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Job Hazards...
2009-12-01, 11:55 AM #1
As I type this, there is a fine petroleum hydrocarbon haze floating about in the room. I can practically taste the cancer. Anyone else have to deal with work hazards?

(I am just happy they addressed the Ozone problem around here.)
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
"hurr hairy guy said my backhair looks dumb hurr hairy guy smash"
2009-12-01, 12:04 PM #2
My hazards are varied and unpredictable, but usually involve people.
woot!
2009-12-01, 12:07 PM #3
Ahhh yes, but then you get to whomp, taze, mace, or shoot them. So at least you get yours eventually.
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
"hurr hairy guy said my backhair looks dumb hurr hairy guy smash"
2009-12-01, 12:32 PM #4
I guess the worst I have to deal with is bloody knuckles trying to get a screwdriver inside some of these laser printers and computers.
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2009-12-01, 12:35 PM #5
hmm, at school boredom is the major job hazard.

At my actualy work it's stuff like: getting tons of crates on top of you, riding your forklifter into something, getting hit by a forklift and falling of giant stairs...

mostly hazards that are human-induced
2009-12-01, 12:36 PM #6
I work in NYC. I almost got hit by a taxi one time.


Oh also, some guy got stabbed in the neck on the subway train i take.
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2009-12-01, 1:12 PM #7
One time we got held up by a lunatic with a shotgun. When he was distracted by a girl who fainted, me and another guy jumped him and cracked him in the head with the butt of his shotgun.
2009-12-01, 1:18 PM #8
Oh, and also Cloverfield monsters.
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2009-12-01, 1:20 PM #9
Originally posted by mb:
Oh, and also Cloverfield monsters.


I wouldn't call that hazard.. more of a perk.
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
"hurr hairy guy said my backhair looks dumb hurr hairy guy smash"
2009-12-01, 1:24 PM #10
I have to pass through poor people every morning. Filthy!
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2009-12-01, 2:09 PM #11
On the positive side, I have no job hazards of any kind. On the negative side, I have no job of any kind!

2009-12-01, 2:29 PM #12
job hazards?

yeah I've got some...
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2009-12-01, 2:33 PM #13
sick building syndrome
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2009-12-01, 2:36 PM #14
I have most of the hazards police deal with to some extent or another, except without any training or equipment or authority to protect myself. :awesome:
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2009-12-01, 3:02 PM #15
Falling objects and moving vehicles.

And baling machines.

:ninja:
nope.
2009-12-01, 5:27 PM #16
Originally posted by mb:
I work in NYC. I almost got hit by a taxi one time.


Put down the cell phone and put away your iPod, dammit.
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2009-12-01, 7:24 PM #17
How can he do it while hes eating a sandwich, drinking his coffee, and being distracted by all the billboards, signs, and advertisements?
2009-12-01, 8:08 PM #18
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
Anyone else have to deal with work hazards


Fire
Falling trees
Stuff falling out of trees
Razor sharp tools being swung all around me
Chainsaws
Smoke inhalation
Falling down mountains
Heat exhaustion/stroke
Mexican Cartel marijuana growers with guns
Yellow Jackets
Snakes
Searing hot stump holes

*Many of the above are further complicated when I work at night

I'm sure there are more
Pissed Off?
2009-12-01, 8:46 PM #19
I'll have a great big list of these in a few months when I start working at the mine.
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2009-12-01, 9:01 PM #20
I'm a mechanic so:

Exposure to a full list of cancer-causing chemicals
Being run over by a co-worker as they pull a car into the shop
Having a lift arm swing out from under a car and smack me with huge force
Tires blowing out/up
Vehicle falling off of lift and crushing me
My boss is a dick
Little angel go away
Come again some other day
Devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say
2009-12-01, 9:27 PM #21
You forgot the whole "engine slipping off the lift chain and squishing you" bit!
2009-12-01, 11:05 PM #22
lets see, gas station attendant:

fire
fire+explosion
people driving through front windows (has happened twice to this location)
angry drunks
angry gangbangers
angry crackheads
random robberies

i think thats about it, mostly the fire and people-drive-too-fast-through-our-lot things

oh oh oh, and i could burn myself on the deepfryer in the deli
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2009-12-01, 11:14 PM #23
Gas stations are highly explosive. I saw it on Robocop.
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2009-12-01, 11:48 PM #24
Originally posted by Avenger:
Fire
Falling trees
Stuff falling out of trees
Razor sharp tools being swung all around me
Chainsaws
Smoke inhalation
Falling down mountains
Heat exhaustion/stroke
Mexican Cartel marijuana growers with guns
Yellow Jackets
Snakes
Searing hot stump holes

