Sunday, October 25, 2020

Boss Demands Demolished Office, Gets More than That


There's a right way and a wrong way to demolish an office, and it's looking like these guys took the wrong way. Maybe they shouldn't have taken their boss's orders so literally, or could have planned better. Either way what they got was a big headache. This one didn't come down on anyone, but it's not uncommon for a boss to orchestrate their own downfall.

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/Naige2020 5 hours ago Drive a forklift through it. oC M This may take a while to relate but a lot happened. I was working as a Warehouse Manager for a pharmaceutical\cosmetic company. Our premises was part of a large industrial complex that had been walled off into three smaller buildings that had three different businesses occupying them. My office was a free standing building inside the warehouse, it was about the size of a shipping container. My comp

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Text - My immediate boss was the Operations Manager and he came to me one morning and told me to demolish my office by the end of the day. Now we had tools but only hammers and spanners, etc. Nothing really suited for the task at hand. When I asked how he expected me to do it he said "Just drive a forklift through it." To this day I am not sure if he was joking or being sarcastic or actually meant it, but it had been said and in front of four witnesses. Like most grown men with the inner working

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Text - I got called away to another part of the warehouse and another worker decided to take up where I left off. He started lifting a roof panel off when there was a loud noise, a cross between a bang and popping cork. This is the point where we realised that one of the pipes for the fire sprinkler system ran through the office roof and it had been completely ripped out. The pressure in the system caused an initial spray of water before a torrent of water spewed forth at roof height. The water

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Text - The production line was immediately shut down and everyone was panicking. We had a plumber on site who was unable to stop the flow. It had been flowing for about five minutes when we heard the sirens. The fire system had automatically alerted the fire department when the water pressure dropped. Due to the nature of our business we had on site up to 30,000 litres of pure alcohol and ethanol, so when the fireman came they came prepared for the worst. Three truck and about twenty fireman. Th

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Text - The damage bill was going to be massive in terms of fines, ruined stock and materials and lost time. It all happened so fast not much had been said but once the situation was under control the Operations Manager was looking for answers. He approached me asking what the hell I had done. At this point I informed him that it was not me as I was elsewhere at the time and that for the record he had instructed me to drive a forklift through a building. He turned pale as the reality of his own c

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Landowner Doesn't Understand Property Lines, Gets Resolved British Style


Honestly, they got lucky. Years long feuds have gone down over something like this. Could've shaken out a whole lot worse. 

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Text - r/tifu + Join u/pocketfullofuranium • 20h TIFU by not knowing where my property lines are M We bought a new house in January. It was mostly because of the outdoor space that we fell in love with it. In England, gardens can be quite small and sunshine limited so you generally only get sun in the morning or afternoon depending on which way your house faces. So this house, with its glorious, huge garden that wraps around was a gem find. The house has needed some work and we are getting there

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Text - British villages can be bloody nightmares for street parking, just with the number of terraced houses. The way my street is laid out, there are a handful of detached houses on my side and at least three times the number of terraced house opposite. This means that parking is a bitch. Our new parking space would give us space for both our cars, and space for an extra car (for all the visitors we can't have, because I live in the north and we are all infectious according to bojo). So the lov

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Text - Panic. I check the deeds and it shows that the property line goes to his garage which has a drive attached. I go look. Obscured by the hedge planted by our predecessors, I can now see the garage and drive are not aligned. We have dug up a grand total of 3 inches of their land. It's a ridiculous thing done by the original builders who didn't match up the neighbours drive to their full garage width. I was appalled with myself. I went round the next day with a cake and an apology and asked h

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Text - "I've been here 50 years and always thought it was done by some jobsworth who was sick of making driveways. I just wanted to let you know in case you ever want to sell. Do what you like with it, the wife doesn't know what to do with me, let alone another three inches" So we are marking the line with a different tile to make it obvious it isn't our property and my neighbour is a champ. TL:DR I dug up three inches of my neighbours land and we resolved it British style; gave him cake to say

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Tumblr Thread: The Chilean Cat Foreman


Tumblr explained the life and times of a stray Chilean cat that ended up as an honorary foreman on a construction site. Who knows if he's actually qualified for the job. In that case it just goes to show that it's more about who you know than what you know. For more tumblr cat stuff, here's a tumblr thread on how cats became domesticated.

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Text - coolcatgroup Follow Have a good day at work little buddy snakewife Follow EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS IMMEDIATELY. i-just-tardis-blue-myself Follow His name is Black and was adopted by the workers of a construction site in Antofagasta, Chile. He was found by some workers near the area, when he was just a kitten, and they decided to take care care of him. The workers loved him and one of the cleaning ladies of the site designed some mini reflective jackets- and other outfits- for him. He was off

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Black cat - Look at him!

