I worked for Bayer CropScience for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily. It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments. I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.) One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years. I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.) Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore. Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % & content label required each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.) It just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results. Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders. But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
My 14 year old son did a report on the Radium Girls last year for school. He found that one of the reasons they settled out of court was because they knew they were dying and were afraid that they would all die before the case ever saw the light of day. Incredibly tragic. Excellent episode.
Unfortunately they were probably 100%. In fact, I’d say there was 0.00000001% chance that corporation wasn’t going to do EVERYTHING could do to push the cash further and further out. Case in point, there was one more recent case with a patient against a hospital.. it took THREE YEARS to go through 100s of motions to get all the evidence (or rather the evidence that didn’t disappear, cell phones that didn’t fall into the ocean or a vat of acid, or another piece that was kept out completely because the attorneys completely misrepresented the contents of the report and said it had to do ONLY with a speciality part of the hospital that had no connection to that patient, when it did, in fact, point out countless SYSTEMIC failures that infiltrated the hospital from the top all the way down, but the way they represented it to the judge got it kept out……. Until the last 2 days of the trial when their bought and paid “expert” referred to it, which opened the door for the patients team, and the judge was LIVID that he was lied to.. he legit suddenly said, “I need 5 mins” and walked out of the courtroom.) anyway, it took almost 5 full years to get a trial date, and they were still trying to push it off for “not having enough time to prepare”, judge finally called them on their shit and said you have until “x day” to be prepared because the trial is starting whether you are ready or not. Mind you, these guys work at a MASSIVE law firm. They have five lawyers on the case, and a team of paralegals in court every day, and one of those lawyers used to be a literal JUDGE in that district. It’s going to be at least 5 years more until the appeals are done with. And everyone is suspecting that they will still hem and haw and make them jump through hoops to get their check. Anyway, it is extremely likely they would’ve never seen the end of the case. Settlement, unfortunately, was the only way for THOSE girls to get the money they needed to live as comfortably as possible before they died.
One time when I was a kid working on my dad's farm I had to use a ladder to climb down to the bottom of a stone-lined cistern to work on a pump. I was about 10 feet down and the light was very dim. Once my eyes adjusted I noticed movement in the walls all around me. I then quickly realized the movement I was seeing was from hundreds of snakes that were stuffed into every nook and cranny of the surrounding wall. Apparently they were using the cistern as a den. I zoomed up the ladder so quickly that I almost achieved escape velocity. True story.
If it makes you feel better they were almost certainly pretty much harmless garter snakes. Although I figure a literal snake pit is freaky no matter what snake it is.
@@thedave7760 they do, people do electrocute other people to the point they no longer conscious, just because the people who paid them money said it is totally fine. why would you care about other when you're not the victim and even more you got paid for that?
yeah like the nuclear people, they don't want to live next to nuclear reactors despite they ridicule everyone who denied it,... they're the "fashionable managers"
Many moons ago I had a summer job in an abbattoir where a customer requested the pigs' heads should remain attached to the bodies. Unfortunately the heads were accidentally removed as per usual. So me and a few other summer grunts were placed in a room filled with carcasses, provided with several crates filled with independent pig heads, thin rope and a sort of large type of needle and spent a hilarious afternoon sewing pig heads into pig carcasses. Obviously paradise compared to licking radioactive paint brushes, but still...
Thats pretty wild. Pigs with other pigs heads stiched to em and the chaps who made it all possible. Beyond metal. 4 "Leatherfaces" (from texas chainsaw massacre) in a small dark meat cutting room with flickering and swaying inadequate lighting, all sitting in a sewing circle. A grotesque perversion of a sewing circle. Totally f****** metal..
@@joescott what those poor unsuspecting women had to go through is just horrible. I dare say , licking radium lollipops is highly preferable to my last job. It was a brutally horrific, sci-fi violent, day in and day out skull smashing and soul crushing for which there was no readily apparent escape for your dignity except for the infinitesimaly small glimmer of hope that some day far, far into the future, it will all end. Being married to my ex-wife.
All of our current human rights, pro worker laws and unions came into existence due to the bravery of those who had none, and those who paid the ultimate price. We owe them a lot.
Me too!!! People simply need to pull together over all of the stuff like this, the crap happening in the government and all minor or major injustices and horrors taking place, not only in our country but the whole world. We have to stop and access and take the time to join in all of the issues and problems and support the right and proper actions to end such things! too many, or I should say most, simply think someone else is or will step in and handle it, and many have been conditioned to believe the government will do so. The problem with that thinking is the government is in bed with all of the big corporations, so anything they do will when said and done benefit the corporations even if it reads it will benefit the people, because the corporations put their own people in all of the committees handling the issues, or they hire from the committees to get the dirt on how to use the system to their benefit. I'm all for someone being profitable, just not at the expense of the people. Plus the people need to bring GOD back into their lives and society and repent and have a revival of people back to GOD! Any people and or nation that does this will prosper! If we bring GOD back into everything, it will either change those who use as they do, or send them packing and leave our counties in peace and prosperity. BUT the more we push GOD out the worse things are going to continue to get, no different then the actions committed by Israel caused the actions that occurred in Israel's past. The US is following the same pattern Israel did before each time the nation was destroyed and/or scattered across the nations!
@@theducklinghomesteadandgar6639 well ya had me agreeing with your point of view until you brought God into it. Religious differences has brought more death and suffering to the world than any other single cause. It's not the religion itself but the intolerance of others with a different faith. Intolerance of others with any difference in general, in opinion,religion,skin colour, anything at all, it's this us and them mentality, it's always existed and likely always will. It's the Achilles heel of human nature, possible a built in population control.
@@bipedalbob I agree with what you are saying. There is a difference in religion and faith though, being religion has more to do with man's ideas and controls more than GOD's, laws which are black and white, cut and dry, no gray areas. Many of the deaths due to so called religion is evil infested people using their religion as their so called righteousness to kill people!! Even the popes/Vatican have done so!!!
Worst job I've ever had - that's tough, but one candidate would be a demolition job. For some reason this building, (or at least parts of it) had to be taken down carefully, so I stood atop a brick wall 70' up, and about 18" across, and had to knock it down with a 14lb sledgehammer, one course at a time WHILE STANDING ON IT. It wobbled a lot, and I was terrified, (incidentally I had a head for heights - worked in scaffolding and roofing). As lunchtime approached on my first day the foreman came up and said, "I don't think that you're cut out for this" - handed me two days wages and fired me. I've never been so happy to lose a job.
Dude, I feel your pain. At least, I've felt it once, but I do think that, for both of us, getting out of this kind of job was the best that could happen. ;-)
They didn’t just paint their nails, my Mum Mum (great grand mother) told me they painted their whole faces, bodies, their belongings. It was a fun joke and the girls were encouraged to do so. And then they were pariahs. Their communities and families turned their backs on them and called them names for drawing attention to their incredibly obvious health deterioration. They wanted them to keep quite so the radium corporation didn’t take the 20$ a day jobs elsewhere. It is such a tragic time.
You know, TECHNICALLY, the Egyptian laborers did have something resembling a labor union. They did have rights and were well compensated for their hard work. For instance, for food "the approximately 10,000 labourers working on the pyramids they (sic) ate 21 cattle and 23 sheep" according to NatGeo. According to the BBC, the workers (who lived) "returned to the provinces with new skills, a wider outlook and a renewed sense of national unity that balanced the loss of loyalty to local traditions. The use of shifts of workers spread the burden and brought about a thorough redistribution of pharaoh's wealth in the form of rations." Per MSNBC: "the work was performed by skilled laborers who had the perks of a labor union: work only ninety days a year, eat steak and lamb every day, luxury burial benefits, etc." One thing not mentioned in these articles was that each worker was given an allotment of BEER each day. From the Smithsonian: "For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters, it was a source of nutrition, refreshment and reward for all the hard work ... The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer."
Oh! So THAT'S why it was such a good job to have- they were drunk as hell! It's amazing what humans can do on four or five liters of beer per person per day!🤪
@@micheleparker8123 They must have hit that sweet spot between tipsy and falling over drunk where you get better at doing everything. Otherwise the pyramid would be crooked or upside down.
@@micheleparker8123 yeah, i remember a veteran wrote a comment on a video saying that one time when he was in army in foreign country a local store was rebuilt as an alcohol base for the soldiers and some men actually started crying out of joy, so pathetic
Joe, some other more recent (military) travesties that are very similar: Agent Orange, burn pits, PTSD, and now malaria pills. You could just do a video on how the gov't has treated its veterans.
Don’t forget that white phosphorus is STILL USED in ordnance despite being banned under the Geneva conventions. Y’know. The stuff that seeks out your mucus membranes, mixes with water, and turns in to acid while also incurable poisoning you. We use it in smoke grenades.
