Story one reminds me of a boss I had at a furniture company years ago. "Don't think. Just do what I tell you!" Then, when things inevitably went south, "What were you thinking?" She would also go into the warehouse once a week for her "legendary" pep talk: "Work faster and make fewer mistakes!" I did inventory control. The head of sales convinced the boss that her assistant could do my job, so I was fired. Turned out, the sales head and her assistant worked together with the driver to rob the place blind. The warehouse workers, who were decent people, tried to warn the boss, but were told to shut up. The place went out of business less than a year after I was let go.
I've done it a few times...more an invitation than a dare, though. I used to work in employee relations in a large organisation whose staff were strongly unionised. My job involved taking questions from staff and managers about conditions of service. There were a few times when staff asked for their conditions of service to be interpreted in ridiculous ways that would benefit them financially. If they objected to me saying no, I'd invite them to call the union. In most cases the union would also tell them no, because the union staff knew a stupid argument when they heard it, and knew it was pointless trying to support it.
I live in a neighborhood off grid-ers and preppers and loners. Calling cops is considered quite a taboo around here. Well, i had a guy walking past encampment making threats and basically acting all like a big man like he's gonna take my things from me and beat me up. I called the sheriff on him and he was quite shocked that I would do such a thing. Thing is, I'm not against the police. I like our local cops, they've been nice to me. I don't have warrants and I'm not on their radar. So i don't have reason to dislike the police.
Stewart thought op was gonna go to the MP for racial discrimination, which is technically legal under the guise of freedom of speech, however what OP exposed was so much worse then some slurs and microagressions. She helped expose the contractor snooping through confidential information and snooping through desks in a building they don't own, this is like a made digging through your bedside table drawers, looking for something scandalous, but SO much worse
Story 1 - I knew that that was going to happen when OP’s Boss lectured him and told him that he’s not paid to think, only to do what he was told. Serves that jacka$$ right.
Its really telling that a boss knows nothing about the job or how to deal with people, when he says "you're not paid to think" to a job title is ment to solve problems
😂 had a manager 2 levels above me give a similar bs response, in front of witnesses, so we complied... his actions ended up busting a blender motor at the cut station
Story 1: This is one of the most satisfying stories of all time, combining "play stupid games, win stupider prizes" with "I told you so". Story 2: It bears repeating. *The racist is always wrong.* Story 3: There's a difference between a fire drill and a real fire. Story 4: How is there no law against tip confiscation? It's theft! It's *literally* theft!
Story 4: Tip theft is in fact illegal. The people who do it just rely on the victims not having the time, energy, money, or knowledge to do anything about it. Same with garnishing wages to balance out losses; gas stations do that all the time and it's considered a form of theft.
Two important lessons from story 1: 1. NEVER tell people they're not there to think. You're just begging for the MC gods to bring judgment upon you by doing so; 2. Always try to arrive at the airport AT LEAST THREE HOURS BEFORE YOUR FLIGHT. You never know when something might go horribly wrong. Same for connection flights: try to schedule them so that you have at least three hours between your arrival and the next flight. I learned that the hard way, when I missed a connection flight because the plane I was in was forced to fly around a thunderstorm and land somewhere else to refuel before finally making it to its destination, arriving almost two hours later than intended.
Frankly, if you need to get to the airport 3 hours in advance for what's often an hour's flight, you can probably drive there faster ánd cheaper. And in places with a decent rail system, more comfortably, too. So why should we be forced to endure such discomfort? Sure, for a once-a-day transcontinental flight, you'd want to make sure to make it, but for the average commuter flight from say Chicago to St Louis, I don't understand why anyone would fly if they have to be in the airport 3 hours early.
@@barvdw What trains are you talking about? Assuming there even is a train in the States that gets where you are going, it will take hours, maybe days more than a flight. Three hours early leaves room mostly for traffic outside the airport, then TSA lines inside the terminal. Time between flights is for crossing crazily designed terminals like Denver, where you have to get on subways, and finding your gate. Then maybe eating and restrooms. You want to run direct from one flight to another without a bathroom break?
Sometimes, three hour is not enough for connecting flight. Especially in my country, where flight delays are everyday occurrence. Several years ago, I book a return flight which include connecting flight. I chose to book a connecting flight that was 12 hours apart from the first. I thought it would give me enough time to rest a bit in a hotel while waiting for the second leg. Lo and behold. The first leg was delayed. First it's delayed 3 hours. "I still have time." Then 6 hours. "I still have time." Then 10 hours. "😡" Then 12 hours. "🤬" When the first flight landed, the connecting flight was already gone. I did go to rest in a hotel ... waiting for the tomorrow's flight 😩.
