S1E8: Employee was FORCED to Work Through their Pain, and Paid the Ultimate Price…
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a story about someone who walked in on a colleague who was unconscious with paramedics trying to revive him. A completely awful story, however, why it happened and what the company did after that somehow made it worse.
Due to people not being paid if they were sick they were self medicating just to get through shifts, leading to this tragic incident. The company policy was basically take whatever you like, as long as there are no accidents and you can get through the work.
The company then offered almost no support to those who had been caught up in the incident resulting in several people leaving or having breakdowns at work.
#worstboss #nopay
I worked at a steel plant. Of course the company was pushing everyone to cut corners to go faster.
One young guy actually took it seriously, always tried working faster and got his arm crushed in a machine. He ended up losing it.
He sued the company for, I think, $5 million and during a negotiation the company brought up that he had opiates in his system and lowballed the claim.
His attorney pointed out that the EMTs that cared for him had given him morphine so that's why he had opiates in him. He then told them that he was doubling the suit amount just because they'd tried that.
We had a guy that would cut corners moving trailers in the yard at work. He pulled 3 trailers with a red light on the door, meaning it was being worked actively. After the third one we finally told the gm he needed fired or brought back inside to the freezer where they always need help. He chose moving into the freezer. Then he was mad about it later. I just laughed and told him he was lucky to have a job.
@@scuba535amen brother. That coworker sounds like someone with narcissistic tendencies and is never willing to take responsibility for their actions.
@@mrjohnklake yeah I know him a bit outside of work and he kinda is.
My step mum had a heart attack and was off work for a long time. When she went back to work she told her boss she needed to reduce her hours. In UK most people work 38 hours a week in retail. My step mum was a manager for asda. Her boss reduced her hours from 50 to 49 hours. The stress she went through caused her to have another heart attack. She survived that one then she saw a solicitor and she sued the manager and the company. The manager was fired and my step mum retired early.
Sorry she went through that but glad for her subsequent successful action.
@@lesleywilliams1210 thank you.
Walmart era Asda?
@nicolad8822 yes.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 classic
We had a coworker die on the floor of a heart attack. He had worked for the company for 40 years.
The HR witch walked past my office and said, "Well, he was a smoker."
They are not your friends. They are there to protect the company from lawsuits. Period.
Similar issue. A lady who had worked at the company for over 20 years died of a heart attack at her desk. They found her slumped over at the end of her shift, and she had apparently been dead for many hours with no one noticing. She was overweight and very much fit the picture of a sweet little old lady who loved everyone. She was a grandmother and really was a nice person and went out of her way to help anyone. HR told everyone to leave the building, and they called for an ambulance to take her away. The next day the only thing we heard from the company was that she was morbidly obese and they figured she got what she deserved because she was not a young, thin person. Everyone was sickened by their heartless response. Of course, everyone in HR was a young 20-something skinny woman, and they had no sympathy or interest in anyone who was not their idea of "body perfect".
I'd have lost my shit. Just think. Someone has literally died. The pain thst family is going through and all they've gotta say is well he did smoke.
Absolutely psychotic behaviour
That is pure evil. It says alot about her.
I can't agree with you more
I worked somewhere where someone collapsed in reception.
I remember my manager saying something along the lines of , she was overweight anyways 😮.
Such a sad story. For most people in the U.S. if you take a sick day, it's unpaid and could result in losing your job. if you DO get paid sick days, 3 to 5 days per year is considered "generous." Most of us essentially work ourselves to death over here. Everyone I know is mentally beaten down or has mental issues due to work. Everyone puts off medical appointments either due to lack of insurance, or because "employer-provided " insurance (we have to pay for part of that too) doesn't cover enough to be affordable with your salary, or because of a workload that won't allow time for medical appointments. If you're a salaried peon working in corporate America, you're also expected to put in at least 50 to 60 hours a week (at least) without overtime or time-off compensation. It's a sick society.
I still dont understand how people in the usa cant see that they live in a 3rd world country, especially with that bad conditions. I am even afraid of what they have in their food, or deem ok.
