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I was up in the oil patch on a recent job, and we had a safety incident.

My partner and I filled out our FLRA, got our permit, no special safety instructions. We're supposed to cut some tie wire holding heat trace to a massive pipe valve body. Easy job. We drive up to see the insulators getting out of these tyvek hazmat suits and they say it's good to go. We finish the job, and my partner brushes his shoulder on the pipe and gets some dust on it.

I point at it, and I tell him:

dude, you got some shit on your shoulder. Those guys were in hazmat suits. Take your coveralls off, we'll toss it in the back of the truck and hand it to safety.

Safety says:

sure, we'll just put this in with toxic waste, no problem.

Comes back 10 minutes later asking for names, times, bla bla bla.

Safety incident everyone reads about in the morning says:

Employee created huge incident when they told safety hydrophobic aerogel was toxic, blowing the problem out of proportion.

I just shook my head. Basically, there was nothing wrong and they created an incident report to blame someone for it, and then realized we did everything right - so they had to create a fake problem.

PS: hydrophobic aerogel is toxic according to MSDS.

I suppose my point is, usually employees don't get to say anything, or if they do it's under duress. It ends up being middle managers with blame reports that get to author history. Good luck finding the truth of the matter.

This doesn't change unless voting happens. He who makes the decisions seems to magically always have enough.

Also, more young people should be entering politics with the explicit intent not to be nearly as addicted to cock as the previous generation of politicians. My suggestion is 'not even once'.

As tedious as it is, details and facts define a person. "Lower taxes and more stuff" fluff talk does not.

They are, but it certainly isnt because they cant afford to actually pay their employees.

It's their choice to pay the absolute minimum while taking in record profits.

I do. If I had paid staff to answer my questions, I'd answer them fast.

Her excuse is that she's actually fucking answering herself.