a post I made earlier regarding worker safety was DELETED because, despite my LEGITIMATE ALARM work safety practices were lacking re an air compressor, one user was convinced I was “burning bridges for no reason.”
I'm “burning bridges” and tried calling OSHA because, it was my understanding from the manual and huge amount of warning stickers, there is a reason the warnings in the manual, and the warning stickers on said equipment, exist.
I'm frustrated and feeling in a bad mental place about work, even the potential of finding other work, because, after calling OSHA and trying desperately to describe what I KNOW is a horrible issue that my employers REFUSE to help me take seriously, they made any excuse to not do work today and not understand the issue, as if I was speaking to a brick wall.
Its apparent to me the field I attempted to go into, which I take much pride and care in because it is clinical and regards the care of patients, is absolutely careless and no one within it, not even the “qualified people on staff” last night after I left, is comfortable with a rather simple piece of equipment that ONLY poses a danger and threat to safety IF it is regularly ill maintained and operated.
My frustration is how easy would it be, if it had been the first step in ANY training I received in my field to operate this equipment, besides how to effectively sell medical devices at a mark up to patients, to avoid the situations I was witness to.
These situations were threatening both patient and worker safety, which everyone, from qualified professionals in the field I tried to go into, to random reddit commenters, and even OSHA, are unfamiliar enough with to train properly and then enforce safe operating standards of and tell me I'm “Melodramatic about.”
I'm done. I give up. I want to work. I want my education in lab operation to go to good use. But no one cares and no one will EVER hear it.
Back to cynically not caring about anything and only grabbing a paycheck.