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I’m reading this thread: Redditors whose job requires them to go into other people's houses, what is the weirdest poo poo you've seen? There are some terribly unsafe working conditions. quote:I was at a house for a cable TV service call, customer wasn't home so I called him. He said, "I will be home in five minutes, and don't freak out, but I have a tiger on the truck".
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 Disconnect wired upside-down. It disconnects the building from mains still, but leaving the fuses and the blades of the switch hot is not good.
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Oct 12, 2021 15:37
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lost my retainer posted:That's amazing, what was the fallout ? Everyone saw it. Security was called and everyone from our company was escorted out immediately- just three of our guys. Walk of shame in front of a sea of our customer's employees all the way to the main security checkpoint (big aerospace production facility). All three guys get their access keycards cut up in front of them and they are told never to return. As soon as our guys make it back to HQ, the customer calls us and is begging us to come back. Our guys were on their site to service an inspection system we had sold them, so their critical flow of production was at a standstill until we could restore functionality. Total clusterfuck. Weird industrial bureaucratic nonsense.
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Oct 12, 2021 15:44
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Captain Invictus posted:UPS hell I've just started reading your thread and it's fuckin great. Just out of curiosity, why do you still work there? It sounds unforgiving.
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Oct 12, 2021 15:50
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It is. I was very overweight when I started there right out of high school, and in the first summer I lost over 100 pounds, I was sweating through clothing within 15 minutes and drinking gallons of water on part time shifts it was so ridiculously hot. I'm glad I stuck it out because it's kept me in great shape since but yeah the environment is horrific. Built in the middle of a swamp, no air conditioning, just incredibly ancient, filthy industrial fans. And if you hit those fans, they cough out a cloud of oily dust dense enough to obscure vision. And that's not even count counting the poo poo people ship. I still work here because the pay is good, the benefits are good, the job protection is good, I can just listen to podcasts/music while I work and I'm in a situation where the supervisors are basically told "just don't bother him and he'll get the job done" which is ideal for me. I intend to quit as soon as I'm able though, which might be when I hit 25 years. Edit: don't take the first part of my post as praise just because it got me in shape, the conditions are awful, the building is horrifically dusty and allergy-inducing and intensely hot in the summer, the labor can be back-breaking at times, and I have dozens if not hundreds of minor scars from head to toe from random injuries that are basically a daily occurrence. I'm loving amazed I haven't been seriously injured more than twice in all my time there. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 15:58
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Kitfox88 posted:what the gently caress is happening here There is an "Out of Service" bag covering the nozzle so you can't try and use it and it looks like she's trying to push the breakaway fitting together. I assume she hasn't seen the bag and there is an error message on the screen about the hose not being connected. I didn't know those fittings could be reused and figured they were one time use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65zyHCNFv8 "Wash the parts in gasoline" seems thread appropriate. I know they'll probably have some on hand from when they relieved the line pressure, but its weird to hear in the official instructions.
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Oct 12, 2021 16:56
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Captain Invictus posted:I have dozens if not hundreds of minor scars from head injuries that are basically a daily occurrence.  E: this is how I read your post initially and had to do a double take  I can recommend having poo poo reading comprehension, makes life a whole lot funnier!
