You ever work injured?

[Fizzzzle]

I just sprained my ankle last night. A few of my roommates were like "so you're calling into work, right?" i said "no!" And then that got me thinking. There is so much about work culture that basically just says "suck it up," at least when you perform manual labor. Last time I sprained my ankle, which was about 2 years ago, my boss didn't even know about it. Then one day I had to open and he saw how bad I was limping when I came in, I told him "give me 20 minutes, I'll take some ibuprofen, some extra strength painkillers, and microdose a mushroom, it'll be fine." And it was, I was fine.

 

But now I think... fucking why? I shouldn't be risking the future health of my ankle (which has probably received permanent damage from working on it sprained so many times) for a job that pays me minimum wage. Shit, I've broken 3 fingers bartending over the last decade, and I was  basically like "alright, guess I'm not using that finger for a while" every time. You pay me minimum wage, you get minimum work. And don't say "your tips cover it." Don't rely on customers to subsidize your wages, just fucking pay people what they're worth. If any one of you tried to do my job (with the exception of @Joe), you would need at least 2 years of experience and training. Maybe 3, depending. And then, maybe, you would be at replacement level for me.

 

I've gotten better about it. Like when the guys that deliver the kegs stack them really irresponsibly (most of the time) when one of those blows I just say "fuck it, not my problem." Guess how I broke those fingers. I don't get paid enough for that shit. That's a problem for the guy that pays the delivery drivers.

 

 

 

And then I just had a revelation. Now I understand why it's so hard to get hired as a veteran in whatever industry you're in. Any industry, not just the service industry. Like I know what you're paying me for and I'm not doing anything you're not paying me for. Suck a dick. Someone that knows their actual job well enough to know that something is NOT part of their job is less desirable than some green freshy that doesn't know any better and will break their fingers so their boss doesn't have to do anything.

 

I had an interview at this bougie brew pub a couple years ago and the whole impression I got was like "how much do you love this company? Will you suck my dick?" I was like "no, you need a bartender, I happen to be pretty good at that, you can hire me if you want." They did not hire me, and my friend that referenced me told me that I bombed. I told him I'm not going to suck anyone's dick, if they don't want me, someone else will.

 

Fizzzzle's rant for the day 8/2

[SuperSpreader]

tldr

[Mr.Vic20]

I definitely have! I once broke my right foot on a site. I wrapped the hell out of it and stuffed it into my boot and pulled my boot straps as tight as I could get them. That was a fun day. That said, we were at a critical point in the project and I was not being paid minimum wage. You should definitely take advantage of any work comp available to you, if such a thing exists.  Also, did you get sleep?

[gamer.tv]

Yep, far, far too many times.

[Fizzzzle]

2 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

 

 

Fizzzzle's rant for the day 8/2

 

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

tldr

 

[silentbob]

