DIY/Workplace Horror Stories. Let's hear em

DIY/Workplace Horror Stories

Let's hear em

250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

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250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I once had to work
    for a living

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      same here until i won the lottery

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i'm trying to win that this week.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I once went to work
      even though I live in a welfare state

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Had a guy punch a hole through a pallet of naphtha on the forklift.
    Boss didn't send him home or drug test him, just shrugged his shoulders and went "Oh well"
    Meanwhile the entire warehouse smells like it's going to explode in moments.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is literally the cause of all the random explosions and fire in chinese gore webms
      but don't worry, you're american so it can't happen to you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well thank God that my superior Americaness prevents workplace disasters.
        We don't even hire Chinese workers just to be extra safe from explosions like that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Your allowed to hire one but two must never come in contact with each other, it's like rubbing copper pennies together

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I used to work graveyards at home depot and my boss punctured a 5 gal of driveway sealer while it was still in the overhead. You could smell it through the whole store, and I spent nearly my whole shift working within 50' of the spill without getting more than a little dizzy. When the day shift showed up, several of them vomited and had to go home. It's incredible how many nancy boys can't handle some fumes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        enjoy your brain damage my homie

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >"It's incredible how many nancy boys can't handle some fumes" he said of his accusers

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        dumb fricking Black person

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Meanwhile the entire warehouse smells like it's going to explode in moments
      It won't. I worked in a screen printing shop where about half of the printers were smokers. We only had one event where the napthalene caught fire. People were concerned about it. I dipped a little astronaut figure in napthalene and then tried to light him on fire. No dice. Then I wrapped him in cotton string and dipped him. He went up like nobody's business. A contained spill that gets cleaned up - not an issue. Just don't provide a wick for it and an open flame.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >looking at house
    >hire property inspector
    >tells me it's all good, but roof space was too small to get into and check out
    >buy house
    >few months later hear rustling in the roof
    >poke my head up and check for wildlife
    >all is still
    >get on the roof
    >tin extension leading to the main tiled house
    >lift up a few tiles
    >the roof is full of leaves that slipped in the tile-tin gap
    >garbage bags upon garage bags of leaves
    >clear them out and install some foam in the gap
    Fortunately they were all dry but that was a frickload of leaves to get out by hand

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      insulation on the cheap. should have left them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >by hand
      Anon did you actually scoop them out by hand? If so why would you not get a shop vac to suck out, empty, repeat, in the span of like 20 minutes?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not him, but shop vacs clog

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not work but I took a summer metalworking class in high school and saw a guy rest a piece of sheet metal across his legs to cut it then cut over his legs with the plasma cutter.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Very based. Ruined many shirts by welding in high school metals class.

      Had to help unwrap a kid from a drill press once after he learned the hard way that loose garments and rotating equipment dont mix- even when its leather work gloves worn to "protect" your hands.
      He was lucky that a quick thinking fellow employee was there to hit the off button literally before what was happening registered in the kid's brain, otherwise that industrial grade machine would have torn his thumb off and/or snapped his wrist/arm.
      As it was he couldn't put a glove on that hand for weeks because of the swelling and tenderness.

      In middle school intentionally let my glove get grabbed by a drill press after it was initially pulled off by it. Thought it was funny so I wanted to try again, intentionally, and luckily my drill press sucked, so when my hand wrapped around it, it just stopped.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Had to help unwrap a kid from a drill press once after he learned the hard way that loose garments and rotating equipment dont mix- even when its leather work gloves worn to "protect" your hands.
    He was lucky that a quick thinking fellow employee was there to hit the off button literally before what was happening registered in the kid's brain, otherwise that industrial grade machine would have torn his thumb off and/or snapped his wrist/arm.
    As it was he couldn't put a glove on that hand for weeks because of the swelling and tenderness.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i saw a guy do that once.
      >lunch bell rings
      >guy hits stop button on his machine after it finishes drilling a hole
      >chuck is winding down and there's a long chip wrapped around the shank of the drill bit
      >he reaches up to pull it off while wearing gloves
      >chip grabs his glove and wraps his hand around the chuck before coming to a stop
      Just like you can clench your hand into a fist, his hand was curled up like that but in the wrong direction. He didn't break any bones, but tore a bunch of tendons and had to get surgeries to fix them. Guy spent like 9 months in and out of casts and splints and not quite two years in therapy learning how to brush his teeth and beat his meat or whatever.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Best one I ever heard was when Phil Hendrie had people call in on the same question, the nutshell:
    >crew is building house
    >skilled workers on second floor solving a problem, need rope
    >call down to barely sentient idiot cleanup/go-fer guy for rope
    >"How long?"
    > "About 6-8' will do
    >"OK"
    >go back to problem
    >two minutes later hear table saw winding up sound, puzzled looks all around turn to horror, idiot guy who could frick up a hammer is only one on the ground where the saw is
    >all run to balcony overlooking saw just in time to see him holding rope a fraction of an inch away from the spinning blade with about 8 inches of it stretched between his hands, thumbs providing tension
    >collective "NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!" .exe
    >too late, rope touches blade instantly sucking idiot hands into it and amputating both thumbs
    >pain takes a bit of time to overcome shock so idiot has the presence of mind to try to recover his thumbs to take to the hospital and is engaged in doing so when horrified/concerned crew get to him
    At this point the guy telling the story asks, "Have you ever seen someone try to pick something up with no thumbs? ....."
    >why no, I can't say that I have...
    "Trust me, you just can't help but laugh"...
    turns out that the only thing funnier is when the objects the thumbless person is fumbling for and unable to grasp are his own idiot thumbs.
    Repeated wails of "C'MON you guys it's not funny, help me pick up my thumbs!!" just made everyone laugh harder even as they complied, and eventually even the idiot guy couldn't help but sheepishly admit with a grin that it was a laughably dumb and ridiculous scene so no hard feelings. I guess he got the thumbs reattached so it ended as well as could be expected.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So many amputations are a result not of accidents but outright stupidity. I used to work in the maintenance area of a wood products factory and many times the mechanics were called to re install a safety cover because someone wanted to "see how it works" or fix disabled or tampered safety features on the machines. Not to mention the guy that got his arm cut off in two pieces (try to reatach THAT) for trying to clean a double belt saw while it was still moving. At least the thumb guy didn't lose them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Open equipment often doesn't give you much buffer between inattention and amputation so even smart people can and do get distracted...airplane propellers are particularly nasty since they become virtually invisible when running, you usually can't hear any shouted warnings and once you touch one even a bit it's done. Point being that the key to being around those kinds of machines is to habitually and reflexively stay completely out of those danger zones without thinking about it. Same goes for table saws and other rotary tools like lathes that have to have exposed danger points by nature. Every accident I've ever seen with those involved someone actively thinking they could get away with exposure that sets off instinctive alarms in trained people who avoid those accidents.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Any ideal why these spiral things aren't a universal safety feature on all propellers/jet engines? It's so simple to the point there's gotta be no excuse for the extra safety they provide right?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            the danger zone is different for a jet engine that can suck you in like a vaccum cleaner from many feet away all across the front of it at idle and an open prop that doesnt do that so while they couldnt hurt on a prop plane their effectiveness wont prevent someone from walking into the prop from the side or rear approach.
            Light prop aircraft that present that danger from all directions can require working close in where you really cant see the spinner, if it even has one. With a jet you are either out front where you can see it before stepping too close or are way off to the side where you are safer but you aren't ever anywhere near as close as you pretty much have to be on a small prop plane.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Damn I always thought the spirals were there because they looked cool.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Because they're not really needed, the front of a jet engine isn't that dangerous unless the pilots are slamming on the throttle which just doesn't happen when there are people around. The only time they can fire up the engines to where they're dangerous from the front is only after they receive clearance from the marshaller to go ahead to taxi. It's behind the jet engine that's dangerous since even at idling speeds those jet engines will take you, your three ton cargo tug, and whatever you're towing with it if you're within a few hundred feet of it

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Wait a minute, are planes horses?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                as in they're expensive high maintenance hobbies and modes of transport that will kill you the second you're not paying attention that yet nevertheless people will love? absolutely

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Stick get bigger, stick still stick

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >because someone wanted to "see how it works
        Based

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Have you ever seen someone try to pick something up with no thumbs? .....
      >Trust me, you just can't help but laugh
      I know this too well. Buddies in highschool used to tell me 'anon, do no thumbs'. Queue up moron noises and try and pick shit up. actually isn't that hard

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thanks for the laugh. That's a great story.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Only psyches would laugh at someone who just got his thumbs sawed off. Sounds like this story is made up and super gay. Sounds like a poof who's never seen any real gore would make up.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Best one I ever heard was when Phil Hendrie had people call in on the same question, the nutshell:
        >crew is building house
        >skilled workers on second floor solving a problem, need rope
        >call down to barely sentient idiot cleanup/go-fer guy for rope
        >"How long?"
        > "About 6-8' will do
        >"OK"
        >go back to problem
        >two minutes later hear table saw winding up sound, puzzled looks all around turn to horror, idiot guy who could frick up a hammer is only one on the ground where the saw is
        >all run to balcony overlooking saw just in time to see him holding rope a fraction of an inch away from the spinning blade with about 8 inches of it stretched between his hands, thumbs providing tension
        >collective "NNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!" .exe
        >too late, rope touches blade instantly sucking idiot hands into it and amputating both thumbs
        >pain takes a bit of time to overcome shock so idiot has the presence of mind to try to recover his thumbs to take to the hospital and is engaged in doing so when horrified/concerned crew get to him
        At this point the guy telling the story asks, "Have you ever seen someone try to pick something up with no thumbs? ....."
        >why no, I can't say that I have...
        "Trust me, you just can't help but laugh"...
        turns out that the only thing funnier is when the objects the thumbless person is fumbling for and unable to grasp are his own idiot thumbs.
        Repeated wails of "C'MON you guys it's not funny, help me pick up my thumbs!!" just made everyone laugh harder even as they complied, and eventually even the idiot guy couldn't help but sheepishly admit with a grin that it was a laughably dumb and ridiculous scene so no hard feelings. I guess he got the thumbs reattached so it ended as well as could be expected.

