What the heck is wrong with the OP in the second story? They're supposedly friends with the VP and they never let slip in casual conversation the MASSIVE safety violations and ongoing risk posed by the idiot manager and put up with verbal and physical abuse. That makes ZERO sense.
That crossed my mind as well. I wouldn't care about the coming in late, leaving early, or two-hour lunches, but complete disregard to safety and as reckless as A-Hat was, I'd be blowing every whistle, horn, klaxon, and siren I could get my hands on. I'd see to it that A-Hat was fired within a day or two of me being there. The only reason I could think of was if A-Hat threatened OP with his job if he I reported him to his superiors, or OP didn't feel it was right due to A-Hat being his superior. I work for a civil engineering firm and they drill safety into our heads at least weekly. One thing they stress on concerns being aware of what's within 12 feet (~4 meters) in front of you, behind you, on either side of you, above you, and sometimes, below you. They stress on other areas of workplace safety, including proper posture when sitting at a desk, stretching/exercising daily, and other factors.
My thought exactly. He basically threw his VP friend under the bus with safety inspector, instead of warning him. That would have been the end of the friendship if I were the VP. Also, if all these dangerous things were happening in the lab, why didn't someone report to upper management to at least persevere their own safety. Something doesn't add up.
Person in last episode should have informed his VP friend when the terrible behavior started, and kept him up to date. His silence constituted, in my opinion, malfeasance.
VP, Plant Safety Officer AND HR... I can almost guarantee AHat would have been Fired With Cause after the 1st week, the first time he left an Industrial Mixer running unattended or when he killed the microwave, whichever came first (the Safety Officer would see to that simply to keep AHat from Bankrupting the Company from a Wrongful Death Lawsuit)...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan i hear HR only exists to protect the company, a walking lawsuit waiting to happen should make any HR employee with a thread of sanity see the risk to everyone.
Office Space was released in 1999. So things worked slightly differently back then where you would not go over someone's head to report on them. There are weird repurcushions on being a whistleblower. Today there is supposedly better protection, but it is being abused now by crooked managers. Witnessed that happen too
As everyone is pointing out, OP should have gone to his VP when all of this started. Him not saying anything had put him and his colleagues in serious risk of injury or worse. Either he's exaggerating the events, or he's an idiot for staying quiet.
it is the unfortunate situation of office politics, it is typically viewed that people in managerial positions have more sway with the higher ups than a grunt.
Of course, if the V.P. and other big bosses had been doing their jobs properly, A--hat would have been fired the first week BEFORE such a big case was built against him. It would have saved the company thousands of dollars. Management NEEDS to manage. It's their job and they get paid a premium to do it.
You expect management to work? That defeats the entire purpose! Next thing you know, you'll expect them to have a bare modicum of knowledge about the work their employees and company do, instead of thinking only of their own and the company's bottom line. That won't do at all!
@@Tarotlynx Yeah, ridiculous to expect actual competence. We see it in politics almost always. Even so, I worked for a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper with both good and mediocre managers. I was one of the mediocre managers the last two years before I left and started my own business . . . which I operated from 1979 to 2001. What kind of manager was I? Not terrible but not as good as I wish I had been. People liked working with me. Customers liked doing business with us but the printing industry changed radically: desktop publishing, laser & inkjet printers, etc. Now, I enjoy staying up late and sleeping late. Old age.
GOOD MORNING RED WHEEL AND ALL OF NEVERLAND!!! 😁😁👋👋👋 It's ProRevenge Time!!!! WHOOOOO!!!! You're doing a GRRRRR---EAT job, Red Wheel!👍 Let's have a Super Duper Day Everyone😁😁🌞
On that chemistry story. I'm a mechanical engineering graduate and people like me (but with a lot more experience) typically designs centrifuges and such. You _DO _*_NOT_* leave those suckers unattended. Making things spin really really fast without wobbling, which is exactly what these things are for, is VERY expensive because its surprisingly hard to accomplish. You basically need a super powerful motor held stable and centered by extremely well made parts (read expensive). Putting things into it wrong or something slipping out of where it was supposed to be can cause them to wobble anyway. If a centrifuge wobbles for whatever reason, you need to hit the emergency stop as fast as possible because if you don't, the thing can basically break itself, leaving you with a 10-50 thousand dollar pile of useless garbage. The kind of damage it will do to itself typically can't be fixed without basically replacing everything. So yeah, this guy was a moron.
