I know someone who has gone into work drunk every day for years. At multiple jobs. He is always drunk and has always been, so they dont know what he is like sober. I mean, drunk, drinks during break and lunch. Shows up every day. Works better than most. Always drunk. Well, I dont know if he is actually drunk anymore, but he swigs vodka around the clock, wakes up to swigs of vodka and takes it with him to work. Yeah, never let them know what you are capable of. You kinda have to nerf yourself to not get taken advantage of.
I used to work testing power transformers. They’d always bring the transformer to us to test and take them when we were done. One day while waiting for someone to drop off a transformer my co-worker confessed he knew how to drive a forklift. I asked him if he told our boss. He said “Hell no, cause then he’ll [boss] will be constantly asking me to pick up and drop off the units myself”.
One guy you are missing in your videos is the guy who gets got.... So he decides to break stuff.... Stuff that multiple employees use for their job, and the boss won't replace.....
That's probably the most harmless thing managment can do to you, and whenever that'd happen to me I'd just say "Fair enough". Now you got, like, some sort of extra duty because you said you know how to do things in that field - now that's fucked up.
I am a big guy. Chubby but I have muscle. Big enough that people always come up with the stupid ass "hey big guy" comments and want me to help move crap. I was at work one day and my staple gun got screwed up.....first time I had used one like that and the girl that was training me was fixing it. Boss comes up and says "hey, big guy, if you are just standing around, I got something for you"......and I must have had murder on my face when I told him I was waiting to get my stuff fixed and I already had something to do. At my current job, my partner likes to flex and do stupid crap like that to mock whatever muscles he thinks that I have. I dont see myself that way. I usually flip him off. And when people ask me to do something hard, I tell them that I didnt inflate my "anchor arms" enough that day (spongebob), but even still, they arent inflated enough for that sort of work. Or I tell them that I am popeye and I havent had my spinach yet. Stupid crap like that shuts people up really quick. I used to power lift and I would get so sore that lifting my arms above my head was hard and sitting down on the toilet was hard, I had to use the handicap stall with the rails. Sure, I was big. But I was always sore, always hungry and always angry about it. One time I was doing bench and my shoulder popped and it hurt so bad for 3 days that I couldnt lift my arm up to shoulder level. Think I am going to go into work and have people assume that because of my size I will be able to handle weight no problem? People are stupid. If you cant do it, dont expect me to, and my size has nothing do with it. I have a mind that dictates my desires and what I am willing to do, appearance means nothing.
Backs are funny. You think you're good and then you're holding your breath to get out of bed. Big guy, we'll deadlift 135 for a warmup. Oh, your traps pulled your spine out of alignment, now you're fingers are numb? You have to use two pillows to keep your neck supported when sleeping on your side or it feels like you might internally decapitate? But only one pillow when on your back or same problem. 35 lb kettlebell swings 1 set of 10 and then your mid and lower back have sharp pain for the next month until you try again in 3 and it is the same thing? Disabled, perpetually sedentary. You want to be healthy. Preventative maintenance. And the injuries degrade over time so the damage will accelerate and compound the aging process because your ability to do basic stuff is limited. Do what ever the best practice exercises are to strengthen your back before you get injured.