        OHHH NO THIS IS SERIOUS GUYS DONT LAUGHHHH.... RRRRGGHH (MAD FACE ANGRY) THIS IS THE REAL WORLD MAN YOU CANT JUST THINK CUTTING FINGERS IS FUNNY. SUICIDE IS HECKING UNWHOLESOME as HECK. OMG GUYS STOP METHODICALLY BLENDING YOUR DIGITS WITH A WOOD CHONKER!!!!!! THIS IS SUCH A CRINGE 100 4CHUDDER MOMENT UGHHHHH. OMG DONT PUT THE BARREL IN YOUR MOUTH THAT WOULD MAKE ME SOoooOOO ANRGY... YOU BETTER NOT DO IT ANON!!! IM TELLING YOU RIGHT NOT WITH FAUCI AS MY WITNESS THAT IF YOU PULL THAT TRIGGER IM GONNA BE SOOOO MAD!!!

        STOP. HAVING. FUN.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kek thanks anon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >RRRRGGHH (MAD FACE ANGRY)
          My fricking sides

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      genuinely best thing ive read today

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >him holding rope a fraction of an inch away from the spinning blade
      I would done that too if I don't know any better, lol
      man I'm such a moron

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        At first I thought they were upset because he was ruining a rope, then I took a good 10 seconds to calculate how it could have cut off his thumbs
        I think I'll just stay away from spinning tools

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        My question is why didn't just let go?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Phil Hednrie as in the radio show where the host pretends to be a caller and just talks to himself with ridiculous stories and voices? Sounds like that never actually happened.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      legitimately the funniest thing I've ever seen was a guy with no thumbs try to light a cigarette with a match

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I saw a guy with no legs hop out of his wheelchair and fight two guys and knock them both out

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          no u didn't

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I saw this one as a kid

    >Dad is moving equipment for a construction crew
    >Had me with him for some reason
    >I'm watching the guys on scaffolding and waiting for the right gap in grownup talk to ask if I can go up there
    >Guy on scaffolding trips on something, does this cartoony ass forward jumping dive right off the side of the scaffolding
    >Drops from 3 or 4 stacks high and thuds on the ground
    >Everyone just looks for a moment and then runs over and yelling starts and the guy my dad was talking to runs inside to get a phone
    >My dad has a pretty grim look on his face and says we need to go
    >Ask my dad about it several years later, he is surprised I remember it
    >Tells me he kinda knew the guy that fell, he was a drunk and the fall killed him
    Wear your fall protection lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Wear your fall protection
      Electricians are immortal bro I definitely don't need a harness

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How about don’t drink and work at heights instead?

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A guy guided a car into our pit. The guy still works there and still guides cars in.
    Another time a car went into our store gold like 30 miles an hour. Almost hit the pit and the door. Think at that speed he'd had flipped if he hit the pit. It was a chinaman. Laughed the entire time.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    tl;dr
    >work with a bunch of boomers
    >only one not injured from being old (the zoomer me)
    >they hire a guy with 30+ years of experience because experience=good automatically
    >he got knee surgery and can barely walk, bend or lift

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thsi greentext sucks.
      I cant make heads or tails out of it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >be anon
      >shit your job
      >get passed over for promotion because you are shit
      >complain about boomers because facing the truth is something zoomers never do
      cry more, you whiny little b***h

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Where does that greentext say anything about a promotion

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    About cut open an artery with an angle grinder on my leg Need 28 stitches and 18 staples. Lol

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nice job blake

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Scariest was watching my dad walk around on 2x4s spanned across the top of a staircase while wearing drywall stilts. Somehow after 50 years his worst injury was a 4" splinter he didn't realize he had until he went to doctor complaining pain of pain in his forearm.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your father's fat nuts helped lower his center of gravity for supreme balance. That and having a empty head

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not really a horror story but

    > be 18 year old intern working in automotive
    > tasked with building a testing harness to connect the component to the simulator
    > connector needs some specialty terminals that we don’t have in stock
    frick
    > ask supervisor what to do
    > he says, go dumpster diving
    > so i spend an entire day fishing through pallets of discarded automotive parts looking for these specialty terminals
    > find enough to finish the job and go to solder the used terminals onto the new wire
    > never soldered before so solder job was terrible, lots of blobs, overuse of solder, bad connections and burnt copper
    > turn harness over to coworker who requested it, by some miracle it functions with no problems for the next year i worked there
    later
    > go back to the pallet to dumpster dive again
    > eventually find about 300 terminals and keep them in my desk in case i needed them again
    > still have a few of those terminals sitting on my desk currently even though I’ve changed jobs several times as a reminder of the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever been asked to do

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And now you know why every mechanic ever saves all the harness plugs off shit. I've literally got a dozen boxes of plugs and sockets, separated by manufacturer.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be me working in a glass company
    >we frequently got massive 12'X9' crates of float glass, like 50 sheets, extremely heavy
    >decide to go out and watch them unload some one day
    >boom truck operator has a heavy eastern europe accent and is apparently new
    >he is moving the crates pretty recklessly and isnt understanding the basic instructions that people are giving him
    >suddenly the entire truck lurches to one side and the crate of glass swings off wildly, miraculously doesnt come flying off and kill someone
    >truck driver forgot to put a pad beneath his outriggers and one side rapidly sunk completely through the asphalt with the weight of the glass
    >they manage to get the crate offloaded and attempt to extricate the outrigger now buried like a foot into the ground beneath the asphalt
    >unsurprisingly its completely stuck
    >went back inside and later i went out to look and they had to jackhammer the asphalt around the outrigger and dig it out of the ground

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've seen bikes dig their kickstands into asphalt. To the point they were completely stuck and had to unscrew the kickstand. Asphalt sucks. But that was a pretty funny story

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I also work for a glass company. a few weeks ago they had me running the waterjet cutting some diameters. I've ran the waterjet like twice before but you basically just load the program and hit start then hang out for an hour while it cuts. After most of my shift cutting circles out of this glass, the guy on third shift who usually runs the waterjet comes in and says
      >by the way, if you run out of garnet and this stuff breaks it explodes into a million sharp fragments of shrapnel. some guy at another plant died like that
      thanks coworker, glad nobody told me that when they parked me on there 4 hours ago. He also had a piece of that same glass shatter a few hours later and showed me the terrifying shards it made

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >usually get to work on my own
    >boss decides I need an offsider despite my protests
    >they did interviews last week
    >every candidate was a woman

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What the frick is wrong with women, incel?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm married so I don't really have any reason to interact with them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Nice trips. I'm married too and I interact with women all the time.
          I prefer women in some roles because men can be dumb dickheads sometimes.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I'm married too and I interact with women all the time
            My condolences.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Tell me how I know you work a useless desk job, your corporate parasite.

            You wouldnt trust women as your coworkers if your life was on the line, and you know it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Makes not a lick of sense.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I only had reason to talk to women when I was looking for a wife.
            I have a wife now.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They should be at home keeping house and making a family

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This is true, tbh. Women entering the workforce not only pushed the degradation of the nuclear family, which on its own has dire consequences if you just look up the statistics of single-parent households, but it also diluted the workforce, and along with some judiaism on wallstreet that changed the rules for investing in the 70s meant we, normies, were no longer people, but slaves to support an ever-growing, numbers only go up, economy that's predicated on imaginary numbers on screens across New York city.

          Our lives mean nothing, our work means nothing, so we are paid nothing. In return, tiny-hatted men on wallstreet rake in monoply money hand over fist, while supporting media outlets that foster narratives.
          Narratives that slowly work to aide in removing a nuclear family completely, so we can all be functioning slaves to our moronic society.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >nuclear family
            this is a israeli belief, men should frick as many things as possible and have as many children as possible

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              not true

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                zoomer homosexual hands typed this post

                No pussy guaranteed, you subscribing to an already failed notion. Seriously how do you think your bullshit suburban way of living can help us survive, you probably have mutt genes anyway. Brown eyed fricks

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >the nuclear family
                >no pussy
                anon i...

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              zoomer homosexual hands typed this post

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Correct that it's israeli, but your interpretation is even more israeli. Huge families are the norm for human history up until less than 100 years ago.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              i expect this is the reason there are so many poorly adjusted people running around making life difficult for those of us who just want to get by. there aren't enough strong role models to keep the kids on the right path and work to better society rather than work to tear it down for a temporary ego boost. parents need to raise their children instead of leave it up to institutional facilities and electronic devices

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Pretty much.
            There are scores of women that would love nothing more than to be a housewife and mom. But Mr. Tinyhat has set us up so that their families won't survive unless the woman puts in 40 hours a week as well. And don't forget the minimal possible maternity leave.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nice pasta. Sounds like low test to me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They call HR because I can't make eye contact

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Everything. Specially in jobs with intensive manual labor.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        israelite spotted
        Women in the Blue collar sector is a cancer to productivity and morale.
        Stay in the office and diddlefrick with whatever paperwork management needs checked off.
        Please keep non-qualified women the frick away from the men actually doing the work.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The hot busty HR girl was the best thing about working in that dirty-ass warehouse. Going in on Saturday morning to collect our paychecks we were all excited to see how hot Holly looked that day

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        good morning sir, i hate women.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hire a hot one and have an affair with her

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, I love my wife.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well hire an ugly one who's an efficient and cordial worker

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A story I heard recently.

