I didn’t want to step from the ladder onto a 2.5 story metal roof during a hail storm. How should I feel? I don’t know. I spent a little over half a year working for this company. Been punctual, put forward effort, one of the strongest people on the crew, put in 12 hour days when required. It doesn’t matter. One hot tempered owners son who pisses the day away in his over priced pickup has the final say. The coworkers who didn’t want to do it themselves but did it anyway are more angry at me for refusing to do it than they are at the bosses son for making them do it. I’ll be alright. I’ll find another job that will pay the same. It doesn’t matter tomorrow. I’ve got money enough to cover next months bills, but what can be said. I guess the only answer is to drink and move on
I’m sorry comrade. It’s just a job though. No job is worth your health and safety.
I’ve been there. I got fired a few years ago a month before my daughter was born.
Yeah they don’t care. I’m sorry you had to go through that as well. This was definitely the most dangerous, cowboy, fuck safety jobs I’ve ever had. I really should never have taken it in the first place. I’ve had a few nightmares about dying because of this job. It was a matter of time before something happened or I was fired for not being willing to accept a risk.
I’m mostly disappointed that the other workers were annoyed, and not at the person saying to climb up a very tall ladder onto a metal roof in slippery conditions.
Me too. I covered for them for far less. Today was suicidal. There has to be a line we draw. If you are too afraid to lose your job rather than draw such an obvious line then you’re the fool. Hunger never killed so fast as slipping off a wet metal roof to the death below.