Banning energy drinks on the Jobsite?!

[@kylecummins6480]

I work in a kitchen. Corporate already banned smoking on company property. Then our boss tried to ban energy drinks since he got all conscious about our health for some reason one week. Eventually our assistant manager had to explain to him that angry men, no sleep, nicotine withdrawal and access to sharp objects wasn’t a good combo for “workplace safety”.

[@eonaon6914]

Least the Assistant had a clue.

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

@@eonaon6914 the assistant actually had to work on the floor with the aforementioned angry men. Of course he had a clue.

[@wardaddy6002]

I quit a job because they didn't let me have a smoke break.

[@imthemufinman783]

Try and stop me from smoking in my car then.

[@mikehancho7426]

😂😂😂 💯

[@James-bw4np]

"Why has our productivity declined to almost zero?!"

[@fubar9629]

what do you mean every single one of our employees quit today?

[@hunterdodson8324]

So true nobody at my work would be able to function 🤣

[@domination1985]

Look boss everyone one is servicing trucks today I just didnt know we had that many drain pans

[@nickramey1141]

Lazy people no longer want their job..

[@MrDakotabond]

Because some 9-5 bitch said no to fuel.

[@clayjanus6161]

I was laying in drainage pipe for a Coca-Cola plant and one day I was informed that we were not allowed any Coke competitors or competition partners on the job. This included KFC, Taco Bell, Gatorade, etc. I told them if they wanted pipe laid they would ignore what I ate and drank and worry more about the job (while drinking a Bang energy drink). I never heard another word about it

[@RTBCustom]

I'd be bringing a lot of Pepsi in that case 😂

[@weeveferrelaine6973]

Imagine how much wiser it would have been to take a poll of what all you guys were drinking, and instead provide a work fridge on site with the coca-cola products of that type. Bunch of guys would probably start drinking them instead and give them that public image they want, and they get the good sentiments of their workers.

[@bradleydobie3891]

You took the wrong approach. The correct approach is, "You can dictate what I drink when you give it to me for free." That way you get free stuff 😜

[@wpeale71341]

@@weeveferrelaine6973 Except that isn't how Coca Cola rolls at all. They told me as an employee the exact same thing as I sat in my car on my off the clock lunch hour drinking a MTN DEW and eating a KFC bucket of chicken. I looked at them and said as long as I AM THE ONE PAYING FOR WHAT I EAT THEN I WILL DAMN SURE BE EATING A MEAL I ACTUALLY ENJOY.

[@MrKezzerdrix]

@@bradleydobie3891 Yeah, but free coke is still free pisswater. No thanks.

[@TheDirtiestJoe]

These unenforceable rules remind me of when the shop banned headphones for a week. Literally the day after they banned headphones everyone had a Bluetooth speaker attached to their belt or at their workstation blasting music or audiobooks at max volume. They immediately revoked that rule.

[@merendell]

Technically my job has headphones banned. In reality its closer to keep one ear able to hear your surroundings. Long as you can respond apropreatly when someone tries to get your attention nothing will be said about you listening to tunes/whatever. Most of us just run with a single earbud in.

[@jamessolis5301]

🤣🤣 too great

[@RampageRich]

My last job banned the blue tooth radios too when we tried that. I just rigged up a little speaker in my welding hood that you you could only hear while wearing it because I kept the volume at just the right level. Then that idiot manager got fired because production tanked and everyone went back to wearing headphones.

[@nubreed13]

The most awful rule at construction sites is the no music rule. No headphones or speakers Makes the day so much more monotonous. When we got stuck at a non union site we had a Bluetooth speaker going the entire month we were posted there.

[@grimjudgment6527]

Yeah, when headphones and earbuds were specifically banned at job, I literally just used a Bluetooth speaker. When they told me to stop using speakers, I began to very loudly sing shanties, work songs and folk songs as I worked. To say the very least I am now allowed to have a speaker play music, because they got tired of hearing the same 12 songs being sung for entire workshifts.

[@TheJg2pto]

Straight up, my whole crew would just keep drinking them and to hell with the consequences. We got a call in the hall right now for 4 more people that's been there since February. We still haven't seen a new person on this project. If they got rid of everyone that drank energy drinks, this project would never get finished.

[@mclovin2408]

Used to have a petty boss who would moan about stupid stuff but nobody ever listened to his bs and he couldn’t fire any of us since nobody wants to work for his ass lol. I got a boss now that doesn’t care what you do so long as the work is done and it’s done right.

[@mr.behaving]

if everyone leaves who drink energy drinks, the safety man and the office crew would be out there finishing up the jobs

[@charlesmckinley29]

@@mr.behaving that would work out as well as when the bond company that put 100 Iron Workers on a tank job when the contractor went bankrupt! 🤣😂🤣

[@eloquentpixellawl7841]

@@mr.behaving I’ve seen that shit show before lol thought they could do something that I said takes a while and I don’t have the time to do multiple of and they spent all day getting half way done then never showed back up again lol

[@markrayes2973]

😂😂😂

[@argonoth75]

What baffles me is that construction sites actually think they can effectively enforce such a ban. People WILL find a way to get their fix one way or another, even if that means bringing a “water” bottle or chugging the whole drink at the convenience store.

[@mclovin2408]

They say you aren’t supposed to smoke weed on the job, but I haven’t been stopped yet so it must be allowed.

