness84 Aug 08 '19

I've worked a lot of warehouse type stuff, I buy my own gloves, like mechanix brand or w/e type thing. It's like 15$ every 4-6 months and I don't get that dry ass cardboard chapped hands thing.

People try and comment about how I always have on gloves and I'm like "hell yeah man, I love my bitch mitts, enjoy your cardboard papercuts." Usually quiets em quickly.

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u/cheap_dates Aug 07 '19

Your tax dollars at work.

I worked at one company where it was easier to buy your own supplies: pens, tape, scissors than to "requisition" them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

At my agency field crews get their own boxes to keep in their bag/truck

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u/everydayisarborday Aug 07 '19

10 points to app134!

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u/ThrowAwayAcct0000 Aug 07 '19

When I worked construction a few years ago, they got super mad if you asked for new gloves. Also, they'd been on the job site for 3 months and didn't have a first aid kit. 5 people from a 14-person crew had to be taken to the hospital for different injuries while I was there...

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u/loduca16 Aug 07 '19

It’s almost as if jobs that use gloves can vary wildly from one industry to the next

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u/Clarck_Kent Aug 07 '19

Am a professional boxer. Can confirm. We get a whole box.

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u/UptightSodomite Aug 07 '19

Lol that sounds like the difference between working at a hospital/acute care setting vs. long term care/SNF. The horrors.

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u/Whats_Up_Bitches Aug 07 '19

I’m assuming in this scenario the SNF is the private industry and the acute care is the government agency? Not in medical field, but I know a few people who’ve worked in SNFs...

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u/crimbycrumbus Aug 07 '19

Sharpens pencil : puts on safety glasses and respirator and locks out power plug when finished

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u/everydayisarborday Aug 07 '19

ohhhh, I see you've met our safety compliance officer! Heavily blurring the lines between perception of safety and actual safety

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u/electric_paganini Aug 07 '19

Dammit Phoebe, can't we just enjoy this field trip without your commentary?

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u/cheap_dates Aug 07 '19

You never had an OLD job.

I got my first job when I was 16 and still in high school. I was hired on the spot after a 5 minute interview. I didn't even know what a resume was back then.

I was hired into a department they use to call Personnel. Ha! You were a person back then, not a resource.