That whole treat the drill as if it is the real thing...I have a funny story for that. I was in labor with my oldest. I was getting my epidural when a fire drill started. My nurse and the guy placing it both made jokes about same lady named Peterson who was on a power trip and both started counting down from 60. At about 25 this lady comes onto my delivery room and says "you two are unaccounted for this drill you need to treat every drill like it's the real thing" I then had a contraction and stopped breathing because there was a big ass needle in my back. My nurse whose name was Scarlett said "we have a sterile field when we are done we will talk to you at the station" I was cranky and in pain and I yelled "and I want a patient's advocate if you think you're taking them away while that needle is in my back" Scarlett laugh as they finished up with me. I ended up taking a nap as I had been away for 10 at this point.
And if someone was left inside the building, doing something they are SUPPOSED to do, don't tell them NOT to do it for it would come back to bite them in the butt.
Shouldn't they plan a fire drill every once in a while that does incorparate the procedures of turning off the boiler? If there is a real fire, wouldn't you want to know that the people in charge of that have done it before. If there was a fire, that isn't the time to fine out that there is a problem. They should plan for a fire drill occasionally that includes the boiler people. Probablyplan it the day before the regular boilerroom maintence or a long holiday weekend.
@@michaelcolfin8464 The point OP's Great Uncle was making was that if the Boilers were turned off, it would take time to get them back up and running.. So, DURING the drill, the ones manning the boilers should be exempt from it.
This exactly!! I've taught my kids to be kind,and not be racist. And it would be kinda hypocrite of my kids to be racist,as they're from two different countries,as in I'm Swedish,my husbands from another country.. they know 4 languages, and I always say that they're part of a minority,so they can't be awful to others.
As was said in another story they just spent a helluva lot of money training that safety officer not to trouble boiler crews with fire drills ever again so why would they get rid of him because he is never gonna make that mistake again.
I was watching this in a store and an older lady just asked if I worked her. I jumped and had a small panic attacked. Luckily she just left when I said no.
Its funny how when your told by a smug arrogant upstart, your not here to think, you basically do what your told, suddenly expect you should have been thinking when everything goes wrong after following there stupid orders.
Story 2: take it from the guy who's brother was in the army. They do not take kindly to random people messing with their stuff, and even less so for needless degrading of someone.
That cleaning company just gave bagged for their lives to be able to work at that base again. I could have easily see that company being blacklisted groom any military base or place with a government contract. The owner should thank their lucky stars that they weren’t ruined.
Story 1: In the 1960’s, I was a secretary in an office of a large organization. One day, one of the administrators was going to a different location for a meeting. This location was near my house, so I knew all the best routes to get there. Another administrator gave her directions to the meeting. I piped up and said that she could get there via that route, but gave her a different route that would be faster. They both looked at me as if a secretary couldn’t possibly know anything, and the woman took the long route.
Story 3 reminds me of a joke in the Safeway bakery I worked at: “in the event of a fire, we leave the donut fryer behind”. During drills, one person needs to stay behind, which would usually be the donut fryer since their job actively required them to watch the fryer. This was also to make sure nothing would be left in the ovens for too long.
Story 3: Yeah, that's a lot of work just to make sure the boilers could work properly again. If they want to keep the factory running, probably make sure the machines that take the longest to get running again don't just get shut down on a whim
Story 3 left out a bit. A steam boiler needs to be allowed to cool down to ambient temperature before cold water can be put back in too, otherwise very hot metal parts might fracture or burst from the rapid cooling. That thing took DAYS to bring back online.
These stories remind me of the time we were doing annual inventory at the factory I worked at then. The big manager knew that I had gone through the manual on the new big scale we had gotten, and knew how to program it to count parts by merely entering the part number, so he assigned me to ONLY operate said scale. For two days, not one person brought anything to be weighed. He walked past and started scowling at me when he saw me with my feet propped up, having a donut and a cup of coffee. I stood up, looked him dead in the eye, and reminded him of his orders, followed by " if this scale gets up and walks away, you'll be the first person I tell". He left in tears.😂
It is every new manager's downfall when they don't ask why something is done the way it is before implementing a policy change just because they can. Heck, they can even ask well, how would it work if we did it this way instead, getting input from the process expert before actually making the change, and all would be dandy because the change would be done correctly.
When gos was a new thing, we were driving from Sweden to France. One car with a brand new gps, one with old fashioned map. I was the map reader. We always beat the gps car, because a brain was still faster and read the map to avoid road work and what not. Still prefer a map.
now gps can predict traffic patterns and with ones with user input can even tell you about items in the road, traffic conditions, stalled cars, police sightings, and rerouting immediately when you turn it on
I worked at Goblin Valley State Park in Utah one summer & had someone come in. They'd been on a dirt road, seeing nobody else for at least an hr, because their GPS told them to take that route. They didn't know there was a nice paved road, the same road I'd used my road atlas to get there on. If they'd experienced an emergency out there, who knows how long it would've been before help could get there? The November before I started working there, a woman had gone missing in the area; they found her remains in I think it was May. So yeah, nature can be deadly, even in a high-tech world.
