Lol, my parents got married in 1959. My mother owned her own car when she married my father, and one of her “conditions’’ for marrying him was that she would always have her own car.
My grandparents had just one car but it was their car and they both usedit, well this was in the Netherlands where they bicycle was the main source of transportation
That’s incredibly intelligent. I’m sure your dad is a perfect fine dude, but if he had potentially been abusive, not having a means to escape is a very dangerous thing. I mean, that’s the worst case scenario, having your own car is just convenient for getting groceries or just doing errands when your spouse is using the other car
He did exactly what I would have done. As soon as my boss told me I could ask someone to spot me I would have definitely asked the shop steward to do the honors. If he had refused me a spotter, I would have gone straight to the steward and filed a grievance.
Seriously, like that story is almost literally the kind of thing that made unions raise hell to get child labor banned 90 years ago. Never forget the people who died for your lunch break, people. Unions are a good thing, even if the leadership leaves a lot to be desired at times.
Story 2: I have a rule I routinely tell my students and anyone else who will listen. "If it doesn't look safe, it probably isn't: stop what you're doing and SAY SOMETHING!" I've been the supervisor working with individuals with developmental disabilities who pipe up and say, "Is that safe for you to do?" to me. My response was to stop, evaluate what I was about to do, and in most cases say, "Probably not, thanks for looking out for me." It improved morale, made everyone start actively looking for things that might be unsafe, and encouraged everyone to work together better (I.E. team lift).
Only if it impacted her... Did she walk everywhere after that or did she manipulate others to take her places? Story seems cute, but comes off as entitled.
@@aking3624 She definitely used her husband for the rest of her life from that point on because of his statement: as far as using others I don’t know if we’ll ever know unless we get an update to clarify that. I don’t think she was so much entitled as she was hurt by what he said and carried that with her for the rest of her life but she was also going to make him pay for his words. He really made an extreme blunder saying what he said but he never expected her to react with such compliance. Once he said it he could never take it back. It really shows you have to choose your words carefully. Never say anything in haste or anger… your words could come back to bite you in the a**.
It’s good that he didn’t. Back then, even if the cops were called, they would ask the woman what SHE did to cause him to do that. I know this because of past family history with my Grandma. They didn’t care if the guy was a raging alcoholic, had anger problems and came home at 3 or 4 in the morning so drunk he could barely stand or talk. If he “demanded dinner” she should have made it for him according to the cops. It was a different time.
@@laurabenevelli6783 That's sad...I understand it was different though. Because of things in my family's history... Anyway, now things are different. I'm glad at least for that. That women can speak up and be heard.
LOL! Been there, done that. My worthy opponent was OldestGrandson, then age 8(!). Stubborn, similar to his mother/my daughter. We come from a long line of bull-headed people.
@@karinwolf3645 No, it was the small, calm and collected blue one that saved them, Golden Boy was just hysterically screaming and probably annoying R2, who just did his work.
The image of grandpa begging for forgiveness and for things to go back to how they were brings a smile to my face. I love stories when people eat their own words and try to backtrack on what they said and did, only to realize they can never regain what they've lost.
My boss told me if something seems dangerous and makes me uncomfortable I don't have to do anything with it and I've exercised that on several occasions
My grandpa never learned how to drive their Model T Phaeton. Grandma was the one who drove it every where, Kids to school, dleivering mail (she was the local PostMistress), going into town for supplies, etc.
I once worked at a scrapyard type place as a contracted security guard. The place was full of dangers, and we were armed and given hard hats. The place was supposed to follow OSHA guidelines. And I know of at least one instance where they didn’t. They had us security guards as the ones that were supposed to check, watch and adjust the boilers if they started over heating, even if it was near the level of explosion. When I pointed out that we were not trained for this and that there were no clear instructions and that it put us in unnecessary danger and violated OSHA regulations (yes, I checked it out first and it was a violation), to the owner of the security company I worked for, instead of reporting it, I got suspended for 3 days and moved to a different location. Yeah. I quit a week or two later, though for other issues revolving around the owner of the security guard company. Found out later that it went out of business within a few years.
Story 2: Dumb Boss; Hello OP, Today you will be inspecting the inside of the Meat Grinder OP; ok, but can I at least have your Boss watch and make sure that he knows that YOU told me to put my head into a Meat Grinder?
I love the comment at the end of story 1 about getting a motorbike. That is absolutely something I could have seen my grandmother doing too. In reality, based on the stories my grandfather told, he did have the bike and she sat in the side car yelling at him to go faster when he felt he was already going maybe a little too fast down the cobblestone roads of their small town.
Story 1: Part of me wants to know what it was that made grandma late back home. I'm guessing it was some sort of emergency. Even if there wasn't, that was no excuse for grandpa to go off on her like that, breadwinner or not. He may make the money, but it's his wife that makes the home. Without her, nothing runs smoothly. Maybe if more men (and especially more boyfriends and husbands) appreciated what the women in their life--not just wives and girlfriends, but mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, etc.--do to make things run smoothly for them, then maybe we'd see fewer instances of violence and microaggressions against women.
This is why I have insisted for YEARS that we should get financial compensation for what we do! Our workday starts when our feet hit the floor and doesn’t stop until we go to bed (and sometimes not even then!). Housework, cooking, errands, raising kids, yard work, paying the bills, balancing the household budget, pet care, etc. seven days a week, 52 weeks a year! No vacations, no days off, no sick days-hell, we can’t even go to the bathroom in peace! Why is it that all the jobs that a housewife or a stay-at-home mom does are worth a paycheck when they’re outsourced to somebody else, but when WE do them, we’re not worth a plugged nickel? Worse, when we have to re-enter the workforce due to our spouse’s death, divorce, the need for a second income, etc. our skills are considered unmarketable and we don’t qualify for anything beyond minimum-wage work! WTF is WRONG with this country?!
