I loved getting out of the Office....and Yes, I had lot's of Fun....

Thank you. somebody who finally references the video that was talked about with a link in either a pinned comment or the description so I can go to it.

Hi, the link in the description is incorrect.

I think Jamie was right about you.

I came in late just as you said it might be your circus or your monkey lol I thought...this is going to be good Haha Love Adam savage!💙🙏

Raising a glass to you. Well done.

is see it this way if they cut corners on PPE which is the bare min where else are they cutting corners?

My Great Grandpa got fired from a job installing Power Lines in the Rocky Mountains. When he came back, he set up shop, hired guys out from his previous owners company, and then proceeded to run his former company out of business within 3 years. He then continued that process until he had ran other competition out. As well. He made a fortune for himself and the company still operates today.

Yes sir

"The new guys aren't worth it" That is an insane sentiment to hold in any field with risk of physical harm. Glad you got out of there, that boss should get locked in a porta-john until he comes to his senses.

Same here lmao

+1 lol

And I would support him still lol

Same lol

😂 SAME

Toxic masculinity around PPE, in my experience, worried they’ll be seen as “less of a man” if they wear gloves

It's hard for some people to see other people avoiding their mistakes.

Some people won't believe that you are a mechanic unless you have dirty and mangled hands.

Misery loves company.

Next time ask them how are their hands, feet, back ect. TREATING THEM TODAY?? Then whip out some moisturizer!

I am a stickler for safety. But holy crap, these kiddos 25 and under are just not listening. I feel like I'm answering the same questions every single day. 90 day probation period has come and gone. Like Adam said. They are terrible at their jobs but they keep a good attitude. And that goes a long way.

exposure and experience are not accepted currencies to pay your bills.

Or in creative markets like writing where they ask for money FROM YOU upfront and/or buy all the rights. Be choosy and take your time finding a publisher when you're ready to submit. Better to get a rejection than to lose money and the full rights to your story.

Good advice. Same goes for "give me this one cheap and I'll make it up to you later" - oddly I got that a lot from wealthy people.

@@mainely8007 Yeah, that is a huge red flag too.

@@mainely8007 That's why they have money.

If I said that every time I'm about to swear , I would never get anything done 😂

Adam is one of the classier Savages.

and still the coolest in the room😅😂

Putting the Savage in Savage

Reminds me of the "Can I be mean" meme lol

... Because the other mook is gonna think he has a friend?

It's easier to avoid business with a stiff than it is to get paid by one.

yeah, that one kinda hit hard...

@@theprojectproject01 No, one for the person you seek revenge against and one for yourself because Vengeance is self destructive... In other words, you kill your Soul when you go after someone for Revenge...and your Soul is what occupies that second grave...

yeah heard that one a few times before... its a good way to keep a level head when you get really annoyed with someone

chain of responsibility law is very real and you can be jailed for breaking it. a manager for a Australian transport company was jailed recently for 3 years because he was negligent he allowed a driver who wasnt fit to drive, work for the company, (that driver is now in prison for 3 counts of dangerous driving.) the manager had also encouraged others to ignore fatigue legislation on several occasions. he also got a substantial fine it was tens of thousands of dollars. his negligence cost 3 people thier lives and put thousands of people at risk.

….if no one uses it, why were they out of it? 🤣 that makes no sense.

@@heatherr4321 yeah if no one used it you would think it would be gathering dust on the shelf. more like the couldn't be bothered to buy any so there never was any to begin with. in my country most employers not in the white collar world provide all ppe and uniform including footwear and often the shirts are embroidered with the company logo and your name. a bloke i shared a house with is a welder his employer supplies him with uniform one day a manger saw his shirt was stained and ripped told him go see the office girls about a new shirt. if he wants new shirts etc he just has to request them.

@@heatherr4321 Stuff can get gross and thrown out. I can easily imagine like, 2 year old gloves with ancient oil and grease on them getting tossed b/c they sat on a nasty back shelf never getting used.

It gets better: you are still responsible to a degree if the employee doesn't use the available PPE. That is called "lack of oversight" and amounts to neglecting your duty to make sure people work safely.

Irony has a sense of humor.

🤣

Sounds like you need a lawyer

LOL

Who's that has the tattoo on his palm: "Pay up, sucka" I think he was a bike mechanic?

we have a system that X amount is due up front and the student must be fully paid prior to their last lesson

Good plan to use that booking system! I learned to avoid working for wealthy people, they tended to obsess over their money and viewed paying me as a game they had to "win" by under-paying, slow paying or not paying.