[@Spekor]

i had a job where energy drinks were banned.. like monster and redbull. but they stocked the break room machine with JOLT cola.. not the energy drink version but basic jolt.. and to this day it's the only place i could find it.. didn't even know they were still making it after 1999

[@mclovin2408]

@@Spekor you can probably get it off of Amazon or eBay, I get Ski soda off of Amazon or you could order it directly from the company.

[@bowlnow824]

I don't take them but I work for a portable restroom company and they tried to ban that and any type allergy med that made made you drowsy. I take Allegra-D in the summertime in North Carolina and I told the. I will continue to take them. They said they were concerned about my health. I'm like so am I. That is why I am taking them

[@oceanwaves83]

Exactly, you can't ban caffeine pills.

[@Vivi_Sterling]

I had a federal job where my boss told me that it was not "ok" to be having multiple red bulls through out the day. I came in two days later with a signed and dated letter from my doctor saying I am required to have access to sugary drinks and vitamin B. They legally cannot stop me from drinking or eating during work anymore. My doctor found it hilarious and agreed, "first time I've ever prescribed redbull that's for sure" but that's what I needed through out the day to deal with hypoglycemia and low vitamin counts. Also turns out my job was causing vitamin D deficiencies so yeah, then I'm allowed to take breaks outside too.

[@quinnwendel2080]

Screen shoting this

[@slowazzes1972]

If you're job is telling you what you can't drink. It's time to go

[@crsed]

Boss level move right there.

[@stephenp8232]

I had a captain show up trying to ban them because he saw some videos on how they were terrible for you. Let alone my particular job involved some pretty nasty hazardous chemicals such as jp8, mek and other fun stuff. Next was smoking they moved our smoke pit as far as they could to try and keep us from smoking.

[@wakcedout]

See my time in federal work known as the military, they won't dare....you tell a bunch of grumpy lack of sleep troops who are trained marksmen....they can't have their energy drinks to keep them awake and alert...or their nicotine. Odds of catching a 556 in ones backside are high at that point. In rickys case its just low productivity.

[@jacobevans489]

Worked pipeline for 6 years and few companies tried to make this a thing. Never have I ever followed it and never will I. Its bullshit, job is hard enough without folk trying to play my mommy.

[@mclovin2408]

What they really going to do anyway? Fire you for drinking monster? Lmao suuure firing people like that is a good way to go bankrupt.

[@TheWarmWendigo]

They didn’t ban them at my job, but they had a whole hour long safety meeting about how they’re bad for you. Needless to say I drank one as soon as I walked out of that room.

[@wpeale71341]

They had a safety meeting about them being bad at our job as well. All 40 people sitting in that room were sipping a Red Bull and giving the safety guy the go to hell look the entire meeting. He looked at our manager who had a Red bull in his hand as well and actually said that he did not think anyone appreciated the meeting. Ummm. Nope!

[@krel7160]

@@wpeale71341 The one guy in the back "Well, I'm hourly. I got paid to sit around doing nothing but listen to you idly drone on about something none of us were gonna actually do anyway.. So.. I'm feelin' pretty good about this meeting, actually."

[@horseclawdestroyerofworlds5294]

4real tho kidney stones is a real possibility

[@xenn4985]

@@horseclawdestroyerofworlds5294 key word, possibility. Are they going to ban gallon water jugs? Because that could possibly drop my sodium levels but it's also the only thing cleaning out my kidney.

[@TheWarmWendigo]

@@horseclawdestroyerofworlds5294 Definitely a possibility but in a 10 hr day I drink one monster and ~6 bottles of water so I feel like it’s an acceptable risk

[@tboniusmaximus3047]

I was on a jobsite that banned them, we worked nights so we drank them and tossed em in the electricians trash cans (they inspected trash cans for food and drink evidence) and they got yelled at all the time

[@RSFaber-nk6lh]

Fucking check trash for evidence they aren't little kids

[@ds29912]

Who the hell has the audacity to tell grown men what to eat or drink on a job site?

[@ChalkyHonky]

Iwork for a smaller company my boss knows if he came and told me I cant drink energy drinks I would start drinking them. How dumb are these people

[@chadg6874]

You must be a sheetrocker, the mortal enemy of the sparky 😂

[@ChalkyHonky]

@@chadg6874 sheetrockers hate themselves more than anyone else

[@Forsparda]

I mean this right here would have me looking for a new job instantly doesn't matter if I do or don't enjoy energy drinks it's because you know for a fact the office be power tripping and the little rules are only going to get worse

[@colinsmith1495]

That would indeed be my assessment of it. "No energy drinks." "Why?" If they can't give a reason, assume it's just a power trip.

[@mikemissildine370]

That's why I'm not at a place that tries to control you 24/7 but only pays you 8/5

[@ChalkyHonky]

I hate energy drinks and would quit on principle everyone is trying to hire skilled labor

[@toomanymarys7355]

They're afraid of being sued when people drop dead with heat interacting with energy drinks.

[@seanriopel3132]

Exactly the same for me. Anyone in a position of power who thinks they can dictate what people eat or drink is clearly out of their freaking mind. And like you said, it is only going to get worse.

[@kurokaze511]

"So you're gonna have to accept that." "Well in that case those office people are just gonna have to accept all those fines for when this project starts running behind. I mean, they did remember that these contracts usually have a deadline in it right?I'm sure their inability to keep their noses out of places where they aren't needed or wanted will only cost them a few hundred grand."