@@dragondancer1814 I feel you. There are so many marketable skills, but a lot of businesses want exorbitant amounts of experience, advanced degrees from universities, and most importantly, people willing to work for less than peanuts. That's the sad state of American capitalism. European countries do it far better than we do, and they are still capitalist. Yet somehow, we here in American think that anything that is remotely pro-worker is socialism, and immediately a nonstarter. Even myself, a college graduate, found myself working a barely-above minimum wage job, three years after graduating college, because no one in my field wanted to hire me without experience, not even wanting to consider the experience I gained in college as experience. Even now, my current job (a different one now) is still not really in my field, but the pay is better, and you don't really need a ton of work experience or education, and they don't discriminate based on age (we have people fresh out of high school, and people well into their twilight years, working there). I always recommend going to a local staffing agency, tell them what your skills are, and what kind of work you're looking for. Hopefully they will have something that fits you. That's how I got my current job, after all.
I'm laughing so much at the grandma's epic malicious compliance in the first story. That's a long time to go without driving! And it made me realize my granddad was pretty progressive for that era. He kept insisting that my grandma learn how to drive and get a car. Even offered to teach her! But she always refused and even hid in the closet when my dad and his brothers tried to give her driving lessons at Granddad's insistence. Eventually, Granddad gave up around the early 70s.
It reminds me of the story I was told about my grandparents. My grandfather refused to marry my grandmother until she learned how to change the tires, check the oil, and other seemingly small things like that by herself.
8:23 Ideally they can't, but in so-called 'right to work' states, they make up excuses to 'lay people off' or otherwise fire them, and there are no unions or other real recourse because they have a 'right to work' aka 'right of the employer to work you until you're of no more use'.
Story 1: Genius, annoying a stubborn person is Super easy because they'll almost never admit that they might be in the wrong it reminds me of one of my favorite Prorevenges where OP got a restraining order against his' Crazy Neighbor which prevented her from staying in her own house, when her husband came to ask if they could come to an agreement to have the order lifted OP agree'd on the condition that Crazy Neighbor write him and his' friends a one page apology, she refused and later moved out
My dad is on the smaller side, and he worked in the cement plant back home (also union-mandatory) as a welder repairman for two decades. Their job was literally to go into dangerous situations (with safety regulations and such though), and he always ended up having to crawl into things that the beer belly guys couldn’t fit into. He only got hurt once in that kind of situation; a j hook got pulled too hard by a chain and straightened out so it wasn’t a hook anymore. A bucket (think large and metal and full of rock) and the chain fell on him, but luckily he wasn’t all the way under it. Only had a couple staples in his head. If anything, he was more upset about not being allowed to mow grass the following day, which was a day off anyway. As of earlier this year, he got a different position out in the quarry driving heavy equipment full of rock. It’s statistically way less dangerous than his previous position, but that wasn’t the main reason he took the new position anyway. My brother is a welder at a chemical plant in the same town back home, so it’s not exactly like I worry any less. At some point, though, you just kinda tune it out into a low-level background worry and trust them to follow safety regulations and keep their wits about them. Both my dad and my brother are highly skilled, and the companies are inspected often and fined all kinds of big money for safety violations, so that does help me worry less.
Another case of new management not bothering to learn how things work. They then decide to alienate the workers that are making things work. Then they wonder why things go to pot when the workers leave.
Story 5: OP's Creativity is Super funny, imagine OP driving Karen nuts by placing his' Mobile Greenhouse in new areas everytime Karen sees it and I love that OP decided that they wanted to decorate it too lol XD I myself also have a thing I use to drive my Entitled Brother nuts with every once in a while (it's one of the only things I have to drive him nuts with so I enjoy it when I get the chance), Context: about a Year ago, while biking, my EB accidentally drove into a Lightpole while he wasn't looking (like an idiot), so I sometimes make jokes about Lightpoles to him
Story 3: OP said that they worked for a Million Dollar Making Company, I'd have asked for more than they did because that would not only get the Dumb Supervisor into bigger trouble but also secure my life style for Years to come
2nd story reminds me of an episode of “911 Lonestar”. Idiot crawls into a stuck trash compactor and gets stuck. Fire department shows up, chaos issues over keeping the electricity off until they can get him out. Electricity comes back on and it takes the rookie to be smart enough to pull the plug. They get him out in the end. Don’t know the fate of the trash compactor.
My husband had the exact thing happen to him with the trash compactor when he worked at WalMart. Unfortunately he didn’t have the good sense to do what OP did. He crawled in and the door got locked behind him. Luckily he did have someone spotting him to make sure it stayed off and someone else ran to get help. What they didn’t consider was the fact that the stench was so bad it burned the inside of his nose. When he came out with a bloody nose, they gave him $500 and made him sign an NDA. Ten years later he still doesn’t have a sense of smell. He puts hot sauce on everything just so he can taste it.
Story 1 is top tier petty! Story 2, trash compactors are a lawsuit and funeral just waiting to happen. Good on the guy for reporting it! Story 3, the guy got what he wanted... lol. 4th, please also decorate it with halloween decorations around the xmas season lol.
I'm so happy my grandpa is the opposite of the one that said his wife shouldn't drive. My mom was a single mom and didn't get her license until all three of kids were in their 20s. My grandma is legally blind, so my grandpa always drove my grandma around and they actually saw it as a way to spend time together during their busy lives. My grandpa would take my mom shopping too. If someone needed to go somewhere we usually took either the public bus or gave my grandpa a week's and 24 hours' notice to remind him. I'm not legally blind but have enough trouble with my vision that I will never be able to drive (although the running joke in my family atm is that I can drive better than most "turkeys" on the road.) When I visit my dear sweet grandparents, I would either take the bus home or my grandpa would take me home. I never spent much time with my grandpa outside those trips in the car and they have become my favorite thing to do with my grandfather. He is losing his memory and will be 79 in December. 2 out of his 3 kids (including my mom) drive and its good because otherwise my grandma would be taking her antique shopping cart (my aunt got it for her for like $50!) down the street and back to get groceries at the nearest shop. My grandpa still drives but he is starting to not know his way to and from places that he knows how to get to like he knows the back of his hand and it's very frustrating for him. He is the sweetest man though and I love him to death.
My grandmother never drove. But she did learn and have a license, she just never drove and never had a car. But she was also born in the 1900s, not the century, the decade. :)
People, always, always use common sense when working around machines that can and would love to kill or maim you. Someone I know of got his head crushed with a hydraulic jack because he didn't lockout/tag out. No one was aware until "something" started dripping through the floor onto the guys on the first floor.