Hell and when you do make an appointment there’s a chance that your boss will call and guilt you into coming in WHILE you’re in the waiting room/back in the room with the doctor
@@MrDoreius yeah, I don't really understand Americans who are somehow in denial about it. But most of us honestly do know it's broken and feel we're living in a hellhole, but we're in a bind to do much about it because the way it is here now, if you don't have money, you don't have any power to change anything, and the people who do have money make sure it stays that way. I long to live in a civilized society.
@@Allantitan Yep. My boss was on the phone hassling a coworker/friend of mine about some "urgent last minute information" she needed for a report--while he was literally being wheeled from his hospital room to the OR staging area for major surgery. In the bed, being wheeled down the hallway, on his cellphone trying to tell our boss why he couldn't get her the damn information because he was literally on his way to the OR and they'd be taking his phone.
@@TenaciousSLG a part of me half expected the nurse/doctor to say loudly so your boss could hear “NOW REMEMBER YOUR AGREEMENT NOT TO BEAT ANUONE WITH A BAT FOR CALLING YOU NOW FOR THE NEXT 6 -8 months” 😂
Good grief, this is appalling. If we had a particularly heinous experience in A&E/OR, we had a full debrief afterwards. Any problems beyond your initial reaction, was always addressed. Thanks to that I discovered, in my forties, I had Aspergers, (now on the spectrum), PTSD and dyspraxia. I loved working for The Nhs. We always supported one another. You had to know that your colleagues, and chain of command would stand behind you and support you in any way.
I was just thinking that these stories are horrendous and I can’t imagine that happening at my job. We would have been made to go home, pending an investigation of any death, natural or otherwise. I work for the Federal Govt. DoD and think that’s what’s spared me from this kind of nightmare workplace. These stories are BEYOND unacceptable!
What the actual shite. This entire company can sod right off. Imagine how many people could have been hurt by them.
A few years before the pandemic hit, a coworker was walking down the hall when he just dropped. That was it. He died right there. People witnessed it. Our leadership not only offered therapy to those who witnessed but any one of us in the division. When the pandemic hit, the same leadership was more concerned about our safety than the work. The work was priority, don't get me wrong. But, they jumped through hoops to make sure we were safe first, while the work was done. First of all, I work in essential local government. Second, just about all of those in leadership are women. I really think that makes a huge difference. Leadership is no nonsense and expect a lot out from us. But, the kindness and compassion that's offered us makes us work harder. Six months into the pandemic, our Ops Director literally told us that our work output "far" exceeded their expectations. Pay is only one of many factors of a good job.
I completely agree. Respect from management as well as them actually giving a crap about employees are also huge factors as it keeps people there that actually know what they’re doing
Pandemic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 f off 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My company got around paying overtime by making all the admins salary. We were expected to work overtime weekly. I was always being castigated for not working weekends “like everyone else” I had an infant and my husband worked weekends, so I couldn’t. Someone called OSHA and we were suddenly changed to hourly employees and magically all the extra hours we were required to work disappeared (they’d have to pay overtime)and they hired more people. They got away with this bs for years. I thought all the abused employees should have been compensated.
As an elementary school teacher, a beautiful little girl that I had gotten to know unexpectedly passed away. Our male principal announced that "We are not going to make a big deal out of it". This student had supportive parents, and cousins similar in age that were attending our school and who had also been my students. I was appalled at the lack of humanity our principal showed after that announcement to the staff. He was a selfish individual who had no compassion for either the students or their parents.
Can't even imagine what this does do to a young lad. Support is so important after a colleague dies. It seems like the company didn't learn anything after the death of his colleague. H&S is not a thing in this company.
Ben, your videos give me so much hope. I'm disabled as is my partner and we both had faced immense discrimination in our working lives. It's been horrific honestly. But having videos like yours exposing this type of BS is so important and helpful. It also encourages people to remember that they're human beings under them.
Same experience here.
I'm 42; had I procreated young, I could have been his parent.
What an appalling situation.
