(December 12, 2015 at 3:42 am)Exian Wrote: Man that's fucking scary. I remember being a dumb kid just starting out in the work force. I worked at a shady plastic factory, but because of my inexperience I didn't quite grasp the level of shadiness. Once during a shut down they told me to clean my cutting machine. Basically, plastic was pushed through a mold down into this long skinny pool of water to cool it, and I was at the cutter rolling the plastic after each cut, which cut at a set time. So I'm cleaning my machine and noticed some clippings around the cutter that needed cleaned up. I reached in and wiped it all out. Then the cutter came down on its set time.... Where my fucking hand just was. I was dumb, naive, and too trusting that these people knew what they were doing. I assumed they did a full lock-out/tag-out and I could have lost my hand.
My dad is a sheet metal worker. One day he heard a yelp and rushed to a fellow worker who was holding a hand with one less finger, my dad asked him how he'd done it "like this he said" swiping his hand at the machine he was using for shaping the metal losing another finger. Shock makes your brain not function.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