😂 1st story reminds me of a former manager i had, guy was 2 levels above my boss, so he gives me the bs response about be just there to follow orders and bark his directives... in front of witnesses. Ah his action costed about $690k of damage, from equipment that was damaged beyond repair, and the line being shut down intil replacement equipment could be ordered and for it to arrive, there was still additional costs to have it shipped, and fly in techs to assemble the replacement and reprogram it 😂😂😂. Idiot got chewed out and told just because he's "above us" doesn't mean he knows more than us
Story 3: I'm glad the guy learned from his mistake, I hope it cost him at least some portion of the money he cost the company as a penalty, because it would have to be that or his job. Sotry 4: If I trusted that tour guide companies were at all responsible, I'd be surprised they asked not to work with someone who helped them to identify a problem employee in their ranks.
GPS story: In its early days GPS was more than a little hit and miss. It didn't account for traffic, detours, alternate routes or much of anything. You couldn't really count on it to get you where you wanted to go outside of large, major cities and even that was iffy. What's truly sad is that so many people have become dependent on GPS, they've forgotten (or never learned) how to read a street map/atlas. Cleaning story: I'm betting a lot more happened behind the scenes. What the cleaners were doing amounted to espionage. Housing information can be used to track troop movements. Engineering offices would house blueprints of equipment and facilities. It may sound low-level, but can actually be rather important. Boiler room story: I was in the Navy in the 1970's and part of the ship's engineering department. While I didn't work directly with the boilers (I was an electrician) one of my duty stations was in the engine room/main control. It literally required HOURS to warm up and cool down the boilers and steam pipes to prevent metal fatigue. An emergency purge would prevent a possible explosion, but could cause serious metal fatigue from rapid cooling which could cause an explosive failure in the steam system from the metal being weakened. Tours story: I'm a retired truck driver. While there are differences, there are some similarities as well, such as required down time and breaks. And it's not hard to run out of hours if you're stuck in a traffic jam due to a major accident that doesn't clear for literal hours. Nobody is happy with you, but there is also absolutely nothing you can do about it. OP worked the system and while he may have (willingly) paid the price in not being hired for future tours for that company, Wan and the company paid an even higher price in unhappy customers and bad reviews.
Yep, but honestly, would you want to work with a company that tries to extract the last bit of time out of you as a driver? Still a win-win in my book.
Iirc, in the early days, gps only show "shortest path" without quantifying the traffic load. Perhaps because in those early day too few people use it and therefore not enough data to predict the traffic load. Today, with almost everyone carrying smartphone, gps can show us if the road ahead is crowded.
@@gorilladisco9108 not sure about Cornwall, but not all GPS maps are updated regularly for changes in circulation plans reversing one-way street directions, for instance, or take into account the state of the road (I've been sent over muddy dirt roads because it was 'shorter' than the main road, I've been sent through streets where you couldn't pass with an average sized car, let alone a huge truck, etc). And that's without even considering emergency issues like flooding, where too many drivers will still ignore signage 'because their GPS said they could pass'.
I was on a tour in China and the tour guy told us straight up that he was forced to take us to certain tourist traps because the ministry required it. We had no interest in going, but whatever.
Story 1, I don't care WHAT OP thinks, what they did (unknowingly) is the very definition of MC. I'm someone who tries to learn every possible route around where I live so that if something happens I know another way in/out (to get to our actual house, there's literally only 2 ways in/out, and no, it's not a gated community but n any shape or form.. and honestly, judging from the bridge that creates the second way was only built/installed around 25 years ago, and my parents have had this property for 40).
Story 2 - it still shocks me that racism isn't a crime around the world. It is here in Brazil, so basically if you have proof someone said awful racist things to you or even treated you differently than how they treat other people just because of your skin, nationality or ancestry, they may pay a considerable fine and usually are straight out fired with no rights to compensation. Wish it was like this for the whole world - actually, wish it was even more rigid
Fluffy, I was wondering if Steve-O is working on the Christmas lights! If he is, please make sure he doesn't list to either Clark Griswold or Al Bundy, ESPECIALLY AL!
Story 3 I think the safety officer was not all wrong. Sure maybe it was frivolous to have the boilers go down on that day but the reason there is steps to shutting off the boilers in a fire is because it is dangerous. OP's Great Uncle clearly knew how to do it but picture if that was not the case, the safety officer would have caught a big lapse in preparedness. He probably should have pushed a reform that a few days the company knows they will lose a day production but will have the boiler techs go through the drill just in case.
Story 1, a lot of those apps say they find the fastest route, but they actually find the shortest route. This does not take into consideration local bogs.
That's a policy in the taxi company I drove for-take the pax on the shortest route as fares are usually charged by distance or time when stopped. If the pax wants to go another way, we let them as the detour usually tends to be further in distance.
I'm surprised that the coach company didn't get another driver brought out to the accommodation by cab to bring the coach back given the minimum legal rest issue
I’m sorry, but who plans to only arrive at the airport 15 minutes before a flight!? You can’t even get from one end of the airport to the other in that amount of time where I live. The airport literally has it’s own train system to take passengers between gates.