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Oct 12, 2021 16:59
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Cat Hatter posted:There is an "Out of Service" bag covering the nozzle so you can't try and use it and it looks like she's trying to push the breakaway fitting together. I assume she hasn't seen the bag and there is an error message on the screen about the hose not being connected. You know, on second viewing you're right. I thought she was yanking on the thing but she's actually trying to push. Still not smart but at least that's less dangerous.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:01
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Captain Invictus posted:a major UPS hub is a nightmare factory of steel, rust, and concrete, and that's before you get people shipping poo poo they're not supposed and/or in ways they're not supposed to. I did UPS Ground and UPS Freight for almost seventeen years after working in airports prior. Everything in those places is hard, sharp, moving, cold, hot, or a combination of all at once. I have scars on my arms, hands, face, head, and soul from that place. Made it all the way to operations manager on the Freight side before I had to say enough was enough, that place will happily kill you. I think my best animal story was opening a trailer in the primary, I think it was from PA to NC, and the angriest goose I've ever seen in my life just exploded out of the door towards the sort aisle. He was in that building for days haunting unloaders and sorters at all hours. You'd just hear random shrieking from one of the other quads. He eventually got out a bay door.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:04
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I was a supervisor at UPS for 7 years while I went to college. As much as they spout off about safe practices a supervisor's role seems to consist of doing all the unsafe stuff nobody else is allowed to do. I agree that it was a great workout and dealing the constant extreme stress has resulted in me becoming an extremely chill, levelheaded person in my new job. It's not all bad- I have a relative who never held a job for more than 6 months and had major drug and behavioral issues- I suggested that he start at UPS and the structure and constant exercise have caused him to turn his life around. He's been clean for a few years and has gone ft driver, he honestly believes that the job saved his life.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:17
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El Chupacabras posted:My personal contribution, taken on my way to work: https://i.imgur.com/WIp6Tfe.jpg In an unexpected accident, a sheet of metal falls onto the back of the truck, severing all the control valves. The truck experiences a 9g acceleration down the road.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:20
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For the past two years or so an elk has been periodically spotted in Colorado with a tire around its neck.The parks department was finally able to catch it and get the tire off. 
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Oct 12, 2021 17:30
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Kitfox88 posted:what the gently caress is happening here My assumption is that she's trying to get the "free gas"/"gas that  i paid for!" out of the hose.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:31
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Neito posted:My assumption is that she's trying to get the "free gas"/"gas that By pushing the joint together?
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Oct 12, 2021 17:37
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haveblue posted:For the past two years or so an elk has been periodically spotted in Colorado with a tire around its neck.The parks department was finally able to catch it and get the tire off. Assholes. Now he's going to have to find another tire
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Oct 12, 2021 17:38
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Neito posted:My assumption is that she's trying to get the "free gas"/"gas that The pump is out of service
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Oct 12, 2021 17:41
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There's a good video posted a over year ago in that article where a conservation officer talks about the elks situation. Poor thing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68mIFlboS8
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Oct 12, 2021 17:42
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 These are chips. I had to get some pretzels that are stored underneath. The picture is a few weeks old, the skid is still there.  Current work truck. You'll notice that while the lights are on, the dashboard does not have lights. Hard to see how fast I'm going when it's dark out.  Technically, we have a warehouse manager. He's just always busy covering routes because the bread vendors keep getting COVID or quitting.  Same spot as the above skid. Most of the Snyder's stuff, when it's been put away, is on this wall. When the warehouse manager is busy, other trucks are unloaded here. If you need Snyder's and you can't squeeze in between, too bad. We used to have a 78 year old guy who managed the warehouse. He had a stroke on the job and came back three months later. He couldn't turn to look behind him so when driving the forklift he would just go backwards until he hit something then go on his merry way. He also would make truck drivers wait longer before he would unload them if they weren't white. My boss has pictures of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan in his office, if you want an idea of the work culture. Edit: I'll have to find the video of my front left tire smoking and on fire where the axle connects to the rim. We used to have a mechanic that did the bare minimum. The owner's son had to pull into a parking lot and do circles once because his brakes went out. Guy only got fired after six years of that kind of stuff because he began hitting his wife and was arrested for it. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 17:55
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Assholes. Now he's going to have to find another tire Or he's going to be the true alpha now that its weighted training tire is gone.
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Oct 12, 2021 17:56
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PhazonLink posted:Or he's going to be the true alpha now that its weighted training tire is gone. Or a wolf is going to finally sink her teeth into his delicious neck! That drat protective collar...  🐺
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Oct 12, 2021 18:16
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Cat Hatter posted:By pushing the joint together? IDK, I've seen some connectors that require a push-together to get apart (BNC, for example) so my thinking was maybe she thought it was that. The Hambulance posted:The pump is out of service I realize that now. :/
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Oct 12, 2021 18:34
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Oct 12, 2021 22:10
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Glad I live in America where we just have bears and lot lizards in our truck stop bathrooms. It actually kind of sucks here tbh
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Oct 12, 2021 22:16
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I guess another lion took the video?