I've read a story which was on one of these channels where (fortunately) the OP did a non-standard lock-out on a machine which used a three-phase motor. He bolted a piece of solid metal across all three phases, as well as tagging out the switch. It was fortunate that he did so, because some idiot came along and saw the switch was off and ignored the tag-out and turned it on, while the OP was still inside the machine and working on it. The fuses blew quite spectacularly and extremely noisily.
Story 2 reminds me of an old boss that demanded we go up on the roof of a building without any sort of ropes or restraints. Needless to say we all said hell no until one of us was able to go back to the shop to retrieve the gear we needed.
one of my best friends crawled into a trash compacter to get it unstuck. He didn't get out in time when it released. He left behind 3 small children and a wife. 😭
The second story reminds me of when I worked for a major RV manufacturer. They told a new worker, who hadn’t been trained, to work on a coach’s propane system. He got 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over his body, blown 50’ and three $500k coaches burned down, and additional damages to the plant.
Crawl inside a trash compactor…. You never ever put any part of your body, much less your entire body into a baler or trash compactor. That’s the very first safe usage lesson they teach anyone who might have to use a baler or trash compactor. That’s probably why his boss got OP even though he hadn’t been trained. A trained person wouldn’t have done it!
Agreed! That's exactly why he asked. Not such a nice guy, as OP's dad claims. And that's a large reason why unions exist. Managers don't get paid to protect an employee's health and life. They get paid to manage parts of a company which exists to make profit--and to do so in efficient ways. Just because a manager might be nice to employees--or is smart enough to not do things that result in employee death and possibly lawsuits--doesn't change that mandate. OP's dad didn't seem to take that lesson to mind or heart but unlike many others who haven't, he survived his continuing ignorance. He, too, sounds likes he's in "jackrabbit"-territory, but juuuuust smart enough to go to his union rep for backup.
My former husband once said that all I did all day long was cook and read the paper, so, that’s what I did, supper time that night I told that he needed to make sure the boys were washed and at the table, when he asked where the food was, I told him that it was on the stove, serving wasn’t part of cooking or reading the paper, pouring drinks, same, washing dishes, same, after supper, the dishes needed to be washed, the boys needed their baths and their clothes ready for the next day, the laundry needed to be washed and dried and ironed, the furniture dusted and well, you get the picture, every little thing I usually did, I would tell him that it needed to be done, Saturday I did the vacuuming and I actually did vacuum the walls and window sills, the light fixtures came down and were hand washed and dried and put back, clean linens put on the beds, etc. he was frazzled, on Saturday evening I heard him tell the boys that they would take me out on Sunday for shopping and a good dinner, he never again said anything about what I did , I sure did love that man and miss him still.all day
Just like so many other things, grandmas level of petty is a lost art. I’m thankful I learned from one of the best, and will pass that knowledge onto my niece.
The trash compactor story reminds me of something I heard about that happened on another ship, I think while they were in the yards. A pregnant contractor was doing something (I don't remember what exactly) and she got killed. I think she somehow got sucked into something, there's lots of dangerous places on destroyers and other military vessels, just like there's dangerous places on other ships. It's honestly not surprising to hear about someone slipping and falling down a ladder well or something like that, but it does suck to hear someone died because someone else wasn't doing their job properly or they themselves didn't think something through.
When someone asks you to sign off on your demand - maybe you better think again... Or maybe they should resprayed the orange line so it's in the right place? Screw it, let the customer take one for the team...
Bad Business Logic: 1. Fire ompetent employee. 2. Be amazed as things go to hell because the competent employee is going. Guys, I think Circuit City tried this and where are they now? Oh yeah, they're out of business.
The second story reminded me of a story I heard long ago about a young man in 1965-66 who worked in a sheet metal factory in Birmingham. On his last day he filled a position for a coworker who got sick and he wasnt trained for that work but did anyway. He was using a cutter that cut metal and ended up loosing the tips on two of his fingers. Thats not the worst part. The reason he was quitting was he wanted to focus on his band where he played guitar and the hand he used for the strings was the hand that got injured. But there is a happy ending and I know some who read this might know what im talking about. The guy basically learned to play guitar all over and with the help of homemade prosthetic fingertips he created a new sound. Today the world know him as a guitar legend and he is often credited as the creator of the heavy metal guitar sound. His name is Tony Iommi and even if some people dont know who he is they probably heard of the singer from the band he was quitting his job for, Ozzy Osbourne.
Why does that grandma story sound like something my mom, grandma, AND great grandma would do? It is a classic and always works. Unless the guys brain is full of squirrels poop.
When a person is moved to manager, the first thing they should do is forget all the garbage the company tells them about being a manager. They should then keep their mouth shut and observe everyone under them and learn why something is or isn't done. Then, once they learn about the jobs those under them do, they can then start asking questions about changes that might be made to improve this or that. And those questions should be directed to those who do the work instead of making arbitrary decisions that cost the company more money than if things were left alone to run as they had been running.
Crawling in a trash compactor? 1) TURN OFF POWER, REMOVE SOURCE OF POWER (UNPLUG IT) 2) Get something to jam up the gears. 3) Need some metal rods to prevent accidental compacting movement. 4) Get some tools (hammer, wrench, screwdriver, crowbar) in case you need to use them 5) have at least 3 people to watch your back while you're inside. 6) If you can use something (a pole and a hook, etc), maybe you can fix the compactor without getting inside of it. 😂😂😂😂😂
Story 2... would definitely have refused to do it. Crawling into a compactor is a very stupid thing. OP did the right thing and got someone who would back him up over it.
We once bought some property from a man who had a small memorial set up, he saw me looking at it and said it was in memory of his son who had been in high school and was killed on his first day of his first job, it was at a factory in our town that was still in business, it made cardboard boxes, safety rails weren’t in place and the boy fell into it, I still get chills thinking about it after all these years and was so against my boys working in a factory, first son started working in a grocery store and loved it, he was the one the Mexicans came to to translate for them, I can’t remember what the youngest son’s job was but I think it was in a factory but there was no heavy machinery, he went back to factory work after discharging from the Army, I hated it but je was a grown man and it was his decision, my oldest teaches Robotics in a college, I don’t know that that is any safer .
Story 2: I have a cousin Kenny, who I'd have no problem at all imagining him doing what the Kenny did in this story. Story 4: Yet another example of why the Good Lord gave us two ears and one mouth.
