To give you an idea on how dangerous trash compactors are, when I worked at WalMart, yes WalMart, they wouldnt let anyone but a certified person use it. And WalMart treats its employees like trash and breaks plenty of labor laws.
Oh yeah man. I worked as aminor for them and they told me "just dont even look at it because only certified adults can use it. Minors cant even be near the thing. Trash compactors are scary shit.
I worked at one a few years back. They only let adults use it, and only the janitors and managers could tie the bales and remove them from the machine. After that anyone could move the bale away. But any adult could throw trash in and compress it.
Trash compactors are some of the most scary shit I've seen whilst working as an Emergency chaplain (I hope that this is the right translation for someone from the Fire department who talks with the witnesses to process the things they had seen). And I got to see one picture of a poor lad getting chewed by such a thing. Still something that keeps me up at nights
Probably got sued is why they changed that. When I worked there (long time ago) you didn't have to be certified just trained. The only thing you had to be certified on was the power lifter and fork lift. Also we got paid more to work sundays, I know they don't do that anymore.
@@drwboy07 Like I said, I worked there about 3 years ago. So you just have to be an adult, and only managers/janitors can finish it. I do know the power and fork lifts are still certified only. Can't say anything about Sunday pay since I worked nights.
I'm with rSlash on this one...crushed to death along with trash is probably not on anyone's list of best ways to go! Kudos to Kenny for not letting this happen!
a couple of months ago a cleaner died when his head got crushed by the trash compactor in my apartment building. it wasn't clear how it happened. it was early morning when it happened. his colleague found him
I would have gotten someone to stand there yelling as it compacted while I watched from a hiding spot.... "OMG!!! HE'S A GONER!!!!!!!" "Well he asked me to be a spotter... so I spotted him crawl in and then I spotted it start up..."
I did something similar to the coffee guy once...a friend was a real snob about wine, saying how he can tell a cheap from expansive "premium" wine. So when it was my turn to bring the wine for a gathering with friends, I bought a cheap 10$ wine and a 50$ wine...and just switched the bottles, brought both to the party and snob only wanted to drink the cheap wine solely because of the bottle!
I saw it a long time on a Benny Hill comedy show. A man ordered wine. He doesn't like the taste and ordered a different brand. He then liked the new one. Behind the scene, out of the man's view.... it was THE SAME BOTTLE, the waiter just switched labels. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
If taking the property is not in the rules then it's time to file a lawsuit. When the university is served with papers they will do something about it. Not just say "The RA is right, do what they say."
It shouldn't need to go legal tho! If we assume the OP is being 100% honest, everything was in accordance with the housing rules, and even if it doesn't the RA *doesn't have the right to seize property*. Both of these are easily provable to the housing authority, and if they don't like it take it up the chain all the way to the dean!
colleges have legal departments for student use. Usually its for shitty landlords thinking they could take advantage of college students... oh wait! But anyway, the point is that while theyll tell you no because they wont use their own labor to file a suit, it would definitely be enough to catch their attention without having to have filed or paid anything.
@@randycarter2001 that's a leap of logic imo. The RA and housing authority person were apathetic, so get a meeting with the head of the housing authority. If that doesn't work, go to student life. Just keep going up until you find someone who cares
At one of my old jobs we had a guy go under a table that was on hydraulics. First day of his first job. It came down and crushed him killing him instantly. So yeah. Stay safe kids
See, I'm petty. For the coffee one, I just wouldn't bring in any coffee on my next turn and point out Coffee Karen said to bring the good stuff or none at all. Good on this guy for turning his MC into a positive and helping a local business.
They'd probably stop sharing their coffee with the OP, and he probably relies on it. Though if he brought his cheap coffee, and set it next to the coworkers who share coffee -- he probably could just drink his stuff and leave the other stuff alone. Making a petty power-play can be fun sometimes, but he'd have a lot more to lose in this situation. Not even accounting for all the other random nice favors people probably do for him that would probably stop if he became really petty. --- I agree that requiring him to bring in expensive coffee was wrong. They should have an established min/max price limit. Or even assign a specific brand everyone buys so it's always the same price.
