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squeeful:

prismatic-bell:

iamanimaginarybeing:

blkalycat:

Safety Shower Demonstration

It looks super silly, but speaking as someone who had to do something similar at Taco Bell, yes, that really is what you’re supposed to do.

In my case, I was bending over to get sauce packets out of a box while someone else was trying to bag a Grilled Stuft Nacho, which was a horribly-designed product. The GSN slipped off their spatula and hit the floor and exploded in my face—and these products, if you’re not old enough to remember them, were full of both nacho cheese and sour cream that had just been heated up on the grill.

The only sink in the store low enough for me to bend over to rinse 180-degree nacho cheese out of my eyes was our handwashing sink, and this was in a tiny little niche big enough for one person.

So for the next two minutes, people in drive-thru were treated to the sight of my assistant manager and I pressed groin-to-ass with me bent over the sink, because it was the only way we could both fit so I could hold my eye open while she poured water over my face. I’m sure from behind it looked very silly and suggestive, but it certainly didn’t feel that way if you were one of the two of us at the sink. I was in pain and afraid because I didn’t know how much damage a burn could do to my eye. My ASM was worried because when someone screams and then yells “it’s in my eye” and goes running for the sink, and then yells “help me,” well.

So yeah! It looks ridiculous and porny in the video, but I guarantee in a real chemical spill that would be the last thing on these gentlemen’s minds.

If you are in a chemical spill, you want your clothes off NOW. Clothing and textile fibers will absorb and hang onto the chemicals and keep them pressed against your skin. Or they’ll have a reaction and do shit like heat up the metal or melt the plastic elements of your fasteners. You do not want that.

Clothes come off ASAP and if there is someone around, they should help you yeet the clothes.

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squeeful:

prismatic-bell:

iamanimaginarybeing:

blkalycat:

Safety Shower Demonstration

It looks super silly, but speaking as someone who had to do something similar at Taco Bell, yes, that really is what you’re supposed to do.

In my case, I was bending over to get sauce packets out of a box while someone else was trying to bag a Grilled Stuft Nacho, which was a horribly-designed product. The GSN slipped off their spatula and hit the floor and exploded in my face—and these products, if you’re not old enough to remember them, were full of both nacho cheese and sour cream that had just been heated up on the grill.

The only sink in the store low enough for me to bend over to rinse 180-degree nacho cheese out of my eyes was our handwashing sink, and this was in a tiny little niche big enough for one person.

So for the next two minutes, people in drive-thru were treated to the sight of my assistant manager and I pressed groin-to-ass with me bent over the sink, because it was the only way we could both fit so I could hold my eye open while she poured water over my face. I’m sure from behind it looked very silly and suggestive, but it certainly didn’t feel that way if you were one of the two of us at the sink. I was in pain and afraid because I didn’t know how much damage a burn could do to my eye. My ASM was worried because when someone screams and then yells “it’s in my eye” and goes running for the sink, and then yells “help me,” well.

So yeah! It looks ridiculous and porny in the video, but I guarantee in a real chemical spill that would be the last thing on these gentlemen’s minds.

If you are in a chemical spill, you want your clothes off NOW. Clothing and textile fibers will absorb and hang onto the chemicals and keep them pressed against your skin. Or they’ll have a reaction and do shit like heat up the metal or melt the plastic elements of your fasteners. You do not want that.

Clothes come off ASAP and if there is someone around, they should help you yeet the clothes.

