Madzielle
@Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 2 days ago:
I’d really like to know your experience, if any, with working in manufacturing or any other labor work.
While you’re right with poor education being a factor, there are many other factors also.
I’ve pulled 12 hour days in 110°F factories, where y’all pray for the sun to go down, and management to go home, so you can finally open the back door and catch a breeze.
Even with all the education in the world, you dont want to go home and cook… a meal… after a day like that, never mind weeks or years.
I’d really just like to know what was your hardest labor job. Sometimes we think we know about something, even with education, but in practical life, it’s not what you expected.
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 2 days ago:
I love Jesse Wells, thank you for linking this song, it has an important message.
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 2 days ago:
Here Here Absolutely. Also see: expensive healthcare “insurance”. Being overworked can have a person too exhausted to work out, or do much of anything outside of thier labor hours. When healthcare is too expensive and you can’t get a day off to go anyway, when your whole body hurts from repetitive exhaustion, add in poor sleeping, and yeah, poor habits form.
Night shift folks have it the worst too. Most still have families, and sleep very little so they can spend time with them.
So many factors are at play. To ignore them, is to concede to smug ignorance. I know these people in these factories. I know these men. I’ve worked for years along side so many.
I can see how its broken them, especially the men. I had to beg my position in a male dominant position, because ten years prior a woman got degloved, and for a time, they didn’t let women into that department, because it’s fucking hard. I got in and did the job very well, but damn yeah, the work was hard. Even just ten years of that shit will change your entire body and habits to cope.
RIP to this man. He is one of but many, yet his impact is not lesser on my heart. Stay safe out there folks
- Comment on Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor 2 days ago:
The article also mentions how much they have increased each employee’s workload, on purpose, to basically punish them.
My personal health chart says I have carpal tunnel. Factory work is why I have carpal tunnel.
There is a direct correlation between working environments and employee health. There are hundreds and hundreds of environmental factors, whether working with heat, carsonogenic materials, heavy lifting, any kind of mining, risks are everywhere in the workforce.
If a company overworks employees, and maintains unsafe working environments, employee lives and health are increasingly placed at risk within sich environment.
The article is clear the company is overworking it’s employees on purpose.
An engineer asked me to run two machines over covid. We normally had three people to run two machines. I was running one, and the only operator on that day. Two machines is not safe to run with one person, nor is it possible without risking material quality on the line I was focused on. I can make good material on this line, or scrap on two lines. Fuck in my work, I could easily get degloved, 3rd degree burns, lose a finger tip, tear my rotator cuff, break a bone …all events that did happen over the years at these machines from people not paying attention to safety, something I’m not willing to risk so this engineer can “try something” on a machine he cant run himself. I told him to fuck himself in so many words. But that’s employee ownership, and my boss had my back.
Shame on the Union for not standing up for these people. Shame on you for taking the corporate side.
He may have died from heart attack from poor diet- but the environmental factors within a workplace, a place you spend most your waking hours, absolutely have a correlation to ones personal health. Your comment really seems to ignore that, and I’m