    >be in rural Georgia (the state), have hundreds of acres.
    >be old, and wealthy, hire good people to mow your properties
    >guy who mowed for 40 years retired or dies, find a new guy.
    >new guy is younger, says he's mowed with tractors, has his own.
    >have a 70HP John Deere, hasn't moved since the old guy left
    >tell the new guy he can use it, but to check the oil levels, and make sure there's no birds nests and shit in the radiators
    >new guy says okay, goes and gets the tractor, ignores the instructions starts mowing
    >tractor overheats, catches fire, new guy runs. Diesel tractor is on fire, ohshit.jpg
    >new guy is trying to put the fire out with a hose, and the fire is growing
    >tractor tires are full of antifreeze
    >tractor tires start to cook off, explode, and send mailbox size pieces of rubber a quarter mile away
    >tractor was 70,000 in 2007

    >new guy gives me 15k, insurance gives me 25k. New guy tells the truth, offers to repay the rest of tractor over the course of his life, family says they'll help too.
    >don't really care about the tractor, no one died. New guy is genuine, just a little lazy
    >tell new guy that he's still got the job
    (New guy is in shock)
    >"you just gotta listen to me"
    >new guy: "yes sir mr anon"
    > new guy has been mowing for years now, no problems. He uses his own equipment now

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >tractor overheats, catches fire
      blame the tractor
      anything diesel that can catch fire just from overheating is a piece of shit which was probably leaking and pissing fuel and oil all over the place

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >doesn't maintain equipment
      >gets mad when untrained employee almost dies using it
      You're lucky he's a dumb hick and didn't sue you for endangering his life.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He was paying the guy who fricked up to do the maintenance you illiterate mongoloid.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >pay a guy to mow your lawn
          >oh yeah you have to be a tractor mechanic too

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not him but I would expect anyone who seeks to operate machinery to actually be able to operate on that machinery.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Your expectations are way too high.

              I do Industrial maintenance. 85% of my calls are operators being morons. 10% are operators knowing exactly how to fix the problem but not being allowed to (tossed breakers, etc.) The other 5% are legitimate, shits actually broken type stuff.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Checking oil levels and making sure there isn’t a nest in the radiator does’t require a mechanic. Clearly the dude didn’t listen or didn’t know how and just said “frick it”.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Checking oil levels and visually inspecting radiators isn’t exactly mechanic work. Shit is listed as diy maintenance in the manual for a reason.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This is correct. Like I said at the beginning, this was a story I heard. (from a guy who is 98)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine paying for some hick farmers decade old tractor that catches fire in routine operations

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >New guy tells the truth, offers to repay the rest of tractor over the course of his life, family says they'll help too.

      Young men like that are hard to come by.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But easy to cum in

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Work in Basic Oxygen Furnace in the states
    >Job is to keep the furnace refractory from getting too thin so the metal doesn't burn through and melt out of the steel lining
    >Bosses don't care
    >Never request laser refractory measurements that only take 5 minutes
    >Go as long as 20 heats between lasers
    >Don't let me gun in refractory when the lining is a little as 5 inches thick
    >This is going to kill a lot of people potentially but the job is easy as shit
    >One day when I'm not working the lining wears out
    >Steel melts through casing and into water cooling jacket
    >500,000 pounds of molten steel explodes
    >Lose several friends
    >Now they are anal about lasers and gunning because of the millions of dollars in damage and my job now sucks

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Industrial management is full of so many greedy morons. It is a wonder that anything ever gets done without heaps of corpses being produced.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Didn't raise a stink
      >Didn't call osha
      >Did nothing and let people die because 'lol i get to play on my phone at work'
      Nice one Jose.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        no point. osha is notoriously ineffectual and you know his boss would have just fired him and found someone else to not make a stink. none of this shit gets fixed without a union

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Union "fixes" the problem by getting the plant shipped to China. All the members keep right on buying forgin and complaining insted of burning ports.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You're correct, the real answer is to destroy the parasites in charge and have the workers take over the factories by force.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        OSHA will go after the complainant, and you'll lose your career after getting blacklisted. America is South American tier corrupt

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Can't wait to see the USCSB video starring your friends.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        THE USCSB RECOMMENDS

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-draft-final-report-on-carbide-industries-explosion-that-killed-two-in-louisville-kentucky-in-2011-company-ignored-years-of-smaller-similar-incidents-in-electric-arc-furnace-/ ??

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Be me in 2020
    >Spooky virus hits
    >Current job cuts pay and hours
    >Dont even get furloughed like all my friends and family
    >Savings begin depleting
    >Job no longer financially viable
    >Look for new employment
    >Find job for Facility Maintenance at a factory
    >Seems ok
    >Pay is much nicer than current job and I actually use my brain
    >Get job offer and make the move
    >Job starts out ok
    >Main tasks are electrical infrastructure and water chiller / air compressor management
    >Doing very well, many accolades
    >Assigned more and more work in older parts of the plant
    >Begin to run into more and more rats nest conduit boxes and wiring that is not matching plans
    >Grow concerned but push on
    >Conditions worsen for another two years
    >Management now full schizo, making insane requests for physically impossible projects
    >Air compressor and water chiller shutdowns left and right since management refuses to invest in the heart of the plant
    >Even the most minor electrical job is a nightmare endeavor that involves accidentally shutting down half the plant trying to find the correct breakers
    >Every single box I open looks like pic related and causing all kinds of problems
    >Multiple breakers in the same box
    >480 run through the same box as data cables or 120
    >Phases of different 3-phase breakers mixed into different boxes
    >Endless wire nuts poorly holding wire together and whoever installed it using electrical tape as a crutch
    >I am painted as the bad guy letting the plant shutdown and taking forever to do my work when I am doing exactly as I am told

    Surely this isn't how every company acts.... right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >hire idiots willing to work for sub-par wages
      >spend ~0$ a year on infrastructure maintenance
      >don't pay people to clean or inspect critical systems
      >always go for the duct tape and band aid repairs to avoid shelling out for permanent solutions
      >be shocked when shit is breaking and can't be easily fixed
      yes, every company does this once the building is like 30+ years old. I worked at a shop that would pay me to run around all day with buckets whenever it rained to keep hundreds of thousands of sensitive equipment dry. Over a years time they could've fixed the roof twice with the lost work and paying me to basically NOT do my job.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The poor sap who gets our rotating on-call phone has to do that every time it rains here. No matter how many times the roof is patched, a new leak magically shows up and worms its way to something important. Management's brilliant solution was to cover the roof in gravel rock which, to the surprise of nobody, quadrupled the number of roof leaks.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      As a fellow electrician, this sounds like either a nightmare or a dream. It would be a fun as hell project to fix... if you have the time. But on time constraints and having to work outside normal hours so the plant can run? Thats hell.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It was admittedly fun at first and I enjoyed the feeling of fixing things and sorting out problems. The honeymoon phase wore off when I was told I "wasn't spending enough time on site" in my annual review despite pulling many 14 hour Sundays and several Saturdays so production would not be interrupted by outages. My mood has further worsened when my fixes felt like a drop in an endless sea of fricked up shit, even after nearly two years. A great learning experience for sure but I am burnt out already.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          But it pays well?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            $22/hr

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >28 hour weekends isn't enough onsite time
          >still working there
          You deserve it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I can relate to this at my new (6 months) job as a cnc operator already. job is fun and there's a lot to learn which keeps it interesting, but nobody ever seems happy with the work that gets done and there's a lot of shifting blame for fricked up parts. I'll spend most days running around doing 4+ jobs at a time and then when I got some 11 hours worth of production the other day my lead tells me he was questioned about it in their daily meeting because "anon isn't much of a worker"
          not to mention this week when some homosexual group lead on first shift sent an unfinished order I was working on to QA for final inspection and I then got asked/reprimanded by like 4 different people about why I gave QA an unfinished order

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds like the shop is unbelievably homosexual. Look into new employment immediately and jump ship. I am convinced 90% of what makes a job good or not are your coworkers.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I am convinced 90% of what makes a job good or not are your coworkers.
              Exactly
              Unless the work is unbelievably bad, a good team rides out any storm

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I am convinced 90% of what makes a job good or not are your coworkers.
              Absolutely. People always think the only thing that matters is how much you get paid but I'd much rather prioritize that the people I work with are great people. A shit day at work will feel like a shit day even after you get home and get your money but having people you like around you will turn that shit day to at least a less shitty day and you'll be less miserable by the end of it. Pretty sure it's been statistically proven that higher pay means less for employee retention than a good working environment.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I'm on second shift which isn't quite as homosexual since there's far less pressure from the homosexual managers. my lead is a total bro, it's just tedious when I have to deal with the prying eyes of micromanagement. I'm trying to stick around here for a while to move into an engineering role since that's what I have my associate's in and since I have good connections for that promotion, although I'm half tempted to just learn as much as I can here and then lie to some other company about my experience to jump that promotion to some tech role

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Babies first plant.
      >Existing not matching As Builts
      >Hairbrained wiring and conduit
      (x) doubt about signal cable running concurrent with 480 but I'll take your word on it

      Gonna break the ice right now, man. Every plant that was built pre-1995 is gonna be a hell hole. If you're both in charge of the repair and the project management you need to get the frick out of there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        > (x) doubt about signal cable running concurrent with 480 but I'll take your word on it

        It’s not that uncommon if there are many motors paired with sensors. We used to do it in Europe unless the client specifically asked us not to, US clients often prohibit it by default.