Hey Joe I live In South Africa and I think that your videos are great. You Tubers like you show me that affiliate marketing can be more than hot air and empty promises praying on peoples fears and greed. It can have substance with knowledge and introspection. It can present value. I watched your last video where you compared your channel to that of a guy crushing stuff. Dont compare man, what you do IS much more valuable. Keep up the great work. p.s my opinion only
First of all, thank you so much for the kind words, it means a lot. I think if you're in it for the long run, you provide value to people and not just go for the cheap views. Having said that, I'm not above covering a scandalous topic to boost the channel. :) Also, my "comparison" was just for chuckles. I have nothing against the press channel, in fact he commented on that video and was very nice. It's quite mesmerizing actually.
Wait..! What are you saying? Are you two trying to tell me that he might actually run out of things that squish in an entertaining manner? ImPoSsIbLe! Even if, as crazy as the thought may be, we were to grow tired of watching things get crushed, that accent will easily carry his channel for the rest of the century.
I dont think any one of us can imagine how painfull that mustve been, ive been off work now for 2 weeks due to complications with a tooth removal. JUST 1 TOOTH, and ive described it as unbearable at times. That would be absolutly nothing compared to your jaw disintergrating, I cant even fathom the pain these people mustve endured - Great vid as always Joe
This would be really interesting to see. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy killed 15000 people in one night: most people died suffocating in there sleep. It affected at least half a million people, many among whom were children who till now carry permanent disabilities. And the responsible pereptrators: got off with a fine of 2000 $ only. Would be really interesting to see How do a video on this.
Robert Evans just made an episode of the "Behind the Bastards" podcast, titled _The Industrial Disaster That Makes Chernobyl Look Like Kindergarten_ about it. www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/the-industrial-disaster-that-makes-chernobyl-look-like-kindergarten.htm
@@joescott check out the book "Set Phasers on Stun" it is a human factors text book focusing on times when the man-machine interphase goes horribly wrong, including Bhopal.
Have a friend in his late 60s who swears that as kids in a small town in PA, the kids literally played in the scraps from an asbestos plant. (He tends to exaggerate, though, so I would take it with a grain of salt.)
@@susanf915 I believe that. Look up an article called "the kids who played with asbestos." One woman in the article recalled using a piece of asbestos to draw lines for hopscotch as a little girl. She later died of mesothelioma in her 40's.
@@katybug6572 they didn't know any better and neither did their parents. the asbestos industry hid their knowledge of how dangerous it was for decades. wgat you don't know can hurt you
I've read 1 or 2 books on the Radium Girls and several of the women just would NOT give up when the lawyers kept trying to force them to take a settlement. They stood their ground. One lady, in fact, had to be wheeled into court in her hospital bed each day. It was horrendous. But she actually lived long enough to see her case vindicated, but not to collect any money. By that time, the money ceased to matter at all...
You put soooo much work into these video's!!!! Wow... Tying stories together seamlessly. The humor is the best. These videos will be world famous one day!!!
$20 a day in 1914 is like $512 today. I work in IT with over 20 years of experience and I'm not making $512 a day. OK...maybe I'm not at the top of the game but I do OK and I still don't make $512 a day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to eat radioactive paint for $512 a day.
It makes me think of a saying in my family, when we’re perturbed. “You’ve dis-ed my gruntle and gruntled my dis.” Because, you don’t hear of people being “gruntled.” What a weird lexical gap. 😅
There are various illnesses that can cause horrific symptoms like that, so I’m sure it still happens in some form to people even today, no radium necessary. One sort of similar thing I know of firsthand happened to a family member. From about age twelve or so, her teeth started rotting at an accelerated rate, and she had to have several root canals before she could drive. At first the dentists and assistants gave her lectures, thinking she just wasn’t brushing her teeth properly, or at all, or ate a ton of candy and soda and stuff. I remember her coming back in tears several times. They also didn’t numb her well and even now she’s kind of traumatized about anything medical, dental or otherwise, because of how much they hurt her, not taking her seriously about the pain level. She lost all of her original teeth by the time she was 25 and had to have dentures, but now it looks like we’ll be able to raise the money to get dental implants for her; no one wants to have dentures almost their whole lives. It makes her pretty self-conscious. It turns out, there’s a thing called sjcogren’s (I think that’s how you spell it; it’s spelled just really weirdly, but is said like show-grins in a horrible cruel irony), and it’s like dry eye and mouth in steroids. I have both of those, but she... it’s another level. Contacts get stuck to her eyeballs within fifteen minutes even using a ton of drops. My dad’s a doctor and he had to go help her take them out a few times on the weekend because she couldn’t manage it and it hurt pretty badly. Every mucous membrane is not correctly hydrated and protected, so she’s got massive dry eye, dry mouth, even dry skin and serious reflux. She’s like a sponge, soaks water up really quickly, but then dries out from the inside out because her body just can’t regulate itself. Her mom had it, so they were able to figure it out once it became clear it couldn’t just be a lack of oral hygiene, and the biopsy of her salivary gland proved it. Having cavities, root canals, and all her teeth pulled, over half of that with insufficient pain control, before 25, man. That’s rough. AND if we get the money to get the implants, although it’ll help her quality of life overall, that means dental surgery to drill into her skull and jaw and put these bolt type things into it. And they can break if not done right, AND she may need bone grafts since the longer there’s no teeth, the more the jaw kind of deteriorates (think of how trees anchor topsoil, and when they’re gone, it erodes away). So the pain isn’t even over for her yet. It’s pretty nuts that even with today’s knowledge and medicine, people are walking around with various things that can wreak such havoc on your body and can go un- or misdiagnosed for years.
Scotty Roxwell Don’t feel bad. We’ve got an unusual level of pain and illnesses that cause pain in our family and there’s a really hard lesson that makes it easier, once we’ve learned it. Think about if you fall down a flight of steep stairs and break a rib and dislocate your shoulder. That hurts a lot. If, when you go to the hospital, you’re in a room with someone who fell off a balcony and broke like 1/3 of the bones in their body and have to be in a body cast, that’s horrible! But it doesn’t mean your pain hurts any less simply from knowing they’re in a ton of pain, from a lot of injuries. Personally, I have Fibromyalgia and Lupus, the latter of which is likely to keep taking shots at different systems in my body (it seems to like picking on my kidneys and their function in particular) until it and “complications,” from it kills me. But I likely have a few decades of pain waiting for me before then. It’s not... easy. But my mom has late stage pancreatic cancer and has just been told she needs to have more chemo. Well, it makes me feel like all my issues are Small Fry compared to hers, and that it would be extremely tome deaf and rude to ever bring it up. What’s flank pain causing you to not sleep well compared to cancer pain and the effects of chemo? But just because I know she’s hurting, it doesn’t magically make my own pain disappear, and she knows that. We’re understanding of each other, everyone with health issues in my family, to realize it’s not a contest, wherein only the one in the worst condition Can complain. Long story short, ish: Knowing other pain exists out there, be it long lasting or “worse,” doesn’t delegitimize the pain you experience. You feel what you feel. Especially if you’ve not had experience with pain significantly worse than the pain you’re going through, it can be hard. Hard to cope, to find answers, to find ways to decrease the pain, hard to be taken seriously by people who aren’t sure if you’re telling the truth or wanting attention, pity, and/or a pain prescription. Your pain is legitimate and it matters, just like you do. I really hope your TMJD improves. I’ve had issues with it, but Botox actually helped a lot. I also get migraines, so we kind of treat the two areas on the same day and I can get the soreness over all at once! I’m so tired of people thoughtlessly going up to me in comments, “Oh, you have FM!? Eat the paleo diet, it’ll fix everything. Go vegan, it’ll change your life within the month. The real issue is probably gluten, and if you stop eating it your pain will stop. Go to a chiropractor, all doctors are under Big Pharma and want to keep you sick, and you’re stupid for trusting one. Go to a yogi and let the healing begin. Hot Yoga is the way to go. Everyone gets sore sometimes; use an ice bath and that’ll help! Oh you say you have horrific muscle spasms despite antispasmodics? Well, do it anyway.” So I’m not going to give you advice on you specifically might do to help things, since I don’t know anything about your condition except that it’s there, so your doctor would know to best treat you! Just... if it’s a significant problem, and you don’t have a specialist looking into it, that could help a lot. General practitioners are super, but they don’t have the super deep knowledge that specialists do. Or if you do have one, sometimes people kind of try one thing and it doesn’t work and the specialist doesn’t present anything else to do, really. Being verbal and saying, “Look, this is a problem that’s impacting my life that we need to do whatever we can to fix. What we did first didn’t work, what’s the next step?” Is helpful in showing them that this is really important and that you’re going to advocate for yourself, that if they don’t work on not just problem management but finding a solution, you’ll find someone who will. It’s... intimidating to do at first, but it can make all the difference. I really hope things go well for you, and that in time you find something works for the management of your TMJD so the pain is less a factor in your life. Life has enough pain in it as it is; we don’t need this extra crap on us! Be well, Scotty! 🌷
@@SunflowerSpotlight Sjogrens (No where near as bad, but took ages to find a dentist who GETS it. Sounds really ridiculous, but took 10 years after my old dentist retired to find one who really grasps what a semi-bad case does to your gums. Crazy thing is, she got it and immediately came up with a treatment plan in like 20 minutes).