I mean, that story sounds 100% fake. It makes no sense at all for the coffee shop to be okay with it. How could the owner have known no one at the company knows what good coffee tastes like? It seems like it was a really good way to just make people think his store sells shit coffee.
@@Zorae42 The owner is making an assumption based on the context of what he was being told. The point is that if the co-workers thought the switched out coffee was so good, apparently they don't know shit about what good coffee is.
@@ChaosLightspeed But the owner wouldn't know they would think the switched out coffee is good. They had to agree to that first with no knowledge of how people would react, and like I said, that's just a good way to make people think you make shit coffee.
Lol, anyone who's seen Security Breach will tell you why getting into a trash compactor is a bad idea. Actually, anyone with a BRAIN will tell you why getting into a trash compactor is a bad idea!!
I have one of my fingertips crushed by a hydraulic log splitting machine, got stuck between the piston and the log. That day I learned that hydraulic pistons do not discriminate or ask questions the hard way :'D
Kenny reminds me of my old, now retired, union head Richie. Richie took no crap from any higher up, especially when they were being stupid. He too had his share of screaming matches, and a total idgaf attitude. He once totally ignored the “order” of the company Sales VP because he wasn’t his boss. He did it to prove a point, per the rules of the shop, only the foreman can assign tasks. So when the VP told him, didn’t ask, told him to move his toolbox back to his station even though that day Richie was working clear across the shop floor, Richie didn’t even respond, just ignored him. He told him again to do it, Richie looks up from his work finally and just says, “nope” and continued working. VP goes to the shop foreman, tells him what happened and that basically he needs to get his workers under control. Shop foreman, obviously knowing what Richie was like, goes up to him, with the VP there, and says his tool box needs to stay in his area. Asking him to move it back. Richie just says, “sure thing boss” and immediately moves it back. Which of course infuriated the VP, but he could do nothing. Some of those higher ups really hated him, but Richie didn’t care, they honestly couldn’t touch him. And he retired a few years back. Btw. Damn things are on wheels, why were they such sticklers about it?)
@@guitarbass22 More then likely they are understaffed OR run by the 1st or 5th type of officers. The officer(/any position to apply discipline) types are basically 1-here to do a job and get paid, 2-here to get paid but is also somewhat friendly with people(friendly neighborhood cop), 3-Here to make the world better by a soft hand, here to make the world better by a hard fist(not evil but they won't just let folks avoid punishment.) and 5- power hunger psychos who are also commonly lazy when it comes to actually doing their jobs.
@@Speedrunner0218 I agree, but there are employers who don't inform their employees of their rights. Some employees are afraid of being fired for insubordination. Most employees don't know their rights or have the knowledge to access their rights to a safe work environment 🤔
Voluntary unions are fine. The problem is when they become tyrannical and evil and stop people from working. For example, I have the fundamental human right to train myself and work as a carpenter. If a union comes along and says: "you have to join the union, or you can't be a carpenter", then that is evil. Ask me to join or convince me to join, that's great. Force me to join by threatening my life or livelihood, that is evil and unacceptable. Many unions go with the evil route and that is why most people oppose unions now.
@@warrenmcdonald8170 Also, like many social movements, once the pressing need that inspires the founders is countered, they can be replaced by more cynical and corrupt leaders.
Coffee snobbery is such a hoot. Right up there with audiophiles for people convinced by the expense of their equipment rather than if it makes any damned difference to outcome.
I mean, the real enthusiasts for both coffee and audio equipment go for the best bang for the buck and don't judge you for just using what you enjoy. I've spent a couple hundred on decent audio equipment because I notice a difference, but if you're just using your dirty buds because they work for you and sound good, then crack on, y'know?
I will have you know that when I listen to awful punk rock that I use only the worst earbuds possible. Nothing beats listening to punk while using earbuds that can only rattle on one side because it exploded in my ear many years ago.
