"ohhh, is this paint safe?" "yeah it's completely safe" "Then why are you wearing a mask and a lead apron?" "Uhh... Style"
@ripadipaflipa46725 жыл бұрын
Cracked Emerald :lol
@marcopohl48753 жыл бұрын
"cool, can I have a set?" "no, it's only for executives"
@katybug65723 жыл бұрын
Haha right?! If my boss came down to talk to us looking like that every time- ummm yea.. I think I’d have a question or two lol 😆 🤦♀️
@SaintCyrX3 жыл бұрын
"uhhh...farts... I do farts."
@brendank54132 жыл бұрын
My inner thought process whenever I watch people eat Carolina reapers
@dubbadan15 жыл бұрын
"As long as it costs companies less money to settle lawsuits than to improve workplace conditions there will always be occupational hazards". Gold.
@Slideyslide5 жыл бұрын
dubbadan1 ahhh capitalism
@rylanruffles71063 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw this comment he said this lmao 😂
@turtlejeepjen3142 жыл бұрын
I worked for Bayer CropScience for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily. It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments. I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.) One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years. I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.) Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore. Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % & content label required each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.) It just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results. Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders. But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
@alienteknology53902 жыл бұрын
Nailed it.
@annierendfer2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to capitalism :)
@NoOne-fe3gc5 жыл бұрын
Lol I lost it at the manager part "o yeah no, the paint is totally safe" "why are you using lead clothes...." "......fashion...."
@Axemang5 жыл бұрын
if your bosses are wearing protective equipment while you are not, it's time to start asking questions or job-searching.
@thedave77605 жыл бұрын
@@Axemang That whole scenario doesn't really make sense even back then people weren't that dumb.
@electronresonator88825 жыл бұрын
@@thedave7760 they do, people do electrocute other people to the point they no longer conscious, just because the people who paid them money said it is totally fine. why would you care about other when you're not the victim and even more you got paid for that?
@electronresonator88825 жыл бұрын
yeah like the nuclear people, they don't want to live next to nuclear reactors despite they ridicule everyone who denied it,... they're the "fashionable managers"
@goodtown32585 жыл бұрын
I just imagined Jeff Dunham's Ahkmed say "fashion" LOL!
@3ch1dna075 жыл бұрын
My 14 year old son did a report on the Radium Girls last year for school. He found that one of the reasons they settled out of court was because they knew they were dying and were afraid that they would all die before the case ever saw the light of day. Incredibly tragic. Excellent episode.
@rachelann936211 ай бұрын
Unfortunately they were probably 100%. In fact, I’d say there was 0.00000001% chance that corporation wasn’t going to do EVERYTHING could do to push the cash further and further out. Case in point, there was one more recent case with a patient against a hospital.. it took THREE YEARS to go through 100s of motions to get all the evidence (or rather the evidence that didn’t disappear, cell phones that didn’t fall into the ocean or a vat of acid, or another piece that was kept out completely because the attorneys completely misrepresented the contents of the report and said it had to do ONLY with a speciality part of the hospital that had no connection to that patient, when it did, in fact, point out countless SYSTEMIC failures that infiltrated the hospital from the top all the way down, but the way they represented it to the judge got it kept out……. Until the last 2 days of the trial when their bought and paid “expert” referred to it, which opened the door for the patients team, and the judge was LIVID that he was lied to.. he legit suddenly said, “I need 5 mins” and walked out of the courtroom.) anyway, it took almost 5 full years to get a trial date, and they were still trying to push it off for “not having enough time to prepare”, judge finally called them on their shit and said you have until “x day” to be prepared because the trial is starting whether you are ready or not. Mind you, these guys work at a MASSIVE law firm. They have five lawyers on the case, and a team of paralegals in court every day, and one of those lawyers used to be a literal JUDGE in that district. It’s going to be at least 5 years more until the appeals are done with. And everyone is suspecting that they will still hem and haw and make them jump through hoops to get their check. Anyway, it is extremely likely they would’ve never seen the end of the case. Settlement, unfortunately, was the only way for THOSE girls to get the money they needed to live as comfortably as possible before they died.
@LG123ABC5 жыл бұрын
One time when I was a kid working on my dad's farm I had to use a ladder to climb down to the bottom of a stone-lined cistern to work on a pump. I was about 10 feet down and the light was very dim. Once my eyes adjusted I noticed movement in the walls all around me. I then quickly realized the movement I was seeing was from hundreds of snakes that were stuffed into every nook and cranny of the surrounding wall. Apparently they were using the cistern as a den. I zoomed up the ladder so quickly that I almost achieved escape velocity. True story.
@mathew664 жыл бұрын
Where was the farm?
@MegCazalet4 жыл бұрын
Well, there’s my nightmare for tonight.
@LG123ABC4 жыл бұрын
@@mathew66 North central Kansas.
@paigeburke68704 жыл бұрын
I would still need therapy!!
@shleed4 жыл бұрын
If it makes you feel better they were almost certainly pretty much harmless garter snakes. Although I figure a literal snake pit is freaky no matter what snake it is.
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
_"CERTIFIED_ _Radioactive_ _Water"_ Let _that_ sink in. Wait, don't. On second thought, don't let that sink in.
@clintwolf15575 жыл бұрын
Man, does this send me into a rage. Unfortunately, people in power have been treating people without power like crap forever. It’s inexcusable.
@enotsnavdier68675 жыл бұрын
And sadly it'll likely keep happening until there are no humans left
@theducklinghomesteadandgar66395 жыл бұрын
Me too!!! People simply need to pull together over all of the stuff like this, the crap happening in the government and all minor or major injustices and horrors taking place, not only in our country but the whole world. We have to stop and access and take the time to join in all of the issues and problems and support the right and proper actions to end such things! too many, or I should say most, simply think someone else is or will step in and handle it, and many have been conditioned to believe the government will do so. The problem with that thinking is the government is in bed with all of the big corporations, so anything they do will when said and done benefit the corporations even if it reads it will benefit the people, because the corporations put their own people in all of the committees handling the issues, or they hire from the committees to get the dirt on how to use the system to their benefit. I'm all for someone being profitable, just not at the expense of the people. Plus the people need to bring GOD back into their lives and society and repent and have a revival of people back to GOD! Any people and or nation that does this will prosper! If we bring GOD back into everything, it will either change those who use as they do, or send them packing and leave our counties in peace and prosperity. BUT the more we push GOD out the worse things are going to continue to get, no different then the actions committed by Israel caused the actions that occurred in Israel's past. The US is following the same pattern Israel did before each time the nation was destroyed and/or scattered across the nations!
@ripadipaflipa46725 жыл бұрын
Clint Wolf : still are
@bipedalbob5 жыл бұрын
@@theducklinghomesteadandgar6639 well ya had me agreeing with your point of view until you brought God into it. Religious differences has brought more death and suffering to the world than any other single cause. It's not the religion itself but the intolerance of others with a different faith. Intolerance of others with any difference in general, in opinion,religion,skin colour, anything at all, it's this us and them mentality, it's always existed and likely always will. It's the Achilles heel of human nature, possible a built in population control.
