Booley posted:

Gaff tape can be written on with a sharpie and will stick to pretty much anything forever. Don't leave gasoline in a mislabeled can.
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Premium-Grade-Gaffer-Power/dp/B00LMNYFHI

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I had a job as a night shift manager at an auto parts national chain retailer. The men's restroom had a drain in the floor which was faulty. During heavy rains it would fill the entire building with a smell of raw sewage. (Air bubbles would come up the drain)
To combat this, the general manager of the store would pour household bleach down the floor drain. Admittedly, it helped, but the results were negligible.
So one night a customer rides up on a motorcycle and buys a new battery for it. He asks if I will fill the cells for him while he takes the bike apart. I agreed, to be helpful. It was a slow night, after all.
Well, battery filled, and customer happy and here we are with a core battery and 1/3 container of sulfuric acid. According to company procedure I am to return it to our Distribution Center for proper handling and disposal. I went to turn off lights and shut down the paint mixing booth and other parts of the store.
Meanwhile my night time co-worker POURS THE REMAINDER OF THE ACID IN THE FLOOR DRAIN!!!
It immediately mixes with the household bleach poured in THAT DAY by the day crew. In less than a few minutes strong Chlorine gas starts to emit from the drain in the men's room floor. The entire sales floor is unbearable. You cannot be inside the store anywhere for more than a few seconds. Your eyes start watering and burning. Your ears, nose and throat feel like they are slowly melting away into a pool of blood. I vacated to the exterior of the store after locking the front door for safety.
I began pondering. The paint mixing booth has exhaust fans. There is a very large exhaust fan in what was once a commercial kitchen for a previous ownership. I took a deep breath and ran inside making a beeline for the paint booth. I turned on the fan and shut the door. I took another deep breath and busted out leaving the door open to the paint booth. I hit the fan in the former kitchen and ran back out side, my face on fire.
Standing there with co-worker, we could feel a draft against the back door. I wedged it open and for the remainder of our shift (+/- 30 minutes) we cautioned away any potential customers for reasons of "maintenance safety requirements".
9:00 PM came and I grabbed a mop bucket from beside the dumpster. I filled it from the faucet beside the back door. I took another deep breath and rolled 3 gallons of water into the men's room and spilled it over the drain, ran back outside literally gasping and crying huge tears.
I locked the back door and we both went home.
Next day I get a pat on the back for cleaning the store so nice. (Smelled really clean to the GM) but he asked me who spilled the mop bucket and left it in there.
I literally told him the whole story you just read.
Edit: TLdr; boneheaded Co-worker pours sulfuric acid down a drain which contained household bleach. Deadly Chlorine gas chamber was the result.

chitoryu12 posted:

Is there really that much of a risk for a household, though? I never learned the standardized can colors anywhere except incidentally, so I find it pretty unlikely that a private home would ever end up in a situation where water and gasoline cans need to be specifically labeled so people who know the colors can identify them.

Previa_fun posted:

I'm super interested in this because I drive fleet vehicles and can say that our telematics loving sucks. It's absolutely worthless to detect actual dangerous behavior (I've seen vehicle stability control kick in on wet roads with not a peep from the telematics) but triggers all the time on events like "turning into a sloped driveway at more than two miles per hour."

I have no doubt that in the aggregate it reduces the accident rate from x.x to x.(x-1) and more practically reduces fleet insurance cost but what a pain in the rear end.

Booley posted:

Gaff tape can be written on with a sharpie and will stick to pretty much anything forever. Don't leave gasoline in a mislabeled can.
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Premium-Grade-Gaffer-Power/dp/B00LMNYFHI

tangy yet delightful posted:

While I am tempted to buy this tape to try it out it's $17 holy poo poo balls. Maybe I'll try duct tape first and see how long it lasts. For of course

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

. Regarding the interfacing, our shop employed a bunch of mostly lovely, barely above minimum wage mechanics who would do these installations, and basically would just hook up the power, antenna, and that's it.

tangy yet delightful posted:

While I am tempted to buy this tape to try it out it's $17 holy poo poo balls. Maybe I'll try duct tape first and see how long it lasts. For of course

ekuNNN posted:

Powershift posted:

Mithaldu posted:

What?

spankmeister posted:

Russia is really just Soviet Union 2.0, only with crony capitalism instead of communism.

Mithaldu posted:

Nah, the SU was state capitalism, they just switched to private capitalism and are otherwise identical. The only thing communism as a movement brought them was an overthrow of the old state and then it took a nap.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

I work with telematics and HOS compliance it irks me that, 2 years into ELD we still have like two mechanics in our company who can install and maintain them. So we are expected to adhere to an 8-day repair window, but it takes us 3 weeks to get a guy who is certified to repair the drat things, not to mention getting the right parts in time.

90% of my company is still under the assumption that ELD and anything involving a computer is some fly-by-night BS that they don't have to worry about as long as the tires keep turning.

violent sex idiot posted:

it also brought extremely rapid and large improvement in standard of living and the temporary defeat of european fascism

violent sex idiot posted:

it also brought extremely rapid and large improvement in standard of living and the temporary defeat of european fascism

Imagined posted:

Well the standards only apply to those who are still living so

spankmeister posted:

Russia is really just Soviet Union 2.0, only with crony capitalism instead of communism.

PurpleXVI posted:

Well, some improvement in standard of living, there were also some legendary famines caused by government mismanagement. I'd definitely account for food security when determining standard of living.

Imagined posted:

I seriously can't imagine many time/place to be born scenarios worse than a Russian peasant around 1900. Holy poo poo.

PittTheElder posted:

Central American person, born circa 1490.

PurpleXVI posted:

Well, some improvement in standard of living, there were also some legendary famines caused by government mismanagement. I'd definitely account for food security when determining standard of living.

aardvaard posted:

And the united states thought climate change science was bad for business so... wait gently caress that's us. oh gently caress oh no oh no

violent sex idiot posted:

hello there were regularly occurring famines in the russian empire before the civil war that certainly were not helped by the civil war but , the structural food deficit was largely remedied by postwar soviet policy and practice. food security improved massively.

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