[@mrgibbets34]

“You can accept this resignation letter”

[@michaelelmore1678]

Had a supervisor tell me "you can't have anything other than water on the floor" and than 15 minutes later said "I'm going on a coffee run, who wants some?"

[@cavalieroutdoors6036]

My answer would've been, "Nobody - we can only have water on the floor."

[@CapnDumbass]

I'm pretty sure everyone at work would have a sworn affidavit stating that "Supervisor went for a sip of water, and he was a little enthusiastic about getting that sip... hence, the broken jaw, teeth, nose, cheekbones, and all the bits of cup embedded in supervisor's oral cavity." Caffiene: do dumb stuff with more energy! - a picture on the internet

[@chadnorris8257]

Coffee just got defined as black bean water.

[@seanriopel3132]

@@cavalieroutdoors6036 So you have no back bone or are you making some sort of joke?

[@jago668]

Time to "fall asleep" running the dozer, and just crawl right through the main office.

[@patrickspaceman305]

....then reversed eight times, and track rolled the joint before waking up....

[@MrBigTAnderson]

"energy drinks are banned" Listen I am not even in construction I have cooked and I have done customer service. this rule was tried once for about an hour and so little got done it would have been easier to take the money running it for that hour and light it. Also I do not know about you but energy drinks allow me to handle enough idiocy to get through my day, because I do not have a murder charge to date but I would also like to keep it that way. I will go from allowing morons at work to breathe my air, to figuring out the fastest ways I can go from unseen and unheard to the blue collar version of SAW and no one needs that. I know plenty of others are like that as well. Ban caffeine in a state for one week and all customer service personnel will either be responsible for a bloodbath unseen since dracula or will leave the state and those jobs just arent getting done that week.

[@kitsunelee007]

"Blue collar version of SAW." I'm dead🤣 Seriously though my husband has ADHD and without caffine in mass quantites makes me want to kill him! Caffine calms his ass down and makes my life possible with murder charges. No vice is healthy but then again neither is being a working adult.

[@JohnStormForge]

I had a job that banned energy drinks during the summer. So I brought liquid caffeine to add to squincher and water. My squincher was so caffenated that it qualified as liquid methamphetamine.

[@pworv]

WAIT THEY MAKE LIQUID CAFFIENE? Id be taking fucking shots

[@JohnStormForge]

@@pworv its called kaffn8

[@JohnStormForge]

@@pworv After the bottle is empty it makes a handy flask.

[@seanshomeshop325]

that looks like it comes in the same bottle as fuel stabilizer

[@JohnStormForge]

@@seanshomeshop325 yeah be sure to keep them labled properly.

[@MoonDogg98]

"Your gonna have to accept that there won't be anyone here to work."

[@abitoffblacksmithing9985]

I was a supervisor for years in the hvac field and I had a really cool welder working for me . One day I asked him if there was any thing he could do to "expedite " the schedule. His answer was hhmmmmm.... " if you don't like this speed you sure..... as hell ain't gonna like the next one " end of quote!!!! I left him alone from then on!!! 😉

[@Chrono_Mitsurugi]

Boss tried that once. Energy drinks banned from the business, we couldn't even have them in the break room. So we all started drinking them in the Home Depot parking lot across the street. Energy drinks banned Monday, ban lifted Wednesday same week.

[@andyreid7274]

No worries, Ricky got a back up plan. 8 ball a day productivity will skyrocket!

[@whisperingsmith2672]

Don't forget wake and bake, theeeeen the ball with a shot of jack to level out the shakes 🤣😂🤣😂 dang carpenters. Someone has to be productive

[@ChalkyHonky]

You gotta start with two beers on the way there. A line on the dash to give you the energy to get out of the truck and a rum and coke for first break.

[@mclovin2408]

@@ChalkyHonky and on the way to the job site light up a fatty, legit what every person who works where I work does, was at a job site once and even the Mexican crew there to do framing and some concrete guys were smoking IN THE HOUSES while we were in the back lighting up.

[@ChalkyHonky]

@@mclovin2408 I quit smoking at work along time ago I like it to relax after work

[@mclovin2408]

@@ChalkyHonky I usually only smoke a little bit at work and that’s not every day anymore, but with the heat as hot as it has been, and the insulation as itchy as it has been, I’ll punch a hole in plywood if I go a full week working 10-12 hours without any, I don’t usually smoke enough to get me baked but enough to give me good vibes.

[@J.Young808]

NEED A PART 2 where Ricky shows the stupidity and out-of-touchness the office staff has.

[@dori-seren]

Need a part 2 where Ricky is leading a half asleep riot lmao

[@alchemystudiosink1894]

Ricky falls asleep grinding something

[@ziggybarone3168]

​@@dori-seren lol, Ricky would be half asleep, Roscoe would be _wide_ awake and pissed as all hell jittering from lack of liquid courage, and Bossman casually throwing stuff at the wall because he's so mad.

[@yourlordship1119]

Like, you expect us to wake up at 4am every day and work on 4-6 hours of sleep without energy drinks? There would be literal rebellion.

[@mclovin2408]

I’d pull an Edward Kennway stealing the Jackdaw if they try anything like that bs.

