Pipeline / Avulsion - Campfire Stories 

That reference legit made my day

But can they pick up chicks in it?

Was just about to say that.

@@noneedtoknow07 That's stupid. You can't pick up chicks in a tank!

@@Crybaton yeah they'll just jump in!

Or a sucking chest wound "Really put a damper on things."

Or when you talk about your time in the military.

@@Zach_Hazard you may have been the safest when in combat judging by how many times you’ve hurt yourself in civilian life!

@@brycealthoff8092 Pretty sure he got like 3 concussions and god knows whilst in the army

@@hmmyou2544 while he was in the military, yes. But he went to Iraq, an actual war zone, and came back without a scratch.

Believe me man, it definitely isn't out of pride. It's out of shame, for being incapable of providing for one's household, and the lack of knowledge / resources for better oppurtunity. It's also a dark spirally road of negative thought that tends to end in tragedy, if left without outside intervention. And if nothing else, im glad he still had friends he could rely on, who even got him a job, and out of that road.

@@emosgowoof in the wise words of uncle iroh, "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source."

Because we live in a society that deifies "success " and demonized "failure" even though most cases of both are caused by the same inequalities and injustices in the system.

It's an issue that still affects veterans

@@davidmarsh7933 probably way more non veteran homeless than not

this

The problem is: I’m a lot of states, it’s legal for jobs to say “well, the law says we don’t have to tell you why we are firing you, for your own pride, so… “personal disagreements” “

@@SamuraiBonesie Yep, fucking Right to Work 😡

@@SamuraiBonesie and people wonder why people are still rioting, calling out the government, or come to the realization that the National debt is the reason for most of America’s problems

Thats what i liked while i worked for amazon, you know your salary before you even apply (depending on ads you see). While they get shit (that they deserve) for other things, i hope more employers pick up that practice. Seeing a job offer without salary is so infuriating

100%. I work in medicine and I seen companies sued for less. He told a lawyer and he'd have walked away with enough money to buy that house he's always wanted.

How do we tell him this is statue of limitations here or ?

Honestly, theyre spoiling us

I honestly did not even notice that until I read your comment, by which time I had already finished the video...

@@daddyjesuschrist You know, it's ironic because I, for whatever reason, started to scroll into the comments as the video was playing, and right when I clicked "View replies" and looked at your name, Zach, said "Jesus Christ." I shall take this a sign of...something.

nah this was a stealth pod cast

I can see why he’s not a fan of this country now

"One Brain Cell Between Them: True stories of the post-military trudge."

"Explosive Residue: the whacky lives Burnfire & Hazard"

They did its called campfire stories

@@mitchellbonds766 that actually made me forcefully Snicker

Fart Knocker and the Testicle: the podcast : the biography

And people think there are no reason for people to be rioting and calling out how corrupt the government is and how stupid The National Debt is

@@uria3679 and he's STILL paying off student loan tell me if that shit isn't crippling af and i'll slap u in the face

@@Codex_0613 yes. He's paying a loan, with more loans, from 2007. 15 years ago.

@@Codex_0613 I thought his GI bill was paying for his student loans?

@@Bananwaffles because he dropped out he has to pay it back

Journalist would have a pen and pad and mutter "gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, GIMME"

i have a feeling his biography would be thicker than the dictionary

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus Look for the ones called rayzisnaziblablablabalbablablabalblablablblablalblbalblalbalblablabl

Honestly, if he writes his own autobiography, it would sell like hotcakes.

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus you have the Vietnam War to thank for bringing down TRUE journalism

That's... That's honestly something that a Darryl would do

@@theunlikelyhero123meh3 I mean, guy was an ex prison guard and ex marine with ptsd, what did they expect would happen when they decided to make the poor guys life hell. Last I heard they tried charging him for arson but an insanity plea was put on the table, don’t know how all that turned out as I moved back to Texas a few years ago.

what a legend. good on darryl.

Go Darryl

Sounds like management fucking deserved it. Darryl sounds like a chill dude, and everyone has their limits.

Yeah. Generally it's never financially feasible to do that. Which the company knows.

@@darkjesterxiii It's only a viable option if you _know_ the company will settle. Which is nearly never

@@darkjesterxiii Pretty sure gasoline and matches are more affordable than lawyers.

