Worker’s COMPilation

8 Comments on Worker’s COMPilation

1. Hey, it’s not Sunday. Why the light-hearted thread? 🙂 🙂

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2. I’ve done a couple of these. I can add one, caulking the outside of windows, from the inside. Definitely will test your flexibility.

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3. I’ve seen probably 80% of these ‘practices’ being performed during my tenure in the ’70’s to ‘2000’s construction & maintenance arena … you either do what you have to do, or whine that you need the next 3-4 days to get a suitable platform of scaffolding & bracing to get the job done … risking the ire of the boss & the reassignment of shitty jobs because you were too pansy to perform the task

   … guess which one wins out?

   btw, I once told a job supervisor to go phuck himself when, after he set up an 8′ A-frame ladder w/ a 12′ straight ladder perched on top of it, leaning up against a brick wall. he told me to replace a defective outdoor lighting fixture mounted 4′ higher than the straight ladder could reach

   … I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid

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4. Turd World “safety”…

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5. All Darwin Award Winners.

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6. I have seen these types of pictures when taking a contractor safety class to work in a juice plant

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7. 30 plus years in commercial carpentry. Never saw anything like these pics. Scariest thing I ever experienced was walking stilts with careless electrician’s dropping wire nuts all over and not picking them up. Like walking on a marble. Never went down luckily but had some close calls.

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8. 30 years as a FF/PM I’ve been called to the aftermath of quite a few of those situations gone wrong.

   Job security. :/

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