[@damiansgaragebuilds7663]

Yeap people have been being men for hundreds of years before our little beta energy drinks came about

[@jackclark1994]

Only 4 am? lightweight. i'm up at 230 and get home at 330 pm

[@damiansgaragebuilds7663]

@@jackclark1994 weak generation aren’t they

[@yourlordship1119]

@@jackclark1994 sucks to be you my guy, rest in pieces.

[@Draekmus]

The solution is quite easy: keep a 128oz coffee thermos filled with energy drink.

[@MrKezzerdrix]

Or: They said no DRINKING. Hook up an I.V. bag....

[@davidrigli9082]

And you my friend just won the internet

[@Dirty_Bear22]

@@MrKezzerdrix Pshh… Veterinarian here, you can get Caffeine citrate for I.V. Usage.

[@MrKezzerdrix]

@@Dirty_Bear22 Does it come in sour apple flavor? Asking for a friend.

[@Dirty_Bear22]

@@MrKezzerdrix Sorry to say, don’t think any research and development into making safe IV flavors was made. Funny enough though it’s within the realm of possibility. Some Drugs can can be excreted into the saliva and tasted that way. Some change the perception of taste or smell as well. I know some Chemo drugs tasted extremely vile lol. 🤢

[@InTuGuru]

If I ever actually heard any boss try to implement these kind of rules, I would literally break them on purpose, even if I did not drink energy drinks, I would start drinking them just because they said I couldn’t.

[@iamhere9560]

Thank goodness God didn’t put a tree in front of ya and told you not to eat from it. That would’ve been a disaster.

[@InTuGuru]

@@iamhere9560 yup lol rebel with out a cause

[@jdgindustries2734]

@@iamhere9560 uh.... Like that didn't happen anyway?

[@hyperion3439]

​@@iamhere9560 That would be e but we can't blame women that's illegal we can't hold women accountable

[@ryanrice4030]

Ricky is with his energy drink as I am with my coffee everyone else is a whole lot better off if I have my pot of coffee every morning

[@jaysonlima7196]

It's all about water really ..... You see without water there can be no coffee, and without coffee, I will likely kill every dumb MF I come across, so no coffee everyone dies, water is essential for life lol

[@FQuainton]

I agree with you completely! I even take a gallon of coffee to work with me every night. It keeps me happy and my coworkers from having to deal with cranky me. lol

[@oldschooljack3479]

You absolutely can vote on stuff like this... It's called voting with your feet. If enough hands walk their asses out the gate, then the boss can change his mind or hire new hands.

[@charlesmckinley29]

The last decent guy they hired was a year ago. The newest guy might work out. Lost count of those in between.

[@32degreesretarded62]

@@charlesmckinley29 i feel your pain. Im a diesel mechanic and the last one we hired was almost a year ago. The last good one, 3 years ago. Went from an 18 man shop to 11 men on the roster. Union shop with free benny's.

[@charlesmckinley29]

@@32degreesretarded62 and they have more work booked than ever before right?

[@axelsmom7257]

Gonna have to accept that- nah 😂😂😂😂😂😂 can’t wait for part 2 of this 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mclovin2408]

My job pulled that bs I’d get a monster energy sticker and slap it on the work truck, then buy monster energy clothes and start drinking monster, I’ll even get a sponsorship if I can lol.

[@Kryynism]

I'd be fine. I never drink energy drinks. Anger is all I need.

[@IronworkerGaming]

Rage is an excellent motivator!! 😂

[@Kryynism]

@Marter Turensker Haha I do concrete too.

[@Kryynism]

@Marter Turensker I install new foundations under fucked up residential and sometimes commercial buildings and structures. Fuck ton of digging, breaking out old concrete, and hauling way too many wheelbarrows of material lol. Also we repair structual damage to all sorts of buildings, and lift and level every sort of house whether wood crawl space or concrete. It's not bad but it sucks in FL summer. Like everything in FL summer.

[@Kryynism]

@Marter Turensker nah sucks and pays shit. But it's enough. I like my crew. I'm friends and neighbors with the office manager. We all get away with alot of shit but get paid vacations and bonuses. If we get back early at 1pm, we still get paid until 3:30. Still get OT on hard days even if we have early days. And the owner/engineer spends most of his time in costa rica banging hookers at 65 years old. So we all basically run the show without major overhead.

[@ChalkyHonky]

Anger is natural fuel stay green my friend

[@Questfinder1]

So how many write ups did Ricky get that week before they rescinded the no energy drink rule? Because addiction is a weird thing drink something long enough your body needs it to survive. Without it you are jot a nice person. Nor are you able to make rational choice without it. So the question is what blew up, what s the cost and how many cases of energy drink did the office buy the crews.. aka Ricky.

[@longbow6416]

Haha. I only do one can of Monster a day, and nurse it through out the day I might add. But damn, if I miss a day, my jaw clenches from the sugar rush!

[@magnarcreed3801]

Who cares about addiction? That’s weakness. It’s more about the fact some dumb office people that do Jack shit are telling the actual workers how to get through the day.

[@danbucklet]

I feel like I'm the only person who has actually successfully quit caffeine and has proudly never gotten addicted to energy drinks in my field. It was hard at first, I was rough for a few days, but I switched to decaf, then a herbal tea to supplement it. Now I just start my day with pure natural energy and willpower, baby! And I actually find it much easier to be centered and balanced emotionally and logically

[@Questfinder1]

@@danbucklet add a visit to a Reiki healer to balance your chakra and unlock your full potential. Its amazing

[@danbucklet]

@@Questfinder1 I'll look into that thanks!