I’ve mentioned it before but I lost my job in February after not being able to get back to full strength from a wrist injury I suffered on the job. I’m officially down as a permanent injury and am restricted to limited lateral movement and lifting restriction of 25-35lbs. My job was with a major pop company and I would normally work between 5-12+ tons of product on my own. When I injured myself I thought it was something I kind of encountered before, wrapped the hell out of my wrist and worked the week with same agonizing pain happening. My dad had passed away a month beforehand it was pain on top of pain because our family doctor had recently retired. The people who took over the practice sucked and so I did a walk-in clinic where I was told it was a sparring wrist. They had me work with a newly hired guy, and thankfully he was amazing. Worked with him for about 6 months before I was sent to a local WSIB hospital to be seen by a specialist. I had an MRI, ultrasound, dynamic ultrasound and X-rays done, and the doctor pretty much had a good idea what was wrong with me. I had my arm in a brace for 4 months (suppose to of been 3 months) thinking it would mend itself. Had my follow up and had a new “doctor” and I only say that because she didn’t know nothing. The original X-rays that concerned the 1st doctor looked healthy to her, but my good wrist looked worse. Later I found out she was a plastic surgeon and not a hand specialist. I have nothing against plastic surgeons because one of them was the first to tell my dad he had cancer. So work placed me with another guy to work with, again awesome guy and introduced me to marijuana. So I would go back to her every 2-3 months and see if it was any better. It wasn’t, and she thought it was more in my head then anything and eventually wrote me off as a permanent injury. I asked if I could get a 2nd opinion and said I could but didn’t know what they could do. So this is almost 3 years after my injury I went to my family doctor and another new set of doctors took over. All 3 are women and have been amazing and glad to have as my family doctors. So they asked me what they could do? I said a new X-ray would be great as no new one had been done since my first WSIB hospital visit. Took the pictures, and 5 days later I’m working and got a call. They said they think they saw a bone chip and were going to referring me to a local hand specialist. Ask me to bring copies of all my images and he found my problem with the 3rd fucking image they took of my wrist from 3 years ago. I had simply lifted pop out of a plastic tray when I injured myself. Turns out I had somehow popped the ligament on my right side of my wrist had  popped the tendon and was all loose and being pinched from simple hand movements. So about 2.5 years ago I got the surgery done, deepened the bone groove in my wrist, was off work for 6 months before returning to light work with yet another guy. Then they had me in the office delivering merchandising racks from the warehouse with my car to all over the GTA and beyond. Then they had me merchandising Dollarama stores for coolers and small shelves. Which on my wrist still hurt a little, but much easier on me then say a Walmart load. Sadly I had no set stores to work every week and developed some real bad anxiety, increased insomnia and some bit of depression. I just never knew where I was going each day now. One day I could be pretty local and next day an hour away in downtown Toronto (which just added things on top of things) Then I was brought in and was told they couldn’t keep giving me these stores to work and let me go with a small severance. I drove into the office in a snow storm to be told this, took my work phone and sent me home. They did this also on the 5th anniversary of my fathers death. Thankfully I finally found a new job and start this week at a local cannabis store. Knowing I’m in one spot all the time is great for my mental health and the stores open and closing time works great for me. I’m still able to take the dog out for a walk in the morning and be home at a good time at night. 

 

here I am 2 weeks after my first soft cast came off with my new beauty mark. Hard cast went on shortly after that pic was taken

 

[Biggie]

1 hour ago, silentbob said:

I’ve mentioned it before but I lost my job in February after not being able to get back to full strength from a wrist injury I suffered on the job. I’m officially down as a permanent injury and am restricted to limited lateral movement and lifting restriction of 25-35lbs. My job was with a major pop company and I would normally work between 5-12+ tons of product on my own. When I injured myself I thought it was something I kind of encountered before, wrapped the hell out of my wrist and worked the week with same agonizing pain happening. My dad had passed away a month beforehand it was pain on top of pain because our family doctor had recently retired. The people who took over the practice sucked and so I did a walk-in clinic where I was told it was a sparring wrist. They had me work with a newly hired guy, and thankfully he was amazing. Worked with him for about 6 months before I was sent to a local WSIB hospital to be seen by a specialist. I had an MRI, ultrasound, dynamic ultrasound and X-rays done, and the doctor pretty much had a good idea what was wrong with me. I had my arm in a brace for 4 months (suppose to of been 3 months) thinking it would mend itself. Had my follow up and had a new “doctor” and I only say that because she didn’t know nothing. The original X-rays that concerned the 1st doctor looked healthy to her, but my good wrist looked worse. Later I found out she was a plastic surgeon and not a hand specialist. I have nothing against plastic surgeons because one of them was the first to tell my dad he had cancer. So work placed me with another guy to work with, again awesome guy and introduced me to marijuana. So I would go back to her every 2-3 months and see if it was any better. It wasn’t, and she thought it was more in my head then anything and eventually wrote me off as a permanent injury. I asked if I could get a 2nd opinion and said I could but didn’t know what they could do. So this is almost 3 years after my injury I went to my family doctor and another new set of doctors took over. All 3 are women and have been amazing and glad to have as my family doctors. So they asked me what they could do? I said a new X-ray would be great as no new one had been done since my first WSIB hospital visit. Took the pictures, and 5 days later I’m working and got a call. They said they think they saw a bone chip and were going to referring me to a local hand specialist. Ask me to bring copies of all my images and he found my problem with the 3rd fucking image they took of my wrist from 3 years ago. I had simply lifted pop out of a plastic tray when I injured myself. Turns out I had somehow the ligament on my right side of my wrist had  popped the tendon and was all loose and being pinched from simple hand movements. So about 2.5 years ago I got the surgery done, deepened the bone groove in my wrist, was off work for 6 months before returning to light work with yet another guy. Then they had me in the office delivering merchandising racks from the warehouse with my car to all over the GTA and beyond. Then they had me merchandising Dollarama stores for coolers and small shelves. Which on my wrist still hurt a little, but much easier on me then say a Walmart load. Sadly I had no set stores to work every week and developed some real bad anxiety, increased insomnia and some bit of depression. I just never knew where I was going each day now. One day I could be pretty local and next day an hour away in downtown Toronto (which just added things on top of things) Then I was brought in and was told they couldn’t keep giving me these stores to work and let me go with a small severance. I drove into the office in a snow storm to be told this, took my work phone and sent me home. They did this also on the 5th anniversary of my fathers death. Thankfully I finally found a new job and start this week at a local cannabis store. Knowing I’m in one spot all the time is great for my mental health and the stores open and closing time works great for me. I’m still able to take the dog out for a walk in the morning and be home at a good time at night. 