My husband had co-worker who died due long term illness, company gave ever one half day off and next day they got meeting and coffee, cake and just talked for 2 hours, all this was paid. This what good company do. We are in Sweden, but husband used to work in UK, he never had this treatment there.
I worked as a contractor in a company that was going through restructuring. People were leaving left and right. Some people who worked there for more then 30 years did not know if they can stay or will let go. The stress was so high. In those 6 month i worked there 2 guys died from heart attack at work. That was unreal. I did not get the same pay as a contractor for the same work as permanent employees, but it gave me some distance and they could not force me to do overtime or anything my contract did not specify.
Name and shame the company
This guy's talking about working overnights and self-medicating and pushing through Really hits home. I didn't self-medicate with anythingIs while working overnight but I did just push through andAnd we had a snowstorm that locked up my city pretty badly and I worked for the water company and had to do several 16 hour shifts in a row overnightAnd fell asleep on the way driving home. Got pulled over and cop said he was gonna take me in for drinking and I said I hadn't been drinking I've just worked for the water company and with all the snow we've been working 16 hour shifts. Scratched up my car pretty badly trying to pull into the driveway is well I'm just glad I fell asleep at a Is stop light and not while I was driving driving.
This is in the Uk, we must be vigilant on what we are voting into power. This could no be allowed if the law did not allow it
Companies will always try any means they can to cut costs down, any loopholes any tiny margins they will take it.
It's disgusting
Your channel is brilliant and so needed.
I am neither a Millennial or Gen Z. Im a long way past that.
The change in working culture across most industries over the last couple of decades has been incredible, sadly not in the positive.
Companies are all about profit and burn people out knowing that there's always a replacement out there.
Knowing your contract and having a handbook is paramount.If there's no HR there's always the Government and ACAS (the UK) also , join a Union. There are so many benefits,free legal advice etc.
If you work on the Retail Sector check if your company subscribes to a retail charity such as Grocery Aid or The Retail Trust.They can provide counsellors ,grants if you are struggling,all sorts of benefits.
There should be information posted in your staff areas or on a noticeboard in relation to them.
You do have to contact them yourself but your Manager should be able to put you on the right track .Btw it's all confidential and completely separate from the company.
Does the UK have anything equivalent to WorkCover in Australia?
This company would be absolutely roasted by WorkCover. So many failings.
Where is Workplace Health & Safety?
Where is HR? Where is their EAP?
They need to pay compensation, then either sort their 💩 out, or shut down before they ruin more lives.
My husband worked security. An elderly guest was in distress and my husband began cpr. Unfortunately she didn't make it. He was forced to continue his shift and had nightmares for weeks. He asked for support and was refused.
My husband's university was facing financial cuts, so increased faculty class loads to avoid hiring additional teaching staff etc. One prof collapsed in front of his class, soon after died. Huge numbers got Ill, meaning part timers needed to be hired to cover those classes. When MY spouse fell ill (103° fever) his chairman said his pay would be docked! Husband ended up with atypical pneumonia, out for three months! Full pay, and a huge serving of crow for his chairman. Never spoke to that **** again.
A lack of access to paid sick leave in all circumstances when performing work more than once a week for any corporation should be a crime. In fact, there should be a law that requires independent contractors to officially register as such and makes it illegal to offer anyone who isn't registered as an independent contractor a contract without all basic workers rights, including paid sick leave.
Sadly, these laws will never be implemented in most of the world. Not as long as corporations can bribe politicians. And do not be under any delusion that this doesn't happen in countries without legalized lobbying. There are thousands of ways to bribe someone. And if that isn't an option, there are a few thousand more ways to make sure that anyone who rejects bribes is practically barred from having access to an audience.
This reminds me of a factory I used to work it! (Sounds very bloody similar!) A guy had a heart attack at the end of shift just before clock out, and the staff actually STEPPED OVER HIM AS HE WAS DYING! The TLs weren't that bothered and just wanted to clock out too!
I have So. Many. Stories about that place! Everything from the GM to the TLs and everyone in between. I only worked there for 4 years! Thankfully, I've been gone from there for 10 years!