@theducklinghomesteadandgar66395 жыл бұрын
@@bipedalbob I agree with what you are saying. There is a difference in religion and faith though, being religion has more to do with man's ideas and controls more than GOD's, laws which are black and white, cut and dry, no gray areas. Many of the deaths due to so called religion is evil infested people using their religion as their so called righteousness to kill people!! Even the popes/Vatican have done so!!!
@michelleroxy215 жыл бұрын
Anyone else already watch some content on the radium girls, but still came here to hear Joe’s take on it? 🙋♀️
@Selfinflictedhummusrocket4 жыл бұрын
Nope
@viveka29944 жыл бұрын
@@Selfinflictedhummusrocket hi cutie pie
@Mid_jet4 жыл бұрын
Nope
@OreOscar4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, no.
@g-3r0474 жыл бұрын
Actually, yes!
@uremawifenowdave5 жыл бұрын
What the Radium Girls had to go through was a travesty. Another superb video. Thanks Joe.
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
Pretty horrific stuff.
@jimkoutas65255 жыл бұрын
@@joescott what those poor unsuspecting women had to go through is just horrible. I dare say , licking radium lollipops is highly preferable to my last job. It was a brutally horrific, sci-fi violent, day in and day out skull smashing and soul crushing for which there was no readily apparent escape for your dignity except for the infinitesimaly small glimmer of hope that some day far, far into the future, it will all end. Being married to my ex-wife.
@znk0r5 жыл бұрын
That's why I want to be a time traveling super hero.
@trog695 жыл бұрын
@@znk0r I bet it's my ex-wife that's preventing you from attaining that dream. That's her superpower.
@romz15 жыл бұрын
All of our current human rights, pro worker laws and unions came into existence due to the bravery of those who had none, and those who paid the ultimate price. We owe them a lot.
@TheChroniclesOfYarnia4 жыл бұрын
They didn’t just paint their nails, my Mum Mum (great grand mother) told me they painted their whole faces, bodies, their belongings. It was a fun joke and the girls were encouraged to do so. And then they were pariahs. Their communities and families turned their backs on them and called them names for drawing attention to their incredibly obvious health deterioration. They wanted them to keep quite so the radium corporation didn’t take the 20$ a day jobs elsewhere. It is such a tragic time.
@TechnicolorDojo5 жыл бұрын
Nutex was a glow-in-the-dark condom that utilized radium. Nutex.
@texasdeeslinglead24015 жыл бұрын
So Nut-ex then
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
Oh my God how did I miss that one?
@Spedley_21425 жыл бұрын
I think it's meant to be Nu-tex for nuclear latex but everyone reads it as Nut-ex meaning death to your nuts! :)
@DrWeird-zw5dc5 жыл бұрын
Phossy scrote?
@theleva75 жыл бұрын
@@DrWeird-zw5dc Have you ever heard of the cello scrotum controversy?
@will2see5 жыл бұрын
"You just have to weigh how much you want to keep living versus how much you like air-conditioning". Brilliant.
@GandolphTheGreyBeard5 жыл бұрын
This video was rad! *I'll see myself out now
@erichaynes75025 жыл бұрын
Top Ten KZbin Comment of all time!
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
You sir earned a banana. 🍌
@geoffwineera12575 жыл бұрын
Touche!!!! And the "I'll see myself out now" comment at the end "Perfect"... LoL 😂🤣😂🤣
@mustwereallydothis5 жыл бұрын
No, don't go. Sad as your pun may have been, it's the best we've seen so far today. I applaud your effort.
@dragonslayerornstein3875 жыл бұрын
This comment is radioactive, it has trace amounts of laughter and alpha emissions of incompetence.
@electronresonator88825 жыл бұрын
everybody is making jaw dropping jokes until their managers show up to work wearing "fashionable" clothing
@ianmacfarlane12415 жыл бұрын
Worst job I've ever had - that's tough, but one candidate would be a demolition job. For some reason this building, (or at least parts of it) had to be taken down carefully, so I stood atop a brick wall 70' up, and about 18" across, and had to knock it down with a 14lb sledgehammer, one course at a time WHILE STANDING ON IT. It wobbled a lot, and I was terrified, (incidentally I had a head for heights - worked in scaffolding and roofing). As lunchtime approached on my first day the foreman came up and said, "I don't think that you're cut out for this" - handed me two days wages and fired me. I've never been so happy to lose a job.
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
Sheesh. Probably the best thing that ever happened to you.
@geoffwineera12575 жыл бұрын
I would thank the foreman for saving my life 👍 Seriously, go thank him 👍😎
@monad_tcp5 жыл бұрын
"I don't think that you're cut out for this" yeah, you value your life too much, man.
@i_love_rescue_animals5 жыл бұрын
What?! Wait - were you tied in - or onto something - stable?
@LoganMaclaren5 жыл бұрын
Dude, I feel your pain. At least, I've felt it once, but I do think that, for both of us, getting out of this kind of job was the best that could happen. ;-)
@janhemstad5 жыл бұрын
Speaking of deadly jobs and radiation, you should do a video on the Atomic Veterans.
@kathleenshelton79392 жыл бұрын
My father was an "Atomic Sailor " He died of brain cancer. I still miss him
@doggonemess15 жыл бұрын
You know, TECHNICALLY, the Egyptian laborers did have something resembling a labor union. They did have rights and were well compensated for their hard work. For instance, for food "the approximately 10,000 labourers working on the pyramids they (sic) ate 21 cattle and 23 sheep" according to NatGeo. According to the BBC, the workers (who lived) "returned to the provinces with new skills, a wider outlook and a renewed sense of national unity that balanced the loss of loyalty to local traditions. The use of shifts of workers spread the burden and brought about a thorough redistribution of pharaoh's wealth in the form of rations." Per MSNBC: "the work was performed by skilled laborers who had the perks of a labor union: work only ninety days a year, eat steak and lamb every day, luxury burial benefits, etc." One thing not mentioned in these articles was that each worker was given an allotment of BEER each day. From the Smithsonian: "For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters, it was a source of nutrition, refreshment and reward for all the hard work ... The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer."
@micheleparker81235 жыл бұрын
Oh! So THAT'S why it was such a good job to have- they were drunk as hell! It's amazing what humans can do on four or five liters of beer per person per day!🤪
@idodaisuke42855 жыл бұрын
beeramids....
@doggonemess15 жыл бұрын
@@micheleparker8123 They must have hit that sweet spot between tipsy and falling over drunk where you get better at doing everything. Otherwise the pyramid would be crooked or upside down.