Worst Job? Well Tester on a 90% sour disposal well. Yes, 90% H2S, when 0.00001 % is too dangerous to work with. Think about lifting the heaviest things you've ever lifted (4" flow pipe), walk them through knee deep mud, and if you take a breath without your mask on youre dead.
Yeah, H₂S is really nasty stuff. Numbs your smell, causes narcosis and loss of consciousness, highly flammable, and hiding everywhere in mining operations.
My mother worked in the 'radium shop' in a WW2 factory in Essex, UK, painting instruments for aircraft. The women earned more than other workers and were collectively honoured with a medal at the end of the war. I don't know whether the precautions were greater by that time, but she was thankfully not affected adversely, though she and her fellow workers were monitored every year by the health authorities until the late 1970's. She eventually died in 2013 aged 89. She had a vague idea what she was doing was risky, but the war effort came first.
I worked for Bayer CropScience in Stilwell, Kansas for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily. It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments. I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.) One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years. I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.) Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore. Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % level & content level on the label required on each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.) It’s just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results. Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders. But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
@@ShelburneCountry Not worried about A.I. replacing me, IBM's "Job For Life" evaporated in 2003 when I was replaced by a Hungarian, then Chinese, then they gave up the PC game altogether. I don't think A.I. could match my artistry in photography right enough....I'm joking.
We IT guy who build pc is like god to A.i, or at least angels... They will worship us instead. Nah, kidding we are the 1st to be enslave to create their billions army.
I once worked in a call center under so much pressure that I suffered a psychotic break. Still have my jaw, but I more than a decade later, I still panic at the sound of a ringing phone. As for physical issues, undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome + years of retail = permanent system-wide damage. I live in so much pain that I have a type of medication pump usually only given to cancer patients and other people with terminal issues. I can barely tidy the house and feed myself. Some days, I envy the Radium Girls. Their suffering was unimaginable, but it ended in a few years. Meanwhile, I'm facing a normal life span.
Marie Curie's doorknob is a bit overstated. It's only about 10x background radiation. You can safely use it... but I wouldn't put it in my pocket and sleep with it. :-)
Working for the tobacco company is actually quite lucrative. They pay big bucks! Great benefits, and working around tobacco doesn’t hurt you if you don’t smoke it.
Well, I wouldn't cause people's losing money and health on nothing by helping them with working. If I didn't work, somebody else would work logic wouldn't work if nobody wanted to work.
at one time over a period of four years (1952-1956), H&V produced asbestos filters for Lorillard's Kent brand cigarettes, and Lorillard marketed the new Micronite filter as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”...soon we'll hear of the health benefits of vaping roundup weedkiller to prevent the dangers and hazards of weeds growing in your lungs
Your jaw falls off...it's unpleasant 😂 I am glad you can bring some fun into serious subjects. I feel so sorry for those poor women. I literally can't even imagine what they went through. Thankfully through the pain they suffered others had safer work eventually.
Please do a video on NAPALM. I recently watched Apocalypce Now and a documentary named Vietnam in HD and am very much interested in this topic. Keep up the good work!
I guess the worst job I had (safetywise) would be a salmon processing plant the was on a ship in Alaska. Exposed to multiple freezing temperatures, the pace enviorement and the bad working habits of the staff made me rethink the worth of fast money.
Always awesome videos. That's what I love about your channel Joe- even when the topic is material and information I'm already familiar with, you bring it in a way that always teaches me something new or gets me looking at things from a whole new perspective. Keep up the good work and thank you!
Thank you for the great laughs- tragic stories- but hilarious 😂 🤣😂🤣. Intelligent humor: damned rare thing today. Your work is MUCH appreciated 🏆🥇-standing OV-
And yet, there are still states, like Texas, that are “right-to-work states,” a euphemism for states that do not give unions any real power. Disgusts me. I was raised in Oregon and now live in Texas, the difference in common work-place practices is staggering. It’s disgusting what they get away with here. Sorry to be a downer. Gotta love that existential dread! 😂Love your channel Joe!
Sorry but if the only way the union can get 'real power' is by being able to force the workers to join, the union is not really there for the workers now is it?
I'm on the other side right now. We have ten employees and me and my two partners are doing our best to provide them with a enjoyable workplace. Not all bosses are heartless, capitalistic soul eaters. :-) Also this makes my work much more enjoyable, too :-D
Massive props to you - especially if you're making the choice to spend a bit more money (or not make as much) in order to do that - so many short-term thinkers do not understand how investing in their employees pays off in the long run, for everyone. If every employer was like you, there would be so much less suffering from stress and depression in the world and we would normalise healthy conditions.
@@PinataOblongata Richard Branson said some years ago “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” From my experience this is absolutely right.
Love hearing this. I absolutely hate my job and am looking for a new one because it’s so bad. They literally work you to death and want to pay you as little as possible.
My daughter owns a business. She is the best employer and treats people with kindness and respect and in return has loyal employees. She can also sleep peacefully, I’m very proud of her.
Lol...love the intro. :) My workplace was so bad that I almost died multiple times within a year from July 2007 to April 2008. 1)Fell from 35' height. 2)Almost decapitated but I was quick enough to only end up with a major concussion. 3) got hit by forklifts multiple times because the drivers blind-racing down the rows with pallets blocking their views(supposed to drive backwards when view is obscured). I worked as lead/supervisor for a bonded cargo warehouse at the local airport. Forklift operators with no driver's licenses, let alone forklift operator licenses. This resulted in constant accidents. Saw a guy chop his own finger off while driving a lift, I had to pick it up and put it on ice for him. We didn't have a safety cage to go up in the racks and fix crooked pallets, so we'd simply stand on a wooden pallet while someone on the lift would raise us up to 30-40 feet up (without any lifeline). I myself fell off and broke my right shoulder in spectacular fashion...the following Monday we finally got a safety cage. Before I started working there, a guy had broken his back doing the same task. Storage racks with warped footing, not bolted together or to the floors, one good knock(refer to operators mentioned above) and they collapsed like domino or worse(happened a few times). I once had a skid/pallet of steak knives collapse from a 3story height rack and land 6 feet away from me. Electric forklift batteries badly maintained, spewing acid vapors. Do it yourself battery swaps without the proper equipment. Dangerous goods like oxidizers stacked/stored with flammables and explosives. Many more examples but even more importantly, I was also the safety officer and after voicing my concerns to the higher ups and being laughed out of the offices, I finally made an anonymous tip to the appropriate agency. They sent an inspector that I think got bribed. Because his only recommendations were to paint lines on the floor to designate safe walking lanes(to no be run over by forklifts) and he said we had to leave the fire extinguishers in their designated spots rather than use them as door stops for the offices. Joke was on us for thinking our safety and lives were of any concern to anyone in a position to bring change. I also witnessed a coworker report a shipment full of hashish to the authorities, they came and seized it but the employee was fired 2 days later for "unrelated reasons". He had worked there for 6 years and was one of the best, hardworking workers we had. All of that for 10$/hr to 15$/hr. I ended up unable to work because of injuries and had multiple surgeries. The company and government then loopholed me out of disability pension and I now live in abject poverty. This is after having paid into a system since I started working weekends & after school at age 14. The upside is I feel more free then I ever have. So in conclusion, we may have progressed since the days of those poor radium ladies but still have a long way to go before we see a safe & fair work environment for all. Be safe! ;)
Well, if you are in Texas you are only a short drive away from seeing people out in the 100 degree plus heat chopping weeds out of cotton fields. Fields that are constantly being sprayed with Glyphosate and / or 24-D. There will probably be a video featuring those people in a decade or so....maybe. Nah, probably not. *Which reminds me - they used to defoliate cotton with....arsenic. There used to be people working in delinting plants who handled it. Their fingernails would fall off and of course, they suffered with all the other problems associated with ..well....arsenic poisoning. Now they defoliate it with a chemical that is much safer. A chemical once known as "Agent Orange".
Yet we ban Plastic bags and tell the public to buy reusable cotton bags which is much safer for the environment (ignore the chemicals they use to grow them, the fuel they use to process them, and the germs that propagate within them .. as long as the harbor seal is happy......
Wow they had class action lawsuits because people were dying and the company needed to change its ways. Today we have class action lawsuits because our macbook pro keyboard stopped working
Doing hepatitis test and working in r i a using radioactive isotopes and then when you're done with them we just flush them down the sink which was cool with the state of California how I don't know
There is baseline radioactivity in everything we touch. The fact that a material has some radioactivity does not necessarily make it a health risk of consequence.