@@ClonedGamer001 with the advent of twitter and social media spaces, making companies settle over issues like that is remarkably easy compared to years past.

@@Fox_Olive True, especially when you have enough people behind you (which Mike definitely would in this case! I think the problem though is that this was many years ago now. It might be too late to file a suit

Give them the Jimmy Hoffa treatment Eh?

I do Industrial construction in the refineries. If anyone tried sayin we weren't getting paid OT, I guarantee either no work would get done or the whole crew would drag

I'm not a saint. I'm just non-confrontational.

@@Zach_Hazard The pain of being non-confrontational in the times where you really do need to confront people about things.

He could have said "make sure I get that overtime or I won't come back" and boom a lot of this alleviated. Stand your ground, they are on the back foot not you

Osha is big brother

@@dinodude6992 Big Brother wish it was as competent as OSHA

I work with engineers now and have learned that OSHA is terrifying because they're arguably second only to the IRS at digging up dirt about what you, personally, have been doing and then punishing you for it. So many stories about other guys getting busted and fined and fired for breaking the regulations. (Grant you, a lot of these regulations involved public safety and water safety especially so I'm not complaining.) At this stage OSHA probably knows where I was day drinking in Pittsburgh.

@@subtlewhatssubtle Regulations are written in the blood of workers who broke them. My little test for if someone can be reasoned with is if they think OSHA is necessary, despite if they like them or not.

OSHA, much like Baskin Robbins, always finds out.

Yeah on god, this gave me second hand anxiety, especially the parts about looking for jobs and having to go to worthless unemployment courses

I live in SG, and I thought I had it bad when i spent years working a single temp job on/off while still living off my parents and stuggling to find full time. Then COVID came, killed the careers of the rest of my family (all of them had jobs related to the tourism industry, go figure) then suddenly I had to step up and be a breadwinner. Then I listen to these campfire stories and read a lot of American workplace horror stories on reddit and suddenly I appreciate my situation a lot better and glad where I currently work (full time now, thank god) at least there's govt enforced standards of pay and work hours.

"Also, let's spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on the military! And freak out when that much is suggested over 10 years for literally anything else!"

Because politicians don't care about people and only want to save money for themselves or the companies that own them.

And people think there are no reason for people to be rioting and calling out how corrupt the government is and how stupid The National Debt is

I've never heard any major political talk about a need to save money. It's always that there's not enough money. Not everyone is aware, but in the congressional budget, everything gets an annual spending increase. Repeat, every year, more money is spent on the same stuff. If you try to even reduce the amount of the INCREASE for that year, politicians will furiously scream that the budget is being gutted by their opposition, and get that request denied. And this is just part 1 of why we have constant debt limit crises. What to do? Increase the credit limit, of course.

@@steveheist6426 blame NATO countries for not contributing to defence

And Mike's done some voice-acting work, like finishing Doc Friday's unvoiced lines, and they both have pretty decent vocal range, so... This is a good idea

Facts

didn't mike already made a mod with voice acting and everything? i remember al even doing videos on it

Mike has made a few mods

I'd play anything they released, for sure.

His sister has it. I believe he doesn't have it

he got cheese in his pants

@@SummeryMussel9 he does. He talked about it in a campfire stories video. I even remember mike making a joke about how zach would die if he ate pizza because he has celiac disease (cant eat bread) and he’s lactose intolerant

And a TBI. Three concissions.

@@scowler7200 also, Ft. Polk.

Permanent damage, but practically immortal.

@@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer exactly

Deadpool

@@Lance-The-BoS-Lancer If Zach's body were to be sectioned into equal parts, which part would hold his conscience? Or do all of his severed body parts gain his conscience?

@@kavky all damage stays there, but the part is still alive, jist without connection.

Zach should found a political party.

@@arx3516 Zach just tells his stories and rally People with him, because he is so relatable.

@@arx3516 he'd be just as capable as any other presidential candidate we've had the last about 30 years

America increasingly resembles a third-world country for an increasing proportion of its citizens.

I understood some of those words!