@justsmallstuff49944 жыл бұрын
They drank beer because it was sterile compared to dirty drinking water but it had a low alcohol content
@wireboar73214 жыл бұрын
@@micheleparker8123 yeah, i remember a veteran wrote a comment on a video saying that one time when he was in army in foreign country a local store was rebuilt as an alcohol base for the soldiers and some men actually started crying out of joy, so pathetic
@sophiepedigree71392 жыл бұрын
I'm sure someone else has already pointed it out, but the pyramids weren't made by slaves, but by highly trained and well remunerated workers.
@alexanderdeclercq17405 жыл бұрын
Another jaw-dropping video! Keep it up! *yes I did that*
@monad_tcp5 жыл бұрын
how this comment has no more likes, up you go
@monad_tcp5 жыл бұрын
how this comment has no more likes, up you go
@JustaReadingguy5 жыл бұрын
That is a little short in the tooth.
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
@@monad_tcp Twice?
@opheliabawles96465 жыл бұрын
That's the sort of pun that involves losing some amount of face but funny nonetheless.
@lucygirl49265 жыл бұрын
I've read 1 or 2 books on the Radium Girls and several of the women just would NOT give up when the lawyers kept trying to force them to take a settlement. They stood their ground. One lady, in fact, had to be wheeled into court in her hospital bed each day. It was horrendous. But she actually lived long enough to see her case vindicated, but not to collect any money. By that time, the money ceased to matter at all...
@muttman3255 жыл бұрын
Matchstick workers strike. Geddet?
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
You're on fire!
@malcolmhardwick42585 жыл бұрын
A bright spark ☺
@ritumahimkar88255 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@truckerrespect77974 жыл бұрын
All the puns are taken so I’ll just say good one lol
@gilglim_19043 жыл бұрын
That pun was radiant. I broke down laughing.
@paint21605 жыл бұрын
Joe: There's no job worse than being a radium girl Phineas Gage: *hold* *my* *dynamite*
@jeroen947045 жыл бұрын
Many moons ago I had a summer job in an abbattoir where a customer requested the pigs' heads should remain attached to the bodies. Unfortunately the heads were accidentally removed as per usual. So me and a few other summer grunts were placed in a room filled with carcasses, provided with several crates filled with independent pig heads, thin rope and a sort of large type of needle and spent a hilarious afternoon sewing pig heads into pig carcasses. Obviously paradise compared to licking radioactive paint brushes, but still...
@thebestusername58525 жыл бұрын
This is by far the worst one I've read in these comments. I shudder thinking about it, lol. 🐷
@dj_lord_tucker5 жыл бұрын
Kudos to doing the job. I would have Noped right out of there.
@coyoteboy56014 жыл бұрын
How could you tell which head went with which body? Were they, like, numbered?
@4nd3rzzon4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like fun
@rev.dr.dayspring78054 жыл бұрын
Thats pretty wild. Pigs with other pigs heads stiched to em and the chaps who made it all possible. Beyond metal. 4 "Leatherfaces" (from texas chainsaw massacre) in a small dark meat cutting room with flickering and swaying inadequate lighting, all sitting in a sewing circle. A grotesque perversion of a sewing circle. Totally f****** metal..
@GeoffV-k1h Жыл бұрын
My mother worked in the 'radium shop' in a WW2 factory in Essex, UK, painting instruments for aircraft. The women earned more than other workers and were collectively honoured with a medal at the end of the war. I don't know whether the precautions were greater by that time, but she was thankfully not affected adversely, though she and her fellow workers were monitored every year by the health authorities until the late 1970's. She eventually died in 2013 aged 89. She had a vague idea what she was doing was risky, but the war effort came first.
@jjohnston945 жыл бұрын
I didn't lose my jaw, but I did lose my dignity. Does that count?
@fanOmry5 жыл бұрын
No. That's standard
@LOLDEMOS5 жыл бұрын
jjohnston94 meh
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
What's a dignity?
@radosawwujec9595 жыл бұрын
@@joescott I just fell out of my bed :D hahahaahha :D
@davidbjacobs35985 жыл бұрын
I did lose my jaw, but at least I kept my dignity. *drops dead*
@HylanderSB5 жыл бұрын
$20 a day in 1914 is like $512 today. I work in IT with over 20 years of experience and I'm not making $512 a day. OK...maybe I'm not at the top of the game but I do OK and I still don't make $512 a day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to eat radioactive paint for $512 a day.
@justsmallstuff49944 жыл бұрын
It's not terrible and it's not great
@HylanderSB4 жыл бұрын
Eat the Rich Policing isn’t as nearly as dangerous to the police as it is to the public.
@MrNeboff4 жыл бұрын
@@justsmallstuff4994 ah I see you . Chernobyl
@daviddunt5455 жыл бұрын
Hey Joe I live In South Africa and I think that your videos are great. You Tubers like you show me that affiliate marketing can be more than hot air and empty promises praying on peoples fears and greed. It can have substance with knowledge and introspection. It can present value. I watched your last video where you compared your channel to that of a guy crushing stuff. Dont compare man, what you do IS much more valuable. Keep up the great work. p.s my opinion only
@BothHands15 жыл бұрын
hoe gaan dit my bru
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
First of all, thank you so much for the kind words, it means a lot. I think if you're in it for the long run, you provide value to people and not just go for the cheap views. Having said that, I'm not above covering a scandalous topic to boost the channel. :) Also, my "comparison" was just for chuckles. I have nothing against the press channel, in fact he commented on that video and was very nice. It's quite mesmerizing actually.
@mustwereallydothis5 жыл бұрын
Wait..! What are you saying? Are you two trying to tell me that he might actually run out of things that squish in an entertaining manner? ImPoSsIbLe! Even if, as crazy as the thought may be, we were to grow tired of watching things get crushed, that accent will easily carry his channel for the rest of the century.
@LoganMaclaren5 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with you. Thanks for voicing my thoghts.
@larnewman30095 жыл бұрын
Joe for US President
@speedster3385 жыл бұрын
I dont think any one of us can imagine how painfull that mustve been, ive been off work now for 2 weeks due to complications with a tooth removal. JUST 1 TOOTH, and ive described it as unbearable at times. That would be absolutly nothing compared to your jaw disintergrating, I cant even fathom the pain these people mustve endured - Great vid as always Joe
@juhak275 жыл бұрын
Joe, a topic suggestion: Bhopal, an industrial accident comparable in scale to Chernobyl
@ritamayachattakhandi67325 жыл бұрын
This would be really interesting to see. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy killed 15000 people in one night: most people died suffocating in there sleep. It affected at least half a million people, many among whom were children who till now carry permanent disabilities. And the responsible pereptrators: got off with a fine of 2000 $ only. Would be really interesting to see How do a video on this.
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'll write that one down. It doesn't get talked about enough.
@bradlemmond5 жыл бұрын
Robert Evans just made an episode of the "Behind the Bastards" podcast, titled _The Industrial Disaster That Makes Chernobyl Look Like Kindergarten_ about it. www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/the-industrial-disaster-that-makes-chernobyl-look-like-kindergarten.htm
@goodtown32585 жыл бұрын
@@joescott check out the book "Set Phasers on Stun" it is a human factors text book focusing on times when the man-machine interphase goes horribly wrong, including Bhopal.