        Not having matching as-builts is industry standard. If they exist, they are nowhere near the machine

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I figured that was probably the case, but was trying to cope.
        I've been trying to get a field tech job instead so I work on my equipment and only my equipment, but it has been a less than promising search so far.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Surely this isn't how every company acts.... right?
      Everything except the pay being nice, yeah

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine plugging in your ethernet cable and hitting 480 lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Know exactly this feel. I implore you Anon document everything and take multiple photos before you touch anything. You gotta have proof of how fricked things are. If they have not yet tried to frick you over and shift blame it's only a question of time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This seems about par for the course.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Surely this isn't how every company acts.... right?
      Management is always incompetent.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I fear no man. But that thing? It scares me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What is that?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Looks like a lathe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Was at a plant and saw like 8 of them things... even bigger and jainkier looking with mexicans happily "operating" them.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One of the chefs I worked with in the beginning of my career got his arm broken in a pic related
    He stuck his arm in to scrape something off the side of the bowl, accidentally bumped the ON button with his head and turned it on.

    There was a pop, then a dull snap and then another pop. It was loud. And then he started screaming after he turned it off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My wife has a small bench stand one, I was stupidly complacent about it because it's pretty and pastel and doesn't look like a powerful tool, then I saw how effortlessly it snapped a pretty solid wooden spoon that easily could have been my metacarpals instead.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is probably the real reason they make them with plastic gears now.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          With the amount I paid for the damn thing, I will be disappointed if it contains plastic gears.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It has 1 plastic gear as a fuse. Luckily it's fairly straightforward to replace once you find all 9000 screws and pry the press fit cover off. Also only like $10 on Amazon so I bought 2 just to have incase it goes down in the middle of making dough again.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    More is better, the reason we are over run now is because of your pathetic dream, guess what all of those Black folk are surviving

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because white liberals felt guilty that the niglets were dying and started airdropping bundles of cash. Guess who they don't mind dying? I'll give you three guesses but you only need one.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >More is better
      Friendly reminder, liberals are majority white.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because white liberals felt guilty that the niglets were dying and started airdropping bundles of cash. Guess who they don't mind dying? I'll give you three guesses but you only need one.

        Liberals are majority American and we are in this because of you Yanks. And the Anglos of course. If only the good guys had won.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >the good guys
          were socialists :/
          modern europe is overwhelmingly liberal
          white =/= right

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No they werent, just because its in the name doesnt mean they were like Marxists.

            And of course white is right. The entire modern world was built by whites. Every tool you use here on PrepHole is either made by whites or japs. Every mathematic and physics formula you use was made by whites. None of this would be possible without whites, including the website we are shitposting on.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >just because its in the name doesnt mean they were like Marxists
              How about their ideology literally being derived from marx you fricking dumbass.

              >The entire modern world was built by whites.
              And while it was being built, whites destroyed it several times over.

              >Every mathematic and physics formula you use was made by whites
              I guess we can call the ancient greeks white, but you're gonna have to explain white arabs to me.

              >None of this would be possible without whites, including the website we are shitposting on.
              While yes, what we have right now was built primarily on the backs of white people. It's debatable at best to say that it could never have happened without whites. Like no race ever for as long as history would ever exist for would never develop or has never developed the same racial characteristics that allowed whites to do what they did. No...

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the majority of the islamic golden age happened in persia, which is arguably pretty white, arabs had little to nothing to do with it and in fact hate the golden age and call the scientists devil worshippers

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >which is arguably pretty white
                It's not but okay

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                looking whiter than you Black person

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ...Okay? So you admit that Persians aren't white?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                75 IQ: the post

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >you're white just because you look whiter than a Black person
                you can't even be racist correctly, fricking shameful

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not gonna spoon feed you archaeogenetics, if you want to be stupid you can I guess but you should look into the areas wypipo actually evolved, it's not western europe

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >it's not western europe
                it's not persia either
                it takes a genuine lack of fricking eyeballs to think that persians are white.
                is it just that you can't acknowledge what they accomplished unless they're white?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >according to the steppe HYPOTHESIS
                Also separated from persians by how many fricking years, you literal fricking moron? Sure, we can say that persians and white people are of relatively recent common descent. That's obvious enough just using your eyes. But they're clearly two distinct racial groups.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You guys are on the right track but the way you speak about this betrays a very surface level understanding of history.

                It would be more accurate to say that Western values and the Western way of life and especially war, are what brought us here. While another anon pointed out that the Romans may not have considered themselves white (they were slightly more tan and smaller), European fiefdoms and later countries carried on Western values after the fall of Rome. These European powers held back the plague of islam, that if it was allowed to spread deep roots throughout France, Iberia and Germany, would have resulted in a much different world one that no one would want to live in.

                Africa is completely negligible and arguably detrimental to our world history, while the Americas are yet to come to fruition.

                In short this is a Chrsitian world carried on the backs of whites and those with Western values.

                Indians and Persians are the Aryan branch of the Indo-Europeans.
                They're not white because the Steppe Yamana culture were not white when they split east/west.

                not to mention that by the time positional notation, zero/infinity, and all the algebraic proto-calculus stuff came out of the region; it was the 10th fricking century - 3000 years AFTER the split.

                Unless you think the fricking nords were Hindu or some moronic shit.

              • 2 years ago
                Sage

                considering I know pale skinned blue eyed blonde haired brahmin caste from india yes I do think that and it is also corroborated by history, even the buddha had blonde hair and blue eyes

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >brahmin caste
                Firstly. brahmin isn't a caste, it's a varna you dumb shit. Those aren't the same.

                Secondly. They are a priestly varna, not the ruling class.

                Thirdly; the Indo-Greek Kingdoms existed.

                Fourthly; "blonde hair and blue eyes" don't mean 'white'; see: blonde ethiopians with light eyes

                fifthly; 'white' is something americans made up because they're fricking mutts. No german would meet an irishman and say 'hello there fellow white'.

                and finally; fundamentally you don't 'know' shit and your 'corroborating' evidence is fricking moronic like you. Your understanding of social stratification is like a child's drawing of it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Thirdly; the Indo-Greek Kingdoms existed.
                nooooooOOOOOOOOOO
                history is white people and not white people AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                that's a lot of text for you to just tell me I'm right and you're disingenuously lying and coping because you dislike white people

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >that's a lot of text for you to just tell me I'm right
                You're illiterate.

                also you're seriously misrepresenting varna, a sanskrit term literally meaning color/outward appearance

                you must have some useless bachelor's degree in progressive history distortion to know about things like varnas and the indo-greek connections while totally misrepresenting them, and you probably aren't even aware you're doing that and if you are it's because you have an anti white person agenda

                >a sanskrit term literally meaning color/outward appearance
                kek
                you don't even understand what 'colour' means in that context. you fricking tard
                ....colour me surprised....
                In this case I don't think you're intentionally misrepresenting the use of the term 'colour' but instead, I think you're just low IQ or ESL.

                >anti white person agenda
                "le fellow white person" meme
                amerimutt meme. kys.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                what is color in this context anon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                "colour" has like 12 meanings in the english language that don't involve RGB values. think about it for more than 4 seconds

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                He asked you what color means IN THIS CONTEXT you wannabe sophist, answer the fricking question.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Its pretty obvious that he means it would be "character or intentions"

                Like showing one's true colors

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                which is not at all the context the term was used in in dharmic societies

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I know the context of an oral tradition was in a language I don't speak translated by germans from a dead language I also can't read 2000 years after composition before being translated into english a further 1000 years down the line despite not literally knowing that the manusmirti talks about colours and defines them
                yeah sure thing, moron

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                you don't even agree with your leftist progressive counterparts in india you're arguing something so historically revisionary
                https://m.thewire.in/article/caste/manusmriti-history-discrimination-constitution

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >you don't even agree with your leftist progressive
                why would anyone agree with morons with an axe to grind about 'oppression'?
                moron.

                >article
                >not a single mention of colour
                moron

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                also you're seriously misrepresenting varna, a sanskrit term literally meaning color/outward appearance

                you must have some useless bachelor's degree in progressive history distortion to know about things like varnas and the indo-greek connections while totally misrepresenting them, and you probably aren't even aware you're doing that and if you are it's because you have an anti white person agenda

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >No german would meet an irishman and say 'hello there fellow white'.
                This is strangely convincing for some reason. Or maybe I'm just a brainlet

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You guys are on the right track but the way you speak about this betrays a very surface level understanding of history.

                It would be more accurate to say that Western values and the Western way of life and especially war, are what brought us here. While another anon pointed out that the Romans may not have considered themselves white (they were slightly more tan and smaller), European fiefdoms and later countries carried on Western values after the fall of Rome. These European powers held back the plague of islam, that if it was allowed to spread deep roots throughout France, Iberia and Germany, would have resulted in a much different world one that no one would want to live in.

                Africa is completely negligible and arguably detrimental to our world history, while the Americas are yet to come to fruition.