@@mainely8007 i can tell you don't like rich people with how much you mention it

@@Astares9 i can tell that you’ve never worked for a rich person as a freelancer

@@Astares9 Rich people don't need you to get offended on their behalf, ESPECIALLY for free.

I think that's some of the best advice I've ever heard on the subject.

Very well put! All of my friends say I should be a professional gourmet chef. NOPE. I love my creations (and so do my friends) but in a pro kitchen I would quickly learn to hate cooking.

Formally studied fine art in my late teens (knew I could do it all, except painting - seriously painting - in oils. Had people try to convince me up until then, but never wanted to give it the time. And, it does take time, to do it seriously!), and studied Graphic Design in my 40s (not because I needed to, more to get them to knock the rough edges off what I'd already learned over the years). Do I do either of those things as a job? Not on your life! I found out, when working for a major newspaper in my twenties, when they discovered that I could design and draw - even though they had an in-house artist, who couldn't draw (she was what they used to call a ticketwriter, not a finished artist; someone who used Quik-Cut art books instead of a pen!) - other staff utilised my skills, even though I wasn't financially compensated for any of it. I grew to hate picking up a pen, until many years later. The Graphic Design is used purely for my own therapy ("It's called sanity maintenance, Tubbs."), for when I want to be precise and specific in my hobbies (logo creation, design materials for our film projects, etc.). And I also use CAD programs when I want to walk my mind through certain design processes, for my propmaking and modification processes. If I did wish to despise these things, I'd do them for a living. Since I don't wish to, I keep them only for myself.

Love the process, not the product. I just wrote that on my mirror. That might just be what I've been missing with my leather business. Thank you so much!

Then again... why not love both? Maybe it should be "love the process FIRST" Nothing wrong with loving the product too, but we gotta love the process!

When I think of "modern day heroism", it didn't involve him.

But he does.

It's like listening to a human. Uncanny. :D

Um at 1:46

Um gets a bad rep. Um indicates you intend to keep talking and helps avoid you getting cut off by someone who thinks you're done speaking.

@@splurg123 He’s alone talking to a camera. No one around to interrupt.

6. Payment triggers/draws/events throughout the project. I work on certain vintage equipment and often there is a troubleshooting, design, prototype, manufacturing, assembly. Each of those steps I like to get paid. It also keeps the client engaged to get a photo of the problem and a bill. Dont pay the bill project stalls. Now I design and 3D print a prototype of the broken component and validate it picture video bill. Pay me or do not pay me project stalls. This means when we get to the final assembly Im only really due a fraction of the project cost if they lose interest or steam in the project they can take it back. Recently I had this with a gear for a hit and miss engine we got the part 3d printed and installed and the thing "worked" the part can be reprinted if it breaks for pennies so for 500 he has a print file for an obsolete part and a nylon gear. To get that gear in metal is going to run him about another grand because it can be made by modification of an existing part. But he can always come back later and he liked being involved in the process. Now if he starts having someone else make the gear off my work and selling them online my contract requires a comission for each unit sold.

​@@bryceg5709 and timeline triggers for if they are unresponsive or slow to provide key resources for you to uphold your end of the overall timeline

@@bryceg5709 One thing the company I work for is struggling with right now is convincing people to give us their credit card number. Like, yeah, your thing is fixed, just pay us and we'll ship it. But they don't. Splitting it into bite sized chunks would be helpful for a lot of customers, I think.

The Serenity Prayer is my goto, I have like 5 of them around my house, one right by my front door, to remind me.

I very much agree with this in general. Injured people can quickly become _everybody's_ problem though, so I'm not sure it really applies to PPE.

​@@OrigamiMarie as someone whose part of their job is literally HAZMAT and CS Rescue. I will say... That is virtually almost never the case. There are examples that come to mind where you could actually injure someone else. Like an inebriated heavy machinery operator which could injure a worker working near or with said machinery. Although that's not a PPE issue. Exactly how would you choosing not to wear PPE injure someone else? In chemical plants there is a potential of secondary contamination. If you are working with a very strong acid and don't decon properly you could end up contaminating first responders and hurting them. You could put yourself in a position where rescue could injure another person. Like if you passed out in a room filled with dangerous gasses or maybe no air at all because you weren't wearing proper PPE it could be first responders or your coworkers at risk trying to save you. Although all of these problems are less problems of PPE and ones of location/place. Being in a tanker with unsupported oxygen... Why are we doing such anyways? Normally in these serious incidents it is an issue of the lack of education prior to an incident. And that's normally a failure of the workplace in general. Like the lack of standardized testing of workspace air quality. If you choose not to wear safety glasses and a blade breaks off into your eye who are you putting in danger? No one. You just went blind by being an idiot. That's all.