@aditsud53544 жыл бұрын
@@joescott pls talk about it man
@omarmian72645 жыл бұрын
How about a show on asbestos? Some crazy stuff happened with that ......
@susanf9155 жыл бұрын
Have a friend in his late 60s who swears that as kids in a small town in PA, the kids literally played in the scraps from an asbestos plant. (He tends to exaggerate, though, so I would take it with a grain of salt.)
@MrDaltofrevr5 жыл бұрын
Have worked removing the stuff before. thats the worst job I've had. Its a job for convicts and illegal immigrants
@DuffyWayne4 жыл бұрын
@@susanf915 I believe that. Look up an article called "the kids who played with asbestos." One woman in the article recalled using a piece of asbestos to draw lines for hopscotch as a little girl. She later died of mesothelioma in her 40's.
@katybug65723 жыл бұрын
@@DuffyWayne that’s sad. And sick
@DuffyWayne3 жыл бұрын
@@katybug6572 they didn't know any better and neither did their parents. the asbestos industry hid their knowledge of how dangerous it was for decades. wgat you don't know can hurt you
@craigh52365 жыл бұрын
Joe, you are not a know-it-all, and that is what makes you smart.
@adamsmith51515 жыл бұрын
Craig Being smart has nothing to do with how much you know.
@catman21575 жыл бұрын
"knowing everything isnt wise but knowing that you aren't is"- a random dude in the street
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
So you're just gonna leave the "douchebag" part alone. I get it... 😉
@napoleano27485 жыл бұрын
@@joescott lmao
@GeorgeDolbier5 жыл бұрын
@@joescott Craig knows comment bait when he sees it :-)
@SewardWriter5 жыл бұрын
I once worked in a call center under so much pressure that I suffered a psychotic break. Still have my jaw, but I more than a decade later, I still panic at the sound of a ringing phone. As for physical issues, undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome + years of retail = permanent system-wide damage. I live in so much pain that I have a type of medication pump usually only given to cancer patients and other people with terminal issues. I can barely tidy the house and feed myself. Some days, I envy the Radium Girls. Their suffering was unimaginable, but it ended in a few years. Meanwhile, I'm facing a normal life span.
@justin571535 жыл бұрын
"It's like darkness, but....Un" LMAO - killed me on that one Joe.
@SunflowerSpotlight5 жыл бұрын
It makes me think of a saying in my family, when we’re perturbed. “You’ve dis-ed my gruntle and gruntled my dis.” Because, you don’t hear of people being “gruntled.” What a weird lexical gap. 😅
@krashd5 жыл бұрын
@@SunflowerSpotlight People with neat hair are never referred to as 'sheveled'. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3uooouAh7Bnh5Y
@nolanleblanc3 жыл бұрын
Wow, Joe. Thank you for producing this. My aunt painted radium watch faces at the Elgin Watch Company.
@HipsterYoda5 жыл бұрын
Imagine your lower jaw and mouth just decaying and you not knowing why, the pain...
@SunflowerSpotlight5 жыл бұрын
There are various illnesses that can cause horrific symptoms like that, so I’m sure it still happens in some form to people even today, no radium necessary. One sort of similar thing I know of firsthand happened to a family member. From about age twelve or so, her teeth started rotting at an accelerated rate, and she had to have several root canals before she could drive. At first the dentists and assistants gave her lectures, thinking she just wasn’t brushing her teeth properly, or at all, or ate a ton of candy and soda and stuff. I remember her coming back in tears several times. They also didn’t numb her well and even now she’s kind of traumatized about anything medical, dental or otherwise, because of how much they hurt her, not taking her seriously about the pain level. She lost all of her original teeth by the time she was 25 and had to have dentures, but now it looks like we’ll be able to raise the money to get dental implants for her; no one wants to have dentures almost their whole lives. It makes her pretty self-conscious. It turns out, there’s a thing called sjcogren’s (I think that’s how you spell it; it’s spelled just really weirdly, but is said like show-grins in a horrible cruel irony), and it’s like dry eye and mouth in steroids. I have both of those, but she... it’s another level. Contacts get stuck to her eyeballs within fifteen minutes even using a ton of drops. My dad’s a doctor and he had to go help her take them out a few times on the weekend because she couldn’t manage it and it hurt pretty badly. Every mucous membrane is not correctly hydrated and protected, so she’s got massive dry eye, dry mouth, even dry skin and serious reflux. She’s like a sponge, soaks water up really quickly, but then dries out from the inside out because her body just can’t regulate itself. Her mom had it, so they were able to figure it out once it became clear it couldn’t just be a lack of oral hygiene, and the biopsy of her salivary gland proved it. Having cavities, root canals, and all her teeth pulled, over half of that with insufficient pain control, before 25, man. That’s rough. AND if we get the money to get the implants, although it’ll help her quality of life overall, that means dental surgery to drill into her skull and jaw and put these bolt type things into it. And they can break if not done right, AND she may need bone grafts since the longer there’s no teeth, the more the jaw kind of deteriorates (think of how trees anchor topsoil, and when they’re gone, it erodes away). So the pain isn’t even over for her yet. It’s pretty nuts that even with today’s knowledge and medicine, people are walking around with various things that can wreak such havoc on your body and can go un- or misdiagnosed for years.