[@KDizzy6]

"eNeRgY dRiNkS aRe BaD fOr YoU!" Ain't nobody gettin' outta here alive. 100% of life ends in death.

[@5n4k3d0rk]

I'm here for a good time, not a long time

[@honotenshi]

99.99% Jesus broke the rules and made it all about him. So much for "selfless".

[@dankjankings7339]

Not for some jellyfish, so 99.98%

[@teacher555555]

office: we are banning energy drinks from the job site you will no longer be allowed to drink them on site workers: did you hear that guys, they are shutting the job site down.

[@tommiegirl2441]

Lmao! Good luck enforcing that noise! My guy's memorable comment:. "Kiss my ass, Boss, and pass the Redbull." I'll go with that. 🤣

[@DasShaten]

Ricky makes the coffee next day, but instead of water it's a mix of red bull and monster....

[@joshhuskins5363]

Oh God no

[@mclovin2408]

Or better yet the coffee grounds are soaked overnight in white monster energy.

[@joshhuskins5363]

@@mclovin2408 hellllllllllllllllllllllllllll naw

[@WereCreed]

Ah yes The stroke inducer.

[@wagonbldr]

How about Cocaine Energy Drink. Only 280mg of caffeine

[@Mphx321]

The office personnel ban the energy drinks for laborers that desperately need a boost, while they work 10 yards from a coffee/espresso machine sitting in the air conditioning all day.

[@andyhar1994]

Given the near prophetic accuracy your content normally has relating to my work on a construction site the sheer thought of this being a possibility is frightening! I mean seriously, you hit the nail on the head every single video with the BS we deal with on a daily basis so if this is a telling of the future please send Ricky to help fight our battles!

[@jackclark1994]

they didn't ban them at mine, but they do "strongly recommend" we don't drink them

[@F14Goose37]

One of the guys who regularly works in the office was working overtime with us on shift today. Our supervisor told him at one point "you guys dramatically underestimated how much caffeine we need to drink to do these shifts."

[@wolfrig2000]

That's when the whole crew rolls up to the office to have a word with the manager who made that decision, and let him know his wrongdoing and what he needs to do to "Reopen" this closed jobsite.

[@chrisgabbert658]

Let the office folks work on site for a few days and see what happens. By day three they will have a two drink holder on their helmet.

[@joshuaputman8307]

I believe Safety Man has learned about "reverse psychology" and is actually trying to get Ricky to drink more energy drinks so he gets something done for a change. You sly dog, you.

[@murphyseanm]

I would stop drinking caffeine for a week and just not be productive. When asked about it I will let them know that since they are banning my primary caffeine method this is my new work pace.

[@gregwatruba4541]

I got 2 speeds, if they don't like this one ya damn sure ain't gonna like the next one.

[@eligebrown8998]

I have a cousin who has done that. It works well

[@bkane573]

I drink maybe a handful of energy drinks a year, don’t like them. But I have a coffee addiction going back to first grade. I can tell you, for a fact, that medical treatment is required if I don’t get caffeine. I’ve never worked a job where coffee wasn’t provided. And I can promise you, I’ll make sure it is documented as mine of duty/ workmen’s compensation if I go into withdrawal.

[@HarbingerOfRespite]

I'm just saying. My productivity at work declines quite noticeably when I don't have my two energy drinks per day.

[@Storytelling35]

Amen

[@markst.martinii9635]

That’s not a good sign then lol. Your work skills, work ethic, and quality depend on an “energy drink”

[@The1ThtRulesAll]

One otw to work, one when I get to the shop in the morning. Water and Gatorades til its beer:30.

[@Storytelling35]

@@The1ThtRulesAll word

[@HarbingerOfRespite]

@@markst.martinii9635 My skills and ethic don't suffer, my energy levels do. I hold myself to high standards when it comes to my work. Unfortunately, my body isn't always as enthusiastic as my mind when it comes to getting the work done and upholding those standards.

[@UberAlphaSirus]

The only time I got a buzz or awake feeling from coffee was driving back to the uk from france. we stoped off for fuel, a crock mr sick on toast. I though the coffe machine was broken, I kept pressing the button to get another tablespoon of coffee in my large cup and done my bosses too. 16 odd expressos do hit you like a fucking train. doesn't last as long as other things like it. But I was wide eyed like a fucking buzzing owl all the way to the eurostar terminal.

[@michaelmerck7576]

Black coffee has a punch but cream and sugar dilutes the effects of caffeine

[@chanceharmon6491]

I'm just saying my workplace violence increases noticably without energy drinks

[@travissmith6973]

Ricky just needs to get one of those novelty megagulp cups and fill the damn thing with 5-Hour Energy. Guaran-fucking-tee he will end up employee of the goddamn century, or his heart'll burst while on the jobsite.

[@cleverkitsune4302]

That stuffs even worse than energy drinks, instead of caffeine boost you get a massive overdose of b vitamins (20000% daily value) in just a tiny bottle

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

Is this based on that review online of 5-hour where the guy claims he filled a gas station cup full of em and drank it? Because judging by what HE said, Ricky's heart is definitely in danger of explosion if he does that.