Also, most airlines close their gates 45-90 minutes before flight departure. Planning a domestic flight is a logistical nightmare, let alone an international flight with connections.
Most fun was when I was working tech in a 911 call centre... rules are the operations floor doesn't evacuate until/unless a fire fighter says to do so and there is a clear need to do so. I wasn't there, but at one point there was a Halon release in a server room (I don't remember why), and the fire fighters ordered everyone out. Luckily it was during covid, so they had both the primary and the backup centre staffed, so there was no interruption for services.
For the last story, I think OP needs to acknowledge that he should have warned Wan that he'd already gone over and that he needed 11 hours, not 9. Still, sounds like Wan is a prick.
Here in Brazil I started to use Uber a lot because many bus lines went * poof * with the pandemic and is not normalized yet.. Sometimes a driver asks me if he can take this or that route (besides the Uber app many drivers like to use the Waze app, which is very useful for real-time traffic) because it can be faster and I give free reign to do it Win-win for both
WAS STUART FIRED???? AND WTF?? OF COURSE CANADIANS WE STAYED QUIET BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT BLAH BLAH BLAH IF THAT TYPE OF CRAP HAPPENED ON AN AMERICAN MILITARY BASE.... 😂😂😂😂 LET'S JUST SAY THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY LITTLE SLAPPY'S ON THE WRISTS
I've had a cabs GPS tell him to turn and had to tell him not to follow the GPS, as my destination was straight ahead about a mile away. I've also had GPS's not take into consideration a bridge closed to thru traffic.
It was like that for me when I drove a taxi-their system GPS was not up to date for six years and it used trap streets as waypoints. I often had to tell the cabbie not to use the GPS and include that note when booking the taxi. A lot of them didn't listen.
Ah, yes. A company losing money is so much more tragic than people not being prepared for an emergency. Do you know why drills are important? So that people can fall back on training when they would otherwise fight, flight, or freeze. Exempting anyone from those drills means they don't get the training, meaning they might panic and cause themselves or others to be harmed in the event of a real emergency. No such thing as a "reasonable" exemption IMO
Story 3: Technically the safety officer has a point. Imagine if the fire drill was an actual fire. Was the great uncle really expected to stay behind and keep watching the boiler if the whole building was burning to the ground?
My hubby used to work in a building that if the power went out or if there was a fire drill, there were some jobs that you had to stand in the same exact spot from when you could see. If you moved, you could run into something or hit your head. I just imagined a life-size version of that Mouse Trap game. You stayed until you were collected. Not in a group but individually. If there ever was a fire you had to hope you were collected before your area was filled with smoke. You wouldn't be able to drop to the floor and crawl.
You cant assume most stories are AI generated. And i neber heard these stories before. I know will now if i hear it on another RUclipsr. However that wont be a problem for me hearing it again from someone else.
@@Mocitabelieve me. I know stories that are years old and sure I "could" look them up. But I don't have to that fully. Some I did and still some stories I neve heard.
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Story one reminds me of a boss I had at a furniture company years ago. "Don't think. Just do what I tell you!" Then, when things inevitably went south, "What were you thinking?"
She would also go into the warehouse once a week for her "legendary" pep talk: "Work faster and make fewer mistakes!"
I did inventory control. The head of sales convinced the boss that her assistant could do my job, so I was fired. Turned out, the sales head and her assistant worked together with the driver to rob the place blind. The warehouse workers, who were decent people, tried to warn the boss, but were told to shut up. The place went out of business less than a year after I was let go.
Yep, that sounds about right. It’s always the idiots that ruin it.
Story 2 - Never Dare someone to ‘go ahead call the police/authorities’ because chances are good that they’ll do it.
I've done it a few times...more an invitation than a dare, though. I used to work in employee relations in a large organisation whose staff were strongly unionised. My job involved taking questions from staff and managers about conditions of service. There were a few times when staff asked for their conditions of service to be interpreted in ridiculous ways that would benefit them financially. If they objected to me saying no, I'd invite them to call the union. In most cases the union would also tell them no, because the union staff knew a stupid argument when they heard it, and knew it was pointless trying to support it.
I live in a neighborhood off grid-ers and preppers and loners. Calling cops is considered quite a taboo around here. Well, i had a guy walking past encampment making threats and basically acting all like a big man like he's gonna take my things from me and beat me up.
I called the sheriff on him and he was quite shocked that I would do such a thing.
Thing is, I'm not against the police. I like our local cops, they've been nice to me. I don't have warrants and I'm not on their radar. So i don't have reason to dislike the police.
Stewart thought op was gonna go to the MP for racial discrimination, which is technically legal under the guise of freedom of speech, however what OP exposed was so much worse then some slurs and microagressions. She helped expose the contractor snooping through confidential information and snooping through desks in a building they don't own, this is like a made digging through your bedside table drawers, looking for something scandalous, but SO much worse
Karens like to do the challenge.
@@gorilladisco9108 they'd like it more if they'd win for once
Story 1 - I knew that that was going to happen when OP’s Boss lectured him and told him that he’s not paid to think, only to do what he was told. Serves that jacka$$ right.