                In short this is a Chrsitian world carried on the backs of whites and those with Western values.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >betrays a surface level understanding of history
                >proceeds to post a surface level understanding of history
                sasuga

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              MOSFET's were created by an egyptian and korean, both not white. ALL modern CPU's and GPU's use MOSFETs instead of BJT's in their construction.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >at bell labs
                Full disclosure I am the anon that anon was replying to, I do not agree with him on that matter of racial superiority.
                But that is indeed a poor example.
                A better way to argue this point is that while yes, "white" people (which includes multiple races(not persians) but i digress) built the modern world, the reason for this is not because they manifested some impossibility out of none reality. But because they were in the right place at the right time AND had the culture, level of technological development and political drive to take advantage of the opportunity. We actually see this all the time historically just on a smaller scale. A good example that is indisputably not white is the Aztec empire. It demonstrates that the things Europe did in the process of taking advantage of an opportunity it encountered were not unique.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I once investigated a guy who drowned in coca-cola plant. It had a water tank and the coca-cola plant wanted to clean this tank cheap so this guy who was an amateur diver always cleaned it. He got the measurement in his gas wrong and drowned there.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Heard this story from a guy I know who is a retired OSHA inspector. This happened like 30 years ago.

    >mechanics shop specializing in Semi's
    >parts washing bin needs new fluid
    >old hand at the shops gets told to order more fluid
    >he's tired of how long it takes to clean parts, decides to order something stronger
    >new cleaning solution he ordered has a bit of hydrofluoric acid in it.
    >new solution ate through "old hands" gloves.
    >he thinks nothing of it and keeps cleaning parts.
    >old hand notices he has lost his sense of touch in his hands, but keeps working.
    >old hand goes home, wakes up next day and hands look like they have been rotting underwater
    >he goes to hospital
    >has to have both arms amputated up to the elbow.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      from old hand to no hand

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Carlos!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >old hand notices he has lost his sense of touch in his hands, but keeps working.
      It feels wrong to say, but he didn't deserve arms.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hydroflouric acid doesnt really burn your skin, you wont even feel the pain right away.
      It sinks deep into body and attacks the bone, causing bone death.

      Its seriously bad stuff

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Its worse than that. Once the pain sets in from it, you cannot be given painkillers for it. The treatment is something like applying calcium paste to neutralize the acid. They know the treatment is working when the pain stops.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Ordering hardcore cleaning solution without reading the MSDS
      >Hardcore cleaning solution didn't put a safety hazard warning on its label
      There are two problems with this situation. An OSHA inspector should have known better.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The OSHA inspector I know was just there for the aftermath investigation. This happened in a small town where OSHA inspections only happen after an accident.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>old hand notices he has lost his sense of touch in his hands, but keeps working.
      [frozen hotsauce begins playing]

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I use to build trusses and joists. Stuff that happened while I was there include
    >One guy losing fingers cause he turned into a radial arm saw with a 2foot blade
    >One guy nearly getting his arm ripped off cause he was fricking around too close to the roller press (ignoring warning signs & had repeatedly been told not to do it
    >Guy having his ankle basically turned to powder cause he was walking next to a load of 70ft pullbarn trusses being moved by a forklift & forklift hit a pothole in the gravel lot dropping the end of the bundle onto of his ankle
    >Crane operator delivering a load of trusses is craning em up to roof & hits power line
    >Crane operator/semi driver turns wrong way down a one way road, goes over a few cars
    >Totally safe wooden stands used to stand trusses upright break about 4 tons of trusses miss crushing 2 guys by inches
    And in the multiple semi drivers, forklift operators & other guys running heavy machinery who showed up to work so drunk they couldn't walk straight & it's amazing no one fricking died

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I knew a guy that passed out and almost asphyxiated from an argon leak when welding in some kind of tank
    Not super interesting, but the idea of it is pretty spooky

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >when welding in some kind of tank
      OSHA is literally shaking rn

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Used to work as a gunsmith at a pretty busy shop, had 6 gunsmiths working there at one point.
    >Working at my bench one day on a gun
    >guy two benches down from me is working on a blank firing starter revolver
    >he doesn't bother to check if it's loaded, cause it's just a starter pistol and doesn't even have a barrel (it's just a solid chunk of metal)
    >gun goes off while he is fiddling with it in his lap
    >gas escaping from between the cylinder and the "barrel" severs his femoral artery
    >fricking blood everywhere
    >we tourniquet him with a belt and got him to the hospital
    >he survived

    Been doing it for over 18 years and that's my only really nasty story. I've got a few minor ones if anyone cares.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It really astounds me how people think a blank firing gun cannot hurt you. My father lost a friend back in the 70's who put one to his temple as a joke. The propellent put out enough gas to pierce his temple, killing him.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well the name "blanks" is somewhat misleading

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's a webm of some nog that put a blank pistol to some white chicks forehead as a joke and when he pulled the trigger it blew a huge chunk of her forehead off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I've got a few minor ones if anyone cares.

      Fellow /k/bro, let's hear 'em

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Be me
        >working on Ithaca Mag 10
        >(10 gauge semi auto shotgun)
        >Customer wants barrel cut down and a recoil pad installed.
        >get work done and go to test fire
        >load up 2 in the tube and one in the chamber
        >insert barrel in snail trap (pic related) and brace hard against shoulder, it's a 10 gauge after all
        >pull trigger
        >all hell breaks loose as the gun goes runaway full auto
        >I can't keep barrel in trap under recoil
        >third round hit the top flat portion of the trap
        >shell was steel shot and the BB's go fricking everywhere
        >embed in the drywall, take out one of the fluorescent lights, a few hit me, but not enough energy to do damage
        >shoulder is seriously bruised

        The sear surfaces had worn out just enough to work fine for a quick check at the bench, but during actual live ammo conditions they failed. I would have had to disassemble the trigger group to even see it. I changed my policy to loading just one round for the first shot on semi-auto's after that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          wants barrel cut down
          That was a fed
          Say goodbye to everybody you love while you can

          I'm sorry man

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You can legally cut shot gun barrels down to 18" Ithaca Mag 10's have a 28" barrel from the factory.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>he doesn't bother to check if it's loaded
      Fricking moron.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When I did forklift work some new guy turned a corner without honking and got t boned. Knocked over the lift and pinned the guy who was out cold. That was pretty scary I thought he was dead but we managed to pull the lift off of him. He lived but never came back.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Surprised this shit never happened in the warehouse where I used to work, especially to me, since I had to move shit from the production area to the busiest intersection in the warehouse, around a blind corner
      Pic related, I almost got smoked by people flying around the corner on the right probably at least once a week.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        For about $45 somebody could have put one of those foot and a half circular safety mirrors and if possible to attach to the wall it’d massively lower the risk of somebody getting smoked rounding that corner.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >some new guy turned a corner without honking
          Yeah, let's spend $40 on one more thing for him to ignore

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            well maybe the new guy won't see it but you sure as hell will see him, cause yknow, mirrors work both ways

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You can even get half balls you suspend from the ceiling, works from every direction

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Legends speak of a magickal device which can emit sound, which relies neither on line of sight nor on active attention

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Who the frick honks? I worked in a warehouse for 2 years never heard a hink once, i only saw two crashes neither of them worse then a bumper car
              Then again the people i worked with didn't drive like idiots with a death wish

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Common sense isn't common

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Be Industrial Repairman
    >Part of my job is to maintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot various equipment in a production line, some of which operate on Radiation emission.
    >One device is a large traversing frame that contains an X-Ray generator and transducer
    >Bi-Weekly our department goes in to pull this device off the line and run a few tests to ensure it's working as intended.
    >During these tests we stand back about 10 feet or so, activate the generator, and record feedback.
    >One day, a new hire in the other department absent mindedly starts waddling between the equipment with a tool bag, unbeknownst to us
    >Large Red Flashing illuminators denotes the operation of the X-Ray and newbie completely misses the memo, I guess
    >We have an emergency watchman opposite the emitter from us to make sure nobody walks in from the prod. floor into the maintenance area
    >Suddenly, we see this kid clamber directly through the fricking X-Ray frame between us and our watchman
    >My crew began shouting and waving their arms like madmen as I try to franticly end the test cycle prematurely
    >Standby man turns around stunned and also joins into the chorus of panicked shouting
    >Nobody is about to storm in there and grab his stupid ass lmao
    >He pauses IN THE FRAME and looks confused as the machine shuts down
    >Watchman grabs him by the jacket and throws him to the ground out from behind the line as soon as the lights are green
    >Kid gets pissy with us for making a scene, tell us he's gonna b***h to his boss about us throwing him unto the ground
    >Unfazed that we had spent the better part of a minute telling him that he's catching a dose

    >We gather and stand by the HMI, pale and stunned.
    >We all trade worried glances without a word spoken for a few moments.
    >Oldhead says "He shouldn't have been back there anyway, stupid frick" and promptly saunters away
    >Kid got fired
    >Haven't seen him since
    >Too scared to calculate exactly how much of a dose he got

    I hope he has kids one day....

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >My crew began shouting and waving their arms like madmen as I try to franticly end the test cycle prematurely

      This reminds me of working at a call center for health insurance.

      We were told to wave our hands to a supervisor if the caller was in some kind of emergency.