[@travissmith6973]

@@Eye_Of_Odin978 That is EXACTLY what it's based on

[@TheBurcham1]

I remember at my last job when they banned tobacco products company wide (die cast work) it didn't have the desired effect they wanted, everybody was either on extreme edge or (me) didn't give to shits and kept dipping all night anyway

[@ericbarker9127]

Sorry I got a head of myself and didn't wait. Roscoe reminds me of my dad. He watches you also. And he's 71 and still welding in the Texas heat. He's hard man.

[@Texansfan254Jeff]

I never got into the whole energy drink craze. What you got out of me on a jobsite is what you got.

[@jasonmfshow]

That's when you go visit the office and cut the cord off the coffee maker.

[@charlesmckinley29]

Nope, spray every bathroom surface with WD 40. The little white lines just stick there.😎

[@safferstihl5502]

@@charlesmckinley29 man I swear. All construction companies really are the same

[@charlesmckinley29]

@@safferstihl5502 I got that from my friend that owns a bar.

[@stope420]

Manager: “Energy drinks are unhealthy for you.” Me: “Correct. This job though is the most unhealthy thing in my life.” I’m still drinking Monster Zeros. Peach-Gold-Green-White, in that order.

[@rodrigorubio8918]

Can't find those in the valley

[@seanriopel3132]

The Monster Zeroes are my favorite energy drinks simply because of taste. I just stick to the white and sometimes blue. But you make a great point. The work your probably doing is far more unhealthy for you than the energy drinks.

[@benh2322]

Agree 100% on the flavor order... The day I discovered peach will not be soon forgotten.

[@Bruhthethingsiveseen]

man it's been a hot minute since i had a green zero, the whites are a classic too.

[@Redacted-Information]

What the Safety Man is saying is the CANS are banned, get you a thermos and you are okay!

[@jacobcarter5923]

I don't think they realize how easy it is to find a new job in this day and age

[@zachwayne6343]

I'd be laughing in the safety man's face before cracking a redbull. My favorite thing to say to people who try to change what I do is "Try me". It doesn't work well with corporations lol

[@Y2KNW]

If I heard a safety dork try to tell me we couldn't have energy drinks on the jobsite, I'd grab one out of my lunchbox, make a toast to mutiny, and then try to explain to operations why our safety dork thought taking a swim in the lime pond was a good idea.

[@WereCreed]

Bold of you to assume safety man can comprehend how the operation works

[@seanriopel3132]

I actually had a safety "person", a women who has probably never held a sawz-all let alone used one in her 25 years on this earth, that I was using it in an unsafe manner. We were doing contract work at a Six Flags and I told this to my boss while we were having a couple of twisted teas on our lunch break. We had a good laugh and he just said make sure you have your safety glasses on, smile and say "OK. You show me how to do it then."

[@Y2KNW]

@@seanriopel3132 Done that to a couple safety morons and it got me at least one trip to talk to someone about my attitude. I went even further at my last job and after being told to read the entire safety binder, I handed it back with the 2 pages worth of errors and inconsistencies I'd found. i.e.: Daily inspection for truck says it must have 2 20lb fire extinguishers. Monthly inspec says "2.5lb fire extinguishers" but no number so at least 2. Meaning that at the month's end, the truck needed to have no less than 4 fire extinguishers in it. It never had more than 1. Every stuporvisor, the GM, and the safety dork had all signed off on before I'd read it and then got all pissy every time I brought it up when they tried to whine at me about if I was doing something safely or not. I lost that job in December after accumulating a 2" thick disciplinary folder and the place has been a train wreck ever since.

[@jdods8398]

My new favorite channel! Recovery shutdowns for 20 years.

[@xxskabxx]

I will say coffee being accepted but energy drinks banned is bullshit. Everyone has their preference. All or none

[@mclovin2408]

How about none, it should be of no concern of government or employer what we choose to eat or drink, I’m tired of people trying to tell people how to live.

[@xxskabxx]

@@mclovin2408 agreed. While they’re at it might as well allow no smoking or smoke breaks

[@mclovin2408]

@@xxskabxx yeah sure might as well lol, might as well ban you from buying soda because it isn’t good for you.

[@jagerwahl]

@@mclovin2408 u joke about that but have we all forgotten what happened in NYC with sodas?

[@mclovin2408]

@@jagerwahl yeah that was total overreach on their part, much like employers controlling what we can drink. I don’t understand why you’d ban soda though especially.

[@timesurfingalien]

Yeah, I'd be walking out. Employer or not, your job site or not, no one is going to dictate what I consume.

[@magoichi75]

I mean if you want this soulless husk of a body to work you better lemme have my energy drink

[@politicallyincorrectgrandp1351]

That is like banning beer after work! Do you want this world to stop running! Men would all go on sick leave at the same time calling it 2 weeks to Detox. Adding it to the next negotiation to increase to 4 weeks paid Detox per year. Bring it on Boss Man!

[@TowelGamingHammer]

You know Ricky's just gonna sneak 'em in anyway, he'll find a way.

[@oChowda]

That’s how I was in jobcorps, shit barely got done😂😂😂

[@brandonjones8426]

My reaction would have been similar to Ricky's except it would have been more like "If you think I'm in a pissy mood with my energy drinks. Just imagine what I'm like without that caffeine rush. Someone might get stabbed. Just saying."