@@jordananderson2728A couple hundred is nothing. Some people spend *thousands* on very expensive placebo bullshit. For audiophiles it is gold connectors, beech knobs, concrete dampeners, valve amps etc. For coffee snobs it is artisan coffee brands, and ridiculous chrome steam contraptions with umpteen dials and levers. People with more money than sense in both cases. I had an interesting discussion with someone who just couldn't fathom that forcing water at the proper temperature & pressure through some coffee is not rocket science and could be done using a cheap espresso machine. Or that coffee beans of the same blend & roast that are not deficient in some way probably taste similar regardless of the label / cost. A blind A-B test is the way these things should be used to remove biases. But fools and their money are soon parted.
I’m a snob for quality not price 🤣 I tried a pair of those beats headphones, they sound awful compared to a simple set of Sony’s regular ones. Cheaper coffees can taste better depending on your preference, brands/price are a status thing, not quality.
@@drxym I know that in the grand scheme of snake oil audiophile equipment, a few hundred is almost a rounding error; that's why the most I'd ever do for a good listening setup is a good pair of something like the old HD600s and a decent DAC/amp, because anything else is just lacking marginal benefit for the cost.
The coffee one reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story of a famous writer who submitted a story under a different name just to see what would happen. It was rejected. Sometimes people do judge a book (or a bag of coffee) by its cover.
There's actually been quite a few writers out there through history under pen names who were female and just using a male name because their books wouldn't get published otherwise.
And if the kid had been me, it would have been completely unnoticed until some dumbass switches the compactor thing on with me inside. And then angry & concerned parents & family calling, demanding answers, and then find themselves facing a lawsuit at the bare minimum.
For the last story I have some experience in that. In one online game (I won't mention which) I attempted to help out players who would try to appeal or didn't know what they were banned for and man most of them said some toxic garbage in their chat logs. Some of them were mostly ok and I referred them to be reviewed but for the majority they really deserved to be temporarily or permanently banned.
I did exactly that same kind of thing before, I used to be a more senior admin in a pretty decent sized gaming community. We had a big presence in "Battlefield Play4Free" we had 6 of our own private servers for it at our peak, had some rando come on our website to appeal a ban in one of the servers, I had a more junior admin specifically who handled the ban appeals, but he wasn't happy with my admin's decision to uphold the ban so he decided to private message me which irritated me because we made it pretty clear that for non-community members, that admin I put over ban appeals was the final decision maker. So, I looked through the chat logs on all of our servers, found the guy was generally a terrible person in our other servers, so I messaged him back and told him not only was the ban for the one server upheld, but I was banning him from our other 5 servers too.
Toxic and abusive people never admit to being toxic or abusive, or, on occasion, they will, but then immediately make excuses, most often, "you made me do/say the bad thing, so it's not my fault!"
The first story could have become one of those that Mr. Ballen tells on his channel. It´s a good thing he had the common sense not to blindly follow orders and put his safety first.
If that's of interest to you then the next time the like button asks you for a link, send them a link to a video of Rick Astley's, 'Never Gonna Give You Up' and disguise it as whatever it was they were wanting to see.
Same! At first I was working my way through all the videos and now I'm done and sometimes I do listen to old ones again just for something to listen to
I never get why people ever give their work places extra time. I use to make sure I got every min of pay and would seriously have worked less if I knew I wouldn't. Not to say I was lazy, I am a good employee but I do it for pay
Some places (like where i work) roll out the extra time acumulated as less work hours. Like every +120 minutes of overtime acrued means i get 1/4 of one of my shifts off in a week or two. Always better to go home just a bit early.
That first story is yikes. I work at a retail store and have has some shifts in processing (unloading and opening boxes), and one if the first things they tell you is: DONT GO IN THE TRASH COMPACTOR. How did he possibly think that would be okay??
I always say "life's to short to drink crappy coffee", but with that said I will not hate on slightly lesser than great coffee if it is communial coffee. For myself I buy the best I can afford. And higher price does not always mean better coffee.
The game ban reminds me of something I came across on the World of Warcraft customer service forums ages ago. Someone posted that they were temporarily banned without provocation. They post their character name and server they were playing on. There was a bunch of conjecture about what this guy could have gotten banned for, and the OP proclaiming their innocence, saying all he did was link an item. A GM finally joins the thread, saying that he apologizes if there was some confusion to the nature of his suspension. He assured the OP that it is acceptable to discuss items in the game, such as the [Huge Brown Sack]. However, there’s a difference between discussing the item as it exists in the game and discussing in the World trade channel how said item was in OP’s face at a frat party. The GM said he hopes that OP can see the distinction now.