The Radium Girls book by Kate Moore (The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women) is SO good. I work at a library, and I push this book all the time. It was.. well, I didn't find it super uplifting. It was so depressing what these women suffered. But I could not stop reading. I was transfixed learning about how they treated this deadly substance with so little care. (at least how they made the women handle it). And the disrespect shown towards the women who worked with it. I learned so much and felt like a cheerleader the whole time, in my head cheering them on their fight. And wanting to throw rotten vegetables at the company and lawyers. I highly recommend the book. Anyway! Great video Joe, keep it up! I finally had some preexisting knowledge to comment about.
Thanks for cheering up my Thursday. It makes me realise how lucky I am. Those poor Radium girls. I have a feeling history will find things happening now that will be looked at very badly in the future (you mean people were allowed to drive themselves in those days resulting in thousands of deaths?).
I got declared dead after a road accident 22 years ago. that really messed my life up. I was a motorcycle despatch rider in London at the time. life expectancy 3 months. scared the crap out of a nurse, who had just spent 8 hours walking back and forth to the Accident and Emergency Department past my 'corpse' in an unlit corridor, when I came back. unfortunately, being declared dead in England is immediately entered in all official records and you files are all marked 'historic'. the State unpersonned me. (this is thanks to 'Carlos the Jackal's' failed attempt on DeGaulle's life contracted by the OAS. ironically , I'm French!) impossible to get any help when you've no family and your friends all think you're dead. came out of hospital 7 months later to find the home that was freehold and that I'd paid in full before meeting her, had been sold by the live-in. she'd cleaned me out with her copy of the death certificate and her Common Law spousal rights after 5+ years cohabitation. everything was gone. everything. worse, I had to live on the streets with a full leg cast for 3+ years too, because being a lone male, I was "not a priority". ho hum.
Joe you have the manliest, coolest jaw anyone has ever had and it looks totally ok. That was just in case this whole video was made for a secret, different reason...
1:07 Just so it's clear: Slavery lasted for about at least 250 years or so for conservative numbers, not "about a 100 years or so" in the "land of the free'. And we know that between the 13th amendment and the actual time it took to really enforce it, it took more than that.
and slavery isnt over yet. consider that slavery was outlawed "except as a measure of punishment". american prisoners are forced to work in miserable conditions, sometimes fighting wildfires in california or labouring in hot fields during the day and are paid literally cents.
I practically never comment on videos, but I just wanted to say that what you are doing rocks! I've followed you for a couple of years now and you still bring up new topics and go through them in an interesting and easily understandable manner. Extra creds for your wonderful humour as well! You're such a guy I wish I'd met at a bar and become friends with at some point in time :)
As a chairman of a Union shop, I appreciate every time a smart person recognizes that unions made life better then and I promise you we still do now. Take away all the big B.S., I help the little guy every day. And when I get a big raise for my members the salary guys thank me cuz they know it will be cause for them to ask for one.
Nobody seems to be saying this but: it has been observed in the construction of workers tombs and the contents of their stomach that the workers building the pyramids weren’t slaves. Analyzing their stomach contents tells us that they are beef, a luxury that slaves wouldn’t be given. So it is believed that they were paid workers. A small oversight, not everyone can know anything. Keep up the good work!
I was a Great White Shark rodeo clown in South America for a short lived reality show called Shark Rodeo. My job to distract the sharks after being ridden & draw them away from the riders. The show never really got off the ground cause most of the time, the sharks tended to eat the riders, then eat the clowns. My job only lasted a month but the pay was good & getting any well paying job was hard to find. I just discovered your videos & love the way you present them.
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"As long as it costs companies less money to settle lawsuits than to improve workplace conditions there will always be occupational hazards".
Gold.
dubbadan1 ahhh capitalism
As soon as I saw this comment he said this lmao 😂
I worked for Bayer CropScience for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily.
It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments.
I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.)
One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years.
I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.)
Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore.
Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % & content label required each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.)
It just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results.
Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders.
But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
Nailed it.
Welcome to capitalism :)
"ohhh, is this paint safe?"
"yeah it's completely safe"
"Then why are you wearing a mask and a lead apron?"
"Uhh... Style"
Cracked Emerald :lol
"cool, can I have a set?"
"no, it's only for executives"
Haha right?! If my boss came down to talk to us looking like that every time- ummm yea.. I think I’d have a question or two lol 😆 🤦♀️
"uhhh...farts... I do farts."
My inner thought process whenever I watch people eat Carolina reapers
My 14 year old son did a report on the Radium Girls last year for school. He found that one of the reasons they settled out of court was because they knew they were dying and were afraid that they would all die before the case ever saw the light of day. Incredibly tragic. Excellent episode.
Unfortunately they were probably 100%. In fact, I’d say there was 0.00000001% chance that corporation wasn’t going to do EVERYTHING could do to push the cash further and further out. Case in point, there was one more recent case with a patient against a hospital.. it took THREE YEARS to go through 100s of motions to get all the evidence (or rather the evidence that didn’t disappear, cell phones that didn’t fall into the ocean or a vat of acid, or another piece that was kept out completely because the attorneys completely misrepresented the contents of the report and said it had to do ONLY with a speciality part of the hospital that had no connection to that patient, when it did, in fact, point out countless SYSTEMIC failures that infiltrated the hospital from the top all the way down, but the way they represented it to the judge got it kept out……. Until the last 2 days of the trial when their bought and paid “expert” referred to it, which opened the door for the patients team, and the judge was LIVID that he was lied to.. he legit suddenly said, “I need 5 mins” and walked out of the courtroom.) anyway, it took almost 5 full years to get a trial date, and they were still trying to push it off for “not having enough time to prepare”, judge finally called them on their shit and said you have until “x day” to be prepared because the trial is starting whether you are ready or not. Mind you, these guys work at a MASSIVE law firm. They have five lawyers on the case, and a team of paralegals in court every day, and one of those lawyers used to be a literal JUDGE in that district. It’s going to be at least 5 years more until the appeals are done with. And everyone is suspecting that they will still hem and haw and make them jump through hoops to get their check.
Anyway, it is extremely likely they would’ve never seen the end of the case. Settlement, unfortunately, was the only way for THOSE girls to get the money they needed to live as comfortably as possible before they died.
One time when I was a kid working on my dad's farm I had to use a ladder to climb down to the bottom of a stone-lined cistern to work on a pump. I was about 10 feet down and the light was very dim. Once my eyes adjusted I noticed movement in the walls all around me. I then quickly realized the movement I was seeing was from hundreds of snakes that were stuffed into every nook and cranny of the surrounding wall. Apparently they were using the cistern as a den.
I zoomed up the ladder so quickly that I almost achieved escape velocity. True story.
Where was the farm?
Well, there’s my nightmare for tonight.
@@mathew66 North central Kansas.
I would still need therapy!!
If it makes you feel better they were almost certainly pretty much harmless garter snakes. Although I figure a literal snake pit is freaky no matter what snake it is.
Lol I lost it at the manager part
"o yeah no, the paint is totally safe"
"why are you using lead clothes...."
"......fashion...."
if your bosses are wearing protective equipment while you are not, it's time to start asking questions or job-searching.
@@Axemang That whole scenario doesn't really make sense even back then people weren't that dumb.
@@thedave7760 they do, people do electrocute other people to the point they no longer conscious, just because the people who paid them money said it is totally fine. why would you care about other when you're not the victim and even more you got paid for that?
yeah like the nuclear people, they don't want to live next to nuclear reactors despite they ridicule everyone who denied it,... they're the "fashionable managers"
I just imagined Jeff Dunham's Ahkmed say "fashion" LOL!
Many moons ago I had a summer job in an abbattoir where a customer requested the pigs' heads should remain attached to the bodies. Unfortunately the heads were accidentally removed as per usual. So me and a few other summer grunts were placed in a room filled with carcasses, provided with several crates filled with independent pig heads, thin rope and a sort of large type of needle and spent a hilarious afternoon sewing pig heads into pig carcasses.
Obviously paradise compared to licking radioactive paint brushes, but still...
This is by far the worst one I've read in these comments. I shudder thinking about it, lol. 🐷
Kudos to doing the job. I would have Noped right out of there.
How could you tell which head went with which body? Were they, like, numbered?
Sounds like fun
Thats pretty wild. Pigs with other pigs heads stiched to em and the chaps who made it all possible. Beyond metal. 4 "Leatherfaces" (from texas chainsaw massacre) in a small dark meat cutting room with flickering and swaying inadequate lighting, all sitting in a sewing circle. A grotesque perversion of a sewing circle. Totally f****** metal..
What the Radium Girls had to go through was a travesty. Another superb video. Thanks Joe.
Pretty horrific stuff.
@@joescott what those poor unsuspecting women had to go through is just horrible. I dare say , licking radium lollipops is highly preferable to my last job. It was a brutally horrific, sci-fi violent, day in and day out skull smashing and soul crushing for which there was no readily apparent escape for your dignity except for the infinitesimaly small glimmer of hope that some day far, far into the future, it will all end. Being married to my ex-wife.
That's why I want to be a time traveling super hero.
@@znk0r I bet it's my ex-wife that's preventing you from attaining that dream. That's her superpower.