Ya, I was thinking about the exact same guy who died the 1st day of his 1st job cuz they asked him to crawl into a big machine to clean something n then turned it back on 2 mins later having forgot they asked him to go down there
Honestly, the first story really just shows how much women were mistreated. Divorce rates used to be low not because all relationships were better, but because women didn't as often have their own income, property, ect and society saw some actions of abuse as ok. Way to go for that grandma for making her husband realize that just because she wasn't getting paid, doesn't mean she doesn't work and doesn't have rights and deserve care as well. Marriage is a team sport. Now we're starting to figure that out in society. Hopefully more employers will figure out the same in regards to their employees. Taking care of employees takes care of the company. Seems like from the reddit posts there's a lot that still don't
I'm not sure if my grandma could drive. Granddad had a motorcycle with sidecar that they used to get around during The Depression - kids in the sidecar and grandma on the pillion seat.
I hope bosses of companies read DARKFLUFF, and have read story three, they won't take notice of it, but if you have a worker who is the only person who can do a curtain job, protect him/her from looney managers or supervisors, if you don't it could you a lot of money or the company going under.
@@retro3188 for me. It is the second best Nintendo franchise (first being the Metroid franchise). And I've had so many problems recording it. Don't get me wrong. Like Super Metroid. A Link To The Past is a legendary game for the SNES. But I am glad I am done with recording the game.
Story 1: I can't describe this post then from this qoat from big fish, "now there comes a time where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and, admit that he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is, I was never a reasonable man"
8:04 DarkFluff, is that the story of the kid and the bread mixing machine? I remember being told that in highschool during an assembly. Kid was employed by his family friend's business and got caught in a bread mixing machine on his first day. It was so tragic.
Story 5 sounds like our low income housing, or maybe a trailer park. We had folks pull all sorts of destructive stuff at our low income apartment. We couldn't have a garden there, but my husband could get plastic barrels. And as long as they didn't impede the sprinklers or make mowing difficult, they were fine. When we left, we left two brow spots in the grass, and the one hole that was drilled through our siding was approved by management when we got internet. One person got kicked out over installing three sattelites in the front ...a huge no-no that the management had to move or risk fines from inspectors. A few melted the siding in different ways. Usually grills against the house, though one lady had an ash can burn a quarter of her building's siding. The smoking rules they didn't enforce before came into full effect then, and smokers had to go clear to the street until they eventually sold the building to another owner. He's kept the rent fairly low there, too, and hasn't succumbed to pressure from the ethanol plant to sell, even after the city destroyed the property value , leaving the housing manager no choice but to sell or risk fines that would shut them down completely. Had our friends not cut us a deal on a house sale, we would probably still live there. I miss the elderly neighbors. Not the crazy people. But there was definitely a community feel. I would sit outside and chat with my neighbor as we cared for our gardens and shared tips. Our neihbor at the far end had a cat who found out how to get ingo the crawlspace under the roof and open the accesses from the inside. He looked a lot like my cat, but with a cropped tail, so he often went unnoticed until kitty reacted to the intruder. Eventually she got used to him and it got harder to notice when he'd make himself at home. We have a neighbor kitty who tried here, but without the cat tunnel connecting our rooves, she's gonna have a difficult time.
Story 1: I'm actually quite disappointed that the reason for grandma's last time driving a car was never revealed.
Yeah that's what I wanted to know.
Me too. I wanted to know why.
YES!
I wonder why also?
Maybe she really didn’t like driving. “Hell no, I’m never going back!”
Lol, my parents got married in 1959. My mother owned her own car when she married my father, and one of her “conditions’’ for marrying him was that she would always have her own car.
Smart woman!!
My granda was the main driver til he got diagnosed with dementia now my gran drives them to the closest shopping centre
My grandparents had just one car but it was their car and they both usedit, well this was in the Netherlands where they bicycle was the main source of transportation
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That’s incredibly intelligent. I’m sure your dad is a perfect fine dude, but if he had potentially been abusive, not having a means to escape is a very dangerous thing. I mean, that’s the worst case scenario, having your own car is just convenient for getting groceries or just doing errands when your spouse is using the other car
As far as I know, you NEVER crawl into a trash compactor. The guys I know who fix them don't even do that.
The only time you ever climb into one is if the power to the motor is physically disconnected and the Hydraulic Ram is blocked so it can't extend...
Story 2 is literally the case study for why unions are a good thing. That malicious compliance saved a life that day, I’m certain of it.
He did exactly what I would have done. As soon as my boss told me I could ask someone to spot me I would have definitely asked the shop steward to do the honors. If he had refused me a spotter, I would have gone straight to the steward and filed a grievance.
Agreed!
Legit! When unions work, they really flippin’ work!
but instead unions are used to to help police kill others
Seriously, like that story is almost literally the kind of thing that made unions raise hell to get child labor banned 90 years ago. Never forget the people who died for your lunch break, people. Unions are a good thing, even if the leadership leaves a lot to be desired at times.
Story 2: I have a rule I routinely tell my students and anyone else who will listen. "If it doesn't look safe, it probably isn't: stop what you're doing and SAY SOMETHING!"
I've been the supervisor working with individuals with developmental disabilities who pipe up and say, "Is that safe for you to do?" to me. My response was to stop, evaluate what I was about to do, and in most cases say, "Probably not, thanks for looking out for me." It improved morale, made everyone start actively looking for things that might be unsafe, and encouraged everyone to work together better (I.E. team lift).
Your Grandma was the absolute Queen of malicious compliance… 50 years of not driving. Oh my God! Be careful what you say to other people.
I'm just glad he didn't hit her. I thought that's where it was going or destroying the car.
Only if it impacted her... Did she walk everywhere after that or did she manipulate others to take her places? Story seems cute, but comes off as entitled.
@@aking3624 She definitely used her husband for the rest of her life from that point on because of his statement: as far as using others I don’t know if we’ll ever know unless we get an update to clarify that. I don’t think she was so much entitled as she was hurt by what he said and carried that with her for the rest of her life but she was also going to make him pay for his words. He really made an extreme blunder saying what he said but he never expected her to react with such compliance. Once he said it he could never take it back. It really shows you have to choose your words carefully. Never say anything in haste or anger… your words could come back to bite you in the a**.