That coffee shop owner was a smart businessman, instead of getting offended that OP was putting that lowly coffee into one of his bags, he saw it as free advertising instead.
I've worked in retail for long enough to be pretty damn positive that every single trash compactor thing ever *explicitly states DO NOT CRAWL INSIDE TO UNJAM*. A long stick or broom or something of that nature is SUPPOSED to be provided to assist with such a thing.
@ContradictoryCrow 1) They probably have rowdy kids. 2) They probably work in a stupid environment with stupid people. 3) Maybe they just don't wanna work.
Coffee story: I don't get how people can just let Karens like that win. Sure, OP kept the good stuff to themself but they allowed Karen to believe they actually listened to her and inadvertantly supported her elitism. I would have shut that shit down asap. Same plan, but as soon as Karen complimented it I would I have told her the truth, then told her if she threatens to prehibit my use of the coffee machine again I'll go to HR. Massive waste of time for HR but I'm sure they'd back up OP since they were compliant to the only rule regarding use of the coffee machine
I consider any malicious compliance, xxxxrevenge or even entitled parents/person story that ends with the target learning a lesson (rather than just being punished) to be a positive one.
Instead of leaving the meeting early, should have been like "oh no, its fine, I can hand out assignments and get things started after the 15 minute meeting wraps up, they can chill and wait"
Speaking of game bans I had my character erased in gta5. Supposedly I was cheating even though I was streaming everything at the time so there was proof I didn't. But Rockstar had implemented their "No overturning bans" policy a few months before that. And of course people on the forums just assumed I did hack even when I'd link them my stream and their response was "I'm not watching anything your clearly a cheater Rockstar doesn't ban anyone who's innocent" Honestly absurdly annoying and made me just quit that game entirely when my ban was up. As far as I could tell it didn't like the overwolf app I had installed at the time which I used for hearthstone arena runs.
Thank you so much for the warning in the beginning!!!! I have a severe phobia of big machine, especielly those that can kill people in an instance such as that one in the story. Seriously, I cant stress this enough, you really saved me from a panic attack by mentioning it in the beginning so i knew to skip that part.
I so love Union Reps, always talk to them before doing something stupid. If you do not have one... well, that boss would have had you in a compactor, or fired, wouldn't they? Get yourself a Union Rep, it is illegal for a company to attempt to stop you!
God: "My child, you weren't supposed to arrive yet. What happened?" OP's dad: "My boss made me crawl inside a jammed trash compactor. You can imagine what happened afterwards." God: *proceeds to projectile vomit everywhere* "Oh Jesus Christ!" Jesus: "You called dad?"
As a psychology major, I can tell you to never underestimate the power of the placebo effect. The Karen most likely actually tasted the good coffee despite it being the cheep coffee because she thought it was the good coffee.
Always remember to LOTO (Lock out tag out) the main power source(s) of ALL machinery before maintenance or any kind of work on machines. Never ever place any part of your body inside a trash compactor, unless you have locked it out and be sure to follow all LOTO procedures. LOTO procedures places a red lock on the power source of a machine and prevents it from being turned on while you work on it. Only you have access to your LOTO locks. Death or serious injury could occur if you dont follow LOTO procedures properly. Remember, there's nothing worth as much as your life or any part of your body. Safety first or expect the worst. Your safety matters. You matter more than product.
So on the last story about the kid getting banned. Mother: Un-Ban my son’s Xbox, he done nothing wrong. I watch him all the time. Microsoft: He was banned for the following reasons. Me: Wait. She said all the time, I think I need to call the police.
RA story: I would have brought a highlighter and when I got to the part that says she can’t confiscate stuff I would have highlighted it and said, “Hey, this doesn’t seem right… maybe i should reread this just to make sure.” And go back to the beginning. And when I get back to that section: “Huh, I still don’t understand it. Better reread it.” I would have kept that up until she gave me my stuff back.