 

here I am 2 weeks after my first soft cast came off with my new beauty mark. Hard cast went on shortly after that pic was taken

 

Nice Expos jersey

[silentbob]

4 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Nice Expos jersey

I got 3 of them  Well one isn’t an official one because my cousin bought online and wasn’t legit. Couldn’t believe the love I got for the jersey above when I was wearing it in the French Quarters in New Orleans some 8 years ago. 

[Remarkableriots]

I think I injured my foot because sometimes i get a shooting pain. Can't afford to see a doctor so I just deal with it. I remember once rolling my ankle stepping off a curb and coming down hard which was painful and had to hobble to work. It seems like my body always is in pain.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Yes. My most recent incident was being exposed to HIV and syphilis. I'm currently on ARVs for a month. It sucks. 

[best3444]

8 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Yes. My most recent incident was being exposed to HIV and syphilis. I'm currently on ARVs for a month. It sucks. 

 

Good luck. That sounds scary.  😳 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

9 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

Good luck. That sounds scary.  😳 

I'm not especially worried about transmission, the odds were already extremely low before I took the meds. But the meds suck and I'm pissed at how my hospital and manager handled it. They don't give a shit about their nurses, we're just licensed bodies to come in and do the task.

[Jason]

My shoulder was fucked up for like a year because COVID prevented me from getting treatment and I have basically zero ergonomics if I'm working from home. It's fine here and there but months straight of it had me in agony at points from the bad ergo of being hunched over a laptop.

[Chris-]

When I worked at Walmart I accidentally knocked a giant glass candle onto my head. I didn’t get injured but I did milk an extra 15 minute break out of it. 

[Keyser_Soze]

The only thing I can think of is sometimes I get like an impingement (or things similar) in my neck or shoulder so that I can't lift my arm or turn my head. Since those things don't impede my work I went to work.

[DarkStar189]

About a month ago I had some crazy shoulder pain pop up out of no where. I have a physical job but have never had shoulder pain in my life. Felt it slowly build up on a Monday and by that Wednesday I couldn't even put the belt around my shorts. Researching online seemed to say it was most definitely a rotator cuff injury. My wife had some extra 600mg ibuprofen pills from the Dr a few years ago so I took those. The pain went away within 1-2 weeks. Felt fucking scary though. It was like my first taste of what it feels like to actually be hurt and simple tasks were painful and hard to do.