@@Nerdnumberone depends on what you have in the thing and how long you let it wobble. Centrifugal force is gnarly. I'll put it this way the shepherds sling is an ancient weapon that whips a rock in a circle then flings it at an enemy. You wouldn't think that was all that dangerous. In the hands of an expert, the rock could achieve speeds about that of a small caliber bullet, all from going in a circle once or twice really fast before release.
Recordings are the best way to deal with an A-hat manager that insists on chewing you out on a daily basis. Easy to do since you know when it's going to happen.
If VP allows this to happen, or didn't fire them both after finding out, he should be serving out severance if he is lucky before being fired for cause
Physical assault by ahat boss? Sounds like Ahat shouldn't have been in charge of a sandbox. OP was lucky to be on "lunch" during the great mixer incident.
@@Blitzwaffen - No, Germans only wish that they could even aspire to our level of passive-aggressiveness. With a Canadian it sometimes takes you a bit to realize just how well and truly screwed you already are.
That last story sure does smell of BS. OP saw all this going on and said nothing?? To NO one? Didn't say anything to his VP friend? Ignored and or allowed all the dangerous going ons? The ruined mixer was just as much his fault at the crap lab boss. Had anyone gotten injured or killed he too would have been held to blame. I wouldn't want some one like that as my friend!! And I sure the F would not have put someone who was willing to jeopardize the business and endanger other employees as manager!
Absolutely. He could have kept a record of activities, used his phone to record the conversations, insist on written/emailed instructions, and reported to his friend VP, or to HR. Instead, he allowed the company to nearly have huge liabilities, potential human harm, and obvious loss of profit, while OP decides the way to deal with it is to take 2 hour lunches. No, I wouldn't have promoted him. I'd have had a hard discussion about why he didn't do anything about it.
In 1974 I was playing a bar in Hinton Alberta, and met an Englishman who was traveling for business. He said, "the distances here are shattering!" Coming from a small island, as he did, it magnified the perception. By the way, some lovely folks in small-town Alberta. And some drunk a-holes too.
Canadian here, drove from Maritimes to Alberta one winter. NB to Ontario you have forests, leaving Ontario borders to Alberta where you leave the mountains, its plains. My first time passing I was booooored. Nothing to see except oil pumps. I much prefer being back home in the Atlantic. Smells better too.
Canadian my guys, I don't know how many tourist I've met who tell me, "oh we're just gonna rent a car and head to Vancouver for the day." I live in Ontario... I have stopped correcting people at this point and just let them figure it out for themselves.
I reckon that is one way to get rid of a knob of a boss, drive him insane, and let him take himself out of the equation. Scotch, the cherry on top of the deal, too
I am a retired U.S. Forestry Service Purchasing Agent/Contracting Officer. Employees routinely steal from the government. They tried to make me pay for anything that an employee bought. I am taking about hundreds of people who I don't know. One supervisor had his employees working on his ranch. I got suspended for 2 weeks so I retired. So now some poor slop is supporting over 100 people.
I'm from canada and that shocked me because the people I'm around most of the time says sorry from bumping into a wall and realized that is was a wall and probably felt stupid. I know I do every time
I'd like to see one of those 1,000 gallon containers, as the biggest totes used in most industries only hold about 3,500 pounds, not 8,000. I've transported and filled several totes with HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup), and a forklift that can carry a 1,000 gallon container, if such a thing even exists, would not fit on an enclosed semi trailer, and likely wouldn't even clear the mast head on any doorways.