      I did that and got ignored by everybody.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >I bet you look up to the 67 year old toothless frick who "been doin dis fo 45 yeears" who Black person rigs his shit to the point that it becomes a finely honed weapon of self-destruction. All for barely more than some kid makes flipping burgers too.
    >Y o u W i l l N e v e r B e C e r t i f i e d
    awww, did the little guy forget what fricking board he's on? poor thing 🙁

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > do something on your own and get ripped by pedantic tradies
      > insist on professionalism and get called a wrenchlet crybaby

      The philosophy of PrepHole

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >do something on your own
        >insist on professionalism
        a good philosophy if ever there was one

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      go get killed at work peasant

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not me, but coworkers
    >load pole trailer full in the morning
    >place most of them; only have a couple left when they head back to the yard
    >forget to adjust trailer brakes
    >brakes lock up while going around a curve downhill
    >trailer fishtails and goes over the edge, dragging the truck with it
    >truck rolls multiple times before coming to a stop upside down

    By some fricking miracle they walked away with bruises.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Such an easy mistake to make. Though I am surprised he didn't have brakes locking up before getting to a downhill section.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You guys don't put all the furnishing on the poles before you raise them?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Linework is cool. Too bad it attracts alcoholics like no other trade

      You guys don't put all the furnishing on the poles before you raise them?

      They usually do that before they get set up. You can do it up the stick, but it's a lot more frickery, basically have to know how to use a handline

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We had a guy lose his finger on a generator when he was spraying the fan belt and one of the blades sliced it clean off, but I Heard this story a couple years back in an osha reporting.
    > shop working on dump truck
    > customer comes to pick up truck
    > truck was pulled out front and running
    > customer gets in truck and starts driving
    > truck shook violently and snapping sounds were heard.
    > There was a technician that was still under the truck working that got wrapped up in the drive shaft.
    Pretty gruesome site I bet. I think about this shit all the time to keep myself from being too complacent with my job.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When I was a teenager I worked at a zoo, and regularly had to climb 50ft ladders to hang stuff from the ceiling of an outdoor pavilion. The guy holding my ladder would always start shaking the ladder and singing funky town.
    Good times.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I would have beat that guy's ass the first time he did it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was 15 and the dude shaking the ladder was like 20. So I just kinda dealt with it lmao.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >5G installer
    >Get new guy under my wing, fresh out of trade school
    >Install location a huge warehouse
    >First time he uses a personal lift solo
    >Doesn't quite reach where the receiver should be put
    >Lift maxed out
    >He does pic rel with no harness

    God fricking damnit I was so goddamn fricking PISSED holy shit I yelled at him full throat.
    Called the boss, told him what this moron just did, boss didn't give a shit.
    Refused to mentor this guy, he was going to get me killed for sure.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kek reminds me of a foreman I had when I was an apprentice. We were running fire alarm cable for a school and got to the gym where the scissor lift wouldn’t quite reach the scaffolding. This fricker extends it all the way and proceeds to stand on the guard rails to pull the wiring through the pipe. I also had some guy teach me the golden rule for climbing around in ceilings safely
      >allthread=no dead

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Moar of this fine amazon b***h

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >fine amazon b***h
          She has resting b***h face, get better taste

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Is that Bowsette Duke(ette) Nukem?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >proceeds to stand on the guard rails to pull the wiring through the pipe
        Gotta do what you gotta do. I have an 8” steam gate valve that I have to reach, but the only way to get to it is by squeezing between a 10” and 12” insulated steam line. Bring man lift all the way up, stand on railings to reach. I wear a harness though.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kek reminds me of a foreman I had when I was an apprentice. We were running fire alarm cable for a school and got to the gym where the scissor lift wouldn’t quite reach the scaffolding. This fricker extends it all the way and proceeds to stand on the guard rails to pull the wiring through the pipe. I also had some guy teach me the golden rule for climbing around in ceilings safely
      >allthread=no dead

      I have plenty of contractors come in to the factory I work at and do this same shit. Fully maxed out scissor lift standing on top of guard rails, climbing out of the lift with no harness and straddling pipes, climbing up the wrong sides of ladders, putting ladders on top of plywood board scaffolding.
      Safety department doesn't give a damn as long as it's not our people.
      I'm convinced these contractors are either too stupid to survive or they have a death wish.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm convinced these contractors are either too stupid to survive or they have a death wish.
        The faster they finish the job the faster they get to kick back and relax.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks fine to me
      Have you never gone climbing before or looked over a cliff?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The tradie FEARS the climbing monke new guy

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >raise basket next to a ledge
      >drop off bro with a spool of cable
      >drive around to the other end of the ledge
      >pick up bro
      Been there, done that. All at like 6m above the soft concrete, obviously.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    my friends mother allows a hobo to live with them. this is my favourite story from him:
    >works at construction site with mates
    >lazy frick
    >its only noon, but already drunk
    >would prefer to do anything rather that work, but needs the money
    >get idea
    >ask friend to get the the axe
    >tell him to strike with the flat side
    >place left pinky on some bricks
    >this guy -also being a massive alcoholic- finds the idea genius and complies
    >hit once
    >so drunk cant feel the pain
    >"go on"
    >hit twice
    >its fractioned like a bag of chips, but still nothing
    >"stronger"
    >axes guy goes "frick it" and strikes with the edge
    >part of the finger flies of
    >well they didnt had to work for the day, thats for sure
    he had is sawed back on, but its all fricked and he cant bend it

    got more if anyone is interested

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Be me
    >Be 16
    >do some summer work with some carpenter company
    >Be at a renovation job
    >Tasked with removing asbest insolation
    >No respirator, no goggles, in T shirt and in a closed room.
    >Threatened with being fired for complaining about the environment
    >Did it with my shirt over my face and holding my breath as much as possible
    >Get paid 1/8 of my current salary as a carpenter and work shit hours.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    in florida the company i worked for would never use a ditch witch like they did back home to dig pipe runs, they just hired degenerates and Black folk from labor ready.
    one day this wigger dope head was digging for us with a couple of (probable) illegals and a couple of addict nogs. well, the wigger was all antsy all day, obvious withdrawal shit going on. im supervising and he asks to go take a shit, so i tell him go ahead.
    the job is actually better without him so no one notices that hes gone for like 30 minutes.
    long story short, i went to look for him and had to pry the door open to the shitter with a flatbar because its locked.
    found him inside dead with a needle in his arm.
    called the cops and the office and went through all the bullshit to get him outta there and back to work
    i fricking hate wiggers and dope fiends so much its unreal

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That sounds fricked

      >taking a manual machining class for useless cert at local cc
      >masks mandatory cuz covid
      >one dude exclusively wears pic related
      >only ties 2 of the 4 strings. the other two are a foot long dangling from his face, basically like in the left example
      >over the fricking lathe
      >while it's running ofc
      >leaning forward to peer part with dangling strings precariously close to the chuck

      gore video waiting to happen, amazingly didn't

      I want to watch the Muslim ninja women operate rotating machinery to make their arabian carpets

      >Overheard crane operator
      >Slow ass day
      >July hot as frick
      >Drive doors are all open
      >Shipping Clerk is MIA
      >Definitely fricking off
      >Sitting over driveway
      >Random Black person walks in off the street
      >Yell to him “safety reasons you gotta split”
      >Black person pulls pistol
      >Walks over to plasma cutter
      >Starts to roll it away
      >Black person is staring at me entire time
      >I sit there looking at him rob the company
      >He leaves, I call on the radio
      >Spend rest of shift (again) filling out paperwork
      >Paperwork for cops
      >Paperwork fir company
      New policy: Cannot leave garage doors open regardless of how hot it is. Our union tried to get the employer to buy a iron gate. During those negotiations I switched up jobs. Frick working in Detroit. I paid city taxes for two years, that was twenty years ago, and I still haven’t gotten the refund they owe me.

      >Be Black person
      >Have gun
      >See shop, walk in
      >Take the nearest piece of machinery you can grab
      >Leave

      It was this sort of thing.
      Looked like the guy had been attacked by multiple dogs. He was most likely 16-17

      Yeah that's not recommended

      >be me, just 2 weeks ago
      >doing my forklift operators license
      >practice stacking mesh boxes on top of each other, 4 boxes high, ~4 or 5 meters
      >one guy in the forklift, one other guy is meant to direct him etc
      >instructor explicitly tells us to stay waaay clear of the boxes while directing, in case they topple over
      >i'm in a group of 3 btw, me, a greek guy of 53 years and a syrian "refugee" of 27years
      >syrian in forklift, greek meant to direct, i sit in the shadow and have a smoke break because it's hot as balls outside
      >syrian about to tip the stack over
      >greek looking at his shoes half a meter from the stack
      >i see this
      >syrian still in forward gear
      >greek still looking at his shoes
      >I shout "HEY"
      >still in forward gear
      >I shout louder
      >no reaction
      >I jump up from my seat, screaming at him from the top of my lungs
      >finally he uses the break and backs up
      >command the greek to take a few steps and fricking look up where the action is going on
      >both talk back
      >"what is your problem anon, don't shout at us"
      >minutes later
      >instructor calls me over
      >"what was this shouting all about anon?"
      >tell him what happened
      >"mhmm, I see. good job anon, I'll talk to them."
      >get reassigned to another group
      >greekoid and syrian both get kicked out
      Fricking foreigners

      Frick do I HATE foreigners
      The shitty part in my country is if I don't say anything and they die I could go to prison for not practicing due diligence

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >NatSoc's "socialism" was not based on Marxism
    How do you trip over the first fricking hurdle. This is definitively absolutely fricking false.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I mean it's complicated, Hitler said some parts of Marxism made sense but said that Race, rather than class was far more important. That's why they were vehemently anti-communist because they viewed it as disgenic.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No yeah it's definitely complicated. But you can draw a very clear line of ideological evolution from marx to hitler, or rather from marx to the national socialist policy. So to say that national socialism was not BASED on marxism is patently false. Certainly an argument can and should be made that it's not the same thing, but to say that they aren't related is dogshit nonsense.

