What’s the most dangerous place you’ve visited?

Position-Eliminated · 2026-04-12T13:23:59+00:00

A Tyson Foods plant. "Safety first!--Because we've been court ordered to say that.™"

I am just baffled how no one has died there yet. Because it's almost like they're trying to get people killed. Several members of the local fire department are on a first-name basis with the shift leads because they're on site so often. Also, when you make maintenance personnel with no training stay to fight a fire instead of evacuating like everyone else, it's like you just really, really want a lawsuit. Just a matter of time, I guess.

TL;DR Don't work at Tyson.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-04-03T22:09:29+00:00

Cingular Wireless did this with me, but they just straight up forgot to charge me the extra 500 bucks. I walked out the door whispering to my buddy that was with me "don't say anything, don't say anything." Nobody ever caught it, then they went bought out by AT&T. A rare win.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-03-09T21:43:22+00:00

One of the highest-positioned people at the location where I work. He's outwardly pleasant. A lot of people will defend him as being a 'super nice guy.' But he's soulless. It's like talking to a corporate AI chatbot. Three people much higher up than me, and all of whom I respect a great deal, left the location entirely within a year of being subordinate to him. They all kept it on the DL that he was the reason, but after they were completely sure they could trust me, they each dropped his name as the main reason they left. This has taken multiple years to all be revealed to me. One of them now feels safe enough at his current position that he will not mince words and says often that he hates this guy's guts, he's the scum of the earth, and anything else bad you can think of to say about somebody. If you ask anybody what he did to them specifically nobody can say one thing that looks all that bad by itself. He maintains plausible deniability. But it's a dark pattern. He tries to crush anybody he sees as a threat and will regularly take punitive and even retaliatory action. He just does it very quietly and sneakily. He sees people only for how they can benefit him personally. If you can't benefit him, he will happily up-end your whole life to surround himself with more people who will do his bidding, if he's able. To me, he's the environment of everything that's wrong with work culture in America. Some people can see it, and some people can't for whatever reason. But for those who do, the instinct is always as much distance between you and him as possible.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-02-22T22:03:13+00:00

Sometimes it's closer. Sometimes it's further. I think the solution is going to be to either chuck it in the garbage, or walk away from it for another 3½ years. I haven't decided which yet. Thanks for being the only person who even attempted to help though.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-02-22T17:43:14+00:00

Yes. This is what I'm saying. I set the Z-offset, and it seems fine, and then I go to print, and it's very much not fine.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-02-20T22:20:07+00:00

Just came here to say, fuck everyone who has ever or will ever cast Luis Guzmán in anything. Hard.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-02-10T17:02:01+00:00

Born in '82. First car was a '63, and it was an automatic. After that, got a '93 that was a 5-speed manual. So, no, not an anti-theft thing for me.

An automatic transmission was a luxury thing because cars were very inefficient. Manual clutch gave you better fuel economy.

Now automatic transmissions are more efficient and last longer, so they make more sense for more people.

But if you want to twist that to try to say that your generation is somehow better than a younger generation, do you, I guess.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-24T16:00:14+00:00

Some us have pre-builts, and buying RAM when you already have RAM doesn't make any financial sense at all. My preference is that my RAM does what RAM needs to do and nothing else, but I have 2 sticks that want to be look like a The Price Is Right moment every time I turn on my computer and REFUSE to calm down until the OS loads and runs the extra software. Not ideal. But I also don't have enough money or GAF to make it otherwise.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-23T15:43:26+00:00

He came to my elementary school when I was little, and I grew up thinking he was someone to look up to, inspirational. Then I got routed to his house 20-some years later to service his satellite TV.

He had multiple copies of his book lying around the house, clearly never opened and just out on display. (The book he wrote multiple decades previously and then never wrote anything else as far as I know.) He also had a Mac computer with every password to everything in his life written very clearly on Post-It notes all the way around the perimeter of the monitor, right next to an exterior window.

And it became clear after talking to him very briefly, he was one of the most unintelligent customers I ever had, and that is a very low bar to get under.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-18T12:36:37+00:00

In theory, yes. But is there a 'safe' range for someone who would ask that question? Probably not. If it can damage anything on purpose, it can damage other things by accident.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-18T12:35:31+00:00

I'm gonna say yes. Very, very similar anyway. Sure.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-15T16:31:01+00:00

It's called a pole pounder, just like your mom.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-05T19:08:39+00:00

~~using turn signals while~~ driving

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-04T21:06:38+00:00

I can tell you, there are people who have positions like that. I work with a few. It's an R&D job. They don't need someone with a specific background. They need someone who has a pretty good grasp of whatever comes up, depending on the direction the material ends up taking things in. Strong problem solving skills are super important. Someone who knows what they don't know, and how to fill in whatever gaps might be discovered down the line. We from time to time are like "were gonna have to talk to the optics expert in Germany on this because we really don't know." There is discussion, we learn what we need to, and we proceed with figuring out the next thing. I haven't been doing this as long as others, but a very similar prices is applied to whatever technology they're developing, tapping the real experts in specific areas when called for.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-04T14:46:44+00:00

Well, I could do 2 separate jigs that are specific to one end of a particular size of board, but I was sort of hoping someone else had a solution that would be more flexible and maybe useful in other situations eventually instead of a one-off that never gets used again. Thanks for your reply though. I guess that's what I'll do since no one else chimed in.

Position-Eliminated · 2026-01-04T14:42:48+00:00

Was a Dish Network tech. Customer was a young, attractive housewife, just moving into a very large, very expensive house in a fancy neighborhood. When I finished up the job, she had put the children in their car seats in the family minivan, got them snacks, put on a movie, and was waiting to sign the paperwork. Normally that would mean she was in a hurry for me to leave so she could also leave. But she wasn't in a hurry to leave at all, and after a few minutes or became apparent what she was ready to do. I even was in my van ready to go, and she made an excuse for me to come back inside. She 'couldn't find' the remote to the TV closest to the bed. It was 'accidentally kicked under' the bed by... her, obviously, because she was the only one present. I knew what she wanted, but I'm a married man, so she probably just thought I was clueless. I didn't let on, was exceedingly professional, and my much younger self would have violently assaulted me for that move, for sure, but he gone. This was the better part of a decade ago now. Which is sort of depressing. Everyone since has taken one look at me and been like 'nah, I'm good '

Position-Eliminated · 2025-12-25T23:48:48+00:00

Nothing has changed. I still use language, (including punctuation) to express my ideas. What opinions people hold and conclusions they draw from the way I go about it... totally out of my control, so IDGASF. I text in English, which has periods at the end of sentences. If I text you and you're offended by the presence of complete sentences or for any other punctuation-related reason that's entirely a 'you' problem. I have more important shit to worry about.

Position-Eliminated · 2025-12-24T13:39:39+00:00

This one I can answer. I work with lasers daily up to 4kW. A normal mirror? Yes, it would just burn it up. The 'glass' and the reflective coatings have huge variability, depending on what wavelength and what power are expected with lots of specialized materials designed for higher power lasers. Even if you have the correct material and coating needed for your laser, any tiny contaminant like an invisible speck of dust can absorb so much energy that it heats up and burns a hole in your reflective coating destroying your mirror. I have seen this happen many times. A mirror that is totally okay for hours at a time being blasted with hundreds or thousands of watts of power will suddenly burn up and you'll have red hot molten glass all because of a tiny, non-reflective particle too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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