@@xPRODIGYxGAMER Depends what you mean by "danger" - if you mean risk, then yes, that last example would certainly put others at risk, unless you think that having an injured employee, or worse, a death on your hands, isn't a risk. For other employees, it means that you are at risk of additional restrictions, delays to your work, and/or being witness to a horrific injury or death. Safety is NOT optional, and acting like your choice to not adhere to safety guidelines (including PPE) doesn't affect others is reckless at best.

I just want to give this a boost. This is too true. "Personal" protection is, truly, almost never exclusively personal.

@@Glamador it's a lot like community health. Personal health and public health are really closely intertwined.

The exact same idea as wearing Covid masks, just because you don't care if you get sick doesn't mean it won't affect anyone (or everyone) around you.

No thanks. I have plenty of my own business to mind. Give it a try.

The reasoning here is a slightly different one: as the driver you are responsible for the people in your car, so it is your duty to make sure they conform to the seatbelt rule. You're the one with the license, you know the rules. Same thing in the workplace: not only is the employer responsible for providing suitable PPE, they also need to train employees to use the stuff and need to regularly monitor compliance with safety rules.

I was looking for this quote. 👍

i want that shirt 😀

Has been weathering it for a while and wearing it naturally gets what you want.

Me neither.

Same😂

Same

He said it in the first 30 seconds of the video too, so this one has likely been demonetized

Same same.

Yup, 100% agree, don't trust your life to someone's mistake.

I used to be similar until I started to get into more dangerous conditions at home and started using the same PPE in both. It took a while getting used to putting on my boots and most the other stuff at home. The stuff I leave off at home isn't much now, and it annoys me, so I do a total danger assessment for each task so I can maximize the number of PPE things I can leave off at home, and never expect to leave off more than 25% of what I usually wear at work.

I have employees that will put on hard hats, gloves, eye protection, wear steal-toed boots, use proper lifting equipment, etc. But for some reason, hearing protection is the hardest thing to get any of them use consistently. They'd rather take the 115-120dB of a rotary hammer or grinder a foot from their head instead of putting some hearing protection on. I don't get it.

That sucks , I wish you the best

@@terpman those guy's must have the worst Tinnitus ( ringing in the ears ) . From memory it only take 45 minutes at 97 decibels to start hearing problems and Tinnitus. Companies like Phonak make ear plugs that reduce sound but allow voices to be clear.. Hopefully one day you can get them to rethink their hearing protection.

@@paulreichelt1259 All industrial ear protection is designed to allow human speech to be heard. It is part of various international regulations. Hearing someone warning you that you are about to die is a safety requirement

@@PaulG.x that is correct but the speach is not always clear.

I was watching a popular car customizing show series and noticed none of the guys were wearing hearing protection , that's not setting a good example for anyone watching.

@@paulreichelt1259 agreed. I've been building custom cars for over 20 years. I used to neglect PPE, especially hearing protection. I have no doubt I'll pay for that when I'm older.

@@barrishautomotive You do... In my late 50's now. Never bothered with hearing protection while using loud tools. Went to a bunch of music shows with obscenely loud music. Listened to loud music through headphones. Now have tinnitus in both ears and significant hearing loss. In a lot of cases, the sins of your youth truly do come back on you...

No one would wear much safety equipment in the shop I work at. I recall one day coming to find my boss in the shop (I work in the office) and noticed he was wearing safety glasses and a mask. I commented about it and he replied how he's the boss and he needs to set an example, and so even though he's only in the shop for a couple hours each day he makes sure he's wearing his equipment when he's in there. After that I started seeing people wearing safety equipment more often.

I worked concrete construction pouring mausoleums. We would be 2-3 stories up on just 3 ft. wide planks yanking 8 foot steel forms. The safety was the boss once said to me "Careful not to fall off." A 300lbs. guy way stronger than me did. I got fired for giving him pictures of the site for his case. F you pay him.