@SunflowerSpotlight5 жыл бұрын
Scotty Roxwell Don’t feel bad. We’ve got an unusual level of pain and illnesses that cause pain in our family and there’s a really hard lesson that makes it easier, once we’ve learned it. Think about if you fall down a flight of steep stairs and break a rib and dislocate your shoulder. That hurts a lot. If, when you go to the hospital, you’re in a room with someone who fell off a balcony and broke like 1/3 of the bones in their body and have to be in a body cast, that’s horrible! But it doesn’t mean your pain hurts any less simply from knowing they’re in a ton of pain, from a lot of injuries. Personally, I have Fibromyalgia and Lupus, the latter of which is likely to keep taking shots at different systems in my body (it seems to like picking on my kidneys and their function in particular) until it and “complications,” from it kills me. But I likely have a few decades of pain waiting for me before then. It’s not... easy. But my mom has late stage pancreatic cancer and has just been told she needs to have more chemo. Well, it makes me feel like all my issues are Small Fry compared to hers, and that it would be extremely tome deaf and rude to ever bring it up. What’s flank pain causing you to not sleep well compared to cancer pain and the effects of chemo? But just because I know she’s hurting, it doesn’t magically make my own pain disappear, and she knows that. We’re understanding of each other, everyone with health issues in my family, to realize it’s not a contest, wherein only the one in the worst condition Can complain. Long story short, ish: Knowing other pain exists out there, be it long lasting or “worse,” doesn’t delegitimize the pain you experience. You feel what you feel. Especially if you’ve not had experience with pain significantly worse than the pain you’re going through, it can be hard. Hard to cope, to find answers, to find ways to decrease the pain, hard to be taken seriously by people who aren’t sure if you’re telling the truth or wanting attention, pity, and/or a pain prescription. Your pain is legitimate and it matters, just like you do. I really hope your TMJD improves. I’ve had issues with it, but Botox actually helped a lot. I also get migraines, so we kind of treat the two areas on the same day and I can get the soreness over all at once! I’m so tired of people thoughtlessly going up to me in comments, “Oh, you have FM!? Eat the paleo diet, it’ll fix everything. Go vegan, it’ll change your life within the month. The real issue is probably gluten, and if you stop eating it your pain will stop. Go to a chiropractor, all doctors are under Big Pharma and want to keep you sick, and you’re stupid for trusting one. Go to a yogi and let the healing begin. Hot Yoga is the way to go. Everyone gets sore sometimes; use an ice bath and that’ll help! Oh you say you have horrific muscle spasms despite antispasmodics? Well, do it anyway.” So I’m not going to give you advice on you specifically might do to help things, since I don’t know anything about your condition except that it’s there, so your doctor would know to best treat you! Just... if it’s a significant problem, and you don’t have a specialist looking into it, that could help a lot. General practitioners are super, but they don’t have the super deep knowledge that specialists do. Or if you do have one, sometimes people kind of try one thing and it doesn’t work and the specialist doesn’t present anything else to do, really. Being verbal and saying, “Look, this is a problem that’s impacting my life that we need to do whatever we can to fix. What we did first didn’t work, what’s the next step?” Is helpful in showing them that this is really important and that you’re going to advocate for yourself, that if they don’t work on not just problem management but finding a solution, you’ll find someone who will. It’s... intimidating to do at first, but it can make all the difference. I really hope things go well for you, and that in time you find something works for the management of your TMJD so the pain is less a factor in your life. Life has enough pain in it as it is; we don’t need this extra crap on us! Be well, Scotty! 🌷
@susanf9155 жыл бұрын
@@SunflowerSpotlight Sjogrens (No where near as bad, but took ages to find a dentist who GETS it. Sounds really ridiculous, but took 10 years after my old dentist retired to find one who really grasps what a semi-bad case does to your gums. Crazy thing is, she got it and immediately came up with a treatment plan in like 20 minutes).
@turtlejeepjen3142 жыл бұрын
I worked for Bayer CropScience in Stilwell, Kansas for 10 years, in the Neurotoxicology Division. We worked with rats & did ‘safety testing’ of insecticides for products that were/are already on the market. Fast forward, nearly everyone developed cancers or had nerve damage from organophosphates we worked with daily. It was easier & cheaper for the company to settle a class-action lawsuit & other individual ones then it was to alter their protocols & provide safer lab environments. I ended up developing what is basically eye cancer & related nerve damage. (permanent.) One of my co-workers wanted guaranteed Health Insurance for the rest of his life (he got very severe thyroid cancer, & thus was a high-risk person ineligible for a lot of policies after that.) Bayer said NO. He ended up settling for a crappy $5k & a promise to keep his job for at least 5 more years. I left the company, & did my best to just move on. I got pulled into the class-action, & Bayer settled, of course. (It dragged on for several years, & by then the statute of limitations had already passed for me.) Oh, & Bayer ended up closing that facility & moving it out of the country to France because the EPA safety regulations became too strict & they didn’t want to deal with them anymore. Overall, having actually worked in the pesticide division for so long, I DID want to throw out my 2 cents about the “organic” food debate: I think that the chemicals they use on crops & for average pest control ARE safe for the consumer; that is BECAUSE the USA has such strict regulations in place- the companies have TO PROVE their products ARE safe at the mandatory % level & content level on the label required on each item. (ie, everything Bayer has on the shelves at Home Depo, etc.) It’s just the lab technicians like me that are testing at super high levels to see at WHAT LEVEL does it become harmful, & at what level IS SAFE. The EPA will either deny or approve of their final results. Oh, & about ORGANIC PRODUCE, etc: here is what I tell folks if they ask: save your money & just buy the NORMAL items; those “organic” producers are LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!!!! OMG!!! (The EPA is trying hard to find a way to regulate EXACTLY what “organic” is & what qualifies & what doesn’t. Right now it is just a huge free-for-all & a HUGE CASH GRAB by “organic” venders. But that is just MY opinion, & my experience actually working in the industry.
@estelja5 жыл бұрын
Working in the Nuka-Cola factory. Lost a lot of friends to conditions called Ghoulism and Super-Mutancy...
@CaptainJack20485 жыл бұрын
$20 per hour + shortened lifespan = greater lifetime spending power -- some corporate lawyer, probably.
@jadoncampbell27405 жыл бұрын
Nice job I don't know how you dont have a few million subscribers yet
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
Because there's no justice in this world. ...and because it just takes time. I'm thankful for what I've got.
@Andrew-hp1yj5 жыл бұрын
Because he doesn't squish things with a hydrolic press!
@cynthiavalencia7245 жыл бұрын
I said the same thing when he had like 500 subscribers. Look at him now! Lol
@SunflowerSpotlight5 жыл бұрын
Just give it time. I have full confidence that if he keeps this up, it’s only a matter of time.
@napadave585 жыл бұрын
Nice compliment ... disguised as a little dig. Haha. Your videos are awesome. Why am I the only one who thinks so?
@invisible_heart96124 жыл бұрын
I’ve been reading the radium girls book and it’s sad to hear how they didn’t know until they all started passing
@kipnielsen87525 жыл бұрын
Worst Job? Well Tester on a 90% sour disposal well. Yes, 90% H2S, when 0.00001 % is too dangerous to work with. Think about lifting the heaviest things you've ever lifted (4" flow pipe), walk them through knee deep mud, and if you take a breath without your mask on youre dead.
@douggale59625 жыл бұрын
Yeah, H₂S is really nasty stuff. Numbs your smell, causes narcosis and loss of consciousness, highly flammable, and hiding everywhere in mining operations.
@scottmantooth87855 жыл бұрын
no thanks...life is complicated enough as it is
@thaliazelmer23275 жыл бұрын
Do you work in northern Alberta?
@cycle4lifeac5 жыл бұрын
I avoided sour work like the plague. Even trace amounts would give me heartburn.
@CatchThesePaws3 жыл бұрын
Companies are still denying dangerous chemicals and terrible treatment of workers... it’s so terrible
@loraclarkston34865 жыл бұрын
You put soooo much work into these video's!!!! Wow... Tying stories together seamlessly. The humor is the best. These videos will be world famous one day!!!
@MonsterSound.Bradley5 жыл бұрын
Lets hope.🏆
@grizzlymiller86945 жыл бұрын
Joe, some other more recent (military) travesties that are very similar: Agent Orange, burn pits, PTSD, and now malaria pills. You could just do a video on how the gov't has treated its veterans.
