HSanders
disgusted and pissed
Mostly, the only "good" think about OSHA is that it gives you documentable reasons to fire someone and less lawsuit bait in doing so.
The correct answer is ALL.
This reminded me of a similar incident. I used to work in an office that provided computer and phone support to technicians working outdoors, up on telephone poles and at customer premises etc.
Since we worked with them on a regular basis we all knew the techs pretty well even though their reporting location was a garage across town.
So, one day a woman named Kathy mentions in passing to a new manager, Ginny, that she got a paper cut and showed her the tiny wound. Ginny didn't know her ass from a stick of butter and figured that she better report the "accident" or risk dereliction of duty.
So, then comes a mountain of paperwork, phone calls with corporate and interviews and the upshoot of it was that at the garage's monthly safety meeting a report was read that went something like this:
"This month we had several dog bites, a motor vehicle accident, a near electrocution and two guys cut out of their poles and fell causing serious injuries......oh, and at the support center it seems that Kathy Jones got a pretty bad paper cut."
The whole crew then just fell out laughing their asses off and they never let her forget it.
Mostly, the only "good" think about OSHA is that it gives you documentable reasons to fire someone and less lawsuit bait in doing so.
EXACTLY RIGHT. Should there be safety standards? Yes. Should there be idiotic applications of same? No...but people aren't paid to think...lolHawg73 said:OSHA is a classic example of how something that seems like a good idea on the surface gets hopelessly hosed up due to bureaucratic nonsense and I've seen examples of both it's use and abuse.
Hawg73 said:I once worked at a place that as a form of Christmas gift, gave us a small wooden desk plaque that had a message and also a thermometer on it. This meant that during the summer months, when the sun beating on the flat roof often raised the temperature in the office to over 90 degrees, phone calls were made and the OSHA inspector was able to walk around the office and look at everybody's desk thermometers for verification, that, yes, it was pretty phucking hot in there.
We were later "asked" to remove the thermometers from our desks and the company, to it's regret, was forced to upgrade the air-conditioning. That one was a small victory for the worker bees.
The correct answer is ALL.
This reminded me of a similar incident. I used to work in an office that provided computer and phone support to technicians working outdoors, up on telephone poles and at customer premises etc.
Since we worked with them on a regular basis we all knew the techs pretty well even though their reporting location was a garage across town.
So, one day a woman named Kathy mentions in passing to a new manager, Ginny, that she got a paper cut and showed her the tiny wound. Ginny didn't know her ass from a stick of butter and figured that she better report the "accident" or risk dereliction of duty.
So, then comes a mountain of paperwork, phone calls with corporate and interviews and the upshoot of it was that at the garage's monthly safety meeting a report was read that went something like this:
"This month we had several dog bites, a motor vehicle accident, a near electrocution and two guys cut out of their poles and fell causing serious injuries......oh, and at the support center it seems that Kathy Jones got a pretty bad paper cut."
The whole crew then just fell out laughing their asses off and they never let her forget it.
The thing is, the law still allows them to tie up company resources to try to figure that out. It should simply be if you do not report it, you are SOL as far as ANY benefits.If they don't report the injury at the time it happens, then you have hard time determining if they are gaming the system for an injury they had at home or not.
The thing is, the law still allows them to tie up company resources to try to figure that out. It should simply be if you do not report it, you are SOL as far as ANY benefits.
I worked in HR for quite a while and much more than half of our short term disability cases were BS. That type of stuff enrages me.
Omg lmao
why would it be relaxing to do something like that at work?????
In my teens I worked pumping gas at a service station in the center of town. We had this mechanic who was a thieving SOB and stole quite a bit of gas over his time there but that's another story. This guy liked to walk up behind people and whack their nuts when they were bent over under the hood of a car, working on it. Why it was tolerated I have no idea, but I saw him do it one day and he was laughing out loud, and told me I was next. I told him that wouldn't be a good idea. Very next day, he whacks me in the nuts ( and it freaking hurt) and I turned around and cold-cocked him. He hit the floor, and I was on him again, grabbed him by the throat and screamed at him " I f-ing warned you! and I broke his nose with another shot. I was insanely out of my mind pissed off. It took 3 guys to get me off him.
He quit the next day... nothing happened to me!! Worked there for a few more years.