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Text - thefingerfuckingfemalefury Follow He is such a good site foreman! He's working so hard and doing such a good job! <3 youhadmeathewwo Follow I looked up 'CATPATAZ DE INGRESO’ (on the cat's ID card) and Google Translate corrected my spelling. "Capataz' = 'foreman'. "Catpataz' = a terrible, terrible pun.

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Tumblr Thread: Humans Are Weird With Animation


How humans end up drawing themselves is an absolutely fascinating matter. In this case, we see a strange breakdown from quite the entertaining Tumblr thread. If you're looking for more Tumblr gold check out this recent Tumblr thread on the daughter who crashed her mom's book club in the best, most hilarious way possible.

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Mammal - carbonfiberpersonality E whatevercomestom... Follow vrabia Follow NEON NO @Neon_woof studios: ok it's absolutely imperative that the audience knows which one is a GIRL wolf and which one is a BOY wolf studios, every single time: ok wait I got it 3:09 AM - Apr 19, 2020 Twitter for Android

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Sky - pipocaflamingo Follow Sorry to say, but they do the exact same thing for humans too. pipocaflamingo Follow It's amazing how people in the notes and comments are absolutely FURIOUS at me for the included Frozen comparison. Special shout out to everyone trying to prove that real people look like this.

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Text - Not to mention that when people edit these characters to have better facial proportions, the originals look like bizarre fish people. simonalkenmayer Follow How humans draw themselves is always fascinating to me @ despairgyaru op why are you speaking like you aren’t human i'm scared simonalkenmayer Follow Eh...perhaps read my blog description. 61below Follow

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Text - The Creature's Cookbook Welcome. You may call me Simon or Simone. I am the author of the Creature's Cookbook novel series, but more importantly, l'm a very old anthropophagic cryptid, or "people eating monster". Yes, a real one. No, not a clever performance art piece or a plea for attention. My books are classified as fiction, but that is entirely the point. I eat humans and I write about it, and for some reason, people find it amusing and don't take me seriously. Probably because you're

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Text - helloitsbees Follow this post has EVERYTHING hyenasnake Follow I think I know the reason for why people prefer "unrealistic" animation. For some reason, humans really don't like things that look like humans but aren't quite human. Hence why a lot of people are uncomfortable with movies with animation like Monster House and The Polar Express. It looks too realistic to us and sets us off.

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Text - Scientists call this the “Uncanny Valley" effect and its thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival. The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the uncanny valley effect. Only humans. Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival? soft-necromancing-crow Follow Oh hell yeah this is what l'm here for niuniente Follow Which leaves the question: what was out

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Text - whatevercomestomymind Follow We are the remnants of ancient explorers, adapted to our new environment. And we remember just how fearsome we used to be. 248,912 notes A

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Stuff That's Way Older Than People Think


Some inventions like escalators and seltzer have been around for hundreds of years longer than most people think. And other stuff, like sharks, are older than entire species. for more interesting history stuff, here's a thread about how mundane people are important to history as well as some history memes to feel smart about.

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Text - VanillaIceCinnaMon 1.1k points · 22 hours ago Commercial aircraft. Most are 10 - 15 years old yet a lot of people think they get replaced like cars. They are still very safe though despite their age.

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Text - steveguyhi1243 46.6k points - 1 day ago A 2 O 2 e S & 3 More Flushing toilets date all the way back to the Indus River Valley civilization, back in 2000 ВС

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Text - jazzman0116 40.8k points · 1 day ago The ancient Romans (well, the wealthy ones) had central heating in their homes. You can actually still see the pipes in some of the buildings at Herculaneum!

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Text - PmMeUrBoobsPorFavor 35.2k points · 23 hours ago 2 & 12 More edited 11 hours ago Sharks. Sharks as a family are older than trees

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Text - KidHarvey 35.1k points · 1 day ago Escalators have been around since 1859, though they were called rotating stairs.

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Text - BeaneathTheTrees 31.4k points · 1 day ago The name Tiffany. It dates back to the 12th century, and has actually led to a thing in writing called "the Tiffany problem," because you can have a well-researched historical novel that people just don't buy into, because you named your 12th century peasant Tiffany. It just sounds laughably anachronistic.

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Text - Darpyface 25.7k points · 1 day ago edited 22 hours ago 34 E Fax Machines. They were invented in 1843. Before the telephone. https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the- fax-machine-1991379 TheNerd669 15.5k points · 21 hours ago A samurai could have used a fax machine

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Text - trespuntoslikespider 23.3k points · 1 day ago Ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Ancient Egyptians were as old to the Ancient Romans as the Ancient Romans are to us.