Funnily enough, the few companies I worked at that had that policy, no one gave a shit and everyone was getting paid exactly what you would expect for their position and time with the company

The problem is, the federal government has so much power in the US that corruption is the single most lucrative thing for any business to partake in. The pharmaceutical industry is by far the worst example of this, where the government just shuts down any company that becomes successful and isn't paying them "campaign donations", but it's a problem across the board. To make matters worse, we've got a bunch of morons on both the right and the left who want to solve this problem of an overbloated government that has too much power over people's lives, by giving that same government even more control over people's lives

In Hungary I can't do these kinds of jobs, but they look fun. If there's like a charger that can be used for laptops or phones then I could even learn, or just chill out when it's off times I guess.

Im a security guard, what kinda papers i need to do that on the water?

@@whtwolf100 Commercial ships don't typically have security guards, except probably cruise ships. I haven't sailed on one before Ports will have security, but that's kind of outside of my area. You'd probably still need a TWIC

I wanted to get into some kind of seafaring job but when I looked into it, it seemed like the only way to get into the industry was to basically enlist in the CG or Navy Is this the case?

@@spamreciever4208 Nope, that's one of the biggest misconceptions about the industry. Most of the guys on my ships never served in the military, myself included. You can attend a maritime academy, which is a 4 year college, and work as a navigation officer or engineer. Alternatively, you can join one of the unions' training programs. This is a lot shorter, but you'll start out as an Ordinary seaman/wiper, and get paid less than the officers. After enough seatime, OS/wipers can get their AB/Oiler license. After that, they can take classes and eventually test to become officers. If you're a high schooler/vet, I'd recommend the academy route. It's more regimented than a typical college, but you're fasttracking your way to captain/chief engineer.

glad you got your money , that sucks man

Zach makes death saving throws so often that God as the DM thinks they're loaded

Nah, he isn't missing any fingers, and they've healed pretty much entirely. They're kind of scarred, but that's it.

@@Zach_Hazard Glad to hear the doctors 'doing what they could' was good enough!

@@xandyflare god would know if their loaded cause he was the one who loaded them

i fucking hate those bosses. they were everywhere in job corps, and they REALLY did not give a shit about anyone and clearly didn't want to be there at all

Here is a little insight from Belgium in Europe where Unions are standard and have a good foothold in companies. A colleague of mine once received a mail from HR because he wasn't using his full 30 minutes lunch break ( he was clocking in at 28 minutes or so) for the last few weeks. it felt like HR was afraid that he was forced to work extra and would go complain to the unions (yes we have multiple in each business).

@@yoekix it's almost like unions and pro-worker stuff are necessary for people to not get walked all over by conpanies who don't give a shit about you. gotta love america and its bullshit anti-union and inflammatory propaganda about the rights of the people

@@corvusvocatio I was once in the union working for a grocery store back then it paid nothing and now I'm in the fast industry ey it's basically shit where cheap ass because we can put no air conditioner in kitchen and near dishwasher.

@@corvusvocatio It's almost like the reason why Americans with functioning brains are anti-Union is because in most cases, the Union doesn't give a shit about you either. As long as they get their membership dues and their cuts from the company, they literally don't care. Therein lies the problem with any organization with authority: They have no real reason to give a shit about you. If you quit, get fired, or die, they'll just replace you with somebody else. You are nothing but cogs in a machine, with or without a Union. At the end of the day you and you alone are responsible for making sure your interests are being looked out for. Imagine thinking "Union" immediately means "these people will take care of me" lmao why, because they say they will? Employers say that shit too, what makes you think the Union will be any better?

I think he was a bit too busy reacting to the fact that Zach got fucking tesla'd.

@@RedShocktrooperRST you could say that Zach was “Thunderstruck”

@@projectboxtrot8723 badum tsssss *Laughtrack*

Small world, I've suspected the guys were from this area for a while

I think Gentex does rearview mirrors too

OHY GOD THANK YOU. The name was on the tip of my tongue.

@@underpaidoverworked4250 The Alarm company?

@@voltronimusprime3833 Gentex has a hand in just about everything

“Safety third”, right after Budget and Schedule

@@reverendraven4661 i would guess budget and schedule is within the efficiency.

Literally most jobs are like this.

When I was younger I'd sit in my room making weird noises a lot.

​@@Zach_Hazard I was an only child until I was 13 with a single parent since I was 8. I had a lot of alone time so I did the same. I still do

"Family" and "Work" are like oil and water

*18 hours?* no days off? plus fucking commute? and he had the audacity to chew you out? i'm surprised you didn't kill him

Yeah, that's probably it

Feeling this right now. Hope you found what you needed.

