Complaint Thursdays

[JujuFish 131]

21 minutes ago, Ogre said:

Nah. I’ve always had the expectation that I was going to have to work my balls off for everything. Don’t get me wrong here. I’m a lot of things that aren’t good but entitled certainly isn’t on that list.

You had a chance to resolve the situation like a mature adult and instead you acted like a petulant 2-year-old.  Sorry, but that's entitled.

[Ogre 721]

3 minutes ago, JujuFish said:

You had a chance to resolve the situation like a mature adult and instead you acted like a petulant 2-year-old.  Sorry, but that's entitled.

Sure why not? We’ll add that to the list of things that make me an Ogre. While we’re at it we’ll let people act like jackasses around work zones until they kill someone else. 
 I quit caring what people would think about me speaking up the first time I watched someone die on the job. It wasn’t a very big leap to decide that I don’t care what people think of me at all the second time. I’m sorry if that rubs people the wrong way(that’s as much on them as it is on me when you think about it)but I’ll never stop speaking my mind. Seems like every time I do someone gets hurt or dies. I appreciate your concern for this matter though.

[JujuFish 131]

1 minute ago, Ogre said:

Sure why not? We’ll add that to the list of things that make me an Ogre. While we’re at it we’ll let people act like jackasses around work zones until they kill someone else. 
 I quit caring what people would think about me speaking up the first time I watched someone die on the job. It wasn’t a very big leap to decide that I don’t care what people think of me at all the second time. I’m sorry if that rubs people the wrong way(that’s as much on them as it is on me when you think about it)but I’ll never stop speaking my mind. Seems like every time I do someone gets hurt or dies. I appreciate your concern for this matter though.

 

If you don't care about what people think of you, then why do you think we care what you think of other people?

[Ogre 721]

7 minutes ago, JujuFish said:

 

If you don't care about what people think of you, then why do you think we care what you think of other people?

Your Jedi mind trick won’t work on me. I actually assume that most people don’t care. That’s been a general theme in life. It’s nice therapy to get it out though. 

[Ogre 721]

About six years into my career a guy was run over by an excavator on the job. I didn’t witness his death with my eyes but I heard the noise he made as it consumed him. Sometimes when I’m alone and quiet I hear that noise. Clear as day. I know it’s not really there but that’s the real kicker about these types of things. They rewire your brain. Your priorities change. Like I said, I’m a lot of bad things but i am what I am and fill a purpose somehow. 

[Ogre 721]

Another time my good friend and I were working in between the tanks at the Genesee brewery using our legs on one tank and backs on the other to hold ourselves up there 80’ feet up. They had a thin ramshackle netting wired together under is to catch tools but were not meant to hold us so we were told “Don’t fall in there!”  I lift my weld hood and look over and Ryan is gone!!  I look down and he’s spread out like a man on thin ice. I scream “get your ass back up here!” in a panic and he snapped to and scrambled over to a column and climbed back up but GD was that a close one. Unfortunately Ryan committed suicide years later.

[Ogre 721]

And then there was the time that Keith lost his footing whole deck sawing on the edge of a mezzanine. He went over head first from 15’. His head split right open like Humpty Dumpty. We thought he was dead because there was sooooooo much blood. This is a happy story though, sort of. He’s alive but he’s a shadow of the man he once was.

[Ogre 721]

I leave off at the story of the disaster that lead me to start posting in the first place, as therapy. Yep. My first ever post was in this thread soon after the Manotowoc collapsed with a 66,000 lb precast double tee on the hook. It missed crushing Monte to death by two feet. He was covered in concrete dust from this thing exploding so close to him as it hit the ground. They had been flying those things over all of our heads for weeks. I was the steward on the job and spoke out every day on deaf ears for weeks until the collapse. Everything seems so normal and safe but there is something ready to kill you dead at any second. 

Edited November 22, 2019 by Ogre
Hot tub fog errors

[SwampD 2,434]

2 minutes ago, Ogre said:

I leave off at the story of the disaster that lead me to start posting in the first place, as therapy. Yep. My first ever post was in this thread soon after the Manotowoc collapsed with a 66,000 lb precast double tee on the hook. It missed crushing Monte to death by two feet. He was covered in concrete dust from this thing exploding so close to him as it hit the ground. They had been flying those things over all of our heads for weeks. I was the steward on the job and spoke out every day on deaf ears for weeks until the collapse. Everything seems so normal and safe but there is something ready to kill you dead at any second. 