For the last story, I have to wonder if the ban was actually legitimate considering that "racist", "sexist", and "homophobic" have become code for you said things I didn't like for a lot of regressive morons out there who like to use these bans as a power trip over normal people. The whole part of him threatening to go to someone's house is definitely crossing a line, and I'm more willing to believe that.
If you ever experienced a COD lobby pre infinate warfare, you know that things like insults, threats to come to your house, and constant use of slurs was typical, and personally i found that really fun, because back than, aslong as you didnt go too far, you could say anything you want, with the most they would do is maybe boot you off or if they are extremely pissed order you a pizza, but were too lazy to actually go through with the empty threats. And banning people for this while yes, is a way to stop it, i think you should just get muted instead, as banning someone for saying words because they died 87 times in a row i think is a bit much, plus, toxic players can exist and are typically not the best in the game, so they can retroactively make the game more fun if they got say a permanent mute (although i believe no ban or mute should be permanent as you may have been more toxic than uranium at 10 but you probably are much more manageable at 20) because if the toxic kids are bad at the game. You can kill them, and cus they are muted, you not only get the glory of killing them, but also get that sweet sweet satisfaction knowing the toxic kid got muted for 10 years
The server ban story: Oh, man, that takes me back. Early college days where I had the time and energy to commit to moderating a little GMod Jailbreak server. It's defunct now. Went down after a fracture among the moderation teams. Not before the splinter servers failed twice over, though it wasn't like I wanted to see them fail. They were still friends. Just about half of them decided they hated the owner and what he stood for.
I saw a video of a 911 call where a guy got his foot severed in a trash compactor on a heckin' huge property. No one was with him, and he was trying to direct the emergency workers on how to find him. Pretty horrible stuff. He survived.
I used to moderate for a (now defunct) social media site, and stories like that last one happened ALL the time lol. I cannot count how many times we would temp ban a user (starting from 2 hours, to 6, 12, 24, and then perma); they would then ban evade and make another account and continue to break the rules, and we would respond with "congratulations! You have upgraded to (larger ban time)! Have a great day. :)" Multiple times we had people go from 2 hour bans to permanent bans within the span of 20 minutes lol
That coffee owner was an absolute genius, at first he saw a funny thing to do but then OP returns and tells him how well it went, so continues the plan and ends up using it as free advertising. Now that is how you run a successful business.
George: OP, do something that you are not trained to do and could get you kill. Kenny: Goes Super Saiyan and unleashed a verbal beating so strong that it probably caused physical damage.
I’m a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious, so I know what could happen if you crawl into a trash compactor and I’d hate ending up in a Mr.Ballen video.
@@kurtstobbs9616 the man in the canning factory that got trapper in an oven and the lab technician in an autoclave come to mind. Also spelunking and cave diving, big nope.
If I was Kenny, part of my rant would be interrogating George as to what his excuse would be if Young Dad either got hurt or killed, whether he'd tell the truth that YD wasn't actually trained for that position but he'd told him to do it anyway or if he'd make up some bullshit that "YD was trained but, hey, accidents happen, am I right?" because, if I have to work for someone like George, I want to know whether or not the can they're caring will suddenly turn into a bomb with my name on it.
Coffee guy turned it into a positive. I'd have chosen the petty route and brought my own coffee maker. Cut me off that's fine. I'll get cinnamon to put in the grounds to make it fancy. Haha
You could slap expensive labels on any cheap stuff and Karens will always buy into it. It goes to show how vulnerable Karens are to the placebo effect. Their rich and spoiled mentality never fails to shine through.
Malicious compliance is probably the easiest in auto manufacturing plants. They are constantly doing illegal Osha non-compliant stuff. My dad got fired for refusing to do something super illegal then testified about it after someone was killed doing it a month layer.
one store i worked for had a bailer for crushing and wrapping old clothes into bundles. like a compactor but smaller. one kid on his first day there was packing stuff in the bailer and just started using his hands to shove it down and pack it in. the supervisor say this, physically grabbed him and pulled him away, and fired him right there on the spot. you do NOT mess around with that kind of equipment!