All of our current human rights, pro worker laws and unions came into existence due to the bravery of those who had none, and those who paid the ultimate price. We owe them a lot.
_"CERTIFIED_ _Radioactive_ _Water"_
Let _that_ sink in. Wait, don't. On second thought, don't let that sink in.
Nutex was a glow-in-the-dark condom that utilized radium.
Nutex.
So Nut-ex then
Oh my God how did I miss that one?
I think it's meant to be Nu-tex for nuclear latex but everyone reads it as Nut-ex meaning death to your nuts! :)
Phossy scrote?
@@DrWeird-zw5dc Have you ever heard of the cello scrotum controversy?
Anyone else already watch some content on the radium girls, but still came here to hear Joe’s take on it? 🙋♀️
Nope
@@Selfinflictedhummusrocket hi cutie pie
Nope
Yeah, no.
Actually, yes!
Man, does this send me into a rage. Unfortunately, people in power have been treating people without power like crap forever. It’s inexcusable.
And sadly it'll likely keep happening until there are no humans left
Me too!!! People simply need to pull together over all of the stuff like this, the crap happening in the government and all minor or major injustices and horrors taking place, not only in our country but the whole world. We have to stop and access and take the time to join in all of the issues and problems and support the right and proper actions to end such things! too many, or I should say most, simply think someone else is or will step in and handle it, and many have been conditioned to believe the government will do so. The problem with that thinking is the government is in bed with all of the big corporations, so anything they do will when said and done benefit the corporations even if it reads it will benefit the people, because the corporations put their own people in all of the committees handling the issues, or they hire from the committees to get the dirt on how to use the system to their benefit. I'm all for someone being profitable, just not at the expense of the people. Plus the people need to bring GOD back into their lives and society and repent and have a revival of people back to GOD! Any people and or nation that does this will prosper! If we bring GOD back into everything, it will either change those who use as they do, or send them packing and leave our counties in peace and prosperity. BUT the more we push GOD out the worse things are going to continue to get, no different then the actions committed by Israel caused the actions that occurred in Israel's past. The US is following the same pattern Israel did before each time the nation was destroyed and/or scattered across the nations!
Clint Wolf : still are
@@theducklinghomesteadandgar6639 well ya had me agreeing with your point of view until you brought God into it. Religious differences has brought more death and suffering to the world than any other single cause. It's not the religion itself but the intolerance of others with a different faith. Intolerance of others with any difference in general, in opinion,religion,skin colour, anything at all, it's this us and them mentality, it's always existed and likely always will. It's the Achilles heel of human nature, possible a built in population control.
@@bipedalbob I agree with what you are saying. There is a difference in religion and faith though, being religion has more to do with man's ideas and controls more than GOD's, laws which are black and white, cut and dry, no gray areas. Many of the deaths due to so called religion is evil infested people using their religion as their so called righteousness to kill people!! Even the popes/Vatican have done so!!!
"You just have to weigh how much you want to keep living versus how much you like air-conditioning". Brilliant.
Worst job I've ever had - that's tough, but one candidate would be a demolition job.
For some reason this building, (or at least parts of it) had to be taken down carefully, so I stood atop a brick wall 70' up, and about 18" across, and had to knock it down with a 14lb sledgehammer, one course at a time WHILE STANDING ON IT.
It wobbled a lot, and I was terrified, (incidentally I had a head for heights - worked in scaffolding and roofing).
As lunchtime approached on my first day the foreman came up and said, "I don't think that you're cut out for this" - handed me two days wages and fired me.
I've never been so happy to lose a job.
Sheesh. Probably the best thing that ever happened to you.
I would thank the foreman for saving my life 👍 Seriously, go thank him 👍😎
"I don't think that you're cut out for this" yeah, you value your life too much, man.
What?! Wait - were you tied in - or onto something - stable?
Dude, I feel your pain. At least, I've felt it once, but I do think that, for both of us, getting out of this kind of job was the best that could happen. ;-)
Speaking of deadly jobs and radiation, you should do a video on the Atomic Veterans.
My father was an "Atomic Sailor " He died of brain cancer. I still miss him
This video was rad!
*I'll see myself out now
Top Ten RUclips Comment of all time!
You sir earned a banana. 🍌
Touche!!!! And the "I'll see myself out now" comment at the end "Perfect"... LoL 😂🤣😂🤣
No, don't go. Sad as your pun may have been, it's the best we've seen so far today.
I applaud your effort.
This comment is radioactive, it has trace amounts of laughter and alpha emissions of incompetence.
They didn’t just paint their nails, my Mum Mum (great grand mother) told me they painted their whole faces, bodies, their belongings. It was a fun joke and the girls were encouraged to do so. And then they were pariahs. Their communities and families turned their backs on them and called them names for drawing attention to their incredibly obvious health deterioration. They wanted them to keep quite so the radium corporation didn’t take the 20$ a day jobs elsewhere. It is such a tragic time.
You know, TECHNICALLY, the Egyptian laborers did have something resembling a labor union. They did have rights and were well compensated for their hard work.
For instance, for food "the approximately 10,000 labourers working on the pyramids they (sic) ate 21 cattle and 23 sheep" according to NatGeo.
According to the BBC, the workers (who lived) "returned to the provinces with new skills, a wider outlook and a renewed sense of national unity that balanced the loss of loyalty to local traditions. The use of shifts of workers spread the burden and brought about a thorough redistribution of pharaoh's wealth in the form of rations."
Per MSNBC: "the work was performed by skilled laborers who had the perks of a labor union: work only ninety days a year, eat steak and lamb every day, luxury burial benefits, etc."
One thing not mentioned in these articles was that each worker was given an allotment of BEER each day. From the Smithsonian: "For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters, it was a source of nutrition, refreshment and reward for all the hard work ... The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer."
Oh! So THAT'S why it was such a good job to have- they were drunk as hell! It's amazing what humans can do on four or five liters of beer per person per day!🤪
beeramids....
@@micheleparker8123 They must have hit that sweet spot between tipsy and falling over drunk where you get better at doing everything. Otherwise the pyramid would be crooked or upside down.
They drank beer because it was sterile compared to dirty drinking water but it had a low alcohol content
@@micheleparker8123 yeah, i remember a veteran wrote a comment on a video saying that one time when he was in army in foreign country a local store was rebuilt as an alcohol base for the soldiers and some men actually started crying out of joy, so pathetic
everybody is making jaw dropping jokes
until their managers show up to work wearing "fashionable" clothing
Matchstick workers strike. Geddet?
You're on fire!
A bright spark ☺
Amazing!
All the puns are taken so I’ll just say good one lol
That pun was radiant. I broke down laughing.
Joe, some other more recent (military) travesties that are very similar: Agent Orange, burn pits, PTSD, and now malaria pills. You could just do a video on how the gov't has treated its veterans.
Don’t forget that white phosphorus is STILL USED in ordnance despite being banned under the Geneva conventions.
Y’know. The stuff that seeks out your mucus membranes, mixes with water, and turns in to acid while also incurable poisoning you. We use it in smoke grenades.
Hey Joe
I live In South Africa and I think that your videos are great. You Tubers like you show me that affiliate marketing can be more than hot air and empty promises praying on peoples fears and greed. It can have substance with knowledge and introspection. It can present value. I watched your last video where you compared your channel to that of a guy crushing stuff. Dont compare man, what you do IS much more valuable. Keep up the great work. p.s my opinion only
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First of all, thank you so much for the kind words, it means a lot.
I think if you're in it for the long run, you provide value to people and not just go for the cheap views. Having said that, I'm not above covering a scandalous topic to boost the channel. :)
Also, my "comparison" was just for chuckles. I have nothing against the press channel, in fact he commented on that video and was very nice. It's quite mesmerizing actually.
Wait..!
What are you saying?
Are you two trying to tell me that he might actually run out of things that squish in an entertaining manner? ImPoSsIbLe!
Even if, as crazy as the thought may be, we were to grow tired of watching things get crushed, that accent will easily carry his channel for the rest of the century.
I completely agree with you. Thanks for voicing my thoghts.
Joe for US President
Joe: There's no job worse than being a radium girl
Phineas Gage: *hold* *my* *dynamite*
I didn't lose my jaw, but I did lose my dignity. Does that count?
No. That's standard
jjohnston94 meh
What's a dignity?
@@joescott I just fell out of my bed :D hahahaahha :D
I did lose my jaw, but at least I kept my dignity.
*drops dead*
I dont think any one of us can imagine how painfull that mustve been, ive been off work now for 2 weeks due to complications with a tooth removal. JUST 1 TOOTH, and ive described it as unbearable at times. That would be absolutly nothing compared to your jaw disintergrating, I cant even fathom the pain these people mustve endured - Great vid as always Joe
Another jaw-dropping video! Keep it up!
*yes I did that*
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That is a little short in the tooth.
@@monad_tcp
Twice?
That's the sort of pun that involves losing some amount of face but funny nonetheless.
