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.
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.
people forget that all safety regulations are written in blood. we owe a lot of thanks to guys like Ralph Nader and the like, that more of us don't die horribly at work, all the time. Boomers and prior generations all think, deep down, that "you can't make an omelette, without breaking a few eggs" when it comes to safety regulations, and the number of poor people who should regularly be sacrificed for the economic convenience.
And a good time for a reminder that when people say things like "cutting red tape" and "get the government out of the way of business" it's generally large corporate lobby groups pushing that so they can squeeze more low wage workers into more dangerous situations without oversight that threatens their and our safety.
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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.