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I hadn't gotten a flu shot in years but the dealership I work at now offers them free of charge to all employees so I jumped at the offer. Workplace safety is more than just properly labeling chemicals and wearing personal protective equipment!  Page snipe edit: Just before christmas last year I experienced something I had only ever seen in videos up until that point. A lube tech was doing a oil change/tire rotation/inspection and had a vehicle fall off the lift. Getting to see it happen in person was quite interesting but not something that I wish to experience again. Thankfully he had just stepped away from the vehicle and nobody was hurt, but it was still a lapse in safety and could easily have been avoided.   The employee was fired after this incident. It was unfortunate that he had to be let go the friday before Christmas and go home to his pregnant wife and kids jobless, but losing a job is much better than losing a life. Be safe out there when working around heavy machinery and equipment so you can go home to your families at the end of the day. coupedeville fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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coupedeville posted:I hadn't gotten a flu shot in years but the dealership I work at now offers them free of charge to all employees so I jumped at the offer. Workplace safety is more than just properly labeling chemicals and wearing personal protective equipment! So what happens as far as the customer's car at this point? I'm guessing the business has insurance that takes care of the damage? edit: also how does that happen? I'm assuming employee fuckup getting it up there if he got fired for it.
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Cyrano4747 posted:So what happens as far as the customer's car at this point? I'm guessing the business has insurance that takes care of the damage? The vehicle was transported to a body shop and was repaired under the dealership's insurance and the customer was provided a loaner vehicle to compensate for his inconvenience. Cyrano4747 posted:edit: also how does that happen? I'm assuming employee fuckup getting it up there if he got fired for it. Based on how the vehicle fell and the damage that was apparent, the conclusion was made that the lift arm on the front left was not fully engaged with the pinch weld on the body and was pushed out when the vehicle shifted allowing it to fall. So yes, the final conclusion was that this incident was entirely 'employee fuckup'.
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Mar 14, 2020 19:42
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I don't think you can solidly tell from an aftermath picture since the car would move so much, but given that he was fired my money's on winging the lift position and not using the right mount points on the car's frame
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Mar 14, 2020 19:45
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Sentient Data posted:I don't think you can solidly tell from an aftermath picture since the car would move so much, but given that he was fired my money's on winging the lift position and not using the right mount points on the car's frame I didn't get a picture of it but the front left rocker panel showed where the lift arm was forced out and crumpled the body, which wouldn't happen unless the lift wasn't properly positioned on the pinch weld like it should have been.
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Mar 14, 2020 19:49
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"poo poo, the car is too far back and the arm can't swing where it needs to go!.. Screw trying to get back in there to move it again, that door can only open like 5 inches with were the lift post is. I'll just hit the suspension bolt with the pad, it's already meant to take the weight"
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Mar 14, 2020 19:56
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I’m quitting to pursue my cherished dream of not working here. He’s supposedly this guy from a while ago if you remember this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-fired-stop-kidnapping/
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ekuNNN posted:is just random people getting flu shots an american thing? I think they only give them to elderly people here Flu shots are usually free when you have insurance, and many pharmacies and doctors offices will give them to everyone else for free. It's one huge success in the health system here. poo poo, publix gives you a $10 coupon if you get one from their pharmacy.
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Cartoon Man posted:I’m quitting to pursue my cherished dream of not working here. I want this to be true, but some quick searching only turns up stories about the ludicrous firing.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I want this to be true, but some quick searching only turns up stories about the ludicrous firing. Click through to his Facebook from the Snopes page. https://www.facebook.com/dillon.reagan/posts/10157586405689442
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ulmont posted:Click through to his Facebook from the Snopes page. That is amazing. 
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I'll be his censored name on the cake, posted to his personal Facebook page.
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coupedeville posted:The employee was fired after this incident. It was unfortunate that he had to be let go the friday before Christmas and go home to his pregnant wife and kids jobless, but losing a job is much better than losing a life. Be safe out there when working around heavy machinery and equipment so you can go home to your families at the end of the day. I've often wondered if this is the correct approach in cases like these. I would think an employee who has once dropped a car or done some other fuckup is less likely to do it again than the average employee. Just dock their pay for an appropriate amount. Or only hire people who have been fired because of a fuckup, they are probably cheaper and they can tell the other employees their personal cautionary tale.
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Saukkis posted:I've often wondered if this is the correct approach in cases like these. I would think an employee who has once dropped a car or done some other fuckup is less likely to do it again than the average employee. Just dock their pay for an appropriate amount. Or only hire people who have been fired because of a fuckup, they are probably cheaper and they can tell the other employees their personal cautionary tale.
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Supplementary-essential variable violated Please requalify
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https://twitter.com/LBGEEVEE/status/1238923393057148930
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Ror posted:That made me look up OSHA inspections for porn shoots and it's disappointingly (for the purposes of my entertainment) all just stuff about whether or not the actors are wearing condoms. I was hoping to find a story about a boom mic operator slipping on improperly handled lube or something. Not quite porn, but it does involve on screen sex. So Melvin Van Peebles was shooting his first movie, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The opening sequence of the film has a sex scene and the sex wasn't simulated. Apparently Melvin didn't use a rubber, and he filed a workers comp claim due to catching VD during that scene. He used the worker's comp money to buy more film stock.