Wow, Joe. Thank you for producing this. My aunt painted radium watch faces at the Elgin Watch Company.
Joe, a topic suggestion: Bhopal, an industrial accident comparable in scale to Chernobyl
This would be really interesting to see. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy killed 15000 people in one night: most people died suffocating in there sleep. It affected at least half a million people, many among whom were children who till now carry permanent disabilities. And the responsible pereptrators: got off with a fine of 2000 $ only.
Would be really interesting to see How do a video on this.
Yeah, I'll write that one down. It doesn't get talked about enough.
Robert Evans just made an episode of the "Behind the Bastards" podcast, titled _The Industrial Disaster That Makes Chernobyl Look Like Kindergarten_ about it. www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/the-industrial-disaster-that-makes-chernobyl-look-like-kindergarten.htm
@@joescott check out the book "Set Phasers on Stun" it is a human factors text book focusing on times when the man-machine interphase goes horribly wrong, including Bhopal.
@@joescott pls talk about it man
How about a show on asbestos? Some crazy stuff happened with that ......
Have a friend in his late 60s who swears that as kids in a small town in PA, the kids literally played in the scraps from an asbestos plant. (He tends to exaggerate, though, so I would take it with a grain of salt.)
Have worked removing the stuff before. thats the worst job I've had. Its a job for convicts and illegal immigrants
@@susanf915 I believe that. Look up an article called "the kids who played with asbestos." One woman in the article recalled using a piece of asbestos to draw lines for hopscotch as a little girl. She later died of mesothelioma in her 40's.
@@DuffyWayne that’s sad. And sick
@@katybug6572 they didn't know any better and neither did their parents. the asbestos industry hid their knowledge of how dangerous it was for decades. wgat you don't know can hurt you
Joe, you are not a know-it-all, and that is what makes you smart.
Craig Being smart has nothing to do with how much you know.
"knowing everything isnt wise but knowing that you aren't is"- a random dude in the street
So you're just gonna leave the "douchebag" part alone. I get it...
😉
@@joescott lmao
@@joescott Craig knows comment bait when he sees it :-)
I've read 1 or 2 books on the Radium Girls and several of the women just would NOT give up when the lawyers kept trying to force them to take a settlement. They stood their ground. One lady, in fact, had to be wheeled into court in her hospital bed each day. It was horrendous. But she actually lived long enough to see her case vindicated, but not to collect any money. By that time, the money ceased to matter at all...
You put soooo much work into these video's!!!! Wow... Tying stories together seamlessly. The humor is the best. These videos will be world famous one day!!!
Lets hope.🏆
$20 a day in 1914 is like $512 today. I work in IT with over 20 years of experience and I'm not making $512 a day. OK...maybe I'm not at the top of the game but I do OK and I still don't make $512 a day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to eat radioactive paint for $512 a day.
It's not terrible and it's not great
Eat the Rich Policing isn’t as nearly as dangerous to the police as it is to the public.
@@justsmallstuff4994 ah I see you . Chernobyl
"It's like darkness, but....Un" LMAO - killed me on that one Joe.
It makes me think of a saying in my family, when we’re perturbed. “You’ve dis-ed my gruntle and gruntled my dis.” Because, you don’t hear of people being “gruntled.” What a weird lexical gap. 😅
@@SunflowerSpotlight People with neat hair are never referred to as 'sheveled'. ruclips.net/video/uJEqXJRK4Q4/видео.html
$20 per hour + shortened lifespan = greater lifetime spending power -- some corporate lawyer, probably.
Imagine your lower jaw and mouth just decaying and you not knowing why, the pain...
There are various illnesses that can cause horrific symptoms like that, so I’m sure it still happens in some form to people even today, no radium necessary. One sort of similar thing I know of firsthand happened to a family member. From about age twelve or so, her teeth started rotting at an accelerated rate, and she had to have several root canals before she could drive. At first the dentists and assistants gave her lectures, thinking she just wasn’t brushing her teeth properly, or at all, or ate a ton of candy and soda and stuff. I remember her coming back in tears several times. They also didn’t numb her well and even now she’s kind of traumatized about anything medical, dental or otherwise, because of how much they hurt her, not taking her seriously about the pain level. She lost all of her original teeth by the time she was 25 and had to have dentures, but now it looks like we’ll be able to raise the money to get dental implants for her; no one wants to have dentures almost their whole lives. It makes her pretty self-conscious.
It turns out, there’s a thing called sjcogren’s (I think that’s how you spell it; it’s spelled just really weirdly, but is said like show-grins in a horrible cruel irony), and it’s like dry eye and mouth in steroids. I have both of those, but she... it’s another level. Contacts get stuck to her eyeballs within fifteen minutes even using a ton of drops. My dad’s a doctor and he had to go help her take them out a few times on the weekend because she couldn’t manage it and it hurt pretty badly. Every mucous membrane is not correctly hydrated and protected, so she’s got massive dry eye, dry mouth, even dry skin and serious reflux. She’s like a sponge, soaks water up really quickly, but then dries out from the inside out because her body just can’t regulate itself. Her mom had it, so they were able to figure it out once it became clear it couldn’t just be a lack of oral hygiene, and the biopsy of her salivary gland proved it.
Having cavities, root canals, and all her teeth pulled, over half of that with insufficient pain control, before 25, man. That’s rough. AND if we get the money to get the implants, although it’ll help her quality of life overall, that means dental surgery to drill into her skull and jaw and put these bolt type things into it. And they can break if not done right, AND she may need bone grafts since the longer there’s no teeth, the more the jaw kind of deteriorates (think of how trees anchor topsoil, and when they’re gone, it erodes away). So the pain isn’t even over for her yet.
It’s pretty nuts that even with today’s knowledge and medicine, people are walking around with various things that can wreak such havoc on your body and can go un- or misdiagnosed for years.
Scotty Roxwell Don’t feel bad. We’ve got an unusual level of pain and illnesses that cause pain in our family and there’s a really hard lesson that makes it easier, once we’ve learned it. Think about if you fall down a flight of steep stairs and break a rib and dislocate your shoulder. That hurts a lot. If, when you go to the hospital, you’re in a room with someone who fell off a balcony and broke like 1/3 of the bones in their body and have to be in a body cast, that’s horrible! But it doesn’t mean your pain hurts any less simply from knowing they’re in a ton of pain, from a lot of injuries.
Personally, I have Fibromyalgia and Lupus, the latter of which is likely to keep taking shots at different systems in my body (it seems to like picking on my kidneys and their function in particular) until it and “complications,” from it kills me. But I likely have a few decades of pain waiting for me before then. It’s not... easy.
But my mom has late stage pancreatic cancer and has just been told she needs to have more chemo. Well, it makes me feel like all my issues are Small Fry compared to hers, and that it would be extremely tome deaf and rude to ever bring it up. What’s flank pain causing you to not sleep well compared to cancer pain and the effects of chemo? But just because I know she’s hurting, it doesn’t magically make my own pain disappear, and she knows that. We’re understanding of each other, everyone with health issues in my family, to realize it’s not a contest, wherein only the one in the worst condition Can complain.
Long story short, ish: Knowing other pain exists out there, be it long lasting or “worse,” doesn’t delegitimize the pain you experience. You feel what you feel. Especially if you’ve not had experience with pain significantly worse than the pain you’re going through, it can be hard. Hard to cope, to find answers, to find ways to decrease the pain, hard to be taken seriously by people who aren’t sure if you’re telling the truth or wanting attention, pity, and/or a pain prescription. Your pain is legitimate and it matters, just like you do.
I really hope your TMJD improves. I’ve had issues with it, but Botox actually helped a lot. I also get migraines, so we kind of treat the two areas on the same day and I can get the soreness over all at once! I’m so tired of people thoughtlessly going up to me in comments, “Oh, you have FM!? Eat the paleo diet, it’ll fix everything. Go vegan, it’ll change your life within the month. The real issue is probably gluten, and if you stop eating it your pain will stop. Go to a chiropractor, all doctors are under Big Pharma and want to keep you sick, and you’re stupid for trusting one. Go to a yogi and let the healing begin. Hot Yoga is the way to go. Everyone gets sore sometimes; use an ice bath and that’ll help! Oh you say you have horrific muscle spasms despite antispasmodics? Well, do it anyway.”
So I’m not going to give you advice on you specifically might do to help things, since I don’t know anything about your condition except that it’s there, so your doctor would know to best treat you! Just... if it’s a significant problem, and you don’t have a specialist looking into it, that could help a lot. General practitioners are super, but they don’t have the super deep knowledge that specialists do. Or if you do have one, sometimes people kind of try one thing and it doesn’t work and the specialist doesn’t present anything else to do, really. Being verbal and saying, “Look, this is a problem that’s impacting my life that we need to do whatever we can to fix. What we did first didn’t work, what’s the next step?” Is helpful in showing them that this is really important and that you’re going to advocate for yourself, that if they don’t work on not just problem management but finding a solution, you’ll find someone who will. It’s... intimidating to do at first, but it can make all the difference. I really hope things go well for you, and that in time you find something works for the management of your TMJD so the pain is less a factor in your life. Life has enough pain in it as it is; we don’t need this extra crap on us! Be well, Scotty! 🌷
@@SunflowerSpotlight Sjogrens (No where near as bad, but took ages to find a dentist who GETS it. Sounds really ridiculous, but took 10 years after my old dentist retired to find one who really grasps what a semi-bad case does to your gums. Crazy thing is, she got it and immediately came up with a treatment plan in like 20 minutes).