[@joshuacarlson3459]

Ningas, you are fucking hilarious and on point on so many levels

[@gam3kid]

I know a guy who drinks 5-6 Monster drinks every day at 48 and he's still going. He said it's not bad for you, it keeps his blood pumping.

[@Nostradevus1]

48 is a long ways away from say 90....those things are horrible for you. Honestly that much coffee would be bad for you. At the end of the day, it still should be his choice though. If it's not endangering his coworkers the office should have no say in it.

[@mclovin2408]

5-6?! That really will shorten your lifespan quick as hell. His choice I won’t tell him how to live, even though if he stopped drinking that many he would live longer.

[@gam3kid]

I forgot to add he smokes cigarettes too

[@cavalieroutdoors6036]

@@Nostradevus1 Those 5-6 energy drinks are probably the only thing keeping him going. If he stops, he'd probably keel over.

[@jaysmith625]

Gam3kid I think the only reason I'm alive is due to being on a 4 monster java, 2 Rockstar, and 3 pots of coffee a day regimen. It confuses the hell outta my doc, due to a slightly elevated heart rate, still acceptable, and slightly lower than average blood pressure. And as I told him when he said I need to slacken off on the caffeine usage. I calmly said, hell that's the only reason my heart is still beating, and the only reason I'm not in jail. He chuckled and said it'll probably still be beating 100 years after I'm dead. P.S. caffeine tolerance is a real thing. And I NEED it.

[@senuhet13]

"Mines cold and doesn't taste like roasted ass" I'm stealing that

[@paladinprime9928]

A former boss of mine tried this once, but they included all drinks including water. All but 4 people called in, for several days each, over three whole departments. 3 of the 4 that did come in still had energy drinks ( or coffee) in hand, they just didn't care.

[@jackclark1994]

by law they can't stop you from drinking. It's a necessity for life. dumbasses.

[@seanriopel3132]

That is just crazy. I understand certain jobs having liquids hanging around can be a hazard but you cannot prevent people from staying hydrated. Not only is it illegal it is just stupid. Your more likely to have an accident from people being dehydrated which can affect concentration and overall brain function.

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

It was this kind of heavy handed corporate fiat that made the leave the job market completely! I’ve never been happier!

[@meatbyproducts]

I can get to work without caffeine, but caffeine keeps my ADHD in check. So my wife and coworkers all like that I drink coffee, tea, red bull, m80, or whatever I can get my hands on.

[@ffwast]

"Look boss, it's this or I get a prescription for meth."

[@insanecrazyman7637]

How to get productivity down to zero in one safety meeting 101

[@thunderjet4294]

There are 2 things that separate me from accidental death and premeditated murder... Nicotine and caffeine... Take those away and add my angry veteran side in and a grizzly bear will be more friendly

[@Dr._McDonald5]

Why do I feel like since we all are aware of Ricky being the owner he just does this shit up in corporate when it gets boring on site then does his thing to help rile people up and cause some chaos and entertainment for himself

[@jeremiah4195]

Def need a post energy drink ban video

[@Anthony-vq1wn]

I'm a welder/fabricator. I had a safety man tell me there was no more smoking on the job because it was a fire hazard. Before he could finish his rant the hood of his winter work coat was on fire from the guy cutting, dropping slag above him. Yeah we had a great laugh.

[@C25A1guy]

I would be a hybrid between Ricky and Roscoe. 6 cups of coffee before leaving the house, got the next 3 in my travel mug on the way into work, and one I'm at work, 2 monster BFC's by lunch. I'm so caffeine desensitized, most people, including my doctors wonder how the hell I'm still alive and maintain normal resting heart rate and blood pressure.

[@kingofthejungle5338]

Don't your bowels start howling from all that liquid?

[@cddagr]

Oh boy, I need a part 2 on this issue. 😂😂😂😂

[@majinvegeta9280]

Studies have shown coffee doesn't dehydrate you like originally thought since it takes water to brew but I'm with Ricky on this

[@williamnicholson8133]

It takes water from your system to metabolize it though similar to alcohol in concept but significantly different process .

[@JEnkins91589]

And coffee is a laxative. Getting diarrhea dehydrates you faster than anything else.

[@1776FAFO]

Ricky’s gonna be pissed!!!! 😂😂

[@Stuff59042]

Banning energy drinks? Sounds an awful lot like you said "I don't want to meet a completion date EVER AGAIN." I feel bad for anyone with a front office childish and out of touch enough to think they can actually make such a proclamation, have it stick and expect no negative consequences.

[@simonausmus]

Its usually so they can get a health insurance break "ban" energy drinks and promote a healthy workplace.

[@cujoedaman]

@@simonausmus The shop I worked at, guys would have vodka in water bottles.

[@seanriopel3132]

It is honestly shocking how out of touch some people are. Absolutely delusional.

[@cujoedaman]

""They can ban energy drinks if they want, but we'll keep drinking them anyway. What's the worst that can happen, they fire all of us?" - Ricky, probably

[@THEMOWERMEDIC1]

I’m on my ffffffffffitif cup of coffeee.

[@NoloPrime]

Your recent videos are very accurate to the Solar site I'm working on now. Our safety meeting is about 250 ppl though.