13:30 Two points. First, OP should have told Karen about the swap after a month or so. Might make her realise that the cheap coffee isn't so bad after all. Second, why would you use the cheap coffee instead of rabbit poop or something?
Just keep the game going. Only tell her that when one of you leaves the company... that she actually loves your cheap coffee. Just leave out the detail of the coffee owner's involvement. Or she might procure the expensive one's then you'll have to pay for it later.
I got fired over being -3 minutes late (under company policy of 7 minute leeway)in combination with night manager not answering their company phone to let me in(stood in 20 degrees for almost an entire hour). Needless to say that job wasn't worth the blatant safety violations and just lack of care for employees. My old job hired me back at a steep pay increase (about 30%).
One of my best friends coworkers was dumb and was unjamming a compactor and lost his leg. She said there was red everywhere and somehow his shoe came out fine.
For the coffee swap story? I used to do the same thing with my kid. My youngest daughter hated when I would buy the cheaper cereal she wanted the name brand so I would just buy the cheapest cereal and put it in the name brand box she never knew any better.
Story 1: I was tensing up. And god I felt my stomach drop out at the mention of OP's father even POSSIBLY getting into that compactor. Like I felt scared just thinking about it. Thank goodness for the union manager to make it clear that 'no training, no working on dangerous equipment'. If it were any other job, you know some poor underpaid worker would be pressured to do that. Thank goodness Kenny set him straight. And thank goodness for the regulations to fall back on.
In the 1970's when my dad was 17 his first job was for a roller shutter company .He would come in early, stay late work Saturdays and Sundays as he really wanted to keep his job and give a good impression. One day the boss came up to him and told him he was doing a great job and he would get a pay rise but there was a problem It was discovered that he should have been on a apprentice wage and not a mans wage when the new pay rise was added to a apprentice wage it turned into a pay reduction So by being a good worker and working hard he was told he was going to loose about a 3rd of his wages needless to say he left the next Friday
I can't see why the coffee house owner took that risk. All it would take is someone to say they don't like the coffee that is in his wrapper. Negative comments outweigh positive comments 10x. He was more likely to possibly lose business, rather than gain it.
I play GTAO occasionally and got a warning about being a bad sport. They overturned this as we'd just finished the mission and were headed back to base when my power went out knocking me out of the session. Oh, I should mention that we had serious problems, at the time, with power outages so it was more than once. It's just the time they warned me was over a session that was almost won and done.
The first story both made my blood boil and have it run like ice water! A person in my family almost died from crawling into a machine like that and he was trained in how to use them! (Some mistakes was made and that is why everything went terribly wrong) And to ask a collage kid who is not trained to do something like that makes me want to rip someones head off!
If I had to deal with the coffee situation, here is what I would do… Offer to do two months in a row to “make it up” to coffee Karen, then for the first month repackage decaf. Once everyone in the offices has gotten used to decaf change to extra strong coffee for the second month. Enjoy the chaos.
Ehh the coffee one is kinda off to me. Like, no, you shouldn't be expected to bring in expensive coffee, but if you're partaking in the expensive coffee that other people brought in but then turn around and bring in cheap stuff on your turn, that's just not cool. The best route would have just been to take your name off the rotation list, and just bring in your own personal coffee stash to use and let the other people worry about their expensive coffee.
The third story would have involved a ton of lawsuits on the useless cops, the RA, AND her assistant, and I would have made that university pay out the nose for those crimes being permitted...no wonder conventional education is going the way of the dinosaur.
In the top of the morning post, props on the new director for actually having the brain to follow up with all important parties, including the company manager. He is new after all, and so it's important he understand why she would need to leave and the potential deficit of forcing her to stay. Further more he even recapped what she missed. Good on him. Wish all managers had this initiative
Adam West's Batman and Robin tv series... The two heroes wore medieval knights armor. They got caught by a magnetic crane, and were dumped into a trash compactor. They were almost got crushed but Batman has a pressurized air canister with him (that he uses to pressurize the Batmobile's tires), and he released the air to counteract the compactor's pressure. I know that it won't work in real life because: A) air would just leak out of the compactor, and the two would still be crushed, or B) if there's actually a tight seal on the compactor, the air released would be crushing the two, and C) there's actually not enough air from a small canister to counteract the crushing pressure of the compactor. In all three instances, they're supposed to be dead, but not. They got out just fine from the metal cube that supposed to be their metallic coffin... with the help from the Gotham cops.