*Many of the above are further complicated when I work at night

I'm sure there are more


This sounds like a metal job what do you do?
2009-12-02, 12:01 AM #25
I'm a signmaker/digital printer.
So: Knives, guillotine, solvent ink fumes, heavy alloy sheets, and ********s I work with.
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2009-12-02, 12:08 AM #26
My fingers get raw from handling and counting hundreds or even thousands of crisp new LEGO pieces every day ^_^.
2009-12-02, 12:12 AM #27
Originally posted by harskarenjag:
This sounds like a metal job what do you do?


Sounds like fireman to me.
2009-12-02, 1:18 AM #28
Mexican marijuana drug cartels? Mountains and snakes? No, I don't think firefighter
2009-12-02, 2:13 AM #29
Originally posted by harskarenjag:
Mexican marijuana drug cartels? Mountains and snakes? No, I don't think firefighter


No, he's a firefighter.
2009-12-02, 3:06 AM #30
Definitely firefighter. Work for the Forest Service and my forest is the largest producer of illegal marijuana in the state of California.
Pissed Off?
2009-12-02, 3:11 AM #31
Originally posted by Dash_rendar:
My fingers get raw from handling and counting hundreds or even thousands of crisp new LEGO pieces every day ^_^.


WANT YOUR JOB.

I spend time on construction sites, which in the UK is the biggest killer in terms of employment/danger stuff.

There are too many to list, but generally involve stuff falling on me, or me falling on stuff. Or getting still-sawed to death. Or hit by a crane or excavator. Or a grumpy site manager with a podger spanner. AND **** YOU CHROME SPELLCHECK, PODGER IS A WORD.
2009-12-02, 5:03 AM #32
I'm a technical support analyst for a company that develops software for clinical trials, so we have doctors and nurses from all over the world (mostly US, though) calling us all the time.

If we really, really, really mess something up beyond the point of no repair, and, say, a wrong test drug gets administered to the wrong patient, well, bad things may happen to the patient.

But of course that's easier said than done, there's a lot of rules and regulations that prevent that from happening.
幻術
2009-12-02, 5:26 AM #33
Originally posted by JediNeo:
I'm a signmaker/digital printer.
So: Knives, guillotine, solvent ink fumes, heavy alloy sheets, and ********s I work with.


What kind of machines do you use? I run a digital print shop myself. Would be nice to have someone to talk to about Indigo problems lol.
Quote Originally Posted by FastGamerr
"hurr hairy guy said my backhair looks dumb hurr hairy guy smash"
2009-12-02, 5:28 AM #34
Originally posted by Steven:
One time we got held up by a lunatic with a shotgun. When he was distracted by a girl who fainted, me and another guy jumped him and cracked him in the head with the butt of his shotgun.


Awesome. Did you guys make the news?
幻術
2009-12-02, 5:56 AM #35
Have you seen "What Lies Beneath" with Harrison Ford? Remember the scene where he falls & smashes his face on the bathroom sink? I suppose that could happen.
? :)
2009-12-02, 7:32 AM #36
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Put down the cell phone and put away your iPod, dammit.


AYY IM WALKIN HERE
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2009-12-02, 7:45 AM #37
i pulled 2 tendons in my hand at my old job.
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2009-12-02, 8:22 AM #38
TOO.

MANY.

JOKES.

MUST.

RESIST....!!

(OMG YOU GAVE HAND RELIEF TO MANY MANY PEOPLE AND GOT TENNIS ELBOW)

I am so sorry about that.
2009-12-02, 8:26 AM #39
I mean really, I'm so sorry, I just don't know what came over me.

OH NO NOT AGAIN
2009-12-02, 8:34 AM #40
Anything that comes with dealing with sick people, or with general lab work. I work with both viruses and bacteria, and there have been recorded cases of infection.

Also I work in the Bronx, and sometimes I work in a place called Bronx Lebanon, which is pretty shady. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice place.
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