Its really telling that a boss knows nothing about the job or how to deal with people, when he says "you're not paid to think" to a job title is ment to solve problems
@ Yup exactly
😂 had a manager 2 levels above me give a similar bs response, in front of witnesses, so we complied... his actions ended up busting a blender motor at the cut station
Bus story;
"This tour will never use ypu as their driver again!"
"Don't threaten me with a good time."
Story 4: Ah, the Wan story... I remember that one, it's glorious.
Story 1: This is one of the most satisfying stories of all time, combining "play stupid games, win stupider prizes" with "I told you so".
Story 2: It bears repeating. *The racist is always wrong.*
Story 3: There's a difference between a fire drill and a real fire.
Story 4: How is there no law against tip confiscation? It's theft! It's *literally* theft!
Story 4: Tip theft is in fact illegal. The people who do it just rely on the victims not having the time, energy, money, or knowledge to do anything about it. Same with garnishing wages to balance out losses; gas stations do that all the time and it's considered a form of theft.
Two important lessons from story 1:
1. NEVER tell people they're not there to think. You're just begging for the MC gods to bring judgment upon you by doing so;
2. Always try to arrive at the airport AT LEAST THREE HOURS BEFORE YOUR FLIGHT. You never know when something might go horribly wrong.
Same for connection flights: try to schedule them so that you have at least three hours between your arrival and the next flight. I learned that the hard way, when I missed a connection flight because the plane I was in was forced to fly around a thunderstorm and land somewhere else to refuel before finally making it to its destination, arriving almost two hours later than intended.
Isn't the rule two hours before the flight?
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 My personal rule is three.
Frankly, if you need to get to the airport 3 hours in advance for what's often an hour's flight, you can probably drive there faster ánd cheaper. And in places with a decent rail system, more comfortably, too. So why should we be forced to endure such discomfort? Sure, for a once-a-day transcontinental flight, you'd want to make sure to make it, but for the average commuter flight from say Chicago to St Louis, I don't understand why anyone would fly if they have to be in the airport 3 hours early.
@@barvdw What trains are you talking about? Assuming there even is a train in the States that gets where you are going, it will take hours, maybe days more than a flight. Three hours early leaves room mostly for traffic outside the airport, then TSA lines inside the terminal. Time between flights is for crossing crazily designed terminals like Denver, where you have to get on subways, and finding your gate. Then maybe eating and restrooms. You want to run direct from one flight to another without a bathroom break?
Sometimes, three hour is not enough for connecting flight. Especially in my country, where flight delays are everyday occurrence.
Several years ago, I book a return flight which include connecting flight. I chose to book a connecting flight that was 12 hours apart from the first. I thought it would give me enough time to rest a bit in a hotel while waiting for the second leg.
Lo and behold. The first leg was delayed. First it's delayed 3 hours. "I still have time." Then 6 hours. "I still have time." Then 10 hours. "😡" Then 12 hours. "🤬" When the first flight landed, the connecting flight was already gone. I did go to rest in a hotel ... waiting for the tomorrow's flight 😩.
Final Story - OP is definitely a hero here.😊
That whole treat the drill as if it is the real thing...I have a funny story for that. I was in labor with my oldest. I was getting my epidural when a fire drill started. My nurse and the guy placing it both made jokes about same lady named Peterson who was on a power trip and both started counting down from 60. At about 25 this lady comes onto my delivery room and says "you two are unaccounted for this drill you need to treat every drill like it's the real thing" I then had a contraction and stopped breathing because there was a big ass needle in my back. My nurse whose name was Scarlett said "we have a sterile field when we are done we will talk to you at the station" I was cranky and in pain and I yelled "and I want a patient's advocate if you think you're taking them away while that needle is in my back" Scarlett laugh as they finished up with me. I ended up taking a nap as I had been away for 10 at this point.
Love the Santa crossing the moon!
Story 3 - OP’s Great Uncle didn’t do anything wrong. This is why Companies call out ‘This Is Only/NOT a drill’ when the alarms go off.
And if someone was left inside the building, doing something they are SUPPOSED to do, don't tell them NOT to do it for it would come back to bite them in the butt.
What companies do that? None of the businesses I've worked for have done that.
Shouldn't they plan a fire drill every once in a while that does incorparate the procedures of turning off the boiler? If there is a real fire, wouldn't you want to know that the people in charge of that have done it before. If there was a fire, that isn't the time to fine out that there is a problem. They should plan for a fire drill occasionally that includes the boiler people. Probablyplan it the day before the regular boilerroom maintence or a long holiday weekend.
That would involve thinking ahead….
@@michaelcolfin8464 The point OP's Great Uncle was making was that if the Boilers were turned off, it would take time to get them back up and running.. So, DURING the drill, the ones manning the boilers should be exempt from it.