13:35 I remember I once got a 7 day ban in League of Legends because I said "That plan is stupid" and apparently that qualified as Bullying. Even my friends who do use sexist slurs, etc kept asking me "Dude, how do you keep getting banned so much??" I'm fairly certain LoL just had me on some weird blacklist PS. The "plan" was to go 5 top and take the first top tower instead of defending our inhibitor or dragon.
Be on time: I've done the math: Staying an extra five minutes on your own time adds up to over a day of free work in a year. Is your company so hard done by you need to volunteer one day a year? Get a better workplace.
The office one didn't seem bad to me. It makes sense to hold the meeting at the start of the day so people can get it over with and go on with their day. Then he made sure to fill her in on what she missed. It seems to me that he made the decision In good faith
I'm a bit of a coffee nerd and I like to share my good coffee with anyone at work who asks. I've even brought my espresso machine to work for a couple potlucks. That said, I won't turn down coffee someone gives me for free or put someone down for their choice of coffee. If there's one thing I stress more than anything else as a coffee nerd, it's you drink what you like. I like fruity light roasts, but If you like your beans roasted to charcoal over the pits of Mount Doom, that's your choice.
A roastery I often frequented had pretty funny baristas... They often start their shift by walking through the door carrying the most sugared, milk, creamed "coffee" from the Starbucks across the street. Other baristas will roast them for it, but would do the same thing themselves. Bless those lads, passionate to their craft without being judgy.
@@ChemySh Starbucks is fine for what they are, a purveyor of sugary, flavored drinks that may contain coffee. If you need that sweet kick, they're fine. Their actual coffee is fine. I wouldn't complain, but it's not my go to. I did like their single origin coffees, though. I have made my own frappes and I made a pumpkin spice syrup too. It's fun.
@@LuisCaneSec yeah, they're the only chain I know that always has cold brews in stock. And their frappes taste properly thick. One thing I appreciate most though, is how clean their places usually are. Starbucks is the place to go to when you just... want everything to work.
I'm glad that the first OP's dad didn't end up as a story on MrBallen's channel of dark, strange and mysterious in story format. Quite a few people have been industrially crushed or cooked to death at work in some of those stories...
i was just thinking about his channel when the words trash compactor came up. theres a story he tells about a legally blind person getting crushed in one when he went to find his phone in the apartment trash place.
Why would the owner of the coffee shop allow OP to put someone elses coffee in one of his bags? Or are they just generic bags? Because it might have ended differently with everyone saying "Bob's Coffee Hut's coffee tastes exactly like Folgers, what a rip off! I'm never going there". A whole office of people shit on what they think is his coffee.
trash compactor jammed and you are ordered to manually unjam it?? simple get someone to spot you, stuff junk in the compactor and then find s safe hiding place. have your spotter cry in horror that you got accidentally crushed when it got unjammed and teach that stupid boss a lesson. show that you are perfectly safe and fine after he realizes that nothing important was actually in the compactor.
The "switch-a-roo" story about coffee reminds me of a service issue I once had with a department head / supervisor. Sally, we'll call her Sally for this story, used to wear an inordinate amount of facial makeup and liked to use gobs and gobs of hand lotion daily. This made her desk phone almost unusable as the number buttons would stick from the hand lotion and the receiver was caked with a face colored muck. She would call for service about every other month and demand that I replace her phone as it was, in her own words, "disgusting and didn't work most of the time". Now for the switch-a-roo part: I brought her a "brand new" phone and made sure she was satisfied with it operation and appearance. Little did she know, I was giving her a used phone which had been de-toxified (cleaned). Every two months, I would swap out her phone for the one she had two months earlier, just cleaned of all her makeup. Didn't cost my company a dime to replace her phone about a dozen time till she retired.