Companies are still denying dangerous chemicals and terrible treatment of workers... it’s so terrible
Worst Job? Well Tester on a 90% sour disposal well. Yes, 90% H2S, when 0.00001 % is too dangerous to work with. Think about lifting the heaviest things you've ever lifted (4" flow pipe), walk them through knee deep mud, and if you take a breath without your mask on youre dead.
Yeah, H₂S is really nasty stuff. Numbs your smell, causes narcosis and loss of consciousness, highly flammable, and hiding everywhere in mining operations.
no thanks...life is complicated enough as it is
Do you work in northern Alberta?
I avoided sour work like the plague. Even trace amounts would give me heartburn.
Another great one Joe.....learning and laughing.....you've got this down pat brother.
Working in the Nuka-Cola factory. Lost a lot of friends to conditions called Ghoulism and Super-Mutancy...
My mother worked in the 'radium shop' in a WW2 factory in Essex, UK, painting instruments for aircraft. The women earned more than other workers and were collectively honoured with a medal at the end of the war. I don't know whether the precautions were greater by that time, but she was thankfully not affected adversely, though she and her fellow workers were monitored every year by the health authorities until the late 1970's. She eventually died in 2013 aged 89. She had a vague idea what she was doing was risky, but the war effort came first.
Normally, I love watching your videos during my lunch break. While eating. ...Not today. Not today.
Just sent this link to my unmotivated summer help. With the caption "You may find painting walls boring, but your face is still intact".
HA! Nice 😆 👍
Nice job I don't know how you dont have a few million subscribers yet
Because there's no justice in this world.
...and because it just takes time. I'm thankful for what I've got.
Because he doesn't squish things with a hydrolic press!
I said the same thing when he had like 500 subscribers. Look at him now! Lol
Just give it time. I have full confidence that if he keeps this up, it’s only a matter of time.
Nice compliment ... disguised as a little dig. Haha.
Your videos are awesome. Why am I the only one who thinks so?
I worked for Bayer CropScience in Stilwell, Kansas for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily.
It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments.
I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.)
One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years.
I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.)
Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore.
Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % level & content level on the label required on each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.)
It’s just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results.
Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders.
But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
Erm...I don't think General AI will have to be super intelligent to replace us.
Speak for yourself. General AI should be sufficient to replace me!
@@ShelburneCountry Not worried about A.I. replacing me, IBM's "Job For Life" evaporated in 2003 when I was replaced by a Hungarian, then Chinese, then they gave up the PC game altogether. I don't think A.I. could match my artistry in photography right enough....I'm joking.
Haha yeah, once it hits ‘passably intelligent’ we’ll be left in the dust
We IT guy who build pc is like god to A.i, or at least angels... They will worship us instead.
Nah, kidding we are the 1st to be enslave to create their billions army.
Random Thursday's are always my favourite videos that you put out.
OMG, I remember requesting the radium girls! Thanks Joe! ^^
I once worked in a call center under so much pressure that I suffered a psychotic break. Still have my jaw, but I more than a decade later, I still panic at the sound of a ringing phone.
As for physical issues, undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome + years of retail = permanent system-wide damage. I live in so much pain that I have a type of medication pump usually only given to cancer patients and other people with terminal issues. I can barely tidy the house and feed myself. Some days, I envy the Radium Girls. Their suffering was unimaginable, but it ended in a few years. Meanwhile, I'm facing a normal life span.
Marie Curie's doorknob is a bit overstated. It's only about 10x background radiation. You can safely use it... but I wouldn't put it in my pocket and sleep with it. :-)
Uh huh, that would do wonders for your knob.
@@badhombre4942 LOL!
Great video Joe... no need for cable tv when we have guys like you putting out such interesting videos
The Radium Girls; making $20 a day ingesting radium at work. Not Great. Not Terrible..
Ouch!
3.6 roentgen? Well its not great but its not terrible
I’ve been reading the radium girls book and it’s sad to hear how they didn’t know until they all started passing
Massive shade thrown to the tobacco and cigarret company.
Working for the tobacco company is actually quite lucrative. They pay big bucks! Great benefits, and working around tobacco doesn’t hurt you if you don’t smoke it.
@@alphagt62
Plus, people who need the govt' to tell them that inhaling tar into their lungs is dangerous, deserve to get cancer.
gingataisen they certainly have no one else to blame.
Well, I wouldn't cause people's losing money and health on nothing by helping them with working. If I didn't work, somebody else would work logic wouldn't work if nobody wanted to work.
at one time over a period of four years (1952-1956), H&V produced asbestos filters for Lorillard's Kent brand cigarettes, and Lorillard marketed the new Micronite filter as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”...soon we'll hear of the health benefits of vaping roundup weedkiller to prevent the dangers and hazards of weeds growing in your lungs
Your jaw falls off...it's unpleasant 😂 I am glad you can bring some fun into serious subjects. I feel so sorry for those poor women. I literally can't even imagine what they went through. Thankfully through the pain they suffered others had safer work eventually.
A guy with full blown AIDS bled all over me. I'm fine, but that was a little stressful at the time.
Bob Louis are you a paramedic? ER doctor? I’m curious as to how that happened 🧐
@@riaranta3150 Maybe he's just your usual Texan chainsaw killer.
Yikes! What job was that???
Gotta say, I really enjoy your narrative/storytelling style!
Please do a video on NAPALM. I recently watched Apocalypce Now and a documentary named Vietnam in HD and am very much interested in this topic. Keep up the good work!
I'm sure someone else has already pointed it out, but the pyramids weren't made by slaves, but by highly trained and well remunerated workers.
I guess the worst job I had (safetywise) would be a salmon processing plant the was on a ship in Alaska. Exposed to multiple freezing temperatures, the pace enviorement and the bad working habits of the staff made me rethink the worth of fast money.
these history videos are my favorite, plz keep doing more of these!
Always awesome videos. That's what I love about your channel Joe- even when the topic is material and information I'm already familiar with, you bring it in a way that always teaches me something new or gets me looking at things from a whole new perspective. Keep up the good work and thank you!
That was a nice uplifting video - thanks
"So how's your job?"
Can't complain.
Because they have no jaw. I see what you did there.
Nope, rather I'm saying I can't complain compared to these people.
@@dezzlok Yeah, complaining is unfair to those people but wanting a better one is ok i guess.
Thank you for the great laughs- tragic stories- but hilarious 😂 🤣😂🤣.
Intelligent humor: damned rare thing today.
Your work is MUCH appreciated 🏆🥇-standing OV-
And yet, there are still states, like Texas, that are “right-to-work states,” a euphemism for states that do not give unions any real power. Disgusts me.
I was raised in Oregon and now live in Texas, the difference in common work-place practices is staggering. It’s disgusting what they get away with here.
Sorry to be a downer. Gotta love that existential dread! 😂Love your channel Joe!
"...I was raised in Oregon."
Yeah, we know. 😒
gingataisen
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Ironic that union in Texas took down Hostess.
Sorry but if the only way the union can get 'real power' is by being able to force the workers to join, the union is not really there for the workers now is it?
@@ShelburneCountry Why not? The philosophy of "right to work" is really "divide and conquer".
Random Thursday episode’s are the best 👍👍
I'm on the other side right now. We have ten employees and me and my two partners are doing our best to provide them with a enjoyable workplace. Not all bosses are heartless, capitalistic soul eaters. :-) Also this makes my work much more enjoyable, too :-D
Massive props to you - especially if you're making the choice to spend a bit more money (or not make as much) in order to do that - so many short-term thinkers do not understand how investing in their employees pays off in the long run, for everyone. If every employer was like you, there would be so much less suffering from stress and depression in the world and we would normalise healthy conditions.
@@PinataOblongata Richard Branson said some years ago “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” From my experience this is absolutely right.
@@cg21 Treat your employees right and they'll treat the customers right. Such a simple idea yet so few do it. sad.
Love hearing this. I absolutely hate my job and am looking for a new one because it’s so bad. They literally work you to death and want to pay you as little as possible.
My daughter owns a business. She is the best employer and treats people with kindness and respect and in return has loyal employees. She can also sleep peacefully, I’m very proud of her.
I'm so happy you made this video! Been waiting for this since you told us about Hahn!
"Fossy jaw", perfect name for a Forsaken character.
finsclapping lol yess
I'm sure you get this alot but, I get excited every time you upload a new video
Great video! Love your channel 😎
How does this only have 3 likes?
