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They’ll Kill You, Then Re-open Shop
I last posted this with generalities, but I figured I'd name and shame with this post, now: Alaska Excursions, based out of Skagway, AK disregarded documented years of safety recommendations from past and current employees for their most popular guided tour, Glacier Point. It led to a canoe capsizing in a raging river, sending all occupants into freezing water. A tourist on his honeymoon died from blunt force trauma after being bashed against rocks in the rapids. The other occupants of the canoe were luckily rescued by the Coast Guard (your tax dollars saving private business' fuckups). It could have happened to anyone on that tour. The sheriff ruled it an accident. Alaska X continued tours a couple weeks later, but this time with the safety recommendations that past employees were screaming about for years. The company got their license renewed by the city they operate out of a year…
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u/the_rainbowfish reminded me of something that happened in my old job. Disclaimer: This happened to another person, and this is all from what others told me. I was a maintenance tech in a factory, and one day, I encountered the keys of a machine operator left in one of his machines. I later learned that the operator had quit and left the machine's keys there because the factory had not accepted his resignation. One of the older maintenance techs told me that the machine operator had given his 2 week notice, but the factory rejected it because they wanted him to stay and train someone since he was the only one that knew how to operate specific machines and none of the other operators didn't. (The machines were very old). However, the factory had not given him a timeline of how long this would take and had not selected or…
I work at a school my school that introduced these repetitive computer lessons that now take up a good third if not more of the school day . Some of the kids unsurprisingly hate them and will do anything to get out of them. So now we apparently can’t let them get water or go to the bathroom during computer time until we meet our class quota of minutes . These are very young children I’m so angry .
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Hey all. I'm 24 years old, have a biology degree (undergrad) here, graduated in May 2020. Worked as an EMT for $15.75/hr in NYC after graduation (during COVID lmao) for just under a year. I started working at this lab last May, and at the time, was honestly just happy to get away from the bandaid box on wheels that was my previous employment. Working as a toxicology technician — only one in the lab, running mass spec, analyzer, and COVID PCR for $18/hr. Doing all data entry, reagent & supply orders, anything you can think of. The crazy part is, the way it works is that urinalysis (main test since it's a “pain management” clinic) is billed as soon as these people piss in the cup. Insurance pays out ~700 bucks for each SAMPLE. Since insurance is assuming we're sending it out to QuestLabs or MetPath or something, not…