It’s good that he didn’t. Back then, even if the cops were called, they would ask the woman what SHE did to cause him to do that. I know this because of past family history with my Grandma. They didn’t care if the guy was a raging alcoholic, had anger problems and came home at 3 or 4 in the morning so drunk he could barely stand or talk. If he “demanded dinner” she should have made it for him according to the cops. It was a different time.
@@laurabenevelli6783 That's sad...I understand it was different though. Because of things in my family's history... Anyway, now things are different. I'm glad at least for that. That women can speak up and be heard.
Forklifts and trash compactors are dangerous pieces of equipment. You never crawl into a compactor. That's how people die.
me being as stubborn as grandma: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
that'd be me.
Would love a ring side seat!
LOL! Been there, done that. My worthy opponent was OldestGrandson, then age 8(!). Stubborn, similar to his mother/my daughter. We come from a long line of bull-headed people.
Yo, grandma is a legend. She went all in for the long haul, bless her heart.
These people named Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewy spent some time in a trash compactor and they were fine.
Only because their hysterical robot friends saved them!! 😘😎
With that Hydraulic Press dood declaring, "These people are very dangerous and must be dealt with..."
@@karinwolf3645 No, it was the small, calm and collected blue one that saved them, Golden Boy was just hysterically screaming and probably annoying R2, who just did his work.
The image of grandpa begging for forgiveness and for things to go back to how they were brings a smile to my face.
I love stories when people eat their own words and try to backtrack on what they said and did, only to realize they can never regain what they've lost.
My boss told me if something seems dangerous and makes me uncomfortable I don't have to do anything with it and I've exercised that on several occasions
My grandpa never learned how to drive their Model T Phaeton. Grandma was the one who drove it every where, Kids to school, dleivering mail (she was the local PostMistress), going into town for supplies, etc.
So in love with grandma! We should all aspire to that level of awesomeness.
I once worked at a scrapyard type place as a contracted security guard. The place was full of dangers, and we were armed and given hard hats. The place was supposed to follow OSHA guidelines. And I know of at least one instance where they didn’t. They had us security guards as the ones that were supposed to check, watch and adjust the boilers if they started over heating, even if it was near the level of explosion. When I pointed out that we were not trained for this and that there were no clear instructions and that it put us in unnecessary danger and violated OSHA regulations (yes, I checked it out first and it was a violation), to the owner of the security company I worked for, instead of reporting it, I got suspended for 3 days and moved to a different location. Yeah. I quit a week or two later, though for other issues revolving around the owner of the security guard company. Found out later that it went out of business within a few years.
Story 2: Dumb Boss; Hello OP, Today you will be inspecting the inside of the Meat Grinder
OP; ok, but can I at least have your Boss watch and make sure that he knows that YOU told me to put my head into a Meat Grinder?
If they ever fired someone, they should go to OSHA. That will be between a $500,000 and $1,000,000 fine.
Good lesson. I you're gonna have someone running your household don't mess with them after. They hold the keys to either a happy or crappy life
Man, I can’t even go a day without my car when it’s in the shop. Grandma has some dedication
I love the comment at the end of story 1 about getting a motorbike. That is absolutely something I could have seen my grandmother doing too. In reality, based on the stories my grandfather told, he did have the bike and she sat in the side car yelling at him to go faster when he felt he was already going maybe a little too fast down the cobblestone roads of their small town.
Story 1: Part of me wants to know what it was that made grandma late back home. I'm guessing it was some sort of emergency. Even if there wasn't, that was no excuse for grandpa to go off on her like that, breadwinner or not. He may make the money, but it's his wife that makes the home. Without her, nothing runs smoothly.
Maybe if more men (and especially more boyfriends and husbands) appreciated what the women in their life--not just wives and girlfriends, but mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, etc.--do to make things run smoothly for them, then maybe we'd see fewer instances of violence and microaggressions against women.
This is why I have insisted for YEARS that we should get financial compensation for what we do! Our workday starts when our feet hit the floor and doesn’t stop until we go to bed (and sometimes not even then!). Housework, cooking, errands, raising kids, yard work, paying the bills, balancing the household budget, pet care, etc. seven days a week, 52 weeks a year! No vacations, no days off, no sick days-hell, we can’t even go to the bathroom in peace!
Why is it that all the jobs that a housewife or a stay-at-home mom does are worth a paycheck when they’re outsourced to somebody else, but when WE do them, we’re not worth a plugged nickel? Worse, when we have to re-enter the workforce due to our spouse’s death, divorce, the need for a second income, etc. our skills are considered unmarketable and we don’t qualify for anything beyond minimum-wage work! WTF is WRONG with this country?!
@@dragondancer1814 I feel you. There are so many marketable skills, but a lot of businesses want exorbitant amounts of experience, advanced degrees from universities, and most importantly, people willing to work for less than peanuts.
That's the sad state of American capitalism. European countries do it far better than we do, and they are still capitalist. Yet somehow, we here in American think that anything that is remotely pro-worker is socialism, and immediately a nonstarter.
Even myself, a college graduate, found myself working a barely-above minimum wage job, three years after graduating college, because no one in my field wanted to hire me without experience, not even wanting to consider the experience I gained in college as experience.
Even now, my current job (a different one now) is still not really in my field, but the pay is better, and you don't really need a ton of work experience or education, and they don't discriminate based on age (we have people fresh out of high school, and people well into their twilight years, working there).
I always recommend going to a local staffing agency, tell them what your skills are, and what kind of work you're looking for. Hopefully they will have something that fits you. That's how I got my current job, after all.
What a misogynistic, AH! At least grandpa learned his lesson eventually! 😂😂😂
I'm laughing so much at the grandma's epic malicious compliance in the first story. That's a long time to go without driving!
And it made me realize my granddad was pretty progressive for that era. He kept insisting that my grandma learn how to drive and get a car. Even offered to teach her! But she always refused and even hid in the closet when my dad and his brothers tried to give her driving lessons at Granddad's insistence. Eventually, Granddad gave up around the early 70s.
It reminds me of the story I was told about my grandparents. My grandfather refused to marry my grandmother until she learned how to change the tires, check the oil, and other seemingly small things like that by herself.