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wesleywillis posted:It must include middle class, middle aged dudes, because I walked in to a drug store a few months ago and got one for free. I got one in December, and told the lady that none of the options applied to me, and she told me to just check one so I could get it for free. Saukkis posted:I've often wondered if this is the correct approach in cases like these. I would think an employee who has once dropped a car or done some other fuckup is less likely to do it again than the average employee. Just dock their pay for an appropriate amount. Or only hire people who have been fired because of a fuckup, they are probably cheaper and they can tell the other employees their personal cautionary tale. I work with a few of these guys, in a union shop so it's harder to fire people. Trust me, they just keep loving up, again and again.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Also, the "stomach flu is food poisoning" argument is remarkably dumb. I'm not going to argue about US versus European rates of food poisoning, but most "stomach flu" in the US is something like a norovirus or rotavirus. In the US "I had the stomach flu" is what someone says when they want management to shut the gently caress up about why they took a sick day or two. Implying that you were spouting from one or both ends is a great way to shut that discussion down, and everybody here knows that a quick bout of diarrhea isn't worth going to the doctor for. It's really just a figure of speech in the States, and surprisingly effective on managers.
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mllaneza posted:In the US "I had the stomach flu" is what someone says when they want management to shut the gently caress up about why they took a sick day or two. Implying that you were spouting from one or both ends is a great way to shut that discussion down, and everybody here knows that a quick bout of diarrhea isn't worth going to the doctor for. It's really just a figure of speech in the States, and surprisingly effective on managers. I haven't really seen this happen, but I'm guessing this might be a bit of a regional thing, with some places in the country having it as more of a thing than others. Most places I've worked had fairly reasonable sick leave policies, so maybe I just haven't been in environments where it's been necessary.
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Yea, most of the time "stomach flu" is just shorthand for "Well, I missed work because I was power washing the toilet with my rear end in a top hat, Jim. Do you need more details?"
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I haven't really seen this happen, but I'm guessing this might be a bit of a regional thing, with some places in the country having it as more of a thing than others. Most places I've worked had fairly reasonable sick leave policies, so maybe I just haven't been in environments where it's been necessary. Yeah, both those things. There are a lot of jobs that don't let you just call in and say "I'm sick" and "Stomach Flu" is a lot more polite way to say "do you really want to pay me to spend all day in the bathroom spraying poo poo out my rear end while I puke into a bucket?"
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Thomamelas posted:Not quite porn, but it does involve on screen sex. So Melvin Van Peebles was shooting his first movie, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The opening sequence of the film has a sex scene and the sex wasn't simulated. Apparently Melvin didn't use a rubber, and he filed a workers comp claim due to catching VD during that scene. He used the worker's comp money to buy more film stock. I just read the wiki page for Sweet Sweetback and this is just the tip of the iceberg 
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I need that dude holding my ladder, what a hero holy poo poo
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What Jackie Chan film is this from?
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It appears he has an effective fall arrest system in place. I see nothing wrong.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I haven't really seen this happen, but I'm guessing this might be a bit of a regional thing, with some places in the country having it as more of a thing than others. Most places I've worked had fairly reasonable sick leave policies, so maybe I just haven't been in environments where it's been necessary. In my experience, the people who constantly get "stomach flu" or "food poisoning" are conveniently always getting it at the exact same time, usually the day after a weekend or holiday.
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Cartoon Man posted:doubletake.gif I hate when clouds whip their dicks out.
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Lou Takki posted:I need that dude holding my ladder, what a hero holy poo poo I would send him a card saying "You're The Rung That Never Fails💕"
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chitoryu12 posted:In my experience, the people who constantly get "stomach flu" or "food poisoning" are conveniently always getting it at the exact same time, usually the day after a weekend or holiday. It's absurd when you think about it. There have been studies of call outs for people who work a standard 5-on 2-off week, and nearly 40% of sick days are timed to give them a 3 day weekend!
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Feb-Apr is basically firing season at my job because of so many people calling out on Mondays constantly, I don't think there's vertical surface in the building that doesn't have a cliff notes version of the attendance policy taped to it right now.
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Sentient Data posted:It's absurd when you think about it. There have been studies of call outs for people who work a standard 5-on 2-off week, and nearly 40% of sick days are timed to give them a 3 day weekend! Totally stole my joke, but you did it way better.
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mllaneza posted:In the US "I had the stomach flu" is what someone says when they want management to shut the gently caress up about why they took a sick day or two. Implying that you were spouting from one or both ends is a great way to shut that discussion down, and everybody here knows that a quick bout of diarrhea isn't worth going to the doctor for. It's really just a figure of speech in the States, and surprisingly effective on managers. I've called it "bidirectional gastrointestinal distress" before, and my supervisor complained about using that term.
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Sentient Data posted:It's absurd when you think about it. There have been studies of call outs for people who work a standard 5-on 2-off week, and nearly 40% of sick days are timed to give them a 3 day weekend! Dilbert from 20 years ago wants its joke back.
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EasilyConfused posted:Dilbert from 20 years ago wants its joke back. Great, now I can't read that post without hearing it in Dilbert's voice.
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EasilyConfused posted:Dilbert from 20 years ago wants its joke back. Oh noooo.... I grew up reading the comics in the newspaper and that's probably where I heard it. Also, Brenda Utthead 
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The UK govt has a great idea to solve the Coronavirus problem: Coronavirus: 'Switch from building cars to ventilators' quote:The government has urged manufactures such as car companies to start making ventilators to deal with the worsening coronavirus crisis. quote:In a statement on Sunday, the chairman of heavy equipment manufacturer JCB, Lord Bamford, said: "We have been approached by the prime minister to see if we can help with the production of ventilators. "We have research and engineering teams actively looking at the request at the moment," he said. quote:Manufacturing firm, Unipart, confirmed that it was involved in the discussions and aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said it was "keen to do whatever we can". For comparison: A ventilator:  A JCB:  A Unipart oil filter:  A Rolls-Royce aeroplane engine:  To quote Jeremy Clarkson 'How hard can it be?'
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