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Text - Buwaro 23.2k points · 1 day ago The electric car. What is likely the first human-carrying electric vehicle with its own power source was tested along a Paris street in April 1881 by French inventor Gustave Trouvé. The first crude electric car was built in the 1830s but it was essentially a semi-functioning model. The electric car was a direct competitor to gasoline powered vehicles until the 1920s when roads got better, people started driving further than the range of an electric car, and

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Text - Gyroklovn 22.0k points · 23 hours ago 2 The fact that the lighter is older than the match shook my head as a kid. It also gave me the curiosity to question things that seems obvious.

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Text - saymynamebastien 20.7k points · 23 hours ago edited 21 hours ago I don't know if this counts but Dinosaurs lived on the earth a lot longer than most people think. When you think of dinosaurs, you think of their extinction but they roamed the earth for 165 million years. Compare that to our 6 million and it's almost mind boggling, at least imo.

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Text - princess_mothership 19.7k points · 22 hours ago 33 3 I was really surprised to discover when Oxford university was founded. They don't know the year for sure, but they know there was definitely teaching going on there in 1096.

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Text - 4dseeall 19.6k points · 22 hours ago 3 Beer is thought to be older than bread. It's much easier to fill a jar with wheat and water, let it ferment, and brew beer than it is to grind grain, mix it, and bake it.

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Text - Andramalot 19.3k points · 23 hours ago Nintendo. This company was actually created in 1889.

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Text - TheSilentShane 16.8k points · 22 hours ago Oreos. I was shocked to learn that Oreos predate chocolate chip cookies, sliced bread, and my 100 year old Great Grandmother.

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Text - Darkie109 12.8k points · 23 hours ago Brain Surgery In 1997, archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb in the French village of Ensisheim from 5,000 BC, which contained the decomposing body of a 50- year-old man with holes in his skull. After a thorough examination, it was determined that the holes, located near the frontal lobe, were caused by a type of surgery, not by forced trauma, and the operation appears to have been successful because the wounds healed before the patient's death. T

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Text - -EDGAR- 12.3k points · 1 day ago · edited 23 hours ago Contact lenses. Leonardo da Vinci had the idea of contact lenses in 1508 and the first successful contact lenses were made in 1888.

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Text - helpicantfindanamehe 11.7k points · 1 day ago E 2 e2 S 2 & 2 More Paul Rudd

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Text - given2fly_ 9.5k points · 22 hours ago 3 S The Aux connector that we still use for headphones and speakers was invented in 1877. There have been improvements since, but the basics of it are pretty much the same.

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Text - VictorBlimpmuscle 7.4k points · 1 day ago - edited 1 day ago Social media - wealthy ancient Romans had a system where they used slaves as scribes and messengers in order to share gossip and art/poetry and news updates with friends in their social circle.

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Text - CountPeter 6.8k points · 22 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago 2 The sentiment that modern society is degenerate and that the youth are to blame is, iirc, one of the oldest things we have written down. That I can remember off the top of my head, Cato the Elder complained that the younger generations were becoming too greek, and Socrates used to complain that the younger generations were ruining their brains by writing instead of memorising information. There are far more older examples, but

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Text - iceburg-simpson 6.4k points · 23 hours ago The year 1990... we are as close to it as we are the year 2050.

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Text - bonster85 5.7k points · 1 day ago S The food at the back of your cupboard. LaserBeamsCattleProd 3.5k points · 23 hours ago I have a bottle of Worcestershire sauce that expired 4/28/2009 in my fridge. That means that bottle: A) made the trip from NJ to Florida with me in 2010. B) is the lone survivor from my bachelor pad fridge from 2012-2014. C) made it into my fridge when my wife and I bought a house in 2014. It's been sitting there ever since.

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Text - Thanos_AnusDestroyer 5.4k points · 1 day ago S Netflix! i feel like it is only a few years old but it was invented in 1997

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Text - DanBeecherArt 2.2k points · 22 hours ago · edited 20 hours ago S 2 The use of concrete. It's use goes as far back as the Mayans, but more notably in Egyptian construction as well as in Rome. The Romans had an arguably greater concrete mix than we currently have, but that was never passed down. Eventually the use of concrete fell out of popularity for centuries as we seemingly lost the information needed to create it, as if the recipe was thrown out and nobody wrote it down. Also Samuel L

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Text - DarkSyrupp 2.1k points · 21 hours ago 2 The first carbonated drink to be sold to the public was invented by Swiss watchmaker and amateur scientist J. J. Schweppe in 1783, who sold his delicious "sparkling water" to thirsty customers in Geneva. In just seven years, he was doing business so fast that he moved the factory to London and introduced a new flavor, sparkling lemon, to stand out from competitors who were trying to imitate his drink.

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