@cellphonecam13 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget that white phosphorus is STILL USED in ordnance despite being banned under the Geneva conventions. Y’know. The stuff that seeks out your mucus membranes, mixes with water, and turns in to acid while also incurable poisoning you. We use it in smoke grenades.
@MusicTheoryInAMinute5 жыл бұрын
And yet, there are still states, like Texas, that are “right-to-work states,” a euphemism for states that do not give unions any real power. Disgusts me. I was raised in Oregon and now live in Texas, the difference in common work-place practices is staggering. It’s disgusting what they get away with here. Sorry to be a downer. Gotta love that existential dread! 😂Love your channel Joe!
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
"...I was raised in Oregon." Yeah, we know. 😒
@MusicTheoryInAMinute5 жыл бұрын
gingataisen ?? 🤨
@grandetaco44165 жыл бұрын
Ironic that union in Texas took down Hostess.
@ShelburneCountry5 жыл бұрын
Sorry but if the only way the union can get 'real power' is by being able to force the workers to join, the union is not really there for the workers now is it?
@heronimousbrapson8635 жыл бұрын
@@ShelburneCountry Why not? The philosophy of "right to work" is really "divide and conquer".
@drsbutler3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@boblouis16595 жыл бұрын
A guy with full blown AIDS bled all over me. I'm fine, but that was a little stressful at the time.
@riaranta31504 жыл бұрын
Bob Louis are you a paramedic? ER doctor? I’m curious as to how that happened 🧐
@lonestarr14903 жыл бұрын
@@riaranta3150 Maybe he's just your usual Texan chainsaw killer.
@katybug65723 жыл бұрын
Yikes! What job was that???
@redriver65415 жыл бұрын
Another great one Joe.....learning and laughing.....you've got this down pat brother.
@celinehatting30805 жыл бұрын
OMG, I remember requesting the radium girls! Thanks Joe! ^^
@ChrisSmith-ec6qp5 жыл бұрын
Just sent this link to my unmotivated summer help. With the caption "You may find painting walls boring, but your face is still intact".
@katybug65723 жыл бұрын
HA! Nice 😆 👍
@duser5 жыл бұрын
Massive shade thrown to the tobacco and cigarret company.
@alphagt625 жыл бұрын
Working for the tobacco company is actually quite lucrative. They pay big bucks! Great benefits, and working around tobacco doesn’t hurt you if you don’t smoke it.
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
@@alphagt62 Plus, people who need the govt' to tell them that inhaling tar into their lungs is dangerous, deserve to get cancer.
@alphagt625 жыл бұрын
gingataisen they certainly have no one else to blame.
@Ultiminati5 жыл бұрын
Well, I wouldn't cause people's losing money and health on nothing by helping them with working. If I didn't work, somebody else would work logic wouldn't work if nobody wanted to work.
@scottmantooth87855 жыл бұрын
at one time over a period of four years (1952-1956), H&V produced asbestos filters for Lorillard's Kent brand cigarettes, and Lorillard marketed the new Micronite filter as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”...soon we'll hear of the health benefits of vaping roundup weedkiller to prevent the dangers and hazards of weeds growing in your lungs
@budershank5 жыл бұрын
Tech support for Dell in the early 2000s was probably the worst job. I didn't lose my jaw though... just a my hair,.
@CultureAgent5 жыл бұрын
Erm...I don't think General AI will have to be super intelligent to replace us.
@ShelburneCountry5 жыл бұрын
Speak for yourself. General AI should be sufficient to replace me!
@CultureAgent5 жыл бұрын
@@ShelburneCountry Not worried about A.I. replacing me, IBM's "Job For Life" evaporated in 2003 when I was replaced by a Hungarian, then Chinese, then they gave up the PC game altogether. I don't think A.I. could match my artistry in photography right enough....I'm joking.
@BrandonCase5 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah, once it hits ‘passably intelligent’ we’ll be left in the dust
@MrLanceHeartnet4 жыл бұрын
We IT guy who build pc is like god to A.i, or at least angels... They will worship us instead. Nah, kidding we are the 1st to be enslave to create their billions army.
@kennethhoopaugh83755 жыл бұрын
They should make a movie or at least a documentary about the radium corporation.
@dezzlok5 жыл бұрын
"So how's your job?" Can't complain.
@doggonemess15 жыл бұрын
Because they have no jaw. I see what you did there.
@dezzlok5 жыл бұрын
Nope, rather I'm saying I can't complain compared to these people.
@Ultiminati5 жыл бұрын
@@dezzlok Yeah, complaining is unfair to those people but wanting a better one is ok i guess.
@joannot67065 жыл бұрын
1:07 Just so it's clear: Slavery lasted for about at least 250 years or so for conservative numbers, not "about a 100 years or so" in the "land of the free'. And we know that between the 13th amendment and the actual time it took to really enforce it, it took more than that.
@koganusan5 жыл бұрын
and slavery isnt over yet. consider that slavery was outlawed "except as a measure of punishment". american prisoners are forced to work in miserable conditions, sometimes fighting wildfires in california or labouring in hot fields during the day and are paid literally cents.
@ec81075 жыл бұрын
Technically, he is correct. The US wasn't a country until 1776. So, technically, slavery existed less than 100 years in the US.
@mikeyc81395 жыл бұрын
Marie Curie's doorknob is a bit overstated. It's only about 10x background radiation. You can safely use it... but I wouldn't put it in my pocket and sleep with it. :-)
@badhombre49424 жыл бұрын
Uh huh, that would do wonders for your knob.
@katybug65723 жыл бұрын
@@badhombre4942 LOL!
@dallasodell86405 жыл бұрын
Great video Joe... no need for cable tv when we have guys like you putting out such interesting videos
@erichaynes75025 жыл бұрын
The Radium Girls; making $20 a day ingesting radium at work. Not Great. Not Terrible..
@MonsterSound.Bradley5 жыл бұрын
Ouch!
@dylanlloyd3495 жыл бұрын
3.6 roentgen? Well its not great but its not terrible
@LegionOfWeirdos5 жыл бұрын
Worst job I ever had - Third shift charge nurse in a drug an alcohol detox center. The older people in my family had lots of radium clocks and most of them still glowed when I was a kid (in the early/mid 70s). I thought they were the creepy yet comforting. I've never seen anything that can duplicate the look.
@ztrglider5 жыл бұрын
Normally, I love watching your videos during my lunch break. While eating. ...Not today. Not today.
@wildoatling5 жыл бұрын
Random Thursday's are always my favourite videos that you put out.
@ButchHartmanart5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Love your channel 😎
@theclassyfrosty45924 жыл бұрын
How does this only have 3 likes?
@dr-wn9xc4 жыл бұрын
Yo those commissions thou
@palerider45824 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, it's bitch fartman!
@imliterallygarfield3 жыл бұрын
Oh no..
@tomskibicki96525 жыл бұрын
Random Thursday episode’s are the best 👍👍
@georgeduke27525 жыл бұрын
Once again shows how powerful and positive Unions are! Workers of the world, unite and unionise!