I can understand why so many people want revolution now

You're welcome.

By that you just mean adderall?

My current boss has two yachts. But they can't raise the food budget for the medical facility that is hemmoraging utility staff to pay the nutritionists and kitchen workers worth a damn. I see where the priorities lie.

That’s how it is. Owner steals the workers money and uses it for themselves. Human greed at its finest

And then it was taken away by everyone’s favorite villain: the us government

Can they pick up chicks in it?

@@pretendthisnameisfunny2197 You can pick up chicks in a tank!

Shelia was the lady in the tank.

If I work a job in the future where I deal with angry retired people, I will probably just tell them to either get out of my way, or call the police and then get out of my way.

You just reminded me, when I was a kid s housefire killed my grandparents and some of my aunts. My mom has always insisted it was because the gas company fucked up installing the pipelines (the fire started beneath the house)

Hey I know that guy!

But remember if the tool knows how to talk and breath they can break and when they do *you might be the one who they break :)*

FYI more than unionize individual workplaces, join the one big union.

Unions can be just as bad so be careful with that

@@BayouBoy2443 At least with a Union, you can fight for better pay, argue for better treatment, ensure better accountability with your employer, and have more say in how the company is run. Unions can still be corrupt and problematic. There was recently a massive scandal with the Teamsters Union about sexual misconduct and racist hiring practices, but lets not pretend that corporations dont have the same issue, and at least theres more democracy in a Union compared to working to the equivalent of a feudal lord in a non-union workplace.

@@BayouBoy2443 There was that story where the milk delivery guy stopped and didn't do any work until he got paid more. Now imagine if everyone did that. That's a strike.

And people say that there is no reason for people to riot, or call out how the corrupt the government is, or how stupid the National Debt is

In the war on terror they didn't waste time nor money, weapon manufacturers got richer, mission accomplished!

Tbh the Middle East was much more tidy before US intervention and War on Terror. It was shit, but not as shit as now.

I’m glad you said the politicians and not the “right” or “left” cause it’s a shitshow on both sides. Also you know someone’s going to complain that I said right before left so let’s just see how that plays out XD

@@K-11609 well, when you consider that the US dosen't really have a left wing... Republicans being more to the right than Democrats dosen't make them left wing

It great needing several years experience or a diploma for entry level work at basically anything these days. I've been running the newpapers every single day for over a year now in the mornings, while also working afternoons as a health care worker for the old and infirm- both jobs I only got because they were desperate for workers. But yeah, like you said, it's damn near impossible to find good work to start your life out with. Need experience to work but need work to get experience. Or they just have unrealistic goals for their jobs. I applied at my local mayor's office to basically just file paperwork, and they wanted an English degree, four years or better. For filing *paperwork*.

@PheenX: I'm right there with you in the application void, mate. Everything I've sent out has either been ignored or the interviews were never fruitful. So many "we'll-call-you's" that never yielded results. I got laid off of a good job right before COVID hit and I haven't been able to rebound since. Had a few short term gigs, but otherwise... nothing worthwhile. I'm hoping things will get better for the world soon. Though frankly, I don't count on it. Good to be hopeful, but things are looking grimmer everyday.

Even at my job which is higher pay than that I’ve sat down and done the math. If you do more than 8 hours overtime per pay period (2 weeks at my job) you lose anything past those initial 8 overtime hours to taxes.

Man, if only they stopped stealing all our money

...Thats not how taxes work at all. Maybe whatever weird state your in has taxes for overtime but the fed sure as hell doesnt

@@rockboy3970 can comfirm, I live in GA and whenever I got overtime it was the same tax rate as if I didn't work overtime, so I still ended up with a net positive

@@mastemathedank4043 a positive that can be less than what you usually take home per hour.

Is that a controls like a dream or controls like a baked potato

@@egg1510 depends all on if it's wet and the attachment...or if it has a kabota motor

@Warlok it can be both and called both...it's a not all squares are rectangles kinda thing. A dingo can have a trencher attachment. so it can be used as a ditch witch or as skid steer aka dingo... We have one at work that's for sure skidsteer like but has factory stickers that say ditch witch

Yeah, a really fun arcade machine that is great at crushing stuff for funsies. I MEAN I WOULD NEVER DO THAT, OSHA.