The worst people I have ever seen are ex-Marines. They seem to think they are still Marines. I tried to be a Marine but my parents were married to each other and I know both of their names. I was unqualified.
HEY!😡 Who the F turned off my MIXER?!? And just WHAT do you MEAN I can't be making a cake with it? IT'S BIG ENOUGH for a cake... AIN'T IT? AND WHO THE F ARE YOU? Hey! Lemme Go! Where ya taking me?!? Precious.✨🤗✨
The hiring manager thought since he was older he had more experience. If you listen again, you will hear that @sshat got the job because they thought that OP was too young to be a good manager
@@susanmcpeak7267 No I heard that, I more questioning how he got throught the interview. I was half expected him to be a lazy A Hole that got credit for everything when the story started, not for him to be walking disaster.
It is a stereotype that Canadians are polite and friendly. Ever watched a hockey game? give us a stick and tell us the other guy has the puck and we enter rage mode. LMAO Seriously, I'm Canadian and I'm only nice to those who are nice to me.
The crowning glory for me was the "We celebrated with a scotch that you found in A- Hats desk", absolutely priceless.👍👍👍 Also if you ever wondered why Canadians are a bit 'Cranky', just cast a glance at their Obnoxious Neighbours.👍👍👍
Gee, yet ANOTHER title with NOTHING to do with content. Why is this now a thing? Making up a catchy title, then posting a couple things not related to title of post is irritating as hell.
What the heck is wrong with the OP in the second story? They're supposedly friends with the VP and they never let slip in casual conversation the MASSIVE safety violations and ongoing risk posed by the idiot manager and put up with verbal and physical abuse. That makes ZERO sense.
Ikr ? I mean nobody ask why piece of equipement got destroyed ?
That crossed my mind as well. I wouldn't care about the coming in late, leaving early, or two-hour lunches, but complete disregard to safety and as reckless as A-Hat was, I'd be blowing every whistle, horn, klaxon, and siren I could get my hands on. I'd see to it that A-Hat was fired within a day or two of me being there.
The only reason I could think of was if A-Hat threatened OP with his job if he I reported him to his superiors, or OP didn't feel it was right due to A-Hat being his superior.
I work for a civil engineering firm and they drill safety into our heads at least weekly. One thing they stress on concerns being aware of what's within 12 feet (~4 meters) in front of you, behind you, on either side of you, above you, and sometimes, below you. They stress on other areas of workplace safety, including proper posture when sitting at a desk, stretching/exercising daily, and other factors.
I thought that too!
My thought exactly. He basically threw his VP friend under the bus with safety inspector, instead of warning him. That would have been the end of the friendship if I were the VP. Also, if all these dangerous things were happening in the lab, why didn't someone report to upper management to at least persevere their own safety. Something doesn't add up.
The reason is that the story is bullshit.
Person in last episode should have informed his VP friend when the terrible behavior started, and kept him up to date. His silence constituted, in my opinion, malfeasance.
exactly. if I was the VP will ask him point blank why he didn't say anything.
VP, Plant Safety Officer AND HR...
I can almost guarantee AHat would have been Fired With Cause after the 1st week, the first time he left an Industrial Mixer running unattended or when he killed the microwave, whichever came first (the Safety Officer would see to that simply to keep AHat from Bankrupting the Company from a Wrongful Death Lawsuit)...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan i hear HR only exists to protect the company, a walking lawsuit waiting to happen should make any HR employee with a thread of sanity see the risk to everyone.
Office Space was released in 1999.
So things worked slightly differently back then where you would not go over someone's head to report on them.
There are weird repurcushions on being a whistleblower.
Today there is supposedly better protection, but it is being abused now by crooked managers. Witnessed that happen too
VP high hatted and screwed him by making promises that he didn't deliver on. OP should have walked instantly. VP was no friend and deserved nothing.