Never build a fence without having your property line marked by a professional.
8:23 Ideally they can't, but in so-called 'right to work' states, they make up excuses to 'lay people off' or otherwise fire them, and there are no unions or other real recourse because they have a 'right to work' aka 'right of the employer to work you until you're of no more use'.
Story 1: Genius, annoying a stubborn person is Super easy because they'll almost never admit that they might be in the wrong
it reminds me of one of my favorite Prorevenges where OP got a restraining order against his' Crazy Neighbor which prevented her from staying in her own house, when her husband came to ask if they could come to an agreement to have the order lifted OP agree'd on the condition that Crazy Neighbor write him and his' friends a one page apology, she refused and later moved out
I remember that one! 😂😂😂
@@stephanien6237 me too
Do you have the link to the story?
My dad is on the smaller side, and he worked in the cement plant back home (also union-mandatory) as a welder repairman for two decades. Their job was literally to go into dangerous situations (with safety regulations and such though), and he always ended up having to crawl into things that the beer belly guys couldn’t fit into. He only got hurt once in that kind of situation; a j hook got pulled too hard by a chain and straightened out so it wasn’t a hook anymore. A bucket (think large and metal and full of rock) and the chain fell on him, but luckily he wasn’t all the way under it. Only had a couple staples in his head. If anything, he was more upset about not being allowed to mow grass the following day, which was a day off anyway.
As of earlier this year, he got a different position out in the quarry driving heavy equipment full of rock. It’s statistically way less dangerous than his previous position, but that wasn’t the main reason he took the new position anyway.
My brother is a welder at a chemical plant in the same town back home, so it’s not exactly like I worry any less. At some point, though, you just kinda tune it out into a low-level background worry and trust them to follow safety regulations and keep their wits about them. Both my dad and my brother are highly skilled, and the companies are inspected often and fined all kinds of big money for safety violations, so that does help me worry less.
Wow, Grandma in the first story was epic legendary status of stubbornness. I absolutely love it ❤️
Another case of new management not bothering to learn how things work. They then decide to alienate the workers that are making things work. Then they wonder why things go to pot when the workers leave.
Story 5: OP's Creativity is Super funny, imagine OP driving Karen nuts by placing his' Mobile Greenhouse in new areas everytime Karen sees it and I love that OP decided that they wanted to decorate it too lol XD
I myself also have a thing I use to drive my Entitled Brother nuts with every once in a while (it's one of the only things I have to drive him nuts with so I enjoy it when I get the chance),
Context: about a Year ago, while biking, my EB accidentally drove into a Lightpole while he wasn't looking (like an idiot), so I sometimes make jokes about Lightpoles to him
Story 3: OP said that they worked for a Million Dollar Making Company, I'd have asked for more than they did because that would not only get the Dumb Supervisor into bigger trouble but also secure my life style for Years to come
Heck OP should of sued for wrongful termination and depending on the state could of gotten 10 times the amount
Grandma was an awesome woman!! Wow. The second story - Dark Fluff - you gave perfect advice to young workers. Safety keeps you alive.
The "entertain at a moments notice" explains many of the culinary atrocities of the 1940's to 1970's
2nd story reminds me of an episode of “911 Lonestar”. Idiot crawls into a stuck trash compactor and gets stuck. Fire department shows up, chaos issues over keeping the electricity off until they can get him out. Electricity comes back on and it takes the rookie to be smart enough to pull the plug. They get him out in the end. Don’t know the fate of the trash compactor.
Reminds me of the cause of the trash workers strike in Memphis and the I Am a Man matches.
If it was 'pay me or lose millions' I would've added another zero onto that $20k.
2 10k days after making them sweat is nice, though. During the negotiation, the number would have been going up as they tried to talk me down.
My husband had the exact thing happen to him with the trash compactor when he worked at WalMart. Unfortunately he didn’t have the good sense to do what OP did. He crawled in and the door got locked behind him. Luckily he did have someone spotting him to make sure it stayed off and someone else ran to get help. What they didn’t consider was the fact that the stench was so bad it burned the inside of his nose. When he came out with a bloody nose, they gave him $500 and made him sign an NDA. Ten years later he still doesn’t have a sense of smell. He puts hot sauce on everything just so he can taste it.
that nda might not be legal
Bullcrap! Should have sued!!! He can still sue! That NDA is not legally binding!
@@BeefMeisterSupreme it definitely isn't because the NDA is a felony, namely witness manipulation and obstruction of justice...
Story 1 is top tier petty! Story 2, trash compactors are a lawsuit and funeral just waiting to happen. Good on the guy for reporting it! Story 3, the guy got what he wanted... lol. 4th, please also decorate it with halloween decorations around the xmas season lol.
I'm so happy my grandpa is the opposite of the one that said his wife shouldn't drive. My mom was a single mom and didn't get her license until all three of kids were in their 20s. My grandma is legally blind, so my grandpa always drove my grandma around and they actually saw it as a way to spend time together during their busy lives. My grandpa would take my mom shopping too. If someone needed to go somewhere we usually took either the public bus or gave my grandpa a week's and 24 hours' notice to remind him. I'm not legally blind but have enough trouble with my vision that I will never be able to drive (although the running joke in my family atm is that I can drive better than most "turkeys" on the road.) When I visit my dear sweet grandparents, I would either take the bus home or my grandpa would take me home. I never spent much time with my grandpa outside those trips in the car and they have become my favorite thing to do with my grandfather. He is losing his memory and will be 79 in December. 2 out of his 3 kids (including my mom) drive and its good because otherwise my grandma would be taking her antique shopping cart (my aunt got it for her for like $50!) down the street and back to get groceries at the nearest shop. My grandpa still drives but he is starting to not know his way to and from places that he knows how to get to like he knows the back of his hand and it's very frustrating for him. He is the sweetest man though and I love him to death.
My grandmother never drove. But she did learn and have a license, she just never drove and never had a car. But she was also born in the 1900s, not the century, the decade. :)
People, always, always use common sense when working around machines that can and would love to kill or maim you. Someone I know of got his head crushed with a hydraulic jack because he didn't lockout/tag out. No one was aware until "something" started dripping through the floor onto the guys on the first floor.
sadly, common sense isn't very common. Nor is thinking about personal safety... expecting others to worry about that.
