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We're expected to continue working when it's 90 F and 100% humidity indoors. Dude our paper is so soggy I punch holes in it when I try to write. I am straight up not having a good time.

Also our managers didn't even come in today. What even is capitalism

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] axont@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean I'll try to email the OSHA guidelines to someone but our boss and managers didn't even show up

Also I'm wearing an FR coat and goggles as PPE. Just drenched in sweat rn

inside-im-crying

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

no fr go home. Take a wet globe temp reading if you can but I promise you the jobs not worth it

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

girl you gonna die go home

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago

This is a LIVE THREATENING situation, remove yourself and others from this place with haste.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wet bulb temperature? What's that? blob-no-thoughts

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

This. for the love of god get a wet globe reading and go home.

[–] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

Please don't tell my skeleton it can simply leave. I need it

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Update: everyone went into the conference room and we're chilling with snacks and refusing to go back into the main building until the HVAC tech gets out here

Small wins I guess

[–] omegathrowaway@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nice, hope the snacks suit you well

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

Get your coworkers to walk out

[–] wax_worm_futures@hexbear.net 6 points 4 weeks ago

I didn't even have to work in that kind of wetbulb at the bug farm. Highest it ever got was 88° and 90% humidity- but I was 20 feet from an external door where I could step outside anytime for cooler air. And eventually I ended up just turning the humidifier off during my shift because...

You are in a situation where the brain will start to think less clearly. You literally can't work in that for more than half an hour at a time, even someone who is heat-tolerant will be much slower and make all kinds of mistakes.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago
[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

We're at the point they don't even care when the customers that can sue them get fucking KTFO.

When I was in undergrad I had a professor constantly grimly joke that OSHA was just a recommendation, that if they could they'd make workers roast inside the heat of the core of the sun.