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Things I have explained to my parents when they start getting mad over small things as customers.- the cashier scanning your groceries is not being careless or bad at her job, this store times the cashiers so she is clearly trying to stay on time and not get in trouble. This blew their minds that someone would be timed at a “no skill” job (their words not mine)- the drive thru employee is not trying to be rude or annoying by greeting you too soon: they are required to greet you within a few seconds of your car setting off the sensor.- the employees at this retail store are not trying to be pushy: they are required to greet you within a few seconds of you entering the store – the cashier is required to ask you every single question they ask. And they hate it more than you do. – the cashier is not dumb or “doesn’t know how to X” because they had to call a manager for it. Every place I’ve worked for the past 5 years has been rolling back what employees are authorized to do, and they HAVE to call a manager. They know exactly how to do the thing, they are not allowed to and the computer likely will require a managers code to unlock that function. This confused them.- the cashier knows the line is long, you don’t need to tell them that. If they could call up another cashier they would have already. – and a more work/life balance related one: my dad scheduled a family thing and assumed i could get the time off. What shocked him was that 1. It wasn’t paid time off, and 2. It was denied, so I couldn’t come til after work and thus was late. He has worked a job with generous PTO and accrued vacation days that schedules 6 months ahead for the past nearly 30 years. He absolutely was horrified to find out that I have to ask permission for unpaid time off and still couldn’t be approved. – funny followup to my dad’s shock: I had been at my most recent job nearly a year and he was asking why they haven’t promoted me yet. I was thrown off because why would they. He apparently assumed that since i 1. Showed up on time/early to every shift. 2. Had received positive verbal feedback wrt my performance from managers. And 3. Hadn’t quit. That they would automatically start to move me up the ladder. It hurt my heart to shatter his wholesome view of how workplaces work now. I feel like much of this is common knowledge for all of us, and yet my parents and many customers who haven’t worked in the service industry in the past 10-20 years have no idea how this stuff works now. On the positive side, my parents have slowly been becoming more patient with service workers, and complain to managers or anecdotally much less often. Baby steps!

tricktster:

As previously mentioned, I am very happily a parental figure to two kids that I played no part in conceiving, which means for those keeping score that I got to jump straight from Maiden to Crone in something of an accelerated program.

Anyway, these kids are semi-obviously not my biological progeny in that they have their dad’s spectacular eyebrows that I covet every day while I am resentfully drawing mine on, and their gorgeous, ethereal, very very very blonde hair from their mom’s side.

So like, we’re walking the kids through the grocery store parking lot to buy dinner the other day, and a woman stops in the crosswalk to look at me, look at my boyfriend, look at the kids, and then loudly ask “WHERE’D THAT BLONDE COME FROM?”

And I’m just like momentarily frozen, like, do I have to explain to this biddy “hey yeah these aren’t my biological kids but they are my boyfriend’s, but rest assured that the divorce was extremely amicable and also i’m a solid stable fixture in their life and they actually take after their mom’s family-“

and then my boyfriend, (who is for the record a fucking stud) eliminated all that worry by saying (very sexily and without breaking his stride in the least):

“The mailman.”

and ooooooooo her indignant faaaaaace i love him so much

not-a-space-alien:

not-a-space-alien:

not-a-space-alien:

not-a-space-alien:

Hired a moving company and they sent four strong, strapping, beautiful lads to my house to disassemble my furniture and move all my things. I loved them. I got them pizza. They told me moving company gossip. I missed them one minute after they left. My moving lads. Come back to me. You’re so strong and so well trained in safe lifting

I miss my moving men they took such good care of me and they were so handsome and beautiful and strong and efficient and they wrapped all my furniture up in plastic and they loved that I got pizza for them and they knew how to safely drive the big big truck. Come back to me moving men

Moving men please come move me in your big strong arms in a way that complies with local safety regulations and the company’s values

One of the men had a dangling earring and a stud, so I told him I liked his earrings. So he told me about how when he first got his ears pierced, he lost a stud and had to borrow an earring from his girlfriend to keep the hole from closing up. Well the only one she had to lend him was a dangling pink fuzzy duck. And everyone made fun of him for wearing it until they realized he didn’t give a fuck what they thought. So now he always wears one stud and one dangling earring.

He told me this story while manhandling my entire couch. And I’m supposed to be normal about this? I’m bisexual

modernbaseball:

modernbaseball:

modernbaseball:

I really will never forgive you guys for letting terfs win by saying anything feminist is ‘terfy’. You realize that was the point right. That terfs want women left with nowhere to go but radical feminism. You realize that. Right.

And it alienates trans women from participating in feminism when you teach them that women’s activism is Not For Them and inherently trans exclusionary

@unsaelig