Is today the anniversary of something bad that happened for you? Cuz even for this thread, you seem to be down some spiral you should probably be trying to avoid.

[Ogre 721]

1 minute ago, SwampD said:

Is today the anniversary of something bad that happened for you? Cuz even for this thread, you seem to be down some spiral you should probably be trying to avoid.

Close to the date. It’s therapy. That kid playing games near the work zone today really brought up some tough stuff. Twenty seven years of it. I thought I had made my peace with the most of by giving my students the most intricate and sincere lectures I am capable of but obviously the trigger is still there. I just hope that everyone involved netted a positive gain from what happened today.

[Ogre 721]

Just one more that’s not so gloomy. Actually kinda funny. 
 I’m very young working with this old dude that HATED me. We go up in between two columns that are close together to put in a diagonal brace. The booms on those things are springy so we move it around while wrestling the piece in but now it’s all jammed up in there. With mission accomplished the old dude grabs the guardrail on thing(where you should NEVER put your hands)and says “Git me out of here kid”. Because we're jammed up the only move I can make is to retract the boom. When I do the basket springs and smushes his fingers up between the column. He’s screaming “my fingers! My fingers!” I panic and swing the basket the wrong way and smush them even more! He was ok(he had sledgehammer hands too😉) but thought I did it on purpose and didn’t talk to me for a week.

Edited November 22, 2019 by Ogre
Almost forgot about hammer hands

[spndnchz 1,140]

Complaint Thursday will be closed in observance or Thanksgiving. 

[spndnchz 1,140]

What? No bitching?

[steveoath 396]

Aaarrrrggghhh. Blackout tonight and on Saturday. Premiersports suck. Boo.

[North Buffalo 1,209]

Played my first hockey last night... skated like shiite and watched the puck a lot. We lost 3-2 got a long ways to go before my legs are back.. sigh

[Sabel79 615]

7 minutes ago, North Buffalo said:

Played my first hockey last night... skated like shiite and watched the puck a lot. We lost 3-2 got a long ways to go before my legs are back.. sigh

Sir, take this to the awesome thread post-haste.  

[Doohickie 2,730]

My wife ruptured a tendon in her right foot.  Not only is that really painful for her, but she can't drive with the boot on her foot so I'm now a full-time chauffeur.

Edited December 12, 2019 by Doohickie

[Wyldnwoody44 1,413]

I took a train to Glasgow today, went to this awesome local burger place called "Bread Meats Bread" 

However, my complaint.... I hate politics, I hate it all, but the scotts sitting next to me heard my American accent and wanted to talk about politics and Trump with me. 

They know more about my political situation than I do, hard pass..... So my complaint is about politics, and that every country I go to, someone wants to talk about them with me. Let's talk about something good please 

[ubkev 600]

Last Thursday I walked out of work to find I had a flat tire. Balls! Oh well, ***** happens. Changed said flat, in a suit, looking very manly. Anyways, cost me $125 for a new tire after I drove it to the garage. Damn.

[nfreeman 2,020]

Bump!

Kind of a sad complaint:  my wife's favorite aunt, who is in her 80s, has had an awful couple of years:  her husband died, she broke her hip and can't walk much anymore, she has dementia and is losing mental capacity (but not so much that she doesn't understand that she's losing it, which must be very hard to live with) -- and last night, her house was destroyed by fire, and during the fire, her home health aide suffered a heart attack and is in the ICU.

She's a nice woman who, perhaps partially because she didn't have kids of her own, was very kind to my wife when my wife was younger -- took her on trips, helped pay for her college, etc.  She doesn't deserve this.

[JujuFish 131]

Buried Mom last Thursday.

[Ogre 721]

6 minutes ago, JujuFish said:

Buried Mom last Thursday.

It’s the most God awful thing any man has to do. I’m very sorry.

[Weave 2,788]

All kinds of real complaints in here.  Mine doesn't pass muster anymore.

Sorry to hear of the hardships, guys.

[North Buffalo 1,209]

Sorry about your Mom

[Crosschecking 289]

It still hits close to home whenever I think about the careless words I've said the past - whether it be here or anywhere else.
 

I know that some of you are not religious. I get that. But I have to share this.

There are those times where I've read or listened to Scripture numerous times, only to get hit in the face and my sin exposed. I drew a connection to where the Apostle Paul wrote about bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and where James wrote that no man can tame the tongue. The long of it and the short of it is that it hit me like a ton of bricks.