I used to work at Walmart and there was a trash compactor there. There was a story about a manager who accidentally lost some keys in there and someone crawled inside to get them. The support manager told me if that happens on his shift he would coach the person who went in there and that manager; if he couldn't coach them, he would find someone who could, there's two sets of keys for a reason!
So kinda related to the first story. When I was in highschool I worked on a farm and one time the "ground leveler" got jammed from all the twine laying around. This thing wieghed thousands of pounds and had to be pulled by an 8 wheeled nearly 20 foot monster of a tractor. It had spikes / discs that would dig in the ground and soften it up and then a huge weight / roller to flatten it. It was ancient and I'm pretty sure was already somewhere on the farm when the boss took over. When fully lifted with the hydraulics (which was the only way we could lift this as it was so heavy a forklift would flip itself before this thing moved an inch) the clearance to reach the moving parts that needed to be cleared out was maybe a foot and half. Being that I was the only worker under 200 lbs without a big gut I was the man (kid) for the job. This thing would easily cut you in half if you were under it when it fell. I was a little hesitant but being young, dumb and a go getter eager to make myself a valuable employee I agreed to do it. The safety measures for this task included: every handy man Jack within reach along either side, a wooden log propped up ready to be smashed if the jacks failed, and the strongest worker holding me by the ankles ready to pull me out as fast they possibly could if they even so much heard a creak from the machine. I did it twice while working for the farm owner, and they are still the best boss I have ever had if not a little insane.
Of course in modern usage on top of requiring a trained person, the trash compactor would need to go through a whole lockout procedure to ensure that it was physically impossible to activate while it was being serviced. Companies that don't take this seriously get major crap from OSHA even when there are no accidents.
RSlash sounds... sad today. Maybe I'm imagining it, or maybe he got a new mic? If you're not having a good day RSlash that's completely okay. Nobody is expected to be cheerful and happy 365 days a year, not even energetic voice actors. I loved the video regardless
Wish they had that game screening a couple years ago when I was active on garrys mod. I got lucky tho cause I was friends with the owner of the server and a bunch of the guys that were regulars in it. They talked to the owner for me and got the guy that was harassing me (I was 14 at the time) perma banned from the server.
Ok so the ban story, i worked for those kind of games but no forum just emails. While the ban appeals are where we get our worst reviews ( we can't help them if the ban is justified and therefore the customer support agent is blamed for the policy by the player) they are usually really fun for us to handle because you get cases of player who really thinks in their right mind that what they are saying in game is not being toxic and does not deserve a ban. The things we see and read.... the worst is that a lot of those players are players that received toxicity and decided to start replying and think that "defending themselves" is ok when in reality they're making the game crappy for others just like it was for them before they started joining in. I have also seen player who come to report players manually, spamming us with emails instead of reporting in game because they think we're not doing anything and we end up noticing their own toxicity and have to punish them (once we see it we have to punish them, we can't let it slide). And last but not least you have those that spent money on cosmetic stuff in game and get permaban. It's not funny to see but they really think that because they spent money on a free game they are above the rules and their account canno't be banned ^^'
It may not be as exciting as a lot of other stories in that sub (no firings. meltdowns, huge amounts of money lost, etcetera), but I still LOVE the story about the employee who was in charge of handing our orders to the line workers. It's so rare to hear stories about a manager realizing that their employee was right, they were wrong, and they actually change/reinstate the way things are done to fix it. So often, the manager will double down and try to fix the problem in a different way just so that they don't have to admit that they were wrong, which usually leads to the situation just getting worse.
I remember a guy who once worked an offshore rig. They sent a guy down into the “pit” (basically a circular area space surrounding deep sea drill pipe). Guess someone up in the controls through a switch. Guy said all they found of the guy in the pit was his watch. From the dude’s expression and tone, it sounded like the stone old truth.
trash compactors are extremely powerful, but this means that if they jam, they can store an extremely large amount of energy Think a large spring (it’s not actually a spring but you get the idea) that’s being held at maximum compression, ready to unleash at any moment when you unjam the thing.