        Funnily enough, the only reason we can say that the nazis were socialist is because of the efforts of commies to obfuscate the meaning of socialist.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Oh, and, last thing - PrepHole is inherently a bit of a dirty commie board, because it is rife with OSHA and union types.
    Ones too smart to be based and not-giving-a-shit-under-the-table-paid-in-cash, but also too blinded by their own pedantic, entitled psychosis to understand that the entire modern corporate scene is ENTIRELY the consequence of government meddling.

    Corporations that are abusive would collapse without government subsidies.
    The very same government that keeps you a moronic midwit with welfare and "public education".

    The elite is the beast that keeps you enslaved. The government is the snake with heads of corporatism and central banking and welfare and politics and socialism.

    Being entitled to others' achievements, rather than wanting an entirely FREE playing field to succeed, is exactly what led to the weakness and pathetic, emasculated nature of modern "men".
    Academia and university were a mistake.
    The Industrial Revolution as well.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought you were just wrong, but thanks for clearing up that you're genuinely delusional.
      >Corporations that are abusive would collapse without government subsidies.
      Is the only true thing you've said in a whole 24 lines of text.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >muh government meddling
      It's literally major corporations who PUSH for those regulations to crush the competition and also have them designed so they can ignore them when possible. Many make sense, but ultimately, as long as there is no way for workers to collectively negotiate and defend their own rights they will be ignored and many will be to poor or desperate to do anything about it and they know that. This is the INEVITABLE consequence of capitalism, the tendency towards consolidation.

      And it's funny you talk about National Socialism when Fascism itself was literally described by Mussolini as being more appropriately called "Corporatism" and all industries were effectively consolidated into a few major corporations in the Third Reich who were all loyal to the party.

      And there is no free playing field when people start off at different levels in their lives and some will always lag behind others due to their circumstances.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >And there is no free playing field when people start off at different levels in their lives

        Christ, just shut up you Marxist. What are you even doing on PrepHole? People like you do not make things. You break things and parasite off others.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I make medical supplies that almost certainly were used on you if you were stitched up for anything in the last few years. Shit I made was literally inside you and everyone you love.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            no, you dont
            you arent important to anyone or anything

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Mad?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you are moronic
      without any checks you end up with company shops, nothing can outcompete predatory capitalism

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Don't bother replying, poofter, 'cuz I ain't reading this thread.
    Look at this little b***h boy. I don't care what your opinion is, this stance makes you a homosexual.

  39. 2 years ago
    Gayfag3443

    Idk if this fits but one night my grandma had just bought some quality knives and had gotten piss drunk (As usual) and was cutting chicken when she accidentally sliced right through her pinky so deep she cut clean through the bone and it was hanging off of her finger by a piece of skin. Being as fricked up as she was though it took her a full thirty seconds to realize what had happened and she then proceeded to casually walk through the house trailing blood behind her to ask my uncle to drive her to the hospital. I was in the kitchen when this happened but being 12 didnt really care and just kept playing uno with my cousin.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >but being 12 didnt really care
      I remember being twelve
      I remember family members being twelve
      They would not have reacted like this, what the frick anon.

      • 2 years ago
        Gayfag3443

        Being 12 logic was she was an adult and would know what to do, plus that was one intense-ass game of uno, 9/11 could've happened and you wouldn't be able to pull me away from that table.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >taking a manual machining class for useless cert at local cc
    >masks mandatory cuz covid
    >one dude exclusively wears pic related
    >only ties 2 of the 4 strings. the other two are a foot long dangling from his face, basically like in the left example
    >over the fricking lathe
    >while it's running ofc
    >leaning forward to peer part with dangling strings precariously close to the chuck

    gore video waiting to happen, amazingly didn't

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      While it was hilariously stupid, I doubt those flimsy pieces of shit wouldn't just rip apart before dragging you in, they're ridiculously weak.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Overheard crane operator
    >Slow ass day
    >July hot as frick
    >Drive doors are all open
    >Shipping Clerk is MIA
    >Definitely fricking off
    >Sitting over driveway
    >Random Black person walks in off the street
    >Yell to him “safety reasons you gotta split”
    >Black person pulls pistol
    >Walks over to plasma cutter
    >Starts to roll it away
    >Black person is staring at me entire time
    >I sit there looking at him rob the company
    >He leaves, I call on the radio
    >Spend rest of shift (again) filling out paperwork
    >Paperwork for cops
    >Paperwork fir company
    New policy: Cannot leave garage doors open regardless of how hot it is. Our union tried to get the employer to buy a iron gate. During those negotiations I switched up jobs. Frick working in Detroit. I paid city taxes for two years, that was twenty years ago, and I still haven’t gotten the refund they owe me.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've got a few, nothing too spectacular. I work in a kinda backwoods commercial tire shop. We'll do some passenger stuff but its mostly semi, loaders, tractors/OTR stuff. It can be pretty dangerous work even when everything is done in a professional / legal manor, that said I can't say as I've ever seen any work get done in a professional / non-moronic way. OSHA don't come round out here y'hear, The job attracts a certain type of guy. Young, strong, drunk and dumb. Broken fingers, knocked out teeth, ect are an everyday occurrence, but it's the playful pranks, tweaker tomfoolery, silly stoner shenanigans and hillbilly hijinks that really make for the best frick ups

    >A good while back on a slow morning a couple hungover techs start messing with each other for a laugh.
    >We'll call them Dickshit and Shitdick whynot.
    >Starts out Shitdick tried putting an old sticker on Dickshits back without him noticing for giggles.
    >But Dickshit did notice, Shitdick aint all that sneaky. and now, as they say, it's on.
    >It escalates through the day as these things do.
    >Starts out simple
    >Greased door knobs
    >Lights turned off while one of ems sitting on the shitter
    >Maybe a hotpocket one way or the other (a lit cigarettes dropped in an unsuspecting pocket)
    >Pretty lighthearted stuff
    >Until a thrown soap swap start a PB blaster war, which leads directly to a brake cleaner fight.
    >You can get some pretty good reach with a brake cleaner can so they start soaking each other from across the shop
    >Course you gotta aim straight for the other guys eyes in a break cleaner fight, at least if your fixin to win.
    >Anyhow cans are empty and the boys are soaked in brake clean
    >Soaked in what they thought was the same brake clean that normally gets ordered with shop supplies
    >specifically nonflammable brake clean
    >It wasn't
    >One pulls out a Bic, gives it a flick and pretends he's gonna light the others guys soaked canvas jacket on fire.
    >They both chuckle "knowing" its non flammable.
    >whoosh

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What a gay larp (even if true still shit wall of homosexual)

      I saged

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        k

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Got shown the left overs of a kids overcoat that got caught in a milling machine.

    Apparently the kid decided to put his arm into the mill whilst working, he braced himself against it and the machine tore off the entire sleeve.

    He survived with only friction burn to his left shoulder. The college is going to spend 10K on guards now.

    Never wear loose sleeves,

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >overcoat while working a machine
      For what conceivable reason.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It was this sort of thing.
        Looked like the guy had been attacked by multiple dogs. He was most likely 16-17

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be me, just 2 weeks ago
    >doing my forklift operators license
    >practice stacking mesh boxes on top of each other, 4 boxes high, ~4 or 5 meters
    >one guy in the forklift, one other guy is meant to direct him etc
    >instructor explicitly tells us to stay waaay clear of the boxes while directing, in case they topple over
    >i'm in a group of 3 btw, me, a greek guy of 53 years and a syrian "refugee" of 27years
    >syrian in forklift, greek meant to direct, i sit in the shadow and have a smoke break because it's hot as balls outside
    >syrian about to tip the stack over
    >greek looking at his shoes half a meter from the stack
    >i see this
    >syrian still in forward gear
    >greek still looking at his shoes
    >I shout "HEY"
    >still in forward gear
    >I shout louder
    >no reaction
    >I jump up from my seat, screaming at him from the top of my lungs
    >finally he uses the break and backs up
    >command the greek to take a few steps and fricking look up where the action is going on
    >both talk back
    >"what is your problem anon, don't shout at us"
    >minutes later
    >instructor calls me over
    >"what was this shouting all about anon?"
    >tell him what happened
    >"mhmm, I see. good job anon, I'll talk to them."
    >get reassigned to another group
    >greekoid and syrian both get kicked out
    Fricking foreigners

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Forklift operator

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >be me, work paying for and setting up small crew with forklift licence test
      >explain to instructor that iv only ever used the forklift for about 2-3 hours total and have done next to no actual lifts (mostly just moving the forklift around our small workshop to free up space, parking it etc)
      > "ok mate well just take some time before your practical test to do some lifts"
      > ok, practice some lifts, I remember all the whs rules and such but am sloppy with the tines
      >do this for about 30 mins, still another guy left to do his test
      >instructor tells me to hop off and let experienced guy do his lifts quickly
      >go have smoke
      >come back, the forklift is out of charge and will take at least 4 hours to be usable again
      >instructor complains about needing to see wife or something
      > signs off experienced guy without him doing test, ok makes sense I guess he was going for a licence renewal
      > SIGNS ME OFF after doing a medium lift and a short lift only

      And that's how I have a nationally recognized forklift licence.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Those forklift courses are a joke really, they don't want people to fail. When I did mine there was some foreigners that barely spoke english that kept getting the answers wrong on the written test (multiple choice questions) eventually the instructor just stood behind them and when they circled the wrong answer he'd say
        >want to try that again?
        over and over until they circled the right one.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          affirmative action isn't about working hard to reach the bar, it's about having the bar lowered to make it accessible to people who may not be qualified to do the job

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          oh, our instructor just sat down with us and coached everyone on exactly what to write, told us to put down different finish times on test so it didnt look sus lawl

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          its kind of fricked when you think about it, independent business has huge incentive to pass EVERYONE becuase higher pass rate = more contracts as bosses dont care about actual experience, just want legal cover

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Those forklift courses are a joke really
          Are the boomer forkies in on the joke too?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            believe it or not, the boomer forkies are the ones who started the joke.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I managed to crash a van in an advanced driving course and still passed.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't work in any trade related field. I work as a yard wrangler.