I will try to have a long story short. I was working as a guide on a cruise/expedition ship when an older man (about 80) fell dead in my arms on a hike. I did CPR for about 40 minutes before paramedics reached us. That was far to late.
After, the company asked me if I wanted counselling, which i declined, but sent me to the ships doctor anyway. They were very concerned about me and everyone involved. I had all the support I needed and really felt well taken care of.
Sadly this type of company is common. They see workers as a commodity and are not interested in people other than a necessary evil to get things done. They pay as little as they think they can get away with (families trying to survive on £11 an hour having to do huge amounts of overtime to make the money up and on govt benefits to top up the wages of these companies) they provide minimal benefits dont provide a decent sick pay scheme, , pay lip service to health and safety until some thing happens like this story then they pull out all the policies procedures and make a good face on it but blame the employees. I work for a company in a different field that does exactly this. They really don't give a toss.
I had a friend who witnessed someone die from an on the job injury. He had to clean up the bloody mess then go back to work. There was no investigation before cleaning the mess up. No offer for counseling or anything else that happened. I actually saw the ambulance drive away and went by as he was mopping up the blood off the back dock.
Goodness. That is horrid. Hope the person that had to clean the place up has had some grief counseling and / or different employment.
Don't know where this was, and where I live, nobody is supposed to touch the body, much less mop up the blood/body fluid until an investigation can be conducted.
And . . . There is a special license for a clean up crew to come and remediate the spot. They are only allowed in when the site investigation has concluded.
@@naomiemoore5725 I agree with you, but no support was offered for counseling. I hope the family was compensated for impeding investigation efforts. No one knows what happened after the incident. It was not in the papers.
The things people are expected to do is honestly insane, and don't think it's just people saying "oh I need the money I have to be in." oh no. Employers will absolutely try to force the issue. I work as a carer working with the elderly and vulnerable please keep this in mind. My co-worker was displaying all the symptoms of really bad cold/flu. The offices response? From a lady who worked in the office not on the front line who took the next day off because of a cold? "Just dose yourself up".
From a personal side, I'd hurt my ankle coming off a bike badly during shift. It swelled up to around the size of a golf ball. I ended up having to go to A and E because it was bruising so badly. Work not only continued to harrass me and insist I work through it as best as possible... despite all our training telling us with this sort of injury to rest it. Not only that, but when I actively ended up saying I couldn't do it, continued request anyway if it was "just a couple of calls". I ended up having to inform them that if anything bad happened during those calls, it wouldn't just be the day I was off for, but it would be for the entirety of the next week and let them make the decision. All of a sudden they were able to find someone to cover. It is So hard to get employers to allow for legally required time off sick.
This is so upsetting, I really hope this does come back to bite that company!
Thing in the UK, in most UK businesses, managers read a few Charles Dickens novels and used them as a guide on how to run a business.
It's no wonder we're 30% less productive than our European counterparts, if we just treated employees with respect and trust, we'd all be better off.
My sister was a prosecuting attorney, when one day, one of her coworkers began having severe heart pain. He called his wife, and began getting sick while on the phone with her. They put him in the ambulance, but before it pulled out of the parking lot, he passed. It was an aneurysm. The employees stayed in the office voluntarily and mourned together. They all attended his funeral, of course. No one got in trouble for being out of the office.
I use to work in a laboratory. I have very high work ethics. I had a reputation to not tolerate phlebotomist that want to use patients old blood drawn from the previous day or longer for newly ordered blood tests by specialists simply because they are too lazy to go and draw new blood samples. People can deteriorate or get better and it will go unnoticed without using fresh blood samples. One day I felt very sick and left work to see my GP. My doctor immediately booked me a hospital bed. I was admitted at the same hospital than where I worked. It is a private hospital. The phlebotomists that I worked with came to draw my blood and treated me very bad infront of the other patients. They couldn't administer a drip and left me without any help. Throughout the night I had to sleep on a mattress that had a hole in. Later I heard from a previous colleague that they planted the mattress intentionally. When my husband asked for another mattress they said there isn't any. He then went to another ward and exchanged the mattress. The next day they put a drip on but sticked the needle right through my vein. My arm just got bigger and bigger as the fluid seeped throughout the surrounding tissue. I left the hospital and traveled to another town to get help. In the end I was diagnosed with schleroderma. I also got ulcers in my mouth and I coughed up dead tissue that came from my trachea. My colleagues spread a rumor that I have an STD. I left the company and up until today I get night terrors when I visit a hospital.