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Oct 12, 2021 22:20
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"Rawr! Dammit, out of lion sand this one too"
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Oct 12, 2021 22:33
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Captain Invictus posted:coolers full of bees? when did you work there? they've since downgraded to this: The mail people always seemed so happy when I came to pickup the buzzing cardboard boxes.
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Oct 12, 2021 22:56
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Oct 12, 2021 22:58
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nomad2020 posted:The mail people always seemed so happy when I came to pickup the buzzing cardboard boxes. Years ago I worked at a farm and home store. Every year we sold baby chicks, and I always wondered how they got delivered. One year I made it to management, and was tasked with picking them up. From the post office. Eight boxes of living baby chicks in the back of my car, chirping away. The post office was very relieved.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:04
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Years ago I worked at a farm and home store. Every year we sold baby chicks, and I always wondered how they got delivered. One year I made it to management, and was tasked with picking them up. Lots of bugs and chicks get sent USPS. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm Although slow shipping due to Trump appointees and COVID led to a lot of them dying because of shipping delays.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:27
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Yeah, if baby chicks are just hatched they can survive up to 3 days without food or water because they absorb the last of the egg yolk just prior to hatching.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:52
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Baby chicks are one of the 4 weird things that you are allowed to mail USPS https://twitter.com/wurp/status/1425946502074183684?t=aT9Qa32Sa7vXKXFUvnySEg&s=19
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Oct 13, 2021 00:37
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The weirdest thing about the mail imo is that, as long as the thing isn't dangerous or likely to self-destruct, you can just put it in the mail without a box. You don't even need a special label. Want to mail a shovel, or a basketball, or a pair of shoes? Just stick enough stamps on it to cover the postage, along with a taped-on address label, and drop it off at the post office.
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Oct 13, 2021 00:42
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Sagebrush posted:The weirdest thing about the mail imo is that, as long as the thing isn't dangerous or likely to self-destruct, you can just put it in the mail without a box. You don't even need a special label. Want to mail a shovel, or a basketball, or a pair of shoes? Just stick enough stamps on it to cover the postage, along with a taped-on address label, and drop it off at the post office. Honestly, that's a good thing. Yes, you can use a pumpkin as a post card. But you can use a pumpkin as a post card, and that is awesome. Also, something about not requiring a special USPS shipping container that may or may not be available in your area and/or price range.
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Oct 13, 2021 00:48
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Baby chicks are one of the 4 weird things that you are allowed to mail USPS About two months ago I got a package with a "cremated remains" sticker on it. Over the address portion of the label. Only reason it showed up was the barcode. The package was just paperwork I was expecting. Nothing exciting, probably came off another priority package, but it's pretty obvious no one was sending me remains in a mailer envelope. Good old USPS.
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Oct 13, 2021 00:52
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Is mailing things "cremated remains" the secret way to avoid USPS losing your stuff, kinda like flying with a gun to keep airlines from losing your camera equipment?
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Oct 13, 2021 01:12
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In my UPS experience the best way was to have a kid hand label the box and draw a bunch of art and poo poo on it. We had a box go through from a kid to her grandma labelled "Fraggle: Handle With Car" and it was like a Christmas miracle. Flip side being if that one really disgruntled guy sees it it'll probably end up covered in dip juice stuck in the roof rib of a trailer. 
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Oct 13, 2021 01:17
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MRC48B posted:Is mailing things "cremated remains" the secret way to avoid USPS losing your stuff, kinda like flying with a gun to keep airlines from losing your camera equipment? No idea, but it really doesn't help when they stick the label over the delivery address.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:18
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I was a supervisor at UPS for 7 years while I went to college. As much as they spout off about safe practices a supervisor's role seems to consist of doing all the unsafe stuff nobody else is allowed to do. I agree that it was a great workout and dealing the constant extreme stress has resulted in me becoming an extremely chill, levelheaded person in my new job. That said, that was nearly 20 years ago, and the company is VASTLY different to how it was. Going public started them down a dark path as most companies beholden to shareholders get, and it's really started to get horribly bad in the last 5 or so years. To put it another way, the guy I work with who has always been "it's a living" as long as I've known him now just says "I loving hate this place so much". Ups when I started was a square with rounded edges. They've been cutting corners so much since that it's practically a circle and they're still looking for things to cut.
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