As everyone is pointing out, OP should have gone to his VP when all of this started. Him not saying anything had put him and his colleagues in serious risk of injury or worse. Either he's exaggerating the events, or he's an idiot for staying quiet.
it is the unfortunate situation of office politics, it is typically viewed that people in managerial positions have more sway with the higher ups than a grunt.
Of course, if the V.P. and other big bosses had been doing their jobs properly, A--hat would have been fired the first week BEFORE such a big case was built against him. It would have saved the company thousands of dollars. Management NEEDS to manage. It's their job and they get paid a premium to do it.
You expect management to work? That defeats the entire purpose! Next thing you know, you'll expect them to have a bare modicum of knowledge about the work their employees and company do, instead of thinking only of their own and the company's bottom line. That won't do at all!
@@Tarotlynx Yeah, ridiculous to expect actual competence. We see it in politics almost always. Even so, I worked for a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper with both good and mediocre managers. I was one of the mediocre managers the last two years before I left and started my own business . . . which I operated from 1979 to 2001. What kind of manager was I? Not terrible but not as good as I wish I had been. People liked working with me. Customers liked doing business with us but the printing industry changed radically: desktop publishing, laser & inkjet printers, etc. Now, I enjoy staying up late and sleeping late. Old age.
GOOD MORNING RED WHEEL AND ALL OF NEVERLAND!!! 😁😁👋👋👋
It's ProRevenge Time!!!!
WHOOOOO!!!!
You're doing a GRRRRR---EAT job, Red Wheel!👍
Let's have a Super Duper Day Everyone😁😁🌞
On that chemistry story. I'm a mechanical engineering graduate and people like me (but with a lot more experience) typically designs centrifuges and such. You _DO _*_NOT_* leave those suckers unattended. Making things spin really really fast without wobbling, which is exactly what these things are for, is VERY expensive because its surprisingly hard to accomplish. You basically need a super powerful motor held stable and centered by extremely well made parts (read expensive). Putting things into it wrong or something slipping out of where it was supposed to be can cause them to wobble anyway. If a centrifuge wobbles for whatever reason, you need to hit the emergency stop as fast as possible because if you don't, the thing can basically break itself, leaving you with a 10-50 thousand dollar pile of useless garbage. The kind of damage it will do to itself typically can't be fixed without basically replacing everything. So yeah, this guy was a moron.
I used to run one and two thousand pound capacity food mixers. No chemicals just food. I NEVER left them unattended!
Is it a "pile" of useless garbage or is it a debris field of shrapnel?
@@Nerdnumberone depends on what you have in the thing and how long you let it wobble. Centrifugal force is gnarly. I'll put it this way the shepherds sling is an ancient weapon that whips a rock in a circle then flings it at an enemy. You wouldn't think that was all that dangerous. In the hands of an expert, the rock could achieve speeds about that of a small caliber bullet, all from going in a circle once or twice really fast before release.
Good morning have a great day 👍 Have a great day everyone else out there 👋😃🤗😎
Recordings are the best way to deal with an A-hat manager that insists on chewing you out on a daily basis. Easy to do since you know when it's going to happen.
IF it's legal where you are. Otherwise it's a crime.
If VP allows this to happen, or didn't fire them both after finding out, he should be serving out severance if he is lucky before being fired for cause
Physical assault by ahat boss? Sounds like Ahat shouldn't have been in charge of a sandbox. OP was lucky to be on "lunch" during the great mixer incident.
Hi RedWheel hope you are well. Thanks for sharing. Please stay safe.🏴😁😷👍. Have a great day everyone
Note: We Canadians are actually quite nice.... Just don't F with us or the people we care about... Or our beer.
SAME Way With Many MANY MANY AMERICANS. Somebody Could TEST This Should They Choose TOO.....
You WON'T Like The RESULTS AT ALL.
So you're saying your Germany in a cold winter disguise?
@@Blitzwaffen - No, Germans only wish that they could even aspire to our level of passive-aggressiveness. With a Canadian it sometimes takes you a bit to realize just how well and truly screwed you already are.
Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
@@Eclectic1967 Yeah, read up on how Canucks acted during WWII.
That last story sure does smell of BS. OP saw all this going on and said nothing?? To NO one? Didn't say anything to his VP friend? Ignored and or allowed all the dangerous going ons? The ruined mixer was just as much his fault at the crap lab boss. Had anyone gotten injured or killed he too would have been held to blame. I wouldn't want some one like that as my friend!! And I sure the F would not have put someone who was willing to jeopardize the business and endanger other employees as manager!
Absolutely. He could have kept a record of activities, used his phone to record the conversations, insist on written/emailed instructions, and reported to his friend VP, or to HR. Instead, he allowed the company to nearly have huge liabilities, potential human harm, and obvious loss of profit, while OP decides the way to deal with it is to take 2 hour lunches. No, I wouldn't have promoted him. I'd have had a hard discussion about why he didn't do anything about it.
ALL in the lab should have reported ALL unsafe practices, not just the OP.
How does one celebrate something with just one glass of scotch between two people? What happened to the bottle?
poured out!
So they share just one glass?
These stories are keeping me cheerful and sane. When A-hats are all around us, we can get rid of them.
😎 by telling the truth.
Good morning RedWheel
Good morning everyone 😊😊😊
"...here in Canada" Wow, thanks for narrowing that down. We only have about ten million square kilometres up here. XD
In 1974 I was playing a bar in Hinton Alberta, and met an Englishman who was traveling for business. He said, "the distances here are shattering!" Coming from a small island, as he did, it magnified the perception. By the way, some lovely folks in small-town Alberta. And some drunk a-holes too.
Canadian here, drove from Maritimes to Alberta one winter. NB to Ontario you have forests, leaving Ontario borders to Alberta where you leave the mountains, its plains. My first time passing I was booooored. Nothing to see except oil pumps. I much prefer being back home in the Atlantic. Smells better too.
Canadian my guys, I don't know how many tourist I've met who tell me, "oh we're just gonna rent a car and head to Vancouver for the day." I live in Ontario... I have stopped correcting people at this point and just let them figure it out for themselves.
@@Reaperblack13 rocket powered Enterprise.
I reckon that is one way to get rid of a knob of a boss, drive him insane, and let him take himself out of the equation. Scotch, the cherry on top of the deal, too
How did Ahat lab manager keep his job so long?
Why didnt OP mention any of this to his "VP friend" when it started?
That’s absolutely brilliant that it was a-hats scotch that was used to toast his departure
The nastiest person I ever met was from Edmonton, Alberta Canada 😆I think about him every time I hear about this fabled "Canadian politeness."
I am a retired U.S. Forestry Service Purchasing Agent/Contracting Officer. Employees routinely steal from the government. They tried to make me pay for anything that an employee bought. I am taking about hundreds of people who I don't know. One supervisor had his employees working on his ranch. I got suspended for 2 weeks so I retired. So now some poor slop is supporting over 100 people.
As someone who worked in a lab, asshat was a fucking threat to human life the way he behaved. It's a miracle no one got hurt before.
"We celebrated with a glass of scotch we found in ahats desk" that's a winner
VICTORY!
Yeah, but as A-hat bought it, it's probably the cheap stuff. Still, drinking on the enemy's dime, WIN!
@@arikwolf3777 That sounds like the tastiest cheap stuff ever. :D
Lol. Earned and deserved
@@markstone918 a aq
It’s nice have a cup of coffee with you again, Redwheel. Hope your day is a good one ☮️💜♍️
Office Space rules really do work in real life.
I believe you have my Stapler......
Good Morning Yall
I'm from canada and that shocked me because the people I'm around most of the time says sorry from bumping into a wall and realized that is was a wall and probably felt stupid. I know I do every time
I'm from the American South. My furniture gets lots of apologies.
I'd like to see one of those 1,000 gallon containers, as the biggest totes used in most industries only hold about 3,500 pounds, not 8,000. I've transported and filled several totes with HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup), and a forklift that can carry a 1,000 gallon container, if such a thing even exists, would not fit on an enclosed semi trailer, and likely wouldn't even clear the mast head on any doorways.