Story 2: Kids, don't be racist. And don't snoop to find gossip material, both of those things ain't cool
I'm not so sure it was for gossip. Even the housing information could be used to track troop movements. It's called espionage.
This exactly!! I've taught my kids to be kind,and not be racist. And it would be kinda hypocrite of my kids to be racist,as they're from two different countries,as in I'm Swedish,my husbands from another country.. they know 4 languages, and I always say that they're part of a minority,so they can't be awful to others.
As was said in another story they just spent a helluva lot of money training that safety officer not to trouble boiler crews with fire drills ever again so why would they get rid of him because he is never gonna make that mistake again.
I was watching this in a store and an older lady just asked if I worked her. I jumped and had a small panic attacked. Luckily she just left when I said no.
Its funny how when your told by a smug arrogant upstart, your not here to think, you basically do what your told, suddenly expect you should have been thinking when everything goes wrong after following there stupid orders.
Story 2: take it from the guy who's brother was in the army. They do not take kindly to random people messing with their stuff, and even less so for needless degrading of someone.
Uh huh. Your brother would have been fine. Your sister (if you had one, and she joined the defence forces),...not so much.
That cleaning company just gave bagged for their lives to be able to work at that base again. I could have easily see that company being blacklisted groom any military base or place with a government contract. The owner should thank their lucky stars that they weren’t ruined.
Story 1: In the 1960’s, I was a secretary in an office of a large organization. One day, one of the administrators was going to a different location for a meeting. This location was near my house, so I knew all the best routes to get there. Another administrator gave her directions to the meeting. I piped up and said that she could get there via that route, but gave her a different route that would be faster. They both looked at me as if a secretary couldn’t possibly know anything, and the woman took the long route.
Story 3 reminds me of a joke in the Safeway bakery I worked at: “in the event of a fire, we leave the donut fryer behind”. During drills, one person needs to stay behind, which would usually be the donut fryer since their job actively required them to watch the fryer. This was also to make sure nothing would be left in the ovens for too long.
But .. what will happen if it's a real fire alarm?
Story 2: im surprised that harsher punishment wasn't taken. As in black losting and criminal wadda-call-it.
In the US it would have. It either whiffs entirely or gets nuked from orbit.
Wow, it deleted my reply quickly. In the US it'd either whiff entirely or ruin them entirely.
Story 3: Yeah, that's a lot of work just to make sure the boilers could work properly again. If they want to keep the factory running, probably make sure the machines that take the longest to get running again don't just get shut down on a whim
On the other hand, it is probably good practice to occasionally shut the boiler down...😅
If you're working with high-pressure steam, having a different pressure and temperature can cause issues with pipes.
Story 3 left out a bit. A steam boiler needs to be allowed to cool down to ambient temperature before cold water can be put back in too, otherwise very hot metal parts might fracture or burst from the rapid cooling. That thing took DAYS to bring back online.
A special hatred for tour guides? I want to hear more.
These stories remind me of the time we were doing annual inventory at the factory I worked at then. The big manager knew that I had gone through the manual on the new big scale we had gotten, and knew how to program it to count parts by merely entering the part number, so he assigned me to ONLY operate said scale. For two days, not one person brought anything to be weighed. He walked past and started scowling at me when he saw me with my feet propped up, having a donut and a cup of coffee. I stood up, looked him dead in the eye, and reminded him of his orders, followed by " if this scale gets up and walks away, you'll be the first person I tell". He left in tears.😂
It is every new manager's downfall when they don't ask why something is done the way it is before implementing a policy change just because they can. Heck, they can even ask well, how would it work if we did it this way instead, getting input from the process expert before actually making the change, and all would be dandy because the change would be done correctly.
Chesterton’s fence. It’s amazing how often I see it happen in my job.
When gos was a new thing, we were driving from Sweden to France. One car with a brand new gps, one with old fashioned map. I was the map reader. We always beat the gps car, because a brain was still faster and read the map to avoid road work and what not. Still prefer a map.
now gps can predict traffic patterns and with ones with user input can even tell you about items in the road, traffic conditions, stalled cars, police sightings, and rerouting immediately when you turn it on
I still use a map book as back up!
I worked at Goblin Valley State Park in Utah one summer & had someone come in. They'd been on a dirt road, seeing nobody else for at least an hr, because their GPS told them to take that route. They didn't know there was a nice paved road, the same road I'd used my road atlas to get there on. If they'd experienced an emergency out there, who knows how long it would've been before help could get there? The November before I started working there, a woman had gone missing in the area; they found her remains in I think it was May. So yeah, nature can be deadly, even in a high-tech world.
Story #4: OP is a hero!
😂 1st story reminds me of a former manager i had, guy was 2 levels above my boss, so he gives me the bs response about be just there to follow orders and bark his directives... in front of witnesses.
Ah his action costed about $690k of damage, from equipment that was damaged beyond repair, and the line being shut down intil replacement equipment could be ordered and for it to arrive, there was still additional costs to have it shipped, and fly in techs to assemble the replacement and reprogram it 😂😂😂.