They really said you can take anything when most high strength painkillers and other medications say do not drive or opporate heavy machinary whilst taking them. Let alone tell jack he can have support after seeing a colleague die in front of him. This company has an awful every single work place law and h&s aas well as staff wellbeing law there is
My wife had a similar experience only 7 weeks ago, a guy in her office unfortunately suffered a fatal heart attack on the office floor. It wasn't in front of her but she was able to see him on the floor, also, it wasn't just her, pretty much all the people in the area witnessed it.
The company's reaction was just to move everyone to another floor, no support on the day or following days. Nothing was ever explained about it and it seemed to be a "Business as usual" attitude. USA style management techniques are drowning all but a few of our industries.
In the 80s i worked on building the TSB main computer center in Hampshire this is back in the days of the YTS job scheme
they started some YTS kiddie one day and it was raining buckets so not a great deal to do they gave him a bunch of keys to all the downstairs doors and a broom and told him to go around all the rooms with outside doors and sweep them out !
at about 11 am all the electric went and the smell hit us the main electric room had an outside door hed walked in soaking wet and leaned a wet broom against the incoming electric cable junction , soaking wet floor, poor 16 year old didnt even get a life really
police ruled it an accident
Companies like this are why OSHA exists
What is that?
@@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter Occupational Safety and Health Administration
@@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painterNot in the UK though, that's in the states.
@JamesW81 The UK equivalent is the Health and safety executive
@@duames yeah I guessed.... That reminds me, I need to make a phone call!
22 at the time!!
He was only a few years older than my baby brother! 😭
Same age as my eldest child…
Same age as my kid brother. I'd go on the warpath
That’s incredible evil from that company featured and I hope they got sued! Heath is more important, I worked in a factory once and started to develop RSI and told the polish supervisor and his excuse was that English people are lazy and I was lying, so I left on the spot!
Holy cow. That is unconscionable.
Some work places disgust me… some people shouldn’t ever be incharge!
About 20 odd years ago My mum had a hysterectomy and her bosses at the time insisted she come back to work after a week or else she’d be fired (there was no urgency they were just lazy). The business ran from an office on their home property and the parking was at the top of a steep driveway and they parked their 2 cars sideways across the drive so my mum had to park on the hill really awkwardly and she nearly tore herself back open trying to get out the car and across the drive.
And about a year ago I took a sick day and messaged my boss at 7.40 am to tell her I wasn’t gonna make it in. She messaged me back at around 10 to ask if I was resigning? Please put it in writing and they would wave my notice period.
I responded woah I’m just sick
She said I never messaged.
I literally referred to the message in chat 2 messages prior with a “?”. Toxic as hell work environment. Left soon after
We frequently do a "Safety Huddle" at the start of a shift where we are reminded that "Every accident is preventable." In practice this means that if someone gets hurt, an employee WILL be found at fault and likely fired.
A coworker of mine left work and missed by seconds seeing someone jump from a building and commit suicide. I can’t imagine seeing someone die right in front of you.
So, they worked one man to death? I would of asked, are you gonna work me to death, too?
That is EXACTLY what they did.
I witnessed a suicide and was offered a fifteen minute break
That is dispicable. Hope you got some counselling eventually.
That’s really horrible.
Sadly a lot of companies do this as they factor in profit over life. If you work in a company like this go look for another one that will treat you better ASAP or you could be their next victim.
I watched a couple videos and shorts on this channel. Are those stories really from the UK? I mean it's obvious language wise, but I would expect those kinda stories from the US but not from the UK, at least not on this terrible level.
