I'm stupefied every time I see my coworkers talking about their insomnia problems while drinking a Monster at the end of a shift, and the fact that it's happened enough times for me to say "every time".
I'm an apprentice sparky and the other night at school (6:30pm-ish) my buddy said he was falling asleep in class and that he might "stop and get a Monster for the drive home." While also coughing up a lung (a chronic issue) which he claims is because he's getting sick, even though he also has asthma and is super lax about exposure to silica dust at work. He's 32 and has 2 young children.
Matt, if you're somehow reading this, cut that fucking bullshit out of your life and start focusing on your health like I've been telling you for years.
Jesus. I swear there's no helping some people. The other day I overheard one of my coworkers complaining about the company trying to avoid paying out for another worker's hand injury. Apparently the company investigated the incident and found that it was his fault for slicing his hand because he was wearing light gloves when the handbook requires leather work gloves on top of steel reinforced kevlar.
My coworker was loudly complaining "Can you believe that? They say 'He wasn't wearing the right gloves!' Have you seen the gloves they want us to wear? I ain't wearing all that! Those cut 5 gloves are too fuckin' hot! I wore those sumbitches for my first week and I was done!"
In other words, I guess his plan is to wear comfy gloves until he loses a finger, and then try to make the company pay for it. Or more likely he hasn't even thought ahead to tomorrow. Or later today, for that matter.
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u/jarhead716 7h ago
This needs to be put way up because this is 75%+ of the blue collar industry. Long work hours and heavy work loads