[DarkStar189]

@silentbob Your story made me sad man. You had to go all that time before a Dr found the problem? Damn...   Glad things sound like they are getting a little better for you, and good luck with the new job.

[Guest]

I’ve had a bum shoulder for a couple of years now. Really need to get it fixed soon as it’s getting worse over time. Building projection booths and screens has not helped 😬

[Fizzzzle]

4 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I’ve had a bum shoulder for a couple of years now. Really need to get it fixed soon as it’s getting worse over time. Building projection booths and screens has not helped 😬

Ha, I've had a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder for something like 7 or 8 years now. I should have gotten it fixed sooner, but I couldn't afford to not work, regardless of health insurance problems. At this point, there's probably so much scar tissue up in that business that fixing it ain't gonna be a walk in the park. Like it's basically constantly partially healing and then getting re-torn.

 

You should definitely get it taken care of sooner rather than later if you have the option. Sometimes you don't. #Murica

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

Ha, I've had a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder for something like 7 or 8 years now. I should have gotten it fixed sooner, but I couldn't afford to not work, regardless of health insurance problems. At this point, there's probably so much scar tissue up in that business that fixing it ain't gonna be a walk in the park. Like it's basically constantly partially healing and then getting re-torn.

 

You should definitely get it taken care of sooner rather than later if you have the option. Sometimes you don't. #Murica

Pretty sure that’s exactly my issue. I actually had an appointment to see a doc last April, but all the hospitals shut down elective surgery due to Covid. Just haven’t found the time since then to get it worked on. Work slows a ton at the end of this month so I’m planning to make a priority of getting fixed up in September.

[Bloodporne]

Unfortunately quite a few times being in construction, yes. I actually had a work accident that ultimately forced me into going into the office side of things as in Estimating and Project Management, couldn't work on a jobsite anymore due to some crazy PTSD issues and some loss of feeling in my left hand. I had a glass door explode in front me that cut up my arm, upper chest and right cheek.

[Chris-]

2 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Unfortunately quite a few times being in construction, yes. I actually had a work accident that ultimately forced me into going into the office side of things as in Estimating and Project Management, couldn't work on a jobsite anymore due to some crazy PTSD issues and some loss of feeling in my left hand. I had a glass door explode in front me that cut up my arm, upper chest and right cheek.

How does a glass door explode?

[Bloodporne]

Just now, Chris- said:

How does a glass door explode?

It was one of those storefront solid glass doors with an inset handle. It had been improperly stored so sustained a ton of pressure and then the other guy carrying it with me rounded the corner and hit it into a sharp point on a metal scaffold. I don't know if "explode" is the technically correct term but it sent flying glass shards into both of us so...it pretty much fucking exploded. If I hadn't raised my arm (which took most of the damage), I'd be sans eyeballs and probably half a face

[Chris-]

Just now, Bloodporne said:

It was one of those storefront solid glass doors with an inset handle. It had been improperly stored so sustained a ton of pressure and then the other guy carrying it with me rounded the corner and hit it into a sharp point on a metal scaffold. I don't know if "explode" is the technically correct term but it sent flying glass shards into both of us so...it pretty much fucking exploded. If I hadn't raised my arm (which took most of the damage), I'd be sans eyeballs and probably half a face

You win the thread. 

[Bloodporne]

Just now, Chris- said:

You win the thread. 

Actually I derailed the thread...the topic was working while injured. My bad @Fizzzzle, I did do that on other occasions though. 

[Chris-]

Kind of a distinction without a difference when 21 square feet of glass launched into your body. 

[silentbob]

6 hours ago, Chris- said:

How does a glass door explode?

I actually saw this happen at a Walmart in their game section. Guy grabbed a game out of the case, closed the door and locked it. Started to walk with the game and customer to the counter when out of no where it just exploded. 

[Jason]

6 hours ago, Chris- said:

How does a glass door explode?

 

Magnets. 

[best3444]

Back in my 20s when I was still ballin in leagues etc I'd twist my ankle from time time. Some severe but I went to work the next day anyway like an idiot.