I've read a story which was on one of these channels where (fortunately) the OP did a non-standard lock-out on a machine which used a three-phase motor. He bolted a piece of solid metal across all three phases, as well as tagging out the switch. It was fortunate that he did so, because some idiot came along and saw the switch was off and ignored the tag-out and turned it on, while the OP was still inside the machine and working on it. The fuses blew quite spectacularly and extremely noisily.
I swear these videos never ceases to satisfy me.
Story 2 reminds me of an old boss that demanded we go up on the roof of a building without any sort of ropes or restraints. Needless to say we all said hell no until one of us was able to go back to the shop to retrieve the gear we needed.
21:03 - We love you too :D
11:20 "you walk into a trap, i walk out with a smile" lmao
one of my best friends crawled into a trash compacter to get it unstuck. He didn't get out in time when it released. He left behind 3 small children and a wife. 😭
My grandmother never drive a car in her 86 years. But it wasn’t to prove a point lol
The second story reminds me of when I worked for a major RV manufacturer. They told a new worker, who hadn’t been trained, to work on a coach’s propane system. He got 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over his body, blown 50’ and three $500k coaches burned down, and additional damages to the plant.
Crawl inside a trash compactor…. You never ever put any part of your body, much less your entire body into a baler or trash compactor. That’s the very first safe usage lesson they teach anyone who might have to use a baler or trash compactor. That’s probably why his boss got OP even though he hadn’t been trained. A trained person wouldn’t have done it!
Agreed! That's exactly why he asked. Not such a nice guy, as OP's dad claims. And that's a large reason why unions exist. Managers don't get paid to protect an employee's health and life. They get paid to manage parts of a company which exists to make profit--and to do so in efficient ways. Just because a manager might be nice to employees--or is smart enough to not do things that result in employee death and possibly lawsuits--doesn't change that mandate. OP's dad didn't seem to take that lesson to mind or heart but unlike many others who haven't, he survived his continuing ignorance. He, too, sounds likes he's in "jackrabbit"-territory, but juuuuust smart enough to go to his union rep for backup.
My former husband once said that all I did all day long was cook and read the paper, so, that’s what I did, supper time that night I told that he needed to make sure the boys were washed and at the table, when he asked where the food was, I told him that it was on the stove, serving wasn’t part of cooking or reading the paper, pouring drinks, same, washing dishes, same, after supper, the dishes needed to be washed, the boys needed their baths and their clothes ready for the next day, the laundry needed to be washed and dried and ironed, the furniture dusted and well, you get the picture, every little thing I usually did, I would tell him that it needed to be done, Saturday I did the vacuuming and I actually did vacuum the walls and window sills, the light fixtures came down and were hand washed and dried and put back, clean linens put on the beds, etc. he was frazzled, on Saturday evening I heard him tell the boys that they would take me out on Sunday for shopping and a good dinner, he never again said anything about what I did , I sure did love that man and miss him still.all day
Story #1: GO GRANDMA!! Grandpa found out fast that he may be the king but, it's the Queen that runs the kingdom!!
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Hello fluff love ur videos I binge listen these at work an home it has me threw the day thanks for the stories
I live in a housing co-op here in the US. But theres no building manager, we have elected officers and managers that are residents.
I do like that the manager for story 2 wasn't a bad person just not very bright
This was the best no no no no no NO that he ever did during the fence story with the orange in the dirt.
#2:
Does anyone else wonder why Grandma was late?
She was god-level petty and I love it!
Just like so many other things, grandmas level of petty is a lost art. I’m thankful I learned from one of the best, and will pass that knowledge onto my niece.
I wish upper management also got in trouble due to not communicating properly what the previous departments do. That was _their job._
I adore the sweet malicious compliances!
The trash compactor story reminds me of something I heard about that happened on another ship, I think while they were in the yards. A pregnant contractor was doing something (I don't remember what exactly) and she got killed. I think she somehow got sucked into something, there's lots of dangerous places on destroyers and other military vessels, just like there's dangerous places on other ships. It's honestly not surprising to hear about someone slipping and falling down a ladder well or something like that, but it does suck to hear someone died because someone else wasn't doing their job properly or they themselves didn't think something through.
My dad never treated my mom like the grandpa did to his wife.He sounded like a control freak.
When someone asks you to sign off on your demand - maybe you better think again...
Or maybe they should resprayed the orange line so it's in the right place? Screw it, let the customer take one for the team...
Story1: wow, that is next level, I hope to be like this someday.
This is one of the best reddit commentary channels
Not driving for 50 years isn't malicious compliance. It's pro revenge. :D
Bad Business Logic: 1. Fire ompetent employee. 2. Be amazed as things go to hell because the competent employee is going. Guys, I think Circuit City tried this and where are they now? Oh yeah, they're out of business.
And... they wanted to pay everyone only minimum wage!
The second story reminded me of a story I heard long ago about a young man in 1965-66 who worked in a sheet metal factory in Birmingham. On his last day he filled a position for a coworker who got sick and he wasnt trained for that work but did anyway.
He was using a cutter that cut metal and ended up loosing the tips on two of his fingers. Thats not the worst part.
The reason he was quitting was he wanted to focus on his band where he played guitar and the hand he used for the strings was the hand that got injured.
But there is a happy ending and I know some who read this might know what im talking about. The guy basically learned to play guitar all over and with the help of homemade prosthetic fingertips he created a new sound. Today the world know him as a guitar legend and he is often credited as the creator of the heavy metal guitar sound. His name is Tony Iommi and even if some people dont know who he is they probably heard of the singer from the band he was quitting his job for, Ozzy Osbourne.
Why does that grandma story sound like something my mom, grandma, AND great grandma would do? It is a classic and always works. Unless the guys brain is full of squirrels poop.
When a person is moved to manager, the first thing they should do is forget all the garbage the company tells them about being a manager. They should then keep their mouth shut and observe everyone under them and learn why something is or isn't done. Then, once they learn about the jobs those under them do, they can then start asking questions about changes that might be made to improve this or that. And those questions should be directed to those who do the work instead of making arbitrary decisions that cost the company more money than if things were left alone to run as they had been running.
I love the malicious compliance ones!😂
Story 3: Should have hung up as soon as they first declined the $20k. Next time they call back it's $30k. Keep going up until they agree.