Safety tip for the lab. All unmarked beakers contain a lethal, fast acting poison.
I agree. #3 guy really should have been fired by his VP friend
That last story was satisfying.
Are we sure that first guy was a Canadian? He didn't even say "Sorry"...
End of first story(like 2 minutes in) "And our last story." What?
How can we convince the Canada Geese to go home? 🤗
Very careful 😁🇨🇦
Just gotta love that line, 'Canadians aren't as kind hearted as you think' Lmao
1st nation members know
Read WWII history or watch a NHL playoff came and look at the defensemen who have French names for further proof
The worst people I have ever seen are ex-Marines. They seem to think they are still Marines. I tried to be a Marine but my parents were married to each other and I know both of their names. I was unqualified.
You are one of my favorite channels. You sound like Seth Rogan, and it makes me chuckle at the thought of Seth Rogan reading rslash
HEY!😡 Who the F turned off my MIXER?!? And just WHAT do you MEAN I can't be making a cake with it? IT'S BIG ENOUGH for a cake... AIN'T IT? AND WHO THE F ARE YOU?
Hey! Lemme Go! Where ya taking me?!?
Precious.✨🤗✨
How the Hell did A hat even get the job the job in the first place?
The hiring manager thought since he was older he had more experience. If you listen again, you will hear that @sshat got the job because they thought that OP was too young to be a good manager
@@susanmcpeak7267 No I heard that, I more questioning how he got throught the interview.
I was half expected him to be a lazy A Hole that got credit for everything when the story started, not for him to be walking disaster.
Good morning people
Imagine being so incompetent, he couldn't even cover his own fuckups. Lol, a child would be able to hide their mistakes better than Captain A-hat. XD
Last story was funny. Yet they hired an idiot and that was being nice. Peace ✌☮all.
It is a stereotype that Canadians are polite and friendly. Ever watched a hockey game? give us a stick and tell us the other guy has the puck and we enter rage mode. LMAO Seriously, I'm Canadian and I'm only nice to those who are nice to me.
Canadians are "polite". no one has ever called us "kind"'; just do war studies and you'll figure it out
I don't know we are just as KIND as any other COUNTRY
@@carolajoy4432 We may be just as KIND as any other country, BUT that's a very low bar to be at
We Canadians can be evil and vengeful when we need 😈
That last story was f****** brilliant
Good morning RW from mid Tn. I hope you have a great day.
I wonder if the safety inspector was dumbfounded or rolling on the floor laughing at how fucked that guy is
WOW! A**hat went nuclear on himself and all OP had to do was nothing...
Wow!
A hat forgot his Scotch. That alone is a reason to have a drink on him.
Canadians are that kind-hearted, but we have no tolerance for seps trying to pass.
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Love your videos! And the scotch of course.
Hey I am Canadian most times I am nice but you treat me wrong you got a problem seriously man.
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We canadians also have our fill of a holes
Have to say, this made my day..
Your stories never seem to match the title. Won't be watching any more of them.
You need someone who got past the fifth grade to edit the closed captioning.
The crowning glory for me was the "We celebrated with a scotch that you found in A- Hats desk", absolutely priceless.👍👍👍 Also if you ever wondered why Canadians are a bit 'Cranky', just cast a glance at their Obnoxious Neighbours.👍👍👍
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aye we Canadians are nice until you talk bad about Tim Hortons , our great beer, then we are passively aggressive
What about ice hockey ?
@@dickysatria7268 that as well :P but everyone in Canada knows that the leafs will choke
Too bad names can't be named lol
:):):):)
Gee, yet ANOTHER title with NOTHING to do with content. Why is this now a thing? Making up a catchy title, then posting a couple things not related to title of post is irritating as hell.
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We Canadians don't suffer fools.
Good stuff
😂😂😂😂😂 loved it