@gingataisen5 жыл бұрын
I read this comment in black and white.
@Levitiy5 жыл бұрын
Workers of the world will never unite. Also, CEOs are laborers too, but I doubt that you would be inclusive towards them.
@larryshaw65174 жыл бұрын
In the early 1950s my mother worked at a factory in Chicago that built electric stoves, her job was mounting radium dial clocks in the stoves, I don't remember which stove manufacturer it was, but they employed a lot of people. Thanks
@motherinmaat69475 жыл бұрын
Always awesome videos. That's what I love about your channel Joe- even when the topic is material and information I'm already familiar with, you bring it in a way that always teaches me something new or gets me looking at things from a whole new perspective. Keep up the good work and thank you!
@bullseyecanada5 жыл бұрын
Radium was used on airplane dials well into the 2nd World War in Canada. The slag heaps of radium from the factories in Toronto, Ontario f'rinstance were carted off and buried in outlying suburbs of the growing city. In the 1970s I moved into a subdivision where 128 townhomes were built on top of radium waste dumped there in 1947. Cancer began to appear within 3 years of subdivision being built. The government at the time paid off all the tenants of these homes to buy their silence. The site was "cleaned" and the slag was moved a mile north and dumped into another field. After 30 years of being untouched, a series of Habit For Humanity homes was built in that spot - and the cancer rate has begun to grow.
@viggosoez22635 жыл бұрын
I guess the worst job I had (safetywise) would be a salmon processing plant the was on a ship in Alaska. Exposed to multiple freezing temperatures, the pace enviorement and the bad working habits of the staff made me rethink the worth of fast money.
@patrick247two5 жыл бұрын
I was given a wrist watch for Christmas many years ago. It had radium painted on the dial face. I remember gazing at that nuclear glow long into the night. Now I get chills remembering that glow.
@cg215 жыл бұрын
I'm on the other side right now. We have ten employees and me and my two partners are doing our best to provide them with a enjoyable workplace. Not all bosses are heartless, capitalistic soul eaters. :-) Also this makes my work much more enjoyable, too :-D
@PinataOblongata5 жыл бұрын
Massive props to you - especially if you're making the choice to spend a bit more money (or not make as much) in order to do that - so many short-term thinkers do not understand how investing in their employees pays off in the long run, for everyone. If every employer was like you, there would be so much less suffering from stress and depression in the world and we would normalise healthy conditions.
@cg215 жыл бұрын
@@PinataOblongata Richard Branson said some years ago “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” From my experience this is absolutely right.
@jakeaaron5 жыл бұрын
@@cg21 Treat your employees right and they'll treat the customers right. Such a simple idea yet so few do it. sad.
@Slideyslide5 жыл бұрын
Love hearing this. I absolutely hate my job and am looking for a new one because it’s so bad. They literally work you to death and want to pay you as little as possible.
@candaceroberts32385 жыл бұрын
My daughter owns a business. She is the best employer and treats people with kindness and respect and in return has loyal employees. She can also sleep peacefully, I’m very proud of her.
@hatbrigade5 жыл бұрын
I grew up just a few minutes away from Orange. One of my neighbor's yards was so contaminated by the radium it was declared a superfund site somewhere around 1997...some 70 years after the US Radium Corp stopped operations there. A radium girl had buried enough of it that it had to be excavated THREE times (I'm pretty sure, anyway) before it was deemed safe for new inhabitants.
@SupriyoAkhuli5 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on NAPALM. I recently watched Apocalypce Now and a documentary named Vietnam in HD and am very much interested in this topic. Keep up the good work!
@hdmat1015 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you get this alot but, I get excited every time you upload a new video
@TheLineCutter5 жыл бұрын
"Fossy jaw", perfect name for a Forsaken character.
@BothHands15 жыл бұрын
finsclapping lol yess
@michelguevara1515 жыл бұрын
I got declared dead after a road accident 22 years ago. that really messed my life up. I was a motorcycle despatch rider in London at the time. life expectancy 3 months. scared the crap out of a nurse, who had just spent 8 hours walking back and forth to the Accident and Emergency Department past my 'corpse' in an unlit corridor, when I came back. unfortunately, being declared dead in England is immediately entered in all official records and you files are all marked 'historic'. the State unpersonned me. (this is thanks to 'Carlos the Jackal's' failed attempt on DeGaulle's life contracted by the OAS. ironically , I'm French!) impossible to get any help when you've no family and your friends all think you're dead. came out of hospital 7 months later to find the home that was freehold and that I'd paid in full before meeting her, had been sold by the live-in. she'd cleaned me out with her copy of the death certificate and her Common Law spousal rights after 5+ years cohabitation. everything was gone. everything. worse, I had to live on the streets with a full leg cast for 3+ years too, because being a lone male, I was "not a priority". ho hum.
@crayoncer5 жыл бұрын
As a chairman of a Union shop, I appreciate every time a smart person recognizes that unions made life better then and I promise you we still do now. Take away all the big B.S., I help the little guy every day. And when I get a big raise for my members the salary guys thank me cuz they know it will be cause for them to ask for one.
@jrnqproductions99393 жыл бұрын
Proof that we can never trust corporate...ever. Also proof of how far we've come...and how much we might lose in the future.
@rob-v1y5 жыл бұрын
Well, if you are in Texas you are only a short drive away from seeing people out in the 100 degree plus heat chopping weeds out of cotton fields. Fields that are constantly being sprayed with Glyphosate and / or 24-D. There will probably be a video featuring those people in a decade or so....maybe. Nah, probably not. *Which reminds me - they used to defoliate cotton with....arsenic. There used to be people working in delinting plants who handled it. Their fingernails would fall off and of course, they suffered with all the other problems associated with ..well....arsenic poisoning. Now they defoliate it with a chemical that is much safer. A chemical once known as "Agent Orange".
@ShelburneCountry5 жыл бұрын
Yet we ban Plastic bags and tell the public to buy reusable cotton bags which is much safer for the environment (ignore the chemicals they use to grow them, the fuel they use to process them, and the germs that propagate within them .. as long as the harbor seal is happy......
