Today, at work, I went to place a small item on a shelf. The shelf fell on me, trapping my hand. While lifting it, the top shelf fell against my chest and the products all dumped on my face. I then realized the shelves were only held up by zip ties. FML
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Today, at work, I managed to hit myself in the face with a large sheet pan. The force made me back into a shelf, which knocked a box off the top, which hit me in the head and knocked me out-cold. I now have a fat lip, a sore head, and bruises all over from the fall. FML
Today, at my job as a librarian at an old library, I was shelving books. Things were great until one entire bookshelf fell over. The damage wasn't too bad. Then the rest fell down. FML
Today, while at work, I walked head first into the edge of a clothing rack. I was looking right at it. People saw. FML
Today, while working at Walmart, I was walking the sales floor and passed the end of an aisle. I saw a customer coming at me from the corner of my eye, so I jumped backwards. I hit a display case, and watched it topple over before turning to apologize to the customer. It was a ladder. FML
Today, I was alone at the office and having some fun spinning around in my chair. In my enthusiasm, I spun too fast, lost my balance, and crashed into the shelf behind me. The shelf didn't survive the impact, and I had 30 minutes to come up with a good excuse before everyone else came back from lunch. FML
Today, the lights went out at the gym while I was holding a heavy bar. I tried to put it back on the rack, missed, and dropped it on my toe. Then, as I was limping around in pain, I hit my head on one of the other bars on a rack at head height. FML
Today, I was in a shoe store. I picked up a shoe so I could look at it, but when I put it back on the shelf, the whole shelf fell down, making all the shoes fall to the ground. The people behind the counter started clapping. FML
Today, my boss and I were stacking boxes in the back room of the store. One of the boxes fell and hit me in the face, causing me to lose my glasses. My boss stepped on my glasses as she ran to check the box for broken merchandise, which I then had to pay for. FML
Today, at work, I tripped and fell face-first into a food display. As I picked myself up, totally humiliated, I tripped again and fell right back into it, earning a bunch of pitying looks from nearby customers. FML
Today, at work, yet another inappropriately stacked pallet fell on me. I thought for sure that I just hit a nerve. Nope, I fractured my arm. FML
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tigak47 0
This is something that needs to be documented and reported. Any doctor's visits should be covered by workman's comp and yeah if you get pushback, time for a lawsuit
AAHHHHH 19
I sense a lawsuit in your future
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AAHHHHH 19
I sense a lawsuit in your future
tigak47 0
This is something that needs to be documented and reported. Any doctor's visits should be covered by workman's comp and yeah if you get pushback, time for a lawsuit
yeongji 31
Even if there were no injuries, definitely file for workman's comp. Some injuries do not appear until later on in life and if that does happen, you will be thankful for filing it. Believe me, I work in the frontline in healthcare and the physician's ALWAYS ask if an injury happened at work and if so, we make sure a form is created, filled, and faxed.
species4872 20
Sorry for your injuries, Could have been worse, you could have worked at a nursery and the top shelf stocked with Cacti.
Soninuva 41
Zip ties can hold up shelves very well if done correctly. At the Toys R Us Express (one in a mall) I used to work at, our wall mounted shelves were only held down by zip ties. Granted, one of my supervisors and I put a shelving grid behind them as an anchor point, but that just goes to further demonstrate that it can work if one takes the time and effort to do it right. We never had any shelves come loose.
InsanityShard 23
That's almost as crappy as my goddamn chair that broke recently- It was plain wood, with a regular metal wheeled base like a normal office chair, and what seemed to be 4 screws in the bottom holding the wooden chair part onto the metal part. It started creaking, and nothing would help, and it gradually got worse, until... As I was getting out of it (Thank god I had my feet on the floor already) it just snapped- turned out the screws were decorational. It was glued together. I also had a desk, it was held together with wood pegs and had two decorational screws. Went to move the desk and the wood pegs snapped. Then my stepdad just glued the side back on and of course I refused to use it. >_> From then on I now design my own furniture, so if I want something I just get his brother to build it. He screws up the measuring a lot but now I've got a sturdy desk actually held together with screws. And it's not crappy smashed together wood pulp that swells up whenever a storm hits, either.
False_Stupidity 42
Clearly you work with incompetents. Everyone knows that you should fasten shelves with duct tape because it never breaks.
Colon_Man 17
#ductlyfe
Taurus_ChicKa 37
Worker's comp incoming!
Claire Leong 2
Sounds like you only have yourshelf to blame. (Had to make that joke, but this isn't a YDI)