@@Zach_Hazard they are definitely faster funner and heavier than when I first expected and who cares what OSHA thinks anyway as long as you're wearing your proper PPE

But why does she have six pedals if there's only four directions?

at least it's not like restaurant work where everyone is addicted to drugs and no one wants to actually work

@@kekula69 I've worked construction for a few years now, and I'm privileged enough to afford to pay my bills. Nothing in construction is harder than restaurant work, because in a restaurant you get 0 break time. You don't get a lunch. You never sit down. If you sit down, the manager screams in your face after work. And this wasn't McDonald's, this was a nice, family-owned Italian restaurant. If you show initiative like I did, and learn how to do other shifts so you can take on more responsibility, you have to do those other shifts without any increase in pay. You have to do more jobs for the same pay, because they will pay you the minimum they think they can get away with. They will pay you nothing and when you quit, they will say "nobody wants to work". I've had the owner text me multiple times asking me to fill shifts for him, because I didn't have the heart to flip off management and make life harder for the workers next to me. So yeah, when I have to deal with the guy in charge of my paychecks screaming in my face all day, and deal with customers bitching about me not being able to make a fucking vegan chicken pizza, and having the wait staff get pissed off at me not being able to fill 5 pizzas in 5 minutes, I'm tempted to want to get some fuckin' release. When I get told that not only is my job 'non-skilled' and that I shouldn't dare expect a living wage, I don't want to work there. I hated that fuckin' job, and I've had to clean out toilets in abandoned houses with no water used by homeless guys. I've had to deal with people screaming in my fuckin' face that they would shoot me if I dared to stand on the sidewalk the banks told us to replace. I've had to work with no benefits 60 hours a week breaking concrete and forming while my back is so fucked that I cannot stand straight and I can't file shit because there was no union. I'd still rather take that than working for dirt wages in a business that thought I was worth less than $15 because they could replace me in a week with a fresh hire no matter how much responsibility I took on, because they would just shift it to the other employees. So yeah, not a big fuckin' shocker nobody wants to work in restaurants.

@@kekula69 with all the inconsiderate pricks who go to restaurants, who would want to a) work there b) do it sober

"Once you have their money, you never give it back." Ferengi Rule of Acquisition no. 1

Nah it’s their fault

As a fiber installer working directly for the ISP, I feel this. We'll get 4 installs a day, all of which will take 3-4 hours for one person to do by themselves. We work 10 hour days yet we're supposed to do 12 hours of work in that time, plus the mandated hour for lunch, plus the 30 minute average drive time between jobs. After months of screaming at leadership that we either need less jobs per person or an extra set of hands with every installer, we got... one less install a day. Usually. If someone calls out we're all still fucked. All while the people running this shit show get to work from home and clock out on time, while making twice my wage. And they wonder why the turnover rate is so bad.

That's why you need communism. Death to borgers, glory to workers.

@@jamesoprey6330 That is unless they disagree, then it's mass shooting to workers

@@jamesoprey6330 so you want to be treated like a Activision employee?😒 (I’m being serious)

Been there, i work as a unitizer operator at a box plant. Aside from the machine being a pain in the ass sometimes cause its a prototype and the program is still beta stage, not super terrible after they got most of the bugs in the program worked out. Still tho have my shit days.....

Some places, you have a month grace period. I went to community though, so I don't know if Zach was at a university or something and how those work. But there is a grace period, at least in Maryland communities, to try the classes to see if they fit and duck out before things get too involved

i lost my middle finger tip to a tablesaw cus i wasnt looking at what i was doing, lucky it only hit the tip of my middle finger and just scraped my ring finger tip, i had no bone left on the middle finger tip so they just amputated the what was left of the skin/nail. That sounds bad but my sister is a nurse and talked about how people could get a bunch of them cut off fully and reattaching is probably a lot longer and harder thing then just losing the tip, so i know that feeling. Its funny tho when i flip people off now tho xP

Yeah or a argument for unionizing everything.

God that subreddit is unironically a tragedy

@@void8617 in what way?

@@zeratul____1228 It was full of people legitimately pushing for better work conditions and treatment and essentially was fucked over by a pathetic reddit moderator going behind their backs to be their "representative"

@@toxiccorgi2108 How though?