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Pastywhyte
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Registered: 09/15/12
Posts: 37,810
Loc: Canada
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Re: Screw Canada [Re: x Ju x]
#21719176 - 05/24/15 11:07 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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x Ju x said: My job is to make sure workers are as safe as possible. I'm like the bridge between workers and those people making cavalier decisions you're talking about.
It might seem like they are annoying to you, but my job is to keep you safe. There are regulations, aka LAW that everyone has to follow while working. Hard hats in a construction zone is one of them.
I don't intend on going to jail because you decide to not wear your hard hat at the end of a project when something accidentally hits you in the head.
Do you see my point?
I actually have a lot of respect for most safety people. The are often caught in the middle of conflicting interests while they are simply trying to do some good. Unfortunatly most are powerless to do much other than enforce simple rules and are simply seen as obsticals by both workers and management alike. It seems to be a job that saps many good people over the years but the one's who can stick with it and understand how the system manipulates them without becoming dejected are special and actually do some good in the long run.
But I have zero faith that you can keep me safe. I wear my ppe and follow the rules but those are nothing when a bond point on a 36" tee blows out because management wanted to save money on pipefitters and got a pile of TFWs at half the rate who can't bond worth shit. When that tee snaps the chain that had slack cause caps were on backorder so plugs were rigged up and the fitting launches 300 ft blowing structural steel for 300 yards in every direction, the FLHA I signed acknowleging that I will stay clear of the 20 yard red tape barrier ain't worth squat.
Of course in a situation like that everyone in the area is immediately piss tested and when its discovered worker x on the hydro crew smoked a doobie last week its case closed. Lets not examine too close what really happened guys or the heavys will shut us down and no one gets to work. Anyway I'm off topic here. Its just kinda funny how life is taken for granted.
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drr

Registered: 05/20/09
Posts: 8,444
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Midnight_Toker said:
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drr said: I never had a problem with Canada until I went to Sasquatch in Washington State and had to camp around thousands of them in a festival setting. They're really obnoxious, and all they talk about is how great Canada is and how much the US sucks. They're very frat bro like - beer bongs and lots of shouting. Not that tons of Americans the same age aren't the same way - but I don't hear them going around talking about how much Canada sucks all the time either.
I get it, Canada. You've got an inferiority complex, and you try to over-compensate by talking up Canada and talking down the US.
OP is no better, at all. Like I said - I have no problem with Canada, except that so many Canadians I met seemed like dicks. I'm sure you've got a beautiful country, and while I don't appreciate Justin Bieber or Avril Lavigne, you've more than made up for it with Neil Young and Tommy Chong.
Because a bunch of wooks goofing off at a festival are a good reference for the way an entire country acts.
Yeah, no, you're right, that's not a good way to judge a country.
I'm sure one day I'll find myself in a room full of the nicest Canadians I've ever met and totally change my mind.
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