I'm talking to him, getting my marching orders, saying the obligatory "Yes Sir, Okie Dokie" , and taking a step back to go to work. He snatches up my shirt and a bunch of chest hair and pulls me towards him. I'm freaking out thinking his cheese has slid off his cracker when I notice the fork lift whizzing by, inches away.....Damn, Thank You Charlie for saving me from getting squished like a bug.
20 feet away from where a woman was killed by a lift truck in 1978.
October 12, 2017, 12:30 AM
FiveFiveSixFan
Sounds like you've got a good boss with a quick reaction time. Glad you're OK!
October 12, 2017, 05:03 AM
petr
Damn! No horn or do your operators use them so much that you are immune to them?
October 12, 2017, 07:36 AM
SBrooks
Shit !
Sounds like they need some worker safety type stuff. ropes/rails/curbs horns something...
------------------ SBrooks
October 12, 2017, 07:49 AM
BamaJeepster
quote:
Originally posted by duke762: He snatches up my shirt and a bunch of chest hair and pulls me towards him.
Good thing you didn't take a swing at him!
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
October 12, 2017, 08:10 AM
erj_pilot
When I first read this quickly, I thought you said, "He snatches up my SKIRT..." Would have put a whoooole 'nuther dynamic on the story...
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
October 12, 2017, 09:03 AM
Elk Hunter
quote:
Originally posted by SBrooks: Shit !
Sounds like they need some worker safety type stuff. ropes/rails/curbs horns something...
When I was in IBM management back in the '80's, we had forklifts working inside the plant. We also had test and assembly areas where people were working.
Those forklifts had speed governors on them that restricted their speed to "walking speed".
For personnel safety reasons.
Sounds like the place in the OP needs to do that.
Elk
There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville
FBHO!!!
The Idaho Elk Hunter
October 12, 2017, 09:14 AM
Voshterkoff
Most people get too comfortable around forklifts, they can do lots of damage at even a walking speed.
October 12, 2017, 09:26 AM
BGULL
Glad you're safe! I hold the dubious(now laughable) distinction of having been run over by a forklift where I work.
I was walking between shop buildings when the forklift came out of one of the buildings, rounding a corner. I honestly don't remember if the driver sounded his horn as required. At the last moment he saw me and hit the brakes(there were skid marks). The right fork hit my left leg and then I was knocked down in between the forks and contacted the framework of the adjustable fork setup. Thankfully no real blood, or broken bones, just skinned up in a couple of places.
It still gets brought up now and then 10 years later......
Bill Gullette
October 12, 2017, 09:38 AM
Audioholic
Meet Stapler Fahrer Klaus (gory - a work video that's NSFW!)
"Every time you think you weaken the nation" Moe Howard
October 12, 2017, 10:23 AM
P250UA5
quote:
Originally posted by Audioholic: Meet Stapler Fahrer Klaus (gory - a work video that's NSFW!)
I remember seeing Klaus the first time in high school.
The Enemy's gate is down.
October 12, 2017, 10:51 AM
jhe888
And they say the Germans don't have a sense of humor.
quote:
Originally posted by Audioholic: Meet Stapler Fahrer Klaus (gory - a work video that's NSFW!)
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
October 12, 2017, 01:33 PM
Expert308
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot: When I first read this quickly, I thought you said, "He snatches up my SKIRT..." Would have put a whoooole 'nuther dynamic on the story...
Why? Because the boss is grabbing skirts, or because the OP is wearing one?
October 12, 2017, 03:28 PM
adobesig
Sue him for chest hair replacement!
October 12, 2017, 07:21 PM
downtownv
Are you glad he didn't Harvey Weinstein grab you? Did you at least hug him? That was a great story, I was ready for a bad one!
Originally posted by erj_pilot: When I first read this quickly, I thought you said, "He snatches up my SKIRT..." Would have put a whoooole 'nuther dynamic on the story...
Why? Because the boss is grabbing skirts, or because the OP is wearing one?
Well...that was the dilemma at hand.....
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
October 12, 2017, 08:57 PM
vthoky
quote:
Originally posted by Audioholic: Meet Stapler Fahrer Klaus (gory - a work video that's NSFW!)
Oh, I am SO taking that to our maintenance manager tomorrow!!
God bless America.
October 12, 2017, 09:56 PM
craglawnmanor
Ahh, yes, the forklift. At the company I worked for while I was in college, we called them towmotors. I worked in the warehouse, so I drove one on a regular basis. They made us drive them backwards. Always. Pick up a skid, then turn around and take the skid, backwards, through the manufacturing plant. Drop the skid, then drive, backwards, back to the warehouse. Always backwards....
Despite this "safety" factor, I still saw someone get his foot run over by a towmotor. But the guy who got his foot run over was a doofus, and it was really as much his fault as the driver's. I always thought he stuck his foot out on purpose, so he could get disability.
_______________________________________ Flammable, Inflammable, or Nonflammable....... Hell, either it Flams or it doesn't!! (George Carlin)
October 12, 2017, 10:05 PM
PorterN
I like forklift fails as much as the next guy, but I think I'd be grateful to be alive! We have some PLE where I work, but thankfully nothing that moves very fast, and the only forklift we have works outside-only.
The fails I like:
And a win, just for good measure.
____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn
I remember seeing Klaus the first time in high school.