    >Have a fat client who needs a lift to get out of bed.
    >Decides on a ceiling one that hangs down and can move around room, much like what you would see in hospitals
    > Whatever not my disability money
    >The company trades people come in to install it while I am away.
    >Get a call a week later from my coworker freaking out and our fat client screaming on the phone about falling off of the lift. I figured he just attached him incorrectly
    >Nope
    >The whole fricking thing had collapsed with massive chunks taken out of the ceiling.
    >Apparently the people who installed it just drilled it into the dry wall, not any actual support.

    > Not my problem. Help coworker get him up and back into bed

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >yard wrangler
      Tard wrangler? Kek

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        .914 meter wrangler for you europeans.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kek!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ,914 meters for us europeans, actually. And yes, it does suck to have a comma as your decimal notation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is the yard suing?

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not a horror story, so much as a lesson.
    Tempered glass isn't necessarily safety glass. Been a glazier for three years, yesterday I managed to boink a 150lb piece of half inch glass on a metal cart. Picrel, I'm an ounce lighter now.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Tempered glass isn't necessarily safety glass.
      What gave you that idea, the million pieces of angry sharp little pieces it breaks into?

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can you people shut the frick up about Indian society and keep it to workplace stories?

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I found some swarf in my pubic hair yesterday.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you were building a metal merkin weren't you.
      don't lie anon, we know

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >merkin
        Yes, one that a cyber man would wear.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Tetsuo?

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Get through probationary at work.
    >Already notice a lot of fricky things, ignore most of them because it's not my problem.
    >One of them I refuse to let go of, because it pains me.
    >Ask boss when the last time the forklift battery was filled.
    >"...Doesn't the maintenance guy do that on the yearly inspection?"
    >uWOT
    >Tell her to order distilled water, lots of it.
    >No, frick it, buy some from the store, come back with several boxes of it.
    >Find the "safety" equipment, decide my shitty hole in the thumb pair of Mechanics will work better.
    >End up using 12 gallons to fill the battery, the whole crew watching me like I am preforming some sort of voodoo.
    >They are convinced I know magic, because the forklift can now hold a charge for the day instead of a half hour.
    >Find the forklift the next day with the charger plugged into the main body, instead of the battery.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      to be fair, the frick does the maintenance guy even do if he doesn't point something like that out

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well, considering he works for the same company that is on the side of the forklift, sell the place a replacement battery later?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Be me.
      Apprentice sparky in some shitty factory.
      Electric forktruck acting up, turns out a contactor is funky and doesn't always pull in.
      Braindead operator ignores tag, pushes starter, gets pissed when it doesn't start.
      I give the electrical box a light kick just above where the contactor is and the truck bursts into life.
      I look like a badass.
      Next day I see the braindead kicking the shit out of a different forktruck.
      Forktruck had a flat battery and now needs serious repairs after being kicked to shit by an idiot.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're a tech priest working among lobotomites.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be working on reflective metal roof in summer, over 120 degrees
    >taking frequent breaks for water, but one dude (lets call him dude) starts acting funny as the day gets hotter
    >he's falling and stumbling, saying dumb shit
    >we're pretty sure dude's got heat exhaustion so we tell him to drink a lot and sit on the cool slab in the shade til lunch, so he does
    >break for lunch
    >foreman comes back after, all go back up
    >dude trips and drops all his screws everywhere faceplanting after just getting up top
    >foreman, who was gone all morning, just laughs
    >we tell dude to go home, its not safe but he insists he's fine
    >foreman just kinda shrugs
    >he ends fricking up one of the panels so we have to pull it back off
    >upon removal, there is an empty miller high life bottle stuffed in the insulation
    ohshit
    >foreman instantly loses his shit (never heard him yell in 3 years)
    >we all kind of look at dude, foreman figured it out too
    >foreman kicks dude's cooler, its full of booze
    >fired on the spot
    >dude starts yelling "fricks you's" at everyone and is stumbling away backwards, still chugging a bottle of schnapps from his pocket
    >foreman looks like he's about to explode and beat his ass dead
    >dude is still walking backwards flipping us off and yelling at us
    >stumbles looney-tunes style past the safety line
    >teeto-tallers on a rafter for way too long
    >screams like a girl
    >falls backwards off the fricking building
    OH SHIT
    >we just look at eachother jaw-dropped
    >by pure dumb luck, he fell into the basket of trash about 6 feet below everyone forgot was there
    >we see him scamper into the nearby scissor lift and just runs to his truck
    >foreman yelling every conceivable insult at this guy, followed by "OH BY THE WAY YOURE FIRED!"
    ...and that's how our crew ended up having to take a full day off to watch more safety vidoes and got blamed for "not saying anything".

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>upon removal, there is an empty miller high life bottle stuffed in the insulation

      I would yell at him too that's the worst drink i had while in the US. I nearly puked on the dance floor.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it is colloquially known as miller low-life for a reason

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How DARE you sully the champagne of beers?

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Old boss mans story but it’s too good not to share
    >be me
    >work for general contractor
    >good guy, former navy diver/TAZ during the Clinton administration years
    Don’t bother looking TAZ up you won’t find anything, but basically he was a Narc for internal investigations in the navy. In his words he “was there to sniff out the gays and the dope smokers” by getting enrolled in various navy technical schools
    Got out and became a gen contractor
    >get a plumbing and electrical contract in a very nice neighborhood
    >place is owned by very nice ~~*people*~~ in a ~~**~~ neighborhood in LA area.
    >father mother and 18 or 19 year old daughter live in the house
    >daughter is absolutely smoking hot
    Irrelevant detail but I’m sure one of you cares
    >I’m doing electrical upstairs
    >boss is doing plumbing downstairs in the garage
    >daughters room has an attached half bathroom
    >boss very politely but clearly states that while the pipes are open it is absolutely imperative that nobody use the upstairs plumbing
    >no sinks
    >no showers
    >positively no toilets
    >this is communicated clearly to the homeowner and wife
    >It’s also told to the daughter
    >boss is working in essentially in a standup crawl space that can’t be left quickly
    >just how it be sometimes
    >I suggest we turn of the water to the second story to prevent any accidents
    >boss is confident the residents understand the simple command not to use the toilets
    “Na we will be fine, shouldn’t take more than an hour”
    >ur the boss
    >see daughter come up stairs
    >looks somewhat uncomfortable
    >I’m to busy drooling over my kleins to recognize the impending disaster
    >all to late I realize
    >as I reach her door to make sure she isn’t using the toilet I hear it flush
    >nothing in the house but the sound of water and shit racing through the plumbing to an open section of pipe can be heard
    >loudly from the garage crawl space I hear my boss let out a long mournful
    NOOOOOOO
    >b***h had diarrhea

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >work in corn grinding
    >job is putting all the corn in a wide metal grinder to make corn dough
    >first thing they tell you when entering is that you need to not put your hands inside the grinder if you don't need to
    >carrying corn bags when suddenly i hear screams
    >they come from the room with the grinders
    >run alongside other workmates to see what happened
    >see 20'ish yo in the ground with blood all over the place
    >right hand was totally destroyed
    >watch workmates tourniquet his arm and carry him outside
    >also see workmates shitting and cursing at one guy in particular who was standing next to the grinder
    >find out later that day what happened
    >20yo was pouring the corn into the machine
    >while doing so he accidentally lets go off the corn bag, dropping it into the grinder
    >20yo stretches his hand to grab the bag
    >coworker besideswasn't paying attention and for some autistic reason turns on the machine with 20yo's hand still inside
    >shit happens so fast that the machine only needed 2 or 4 seconds to dismantle the guy's hand
    >guy who turned on the machine was instantly fired and got sued by 20yo
    >get assigned to clean up the blood on the floor and outside the machine
    >no one wanted to pick up the pieces of hand inside the machine, and grinder remained unused until worksite payed outsiders to clean it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      how fricking bad was his hand?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        His cornhole days are over.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >no one wanted to pick up the pieces of hand inside the machine
      Man, I would have been all over that. Especially if I could keep the pieces.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ok Mr. Gein, now tell us about the belt made of nipples

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hey man, if there were intact knucklebones in there you could get good money for them from an old gypsy woman

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    supervisor at work relayed this one to me
    >someone being trained by a longhair down at the docks
    >old hand who's worked there forever, kind of a loose unit
    >longhair starts walking towards crane operator without saying anything
    >crane operator turns, boom smashes longhair against shipping container
    >"it was like watching a tube of toothpaste explode out of both ends"

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