Work Experiences/Rant Thread.....

Well back when I still worked In he Ems field I was a back up unit on an arrest where the first crew was called out for a woman being depressed. Apparently once the crew arrived on scene the woman said oh btw my husband just died. "We are sorry about your loss mam, when did he pass?" Oh just a few minutes ago, he's in the other room. Sure enough there he was, had a cardiac arrest on there hands.
 
I wasn't involved in this but I was reading the incident report earlier at work and couldn't help but :rotfl:

So, for those who haven't seen the What do you do at work? thread, I'm a Loss Prevention Specialist which means I catch shoplifters. One of the Loss Prevention Specialists working at another store noticed a female subject selecting various items and placing them into a carriage. The female then obtained a second and third carriage, again selecting various items and placing them into a carriage. Finally the female then wheeled all three carriages to the far exit of the store. The female proceeded to push the first carriage out the door, however hesitated due to noticing a store associate nearby so she quickly pulled the carriage back into the store and pretended to look at candles by the exit door. Finally as the store associate left the area the female proceeded to walk out with the first carriage, mind you her personal belongings are sitting in the third carriage. The Loss Prevention Specialist attempted to make an apprehension, however the female would not comply and go back into the store. FYI, at this point total amount of theft totaled approximately $37; here in New Hampshire anything over $50 is arrestable. As the Loss Prevention Specialist went back into the store he noticed the female's purse. An ID was recovered and the police were called due to the female fleeing. The female must have noticed that she forgot her purse in the store and went back to retrieve it. Not knowing the police have already responded, the female was arrested on site when she went to the service desk to ask about her purse.

This just shows how dumb criminals actually are... If she had just went back inside she would have only been issued a $200 fine by the company.
 
This is quite a few years back, but I had a friend work at bestbuy. There were 2 individuals who took product stickers off a 27" tv & walk over to the 50+ inch tv area. They took the sticker info and placed it over the box for a tv that was like 2500 at the time. They made it up to the cash register...paid a couple hundred dollars for a 2500 tv and no one noticed until they asked for help loading it into their vehicle. The loss prevention person that normally looks at your receipt was helping someone else as they rolled right out the door. The person who came back from the TV area to help load the car looked at their recept and saw the massive price difference. They would have totally been able to get away with it, if they hadn't asked for someone to help load it in their car. :pat:
 
LOL! We have issues with tag swapping too. I'm not going to disclose which store I work at but it's a grocery store and people tag swap a lot of high dollar meat and health/beauty care items. Or another thing that happens, instead of tag swapping they'll simply grab these high dollar items and proceed to the self scan and weigh them as bananas lol. Now that I gave you all ideas, just remember there's always someone sitting behind the cameras.
 
lol wow. Those people would probably be the type to also use some type of loyalty card for the store & pay with a credit card. Leaving a trail of info all the way through.
 
If there is a zombie outbreak I had to do a CT scan on patient 0 the other day. This lady was a full on screaming, flailing, decaying flesh and rotten toothed zombie. She also growled really really loud the whole time. The only english that came out of her mouth was a satanic voiced W T FKKKKKK!!!! several times.

She kept trying to spit on us but her mouth was so dry that all she could get out was little bits of dried spit and flesh that was tearing off. I ended up putting a surgical mask over her mouth so she couldn't spit any more. Wow... she really didn't like that. It was freakin awful. The smell and the open sores everywhere... both forearms from elbow to wrist were just open pus filled ulcers.

She was only in her mid-40's too. Her daughter commented that she was mad at her for bringing her to the hospital.

Seriously..... what was the final thing that made you think NOW is the time to get this looked at.
 
That's gross

Those LPS stories are HILARIOUS though. Oh gosh...you've gotta write more of these...
 
07TLX said:
I was at one point working 7 hours at one site, leaving driving a hour and spending another 7 hours at a different site
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trust me I feel your pain, when it snows/storms and we're in a state of emergency my shift goes from 8 hours to 16 with basically no breaks and if we're still under a state of emergency im forced to stay at work and sleep for 8 hours in the facility wake up and go right back to work lol. I'm a nurse at a nursing home/sub-acute care facility.
 
I'm a elementary school teacher. I remember going on a field trip with many students as well as 5 or 6 other teachers and parent supervisors. During the trip one of the substitute teachers sat down on a couch, that was in an observation tower we were visiting, and fell fast asleep. Incredibly, she was trying to get a permanent job with the school board at the time. She didn't get it.

If you think that's bad, you're going love this one: At my sons' school they went on a field trip to a local shopping centre that has a skating rink. On the bus, while on way back, the teachers and supervisors realized that they had left a 7 year old kid at the mall. They had to turn the bus around and go get him. I can only imagine how that kid's parents reacted when they heard.
 
Thursday around 3 pm a very large cylinder showed up at work, and the customer wanted it repaired the same day. Now, normally we get rush jobs... but this one was not going to be done in an hour and a half.

This was a bucket cylinder off of a Volvo EC700C, here's a picture of the same model of machine so you can get an idea of how large it is.

Volvo-EC700C.jpg

Now this wasn't simply a re-seal job, nor did we have any seals in stock for it. Some HERO managed to tear off the rod eye, keep in mind the rod is 130 mm diameter ( over 5 inches ) of induction hardened fine grained steel that is friction welded to the forged rod eye. The weld had been cracked, and the company attempted to grind it out and re-weld it. When they had put it back into service, it tore a large portion of the rod out when it failed in a spectacular fashion.

Washing the grease off the cylinder, and the loose rod eye, and removing brackets was 1/2 hour, draining and removing the bolts from the cylinder head and taking the rod assembly out was another hour.

Machining the rod eye back, centerdrilling and tapping was another 1 1/2 hours. Turning the rod back and turning a thread on the end to connect to the rod eye was another hour. Once the eye was installed and tightened on the rod, it was almost 3 hours of welding - initial pass with 1/8th 7018 rod @120 amps, then switched to 1/4" 7018 rod @300 amps.

To cool down the rod, we set up the welded rod assembly in the lathe and set it at a low RPM, with the coolant flowing on it about 18 inches back from the weld, that took over an hour to cool down to the point where it could be re-assembled, and tested.

They wanted it back the same day, but they also didn't want to pay all the overtime for 3 employees to work way late, so they got it on Friday afternoon instead. Had they simply removed it and had it vee'd out and welded properly in the first place, they wouldn't have been down for over a day and a half. To make matters worse, this machine was working at a remote mine site a few hours north, not close to the city.

By the way.... I wouldn't want to know what kind of forces are required to shear off the rod eye.... spectacular by any measure !
 
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