Idiot got chewed out and told just because he's "above us" doesn't mean he knows more than us
Story 3: I'm glad the guy learned from his mistake, I hope it cost him at least some portion of the money he cost the company as a penalty, because it would have to be that or his job.
Sotry 4: If I trusted that tour guide companies were at all responsible, I'd be surprised they asked not to work with someone who helped them to identify a problem employee in their ranks.
Great stories
S 2 I bet Stuart KNEW what was going on and even took a hefty commission. The rascal cooperated in firing them to save his own skin
1. Never tell an employee not to think.
2. When tech people ask "Are you SURE you want me to do it that way?" ALWAYS reconsider.
GPS story: In its early days GPS was more than a little hit and miss. It didn't account for traffic, detours, alternate routes or much of anything. You couldn't really count on it to get you where you wanted to go outside of large, major cities and even that was iffy. What's truly sad is that so many people have become dependent on GPS, they've forgotten (or never learned) how to read a street map/atlas.
Cleaning story: I'm betting a lot more happened behind the scenes. What the cleaners were doing amounted to espionage. Housing information can be used to track troop movements. Engineering offices would house blueprints of equipment and facilities. It may sound low-level, but can actually be rather important.
Boiler room story: I was in the Navy in the 1970's and part of the ship's engineering department. While I didn't work directly with the boilers (I was an electrician) one of my duty stations was in the engine room/main control. It literally required HOURS to warm up and cool down the boilers and steam pipes to prevent metal fatigue. An emergency purge would prevent a possible explosion, but could cause serious metal fatigue from rapid cooling which could cause an explosive failure in the steam system from the metal being weakened.
Tours story: I'm a retired truck driver. While there are differences, there are some similarities as well, such as required down time and breaks. And it's not hard to run out of hours if you're stuck in a traffic jam due to a major accident that doesn't clear for literal hours. Nobody is happy with you, but there is also absolutely nothing you can do about it. OP worked the system and while he may have (willingly) paid the price in not being hired for future tours for that company, Wan and the company paid an even higher price in unhappy customers and bad reviews.
I live in Cornwall, UK, a tourism hot spot. There are soooo many sat-nav fails it's not funny anymore 🙄
Yep, but honestly, would you want to work with a company that tries to extract the last bit of time out of you as a driver? Still a win-win in my book.
Iirc, in the early days, gps only show "shortest path" without quantifying the traffic load.
Perhaps because in those early day too few people use it and therefore not enough data to predict the traffic load. Today, with almost everyone carrying smartphone, gps can show us if the road ahead is crowded.
@@cornwallcrafter8410 Fail how?
@@gorilladisco9108 not sure about Cornwall, but not all GPS maps are updated regularly for changes in circulation plans reversing one-way street directions, for instance, or take into account the state of the road (I've been sent over muddy dirt roads because it was 'shorter' than the main road, I've been sent through streets where you couldn't pass with an average sized car, let alone a huge truck, etc). And that's without even considering emergency issues like flooding, where too many drivers will still ignore signage 'because their GPS said they could pass'.
I was on a tour in China and the tour guy told us straight up that he was forced to take us to certain tourist traps because the ministry required it. We had no interest in going, but whatever.
Story 1, I don't care WHAT OP thinks, what they did (unknowingly) is the very definition of MC. I'm someone who tries to learn every possible route around where I live so that if something happens I know another way in/out (to get to our actual house, there's literally only 2 ways in/out, and no, it's not a gated community but n any shape or form.. and honestly, judging from the bridge that creates the second way was only built/installed around 25 years ago, and my parents have had this property for 40).
So cute!! Love the little snowman, and Santa's sleigh over the moon!! Great edit job to Stevo!! Thanks for getting me thru my days!!
Hope Stuart was also fired.
Story 2 - it still shocks me that racism isn't a crime around the world. It is here in Brazil, so basically if you have proof someone said awful racist things to you or even treated you differently than how they treat other people just because of your skin, nationality or ancestry, they may pay a considerable fine and usually are straight out fired with no rights to compensation. Wish it was like this for the whole world - actually, wish it was even more rigid
Last story: violating hours of service regulations has a 4 to 5 digit fine depending on the state you’re in.
Thank you for today's video. I really enjoyed it.
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Fluffy, I was wondering if Steve-O is working on the Christmas lights! If he is, please make sure he doesn't list to either Clark Griswold or Al Bundy, ESPECIALLY AL!
Thank you❤
2nd, Human Right Regulation are required to be Followed by ALL USA Businesses!!🤔🇺🇸👍....
Story 3 I think the safety officer was not all wrong. Sure maybe it was frivolous to have the boilers go down on that day but the reason there is steps to shutting off the boilers in a fire is because it is dangerous. OP's Great Uncle clearly knew how to do it but picture if that was not the case, the safety officer would have caught a big lapse in preparedness. He probably should have pushed a reform that a few days the company knows they will lose a day production but will have the boiler techs go through the drill just in case.