Crawling in a trash compactor?
1) TURN OFF POWER, REMOVE SOURCE OF POWER (UNPLUG IT)
2) Get something to jam up the gears.
3) Need some metal rods to prevent accidental compacting movement.
4) Get some tools (hammer, wrench, screwdriver, crowbar) in case you need to use them
5) have at least 3 people to watch your back while you're inside.
6) If you can use something (a pole and a hook, etc), maybe you can fix the compactor without getting inside of it.
😂😂😂😂😂
Story 2... would definitely have refused to do it. Crawling into a compactor is a very stupid thing. OP did the right thing and got someone who would back him up over it.
We once bought some property from a man who had a small memorial set up, he saw me looking at it and said it was in memory of his son who had been in high school and was killed on his first day of his first job, it was at a factory in our town that was still in business, it made cardboard boxes, safety rails weren’t in place and the boy fell into it, I still get chills thinking about it after all these years and was so against my boys working in a factory, first son started working in a grocery store and loved it, he was the one the Mexicans came to to translate for them, I can’t remember what the youngest son’s job was but I think it was in a factory but there was no heavy machinery, he went back to factory work after discharging from the Army, I hated it but je was a grown man and it was his decision, my oldest teaches Robotics in a college, I don’t know that that is any safer .
1000th like! So cool watching it go from 999 to 1K!
Even for malicious compliance I could never give up driving. I love it too much!
Story 2: I have a cousin Kenny, who I'd have no problem at all imagining him doing what the Kenny did in this story.
Story 4: Yet another example of why the Good Lord gave us two ears and one mouth.
rofl! grandmom got granddad goood! she held him to his word with that epic gem of MC
Ya, I was thinking about the exact same guy who died the 1st day of his 1st job cuz they asked him to crawl into a big machine to clean something n then turned it back on 2 mins later having forgot they asked him to go down there
women should be able to do WHATEVER the male can do. What a jerk.
Honestly, the first story really just shows how much women were mistreated. Divorce rates used to be low not because all relationships were better, but because women didn't as often have their own income, property, ect and society saw some actions of abuse as ok. Way to go for that grandma for making her husband realize that just because she wasn't getting paid, doesn't mean she doesn't work and doesn't have rights and deserve care as well. Marriage is a team sport.
Now we're starting to figure that out in society. Hopefully more employers will figure out the same in regards to their employees. Taking care of employees takes care of the company. Seems like from the reddit posts there's a lot that still don't
All great stories, but I loved the first one where the grandmother refuses to drive after her husband makes an ass of himself.
I'm not sure if my grandma could drive. Granddad had a motorcycle with sidecar that they used to get around during The Depression - kids in the sidecar and grandma on the pillion seat.
Good afternoon DF. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day
I hope bosses of companies read DARKFLUFF, and have read story three, they won't take notice of it, but if you have a worker who is the only person who can do a curtain job, protect him/her from looney managers or supervisors, if you don't it could you a lot of money or the company going under.
Just got done uploading a long play of ALTTP. Glad there is a malicious compliance story.
Zelda’s awesome!
@@retro3188 for me. It is the second best Nintendo franchise (first being the Metroid franchise). And I've had so many problems recording it. Don't get me wrong. Like Super Metroid. A Link To The Past is a legendary game for the SNES. But I am glad I am done with recording the game.
Even I know Op's boss was wrong. When I worked for Walmart they had the same thing about compactors
Don't crawl into the trash compactor. Now everyone is trained on what to do 😂
Thank you for making content for us so often, I love the stories 😁
Ok... So am I the only one disappointed that OP never mentioned the reason his grandmother hadn't done the chores, made dinner, etc?
y’all malicious compliance is such a beach 😂😂😂😂😂
Story 2: Don't forget about the guy on his first day of work at a treetrimming company, who fell into the woodchipper.
Story 1: I can't describe this post then from this qoat from big fish, "now there comes a time where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and, admit that he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is, I was never a reasonable man"
They have lock offs for compactors now. They lock it in the off position.
Still scary tho!
I don't know about reduce, but the reuse and recycling of stories is quite common these days...
8:04 DarkFluff, is that the story of the kid and the bread mixing machine? I remember being told that in highschool during an assembly. Kid was employed by his family friend's business and got caught in a bread mixing machine on his first day. It was so tragic.
That or the Bacardi bottling plant where an intern is crushed under a pallet loader while cleaning broken bottles out from under it.
Story 5 sounds like our low income housing, or maybe a trailer park.
We had folks pull all sorts of destructive stuff at our low income apartment. We couldn't have a garden there, but my husband could get plastic barrels. And as long as they didn't impede the sprinklers or make mowing difficult, they were fine. When we left, we left two brow spots in the grass, and the one hole that was drilled through our siding was approved by management when we got internet.
One person got kicked out over installing three sattelites in the front ...a huge no-no that the management had to move or risk fines from inspectors. A few melted the siding in different ways. Usually grills against the house, though one lady had an ash can burn a quarter of her building's siding.
The smoking rules they didn't enforce before came into full effect then, and smokers had to go clear to the street until they eventually sold the building to another owner. He's kept the rent fairly low there, too, and hasn't succumbed to pressure from the ethanol plant to sell, even after the city destroyed the property value , leaving the housing manager no choice but to sell or risk fines that would shut them down completely.
Had our friends not cut us a deal on a house sale, we would probably still live there. I miss the elderly neighbors. Not the crazy people. But there was definitely a community feel. I would sit outside and chat with my neighbor as we cared for our gardens and shared tips. Our neihbor at the far end had a cat who found out how to get ingo the crawlspace under the roof and open the accesses from the inside. He looked a lot like my cat, but with a cropped tail, so he often went unnoticed until kitty reacted to the intruder. Eventually she got used to him and it got harder to notice when he'd make himself at home.
We have a neighbor kitty who tried here, but without the cat tunnel connecting our rooves, she's gonna have a difficult time.
Oh no. I worked time schedules never worked. It’s a team effort not your duties my duties horsecrap. Grandma is my hero.
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Thanks for the upload! I always look forward to your posts!😘😘💖💖👍👍
I’m definitely as stubborn as that grandma and I would be the same
God, those grandparents were AWFUL.