Yo those commissions thou
Oh my god, it's bitch fartman!
Oh no..
Tech support for Dell in the early 2000s was probably the worst job. I didn't lose my jaw though... just a my hair,.
Once again shows how powerful and positive Unions are!
Workers of the world, unite and unionise!
I read this comment in black and white.
Workers of the world will never unite. Also, CEOs are laborers too, but I doubt that you would be inclusive towards them.
Lol...love the intro. :)
My workplace was so bad that I almost died multiple times within a year from July 2007 to April 2008. 1)Fell from 35' height. 2)Almost decapitated but I was quick enough to only end up with a major concussion. 3) got hit by forklifts multiple times because the drivers blind-racing down the rows with pallets blocking their views(supposed to drive backwards when view is obscured).
I worked as lead/supervisor for a bonded cargo warehouse at the local airport.
Forklift operators with no driver's licenses, let alone forklift operator licenses. This resulted in constant accidents. Saw a guy chop his own finger off while driving a lift, I had to pick it up and put it on ice for him.
We didn't have a safety cage to go up in the racks and fix crooked pallets, so we'd simply stand on a wooden pallet while someone on the lift would raise us up to 30-40 feet up (without any lifeline). I myself fell off and broke my right shoulder in spectacular fashion...the following Monday we finally got a safety cage. Before I started working there, a guy had broken his back doing the same task.
Storage racks with warped footing, not bolted together or to the floors, one good knock(refer to operators mentioned above) and they collapsed like domino or worse(happened a few times). I once had a skid/pallet of steak knives collapse from a 3story height rack and land 6 feet away from me.
Electric forklift batteries badly maintained, spewing acid vapors. Do it yourself battery swaps without the proper equipment.
Dangerous goods like oxidizers stacked/stored with flammables and explosives.
Many more examples but even more importantly, I was also the safety officer and after voicing my concerns to the higher ups and being laughed out of the offices, I finally made an anonymous tip to the appropriate agency. They sent an inspector that I think got bribed. Because his only recommendations were to paint lines on the floor to designate safe walking lanes(to no be run over by forklifts) and he said we had to leave the fire extinguishers in their designated spots rather than use them as door stops for the offices.
Joke was on us for thinking our safety and lives were of any concern to anyone in a position to bring change.
I also witnessed a coworker report a shipment full of hashish to the authorities, they came and seized it but the employee was fired 2 days later for "unrelated reasons". He had worked there for 6 years and was one of the best, hardworking workers we had.
All of that for 10$/hr to 15$/hr. I ended up unable to work because of injuries and had multiple surgeries. The company and government then loopholed me out of disability pension and I now live in abject poverty. This is after having paid into a system since I started working weekends & after school at age 14.
The upside is I feel more free then I ever have.
So in conclusion, we may have progressed since the days of those poor radium ladies but still have a long way to go before we see a safe & fair work environment for all.
Be safe! ;)
Well, if you are in Texas you are only a short drive away from seeing people out in the 100 degree plus heat chopping weeds out of cotton fields.
Fields that are constantly being sprayed with Glyphosate and / or 24-D.
There will probably be a video featuring those people in a decade or so....maybe.
Nah, probably not.
*Which reminds me - they used to defoliate cotton with....arsenic. There used to be people working in delinting plants who handled it. Their fingernails would fall off and of course, they suffered with all the other problems associated with ..well....arsenic poisoning.
Now they defoliate it with a chemical that is much safer. A chemical once known as "Agent Orange".
Yet we ban Plastic bags and tell the public to buy reusable cotton bags which is much safer for the environment (ignore the chemicals they use to grow them, the fuel they use to process them, and the germs that propagate within them .. as long as the harbor seal is happy......
They should make a movie or at least a documentary about the radium corporation.
Work retail.
Lose dignity, will to live, hope for mankind.
Not bad, not great
This is a topic that honestly needs to be talked about more
All that and not ONE Spiderman? Impossible! 😐
This makes me wonder about all the “safe” chemicals in our daily lives today 😟💀
*PRESS X TO DOUBT*
Preach. Sometimes I'm scare of wearing make-up because of that.
Wow they had class action lawsuits because people were dying and the company needed to change its ways.
Today we have class action lawsuits because our macbook pro keyboard stopped working
Flint Water Crisis.
Proof that we can never trust corporate...ever. Also proof of how far we've come...and how much we might lose in the future.
Doing hepatitis test and working in r i a using radioactive isotopes and then when you're done with them we just flush them down the sink which was cool with the state of California how I don't know
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Yeesh! 😳
I would love to hear more!
🤯😱
There is baseline radioactivity in everything we touch. The fact that a material has some radioactivity does not necessarily make it a health risk of consequence.
Please never change your intro.
I like it.
And not one got super powers
Its almost like the idea behind spiderman was a lie all along.
Noooooooooooooooo
they had jaw dropping powers....
The Radium Girls book by Kate Moore (The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women) is SO good. I work at a library, and I push this book all the time. It was.. well, I didn't find it super uplifting. It was so depressing what these women suffered. But I could not stop reading. I was transfixed learning about how they treated this deadly substance with so little care. (at least how they made the women handle it). And the disrespect shown towards the women who worked with it. I learned so much and felt like a cheerleader the whole time, in my head cheering them on their fight. And wanting to throw rotten vegetables at the company and lawyers. I highly recommend the book. Anyway! Great video Joe, keep it up! I finally had some preexisting knowledge to comment about.
Thanks for cheering up my Thursday. It makes me realise how lucky I am. Those poor Radium girls. I have a feeling history will find things happening now that will be looked at very badly in the future (you mean people were allowed to drive themselves in those days resulting in thousands of deaths?).
Long time viewer, very happy with an other Random Thursday!
Bunch of women die: **crickets**
One dude dies: You know what... Yeah we should probably file a lawsuit.
That's exactly how it works.
I got declared dead after a road accident 22 years ago.
that really messed my life up.
I was a motorcycle despatch rider in London at the time.
life expectancy 3 months.
scared the crap out of a nurse, who had just spent 8 hours walking back and forth to the Accident and Emergency Department past my 'corpse' in an unlit corridor, when I came back.
unfortunately, being declared dead in England is immediately entered in all official records and you files are all marked 'historic'.
the State unpersonned me. (this is thanks to 'Carlos the Jackal's' failed attempt on DeGaulle's life contracted by the OAS. ironically , I'm French!)
impossible to get any help when you've no family and your friends all think you're dead.
came out of hospital 7 months later to find the home that was freehold and that I'd paid in full before meeting her, had been sold by the live-in.
she'd cleaned me out with her copy of the death certificate and her Common Law spousal rights after 5+ years cohabitation.
everything was gone. everything.
worse, I had to live on the streets with a full leg cast for 3+ years too, because being a lone male, I was "not a priority".
ho hum.
Joe you have the manliest, coolest jaw anyone has ever had and it looks totally ok.
That was just in case this whole video was made for a secret, different reason...
Thanks Joe. I just love your talks - glad your jaw is fine!
Radium Girls was an amazing book on this. Please, if this interests you, Radium Girls is amazingly personal and informative.
Awesome bit of history and commentary!
1:07 Just so it's clear:
Slavery lasted for about at least 250 years or so for conservative numbers, not "about a 100 years or so" in the "land of the free'.
And we know that between the 13th amendment and the actual time it took to really enforce it, it took more than that.
and slavery isnt over yet. consider that slavery was outlawed "except as a measure of punishment". american prisoners are forced to work in miserable conditions, sometimes fighting wildfires in california or labouring in hot fields during the day and are paid literally cents.
Technically, he is correct. The US wasn't a country until 1776. So, technically, slavery existed less than 100 years in the US.
I practically never comment on videos, but I just wanted to say that what you are doing rocks! I've followed you for a couple of years now and you still bring up new topics and go through them in an interesting and easily understandable manner. Extra creds for your wonderful humour as well! You're such a guy I wish I'd met at a bar and become friends with at some point in time :)
As a chairman of a Union shop, I appreciate every time a smart person recognizes that unions made life better then and I promise you we still do now. Take away all the big B.S., I help the little guy every day. And when I get a big raise for my members the salary guys thank me cuz they know it will be cause for them to ask for one.
Nobody seems to be saying this but: it has been observed in the construction of workers tombs and the contents of their stomach that the workers building the pyramids weren’t slaves. Analyzing their stomach contents tells us that they are beef, a luxury that slaves wouldn’t be given. So it is believed that they were paid workers.
A small oversight, not everyone can know anything. Keep up the good work!
Madam Curie !
Easily the first radium girl (old girl)
I was a Great White Shark rodeo clown in South America for a short lived reality show called Shark Rodeo.
My job to distract the sharks after being ridden & draw them away from the riders.
The show never really got off the ground cause most of the time, the sharks tended to eat the riders, then eat the clowns.
My job only lasted a month but the pay was good & getting any well paying job was hard to find.
I just discovered your videos & love the way you present them.