It is a combination
Where were the HSE in all of this! Appalling behaviour by the company!
Agency work is so abusive.
Sounds like Amazon
Was therapy offered?
What is the word starting with T? Is it a drug name that can't be named in case the channel is sued? SIX tablets is surely an unheard of dose! On top of that, not even his medication! One disaster after another. I gasped when i heard he was 22. Unbelievable, that's all.
Tramadol. It’s an opiate based painkiller… yes six is a lot.
Not sued, but it would be demonetised as advertisers don’t want to be associated with drug use.
@@edmanning274I was prescribed that drug and it didn't do anything for me.
I agree with Ed that it was tramadol. I take it every day. You can only take a maximum of 400mg a day. They come in 25mg, 50mg, 100mg, 150mg, and 200mg doses.
If he took 6 x 25mg tablets he probably would have been ok, but if took 6 of mine, 150mg, that would be 900mg which could be fatal.
If someone gave them to him, they should have explained the risks and maybe only given him 1 tablet.
@@edmanning274 thank you! I was thinking of tramodol but wasn't sure. I don't know the names of many drugs and I only know tramodol because of Frankie Boyle!
I was on Tramadol. Sadly it becomes less effective over time. I discussed my increasing need with my Doctors, who were really good to be fair and gave great advice and offered alternatives. They said they trusted me to know my limits but one day I just wanted the pain to stop (not to kill myself but just wanted to sleep as I hadn't slept in days) and took around 18. The next day I had a massive seizure.
I agree with everything these guys are saying but. You will never be treated like a human while working in these factory industries. You are a cog in a machine. The only difference is humans are cheeper to replace than actual cogs. The whole reason we are been replaced by robots is they want less whiney slaves. Yes I really ment that. If you see how these people speak about you behind your back and their guard is down.... Completely different face
You can blame the company but who takes 6 what I think was tramadol in one go
Do workers in the UK have no rights? It sounds like a 3rd world country in some of these stories.
We have a few but they are being over ridden because our unions since Thatcher have been destroyed. Our current government is still drastically reducing employment rights and trying to block unions
The UK is becoming the 51st state in the USA.
We do have workers rights in the UK but there are companies and managers who seem to ignore them. When a worker points out to the company or manager that their workers rights are being denied unlawfully the company or managers will accuse the complaining workers of "Causing trouble or making waves" and will either make their working lives so bad they leave on their own via quiet firing or find another excuse to fire them.
Tramadol
If any of these stories are true, can we please get a link to the news report on this one as it must have.
In what world do you live in that there is a news article for someone dying at work from an aneurysm?
There would definitely be a HSE investigation
@@beebeelicious At least someone gets it.
what is t*******
Tramadol - opioid based painkillers. Depending upon dosage can be fatal
@@MicheleConnell-qn5tl oh ty
@@MicheleConnell-qn5tl what's c******
A minute into the vid and an advertisement already... The worst
God forbid the man should earn some money from his valuable work.
I pay for premium to avoid ads.
Pay for premium then
He has no control of when ads appear. He just gets to opt-in or opt-out and anyone with a brain would opt-in to putting ads on their videos.
So if you're going to throw a hissy fit, then better to aim it at TH-cam than at Ben.
@@AlexReiter1988 is even worse than that.. I just have to update vanced
This must have been in Texas
Trigger warnings are so lame.
Not really especially if it's like a epilepsy warning
I'm sorry, but while I agree with most of your videos, I don't agree with this. It is not the companies fault someone unfortunately passed away. It is not the companies fault the person speaking has had an unfortunate experience in the past. The person speaking stated that he went in on overtime and had a meltdown. Why did he go in! While I am anti establishment a large percentage of the time, some people thrive on playing the victim.
The company was paying him crap wages. He needed to work to survive. It absolutely is the companies fault and excusing it only makes it worse for the rest of us
No union protection = no protection. Profits before people.
All the best to Jack. Breathe. Take one day at a time.
Name and shame the company