@philippesantini24255 жыл бұрын
Lol...love the intro. :) My workplace was so bad that I almost died multiple times within a year from July 2007 to April 2008. 1)Fell from 35' height. 2)Almost decapitated but I was quick enough to only end up with a major concussion. 3) got hit by forklifts multiple times because the drivers blind-racing down the rows with pallets blocking their views(supposed to drive backwards when view is obscured). I worked as lead/supervisor for a bonded cargo warehouse at the local airport. Forklift operators with no driver's licenses, let alone forklift operator licenses. This resulted in constant accidents. Saw a guy chop his own finger off while driving a lift, I had to pick it up and put it on ice for him. We didn't have a safety cage to go up in the racks and fix crooked pallets, so we'd simply stand on a wooden pallet while someone on the lift would raise us up to 30-40 feet up (without any lifeline). I myself fell off and broke my right shoulder in spectacular fashion...the following Monday we finally got a safety cage. Before I started working there, a guy had broken his back doing the same task. Storage racks with warped footing, not bolted together or to the floors, one good knock(refer to operators mentioned above) and they collapsed like domino or worse(happened a few times). I once had a skid/pallet of steak knives collapse from a 3story height rack and land 6 feet away from me. Electric forklift batteries badly maintained, spewing acid vapors. Do it yourself battery swaps without the proper equipment. Dangerous goods like oxidizers stacked/stored with flammables and explosives. Many more examples but even more importantly, I was also the safety officer and after voicing my concerns to the higher ups and being laughed out of the offices, I finally made an anonymous tip to the appropriate agency. They sent an inspector that I think got bribed. Because his only recommendations were to paint lines on the floor to designate safe walking lanes(to no be run over by forklifts) and he said we had to leave the fire extinguishers in their designated spots rather than use them as door stops for the offices. Joke was on us for thinking our safety and lives were of any concern to anyone in a position to bring change. I also witnessed a coworker report a shipment full of hashish to the authorities, they came and seized it but the employee was fired 2 days later for "unrelated reasons". He had worked there for 6 years and was one of the best, hardworking workers we had. All of that for 10$/hr to 15$/hr. I ended up unable to work because of injuries and had multiple surgeries. The company and government then loopholed me out of disability pension and I now live in abject poverty. This is after having paid into a system since I started working weekends & after school at age 14. The upside is I feel more free then I ever have. So in conclusion, we may have progressed since the days of those poor radium ladies but still have a long way to go before we see a safe & fair work environment for all. Be safe! ;)
@FrankCastle-he8fl5 жыл бұрын
Doing hepatitis test and working in r i a using radioactive isotopes and then when you're done with them we just flush them down the sink which was cool with the state of California how I don't know
@joescott5 жыл бұрын
😳
@i_love_rescue_animals5 жыл бұрын
Yeesh! 😳
@JensPilemandOttesen5 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear more!
@micheleparker81235 жыл бұрын
🤯😱
@chuckschillingvideos4 жыл бұрын
There is baseline radioactivity in everything we touch. The fact that a material has some radioactivity does not necessarily make it a health risk of consequence.
@2008-wii-remote5 жыл бұрын
Nobody seems to be saying this but: it has been observed in the construction of workers tombs and the contents of their stomach that the workers building the pyramids weren’t slaves. Analyzing their stomach contents tells us that they are beef, a luxury that slaves wouldn’t be given. So it is believed that they were paid workers. A small oversight, not everyone can know anything. Keep up the good work!
@NoOne-fe3gc5 жыл бұрын
Work retail. Lose dignity, will to live, hope for mankind. Not bad, not great
@virginiagirl66285 жыл бұрын
Your jaw falls off...it's unpleasant 😂 I am glad you can bring some fun into serious subjects. I feel so sorry for those poor women. I literally can't even imagine what they went through. Thankfully through the pain they suffered others had safer work eventually.
@MiniAirCrashInvestigation5 жыл бұрын
Wow they had class action lawsuits because people were dying and the company needed to change its ways. Today we have class action lawsuits because our macbook pro keyboard stopped working
@TheKaurK5 жыл бұрын
Flint Water Crisis.
@Casey-Jones5 жыл бұрын
That was a nice uplifting video - thanks
@neivepower5454 жыл бұрын
This makes me wonder about all the “safe” chemicals in our daily lives today 😟💀
@mr.chaosvicious59684 жыл бұрын
*PRESS X TO DOUBT*
@tiarezavaleta88503 жыл бұрын
Preach. Sometimes I'm scare of wearing make-up because of that.
@joshstephens15275 жыл бұрын
Gotta say, I really enjoy your narrative/storytelling style!
@timrobinson5135 жыл бұрын
And not one got super powers
@Chris-xl6pd5 жыл бұрын
Its almost like the idea behind spiderman was a lie all along.
@timrobinson5135 жыл бұрын
Noooooooooooooooo
@idodaisuke42855 жыл бұрын
they had jaw dropping powers....
@Zackfish123454 жыл бұрын
I’m one of those workers with a physically demanding job slowly wearing down my body over time, but I’m only 23 so I gotta say I don’t mind getting paid to use my body and spend all day outside!
@MCsCreations5 жыл бұрын
All that and not ONE Spiderman? Impossible! 😐
@turningpoint42385 жыл бұрын
I did my arboricultural internship in the USA and that was the most dangerous job there until the year before when elephant training became the leader. Also have a story about glow in the dark dials. Before I was working at a nuclear plant one day the alarms went off when a delivery truck arrived (UPS or one of those). Turns out the truck had some original dials for a spitfire a chap was building a replica cockpit of with the glow in the dark paint on it. Also turns out the chap also worked at the plant but the delivery truck was on the way to his place. Another time the alarms were tripped was when the company gave everyone smoke alarms not knowing they contained a radioactive source.
@lowres963 жыл бұрын
Bunch of women die: **crickets** One dude dies: You know what... Yeah we should probably file a lawsuit.
@benjalucian15153 жыл бұрын
That's exactly how it works.
@ethexofficial89744 жыл бұрын
There was a guy that lost his foot in a recycling compactor at work. He said his foot got stuck between the crusher and the blade, but because the blade was so dull it didn't cut his foot off, rather his foot got crushed and he said he felt every bone get crushed in his foot before his foot was finally severed.
@SeiShinjitsuShi5 жыл бұрын
"I'm not against capitalism, because Chernobyl" is probably one of the weirdest takes I've heard.
@koganusan5 жыл бұрын
as we all know, anyone who isnt on board with late-stage capitalism literally wants to resurrect the sovier union and has a massive boner for the great purge /s
@snorf5253 жыл бұрын
@@koganusan what the fuck does this mean
@koganusan3 жыл бұрын
@@snorf525 uuuh nice of you to resurrect that comment from the dead ussr=bad capitalism=bad thats the gist
@BruceRioux5 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine did his tour in Vietnam and came home to work in a sawmill in Norway, Maine. He lasted two weeks. He said everyone in there had parts of their hands missing. Many had no thumbs.
@filipskotnica9715 жыл бұрын
Joe you have the manliest, coolest jaw anyone has ever had and it looks totally ok. That was just in case this whole video was made for a secret, different reason...
@elwinvanwees85165 жыл бұрын
Long time viewer, very happy with an other Random Thursday!
@johntheux92385 жыл бұрын
Hey, we work with Hydrofluoric acid , it does the same job than biphosphates, which is worst?
@Dagnostic5 жыл бұрын
I'd say biphosphates is worse, at least hf kills you quicker.
@Levitiy5 жыл бұрын
Hang on to them hazmat suits for dear life, bruh.
@jaredwarmack39435 жыл бұрын
There is a place near my home town called Radium Springs and yes, they bottled the water and people swam in it. It is now fenced off from the public, but you can still see lots of fishes in it.