Boiler story: interesting that the safery officer doesn't know about one of the basic safety procedures.
Story 1, a lot of those apps say they find the fastest route, but they actually find the shortest route. This does not take into consideration local bogs.
That's a policy in the taxi company I drove for-take the pax on the shortest route as fares are usually charged by distance or time when stopped. If the pax wants to go another way, we let them as the detour usually tends to be further in distance.
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There is not 40 hours in a day.
I love Steve-o as well. 🥰
5x8=40
40 work hours a day
5 people working their 8 hour shift leaving 4 hours early is 20 man hours of work.
@AjaSerean That's 40 hours in a WEEK, my love.
@@TheCatMomma oh my love I’m so glad you don’t handle payroll at my job…yikes 😬
@AjaSerean Oh, spank me, kiss me, maje me right bad checks!
You are talking about multiple employees! 🤣 Duh me. My bad.
I still love you.
I'm surprised that the coach company didn't get another driver brought out to the accommodation by cab to bring the coach back given the minimum legal rest issue
Coach drivers are like airline pilots-they are a rare breed of worker that headhunters look for.
I’m sorry, but who plans to only arrive at the airport 15 minutes before a flight!? You can’t even get from one end of the airport to the other in that amount of time where I live. The airport literally has it’s own train system to take passengers between gates.
Also, most airlines close their gates 45-90 minutes before flight departure. Planning a domestic flight is a logistical nightmare, let alone an international flight with connections.
Most fun was when I was working tech in a 911 call centre... rules are the operations floor doesn't evacuate until/unless a fire fighter says to do so and there is a clear need to do so. I wasn't there, but at one point there was a Halon release in a server room (I don't remember why), and the fire fighters ordered everyone out. Luckily it was during covid, so they had both the primary and the backup centre staffed, so there was no interruption for services.
Sadly, in today's new climate, racist jokes are only going to be more bold.
That last story was amazing. Just treat people nicely, and don't be stupid or power-hungry. Karma is an absolute bitch.
Hi fluff and Stevie boy
Story 2: 40 hours per day is meant to be 40 hours per week, right?
For the last story, I think OP needs to acknowledge that he should have warned Wan that he'd already gone over and that he needed 11 hours, not 9. Still, sounds like Wan is a prick.
Here in Brazil I started to use Uber a lot because many bus lines went * poof * with the pandemic and is not normalized yet..
Sometimes a driver asks me if he can take this or that route (besides the Uber app many drivers like to use the Waze app, which is very useful for real-time traffic) because it can be faster and I give free reign to do it
Win-win for both
WAS STUART FIRED????
AND WTF?? OF COURSE CANADIANS WE STAYED QUIET BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT BLAH BLAH BLAH IF THAT TYPE OF CRAP HAPPENED ON AN AMERICAN MILITARY BASE.... 😂😂😂😂
LET'S JUST SAY THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY LITTLE SLAPPY'S ON THE WRISTS
I've had a cabs GPS tell him to turn and had to tell him not to follow the GPS, as my destination was straight ahead about a mile away. I've also had GPS's not take into consideration a bridge closed to thru traffic.
Maybe he tapped wrong point of destination?
It was like that for me when I drove a taxi-their system GPS was not up to date for six years and it used trap streets as waypoints. I often had to tell the cabbie not to use the GPS and include that note when booking the taxi. A lot of them didn't listen.
40 hours a day thats makes no sense
A contract for 40 hours means five people working 8-hour shifts.
Ah, yes. A company losing money is so much more tragic than people not being prepared for an emergency. Do you know why drills are important? So that people can fall back on training when they would otherwise fight, flight, or freeze. Exempting anyone from those drills means they don't get the training, meaning they might panic and cause themselves or others to be harmed in the event of a real emergency. No such thing as a "reasonable" exemption IMO
So predictable.
Not thr type to rock the boat, goes on to get ppl fired over jokes.
One minute!
Every one of these is a repeat. All been posted somewhere before
Story 3: Technically the safety officer has a point. Imagine if the fire drill was an actual fire. Was the great uncle really expected to stay behind and keep watching the boiler if the whole building was burning to the ground?
My hubby used to work in a building that if the power went out or if there was a fire drill, there were some jobs that you had to stand in the same exact spot from when you could see. If you moved, you could run into something or hit your head. I just imagined a life-size version of that Mouse Trap game. You stayed until you were collected. Not in a group but individually. If there ever was a fire you had to hope you were collected before your area was filled with smoke. You wouldn't be able to drop to the floor and crawl.
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I’ve heard all these stories before. Can you only find AI generated stories, or just not find anything good?
You cant assume most stories are AI generated. And i neber heard these stories before. I know will now if i hear it on another RUclipsr. However that wont be a problem for me hearing it again from someone else.
@ These stories are years old, so you’d actually have to dig to find them. I listened to these while driving between cities for work.
@@Mocitabelieve me. I know stories that are years old and sure I "could" look them up. But I don't have to that fully. Some I did and still some stories I neve heard.
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