Exactly what my dad taught me. You call me to fix your issue. I fix it in a hour and 15 min and I fix it right. Now you complain because you were told it would take 3 hours by another shop and it was cheaper. So why didn't you use the other shop? Oh because they didn't have good reviews and recommendations? Your paying for knowledge and expertise. Your paying for the right factory parts. I got it done quickly because I know a shortcut that doesn't require taking everything apart like the book says. If that's the issue your complaining about, I could have just told you I needed another part. Then left and went to a quick 30 minute repair down the street and sat around for an hour and came back for 10 minutes. Then tell you I'm done? Here's your bill, pay me. Next time they call give them a higher price. We had a certain customer with a dozen neighbor "hood" convenance stores who would play games when it came time to pay the bill. Do the work and then he goes, Whad u gib cheeb, cheeb kaasa? I give you soda, some snacks. Gib me cheab, cheab kaasa priza. Dad would give the price $50 more, because he always did it. I would always go do the repairs because he knew me and thought I was his friend and would give him a cash discount.

It came up in my feed pretty quick... I guess the algorithm works sometimes.

@@user-wm3bf7pi3u honestly thought for a sec there would be drama lol

I have rejection sensitivity dysphoria, too

Facts 😂

Especially as a paying member 😂

Sounds like a guilty conscience. 😂

Lol

A lot of those tedious tasks are great for brainstorming and working over problems. I am a chemist, and though there are parts of the job I love, there are also things that just have to be done, like washing glassware. When I come across a problem that I just can't figure out, I'll go wash some glassware. It lets my brain chew on the problem while still having my hands be productive. (ADHD means my hands need to be occupied at all times, pretty much.)

You know I never thought about the long tedious parts of the process as being specifically restful for the creative part of my mind. That's a very novel and growth oriented way of looking at things that I think I'll carry with me now, thank you for that insight!

Ha! Thanks

I'd say you're overestimating the "glorious" in most jobs.

"glorious" is not applicable unless your job is being Conan the Barbarian

80% of the work is not fun... 19% of the work is soul crushingly not fun... 0.9% of the work makes jumping in an active volcano seem attractive... 0.1% of the work is fulfilling... If you can't subsist on the 0.1%, find something else to do.

However, most jobs don't work under contract. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only job I've ever signed a contract for was the Army (which hardly counts, since they can change almost every aspect of that "contract" unilaterally).

@@jursamaj It's because it's not a legal requirement everywhere. Here in the UK it's the "norm" due to human right protections (no doubt they will try and get rid of them, they have already legalised "zero hour contracts" which allows Employers to not contract ANY amount of work or pay to their Employees). But it's just proof they work, it protects the real hard worker in the scenario and the greedy want them gone for their own benefit. As a customer you can always demand a contract for any long term work and as a Employer you can always create them. It's the Employees that get little say if they exist or not... but if i was them... i would reject ANY job that does not have a contract AND a contract i agree with. This is why Unions are a great thing, they will encourage and create fair contracts to protect workers. Paperwork (contracts) is far more solid than ANY word spoken when it comes to the law. When jobs don't use contracts it means only one thing... that company pulls fast ones with taxes, earnings and human rights... and it will be a cold day in hell before i work for such a company. The better the contract, the more trust in the employer they will get. If i get work done the first thing i ask for is paperwork or a contract... zero paperwork means i send that company packing.

Right?

Not that I don't believe you... But what kind of job is it where the majority of you have MS degrees, and the work creates ruts in someone's lawn?

I don’t understand the mental gymnastics some people can do to justify years of hard work on getting their education, but then the moment they receive the diploma they’re suddenly too good for hard work.

My response would be: Did you get a masters degree to cut ruts in someone's lawn that they didn't ask for? No? Well then it sounds to me like you DID get a masters degree in lawn repair! It's that or you got a masters degree in looking for a job; make up your mind.

@@Natediggetydog There's a lot of mental gymnastics going on out there now days... My personal favorite of late is all the older generation (not to pick on Baby Boomer's, but here's looking at you folks) that are calling for more support/participation in the trades, less emphasis on a college education. When back when they or their kids were young, they (at least the college educated ones) looked down on people in the trades and pushed their kids to go to college because working a trade job was beneath them. Compounding this, found it distasteful when their child brought home a girl or guy that was not a college graduate...

@@marscaleb Yes, and all had degrees in geology or mine engineering - mostly a group of people who aren't shy about wielding hammers, picks and shovels.

Very different from what Adam is talking about, which is smaller freelancers not getting screwed through bad contracts. EK's problem is basically they're a fairly big company openly violating their contract because they're mismanaged and about to go under. Also, ironic isn't the right term here, even if the EK case is similar to what Adam talks about, it should be "timely" or "coincidental".