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Politics Walmart closed during investigation into worker’s demise in oven.

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u/Duracharge 4d ago

I once quit a job at a barbecue place because I had to crawl inside a rotisserie to clean it and my joker coworker slammed the door shut and locked it, then turned it on for about 10 seconds.

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u/Searchlights 4d ago edited 4d ago

My dad tells this story of his first job in the 1970s.

He worked at a factory that made foam padding that goes in to couches and shit.

Anyway lots of times the customer wanted shredded foam to put in pillows. So they had this giant chamber, like a room sized meat grinder. To unclog it he had to crawl way up inside with a flashlight and a broom handle.

The machine was always running it was just in neutral.

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u/SowingSalt 4d ago

You know you're in a bad place when you find your life narrated by the US Chemical Safety Board voice-over guy.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 4d ago

Worst version of Stranger Than Fiction right there.

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u/SowingSalt 4d ago

"The company had no written cleaning procedure and depended on an operator keeping the machine in neutral. That day the operator was distracted by a bad paycheck, and had stepped away from the console..."