[@scottposey1793]

I'd like to see Safety Man try to tell a Navy Command Master Chief or a Marine Sgt.Major "No Coffee". The verbal slaughter would be EPIC & Brutal and they wouldn't even have to touch him.

[@ffwast]

Haven't they made it practically an institution in the Navy that they never wash the coffee cups they just put more coffee in them

[@scottposey1793]

@@ffwast Yep, that honor goes to Petty Officers and up. I saw a CPO one time that had a straw stuck in the top of a Mr.Coffee pot.....

[@Matando]

Looks like "the office" isn't gonna have any AC for a while. Least not until they can have their energy drinks XD

[@sgtplaya7]

shit i work in trucking and we stock vending machines with energy drinks on the loading dock

[@Jiendu]

Someone in that office is trying to reach the afterlife quicker.

[@jacobburns9343]

Corp: "We're concerned about your heart health so we banned energy drinks." Same corp: "By the way, did you get that mandatory booster yet?"

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

Here's a good idea: Sleep Strikes You go in, and just sleep all day. When they ask why, you tell them "It's for workplace safty since you banned energy drinks"

[@paolof.6899]

Look when they start caring about my long term health I'll start caring about my health. Follow the smart people on site, be a lazy ass SOB that gets all his work done. I have had my boss tell off another work crew for daring to say I was fucking around on my phone. (I was, but the tasks were finished soo...) actually said and I quote, "He is probably looking up a new way he to do this job that might be faster or cost us less." Being lazy has gotten me so far and my body is still mostly intact, running around like a chicken with his head cut off. That was aweful and I barely got paid, now I get paid pretty okay and spend most of my day in the shade and do a minimal amount of work. It's like when you become a free agent in hockey, everyone throws ungodly amounts of money at you.

[@tomalinaheartly5115]

Holy cow Ricky is too much LoL... Love it Ty

[@gavinatkins2671]

Am I the only one who would start drinking them as soon as they were banned? I mean, I’d rather have my cup of carefully brewed coffee that tastes amazing. But you ban something and all of a sudden I’m tweaking for it.

[@loon1994]

Well has anyone told you about this fine product called methamphetamine being banned on job sites across America?

[@Metalstorm56]

If I banned energy drinks in my shop I would have a full blown mutiny on my hands

[@unclefester4626]

I got one worse than all this stuff.... Our shop toilets are prone to plugging. When they do plug up they are very slow to calling a plumber. They have to cable it because of a bad bend.... So anyway the last time it plugged we were told we would just have to hold it. No trips next door to the convenience store either. So my response was to shyte/spray into a cheapo deapo white kitchen trash bag. I have no gaul bladder so you can imagine the pattern i left in that bag. I made sure to hold it up and explain to everyone what i just did in that bag....including the boss as i was walking it out to the dumpster. Two days later the plumbers were tearing the floor out to fix the bend. I heard several people complained to HR about my brown splattered white trash bag incident.....💩💩💩💩💩💩😁👍

[@unclefester4626]

Also....it amazes me what employers think they can expect of employees. I'm 57 years old. I gotta go poo or pee....get outta ma way....here i come!😈😈😈😈

[@user-sp6os6tc2r]

Yeah, I try to avoid caffeine most of the time but the factory I work in would riot if they tried to ban energy drinks. Hell, they sell them there.

[@Tabledar]

Alright, I will no longer be bringing energy drink /cans/ to the job site. I acknowledge your ban, and will make sure that when I buy my energy drinks, that the /cans/ will not make it to work. I will instead be bringing a large, opaque beverage container, full of a "drink" that I will disclose to you as "soda", "seltzer" or "soft drink".

[@egyptwns89_26]

When I was at the factory I saw guys smashing Red Bull and Monster back to back to back. Not to mention the caffeine pills. I’m best friends with a veteran who would sometimes take a caffeine pill with his Red Bull. And I was with everyone doing some of this too. But it was almost anything you could do to get through those work days because I know that in one day I had moved ten tons of glass containers in boxes on pallets with a hand jack in one day. So I had to book it that day. I have moved many times that in the years and you were not given leniency from company people.

[@Krashwire]

This was hilarious. I love your skits. A question, are these totally fictional or is this based on your day job and real things that happen there?

[@nevarez323]

I work in construction also and the reason I love what he does it’s because it’s what we go thru all the time

[@BM-hb2mr]

Fire departments have banned them too. It was at our department years ago

[@nomore8042]

I've never seen why anyone would be in a hurry to do nothing for 8 hours !!!

[@johnnyguillotine1673]

Doing nothing at a faster pace. Those heart palpations are entertainment

[@123chargeit]

This seems to be one of those just do it anyway and damn be the ridiculously petty consequences. "Write me up, and then what? You can't staff adequately as is, you gonna fire me over an energy drink? Piss off"

[@cliffp73]

Just asking, I am assuming that they would pass out coffee and wings along with some bugger sugar to get more work done. Everyone I hope you realize that coffee breaks were invented to get more work done and actually it was ww1 the work day break started in the lining industry, the males went to work and the women couldn’t work all day and productivity was down. So the women asked for breaks to help them get through the workday. With that came coffee ect. Coffee breaks thank you women for not being as productive.

[@cliffp73]

@Lawofimprobability I wish I could work a double. My body after getting the vid won’t let me. I use to be able to.

[@yamatohekatsue9143]

There are 2 things I've never seen a snail with speed and a job i need.