Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
Posted:
Oct 16, 2022 - 4:53pm
haresfur wrote:
Nice. My brother had a summer job at the rail yards, way back when. A coworker told a story about being out sweeping the floor in the shops when buzzers and flashy lights started going off and machinery started whirring. He looked up and a "second unit" whole train engine was moving along over his head. The fellow said, "I put my hardhat on."
Of course there was the time when a woman on my crew got sprayed with concentrated sodium hydroxide. She was wearing goggles under a face shield but we didn't have shields that attached to hard hats so her head was bare. She looked like a drowned rat after I threw her in the emergency shower.
I'm all for safety.... unless it gets in the way of making money.
I cleaned out my glove box in my truck yesterday and found this buried in my legal stuff.
The story behind this... I would get stuck on some commercial jobs back in the day. I'm talking 35+ years ago.
I was one who loved working "piece work" on housing projects. I still work "piece work".
I despised working "by the hour". It was a big cut in pay for me.
The company I worked for would occasionally stick me on a big commercial job to help get them "out of a hole"... "by the hour". With the promise they would supplement my cut in pay.
I hated most going on a Peter Kiewit Construction job. "Safety Is #1!"
I had a tendency to whine severely working on their jobs. I was a short pants, tennis shoes and a NO HARDHAT guy. All a no go on their job sites. Yeah. I get the safety thing. But try finishing drywall/ moving fast with a stupid hardhat on your head. Now if I was a "normal" hourly worker... I'd have a cup of coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other walking around and wasting time with my hardhat on. I wanted out of there as quickly as possible.
So my friend found this Far Side comic from "back in the day". We had a good laugh and I've carried that thing around for 35+ years.
Nice. My brother had a summer job at the rail yards, way back when. A coworker told a story about being out sweeping the floor in the shops when buzzers and flashy lights started going off and machinery started whirring. He looked up and a "second unit" whole train engine was moving along over his head. The fellow said, "I put my hardhat on."
Of course there was the time when a woman on my crew got sprayed with concentrated sodium hydroxide. She was wearing goggles under a face shield but we didn't have shields that attached to hard hats so her head was bare. She looked like a drowned rat after I threw her in the emergency shower.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
Posted:
Oct 16, 2022 - 3:52pm
I cleaned out my glove box in my truck yesterday and found this buried in my legal stuff.
The story behind this... I would get stuck on some commercial jobs back in the day. I'm talking 35+ years ago.
I was one who loved working "piece work" on housing projects. I still work "piece work".
I despised working "by the hour". It was a big cut in pay for me.
The company I worked for would occasionally stick me on a big commercial job to help get them "out of a hole"... "by the hour". With the promise they would supplement my cut in pay.
I hated most going on a Peter Kiewit Construction job. "Safety Is #1!"
I had a tendency to whine severely working on their jobs. I was a short pants, tennis shoes and a NO HARDHAT guy. All a no go on their job sites. Yeah. I get the safety thing. But try finishing drywall/ moving fast with a stupid hardhat on your head. Now if I was a "normal" hourly worker... I'd have a cup of coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other walking around and wasting time with my hardhat on. I wanted out of there as quickly as possible.
So my friend found this Far Side comic from "back in the day". We had a good laugh and I've carried that thing around for 35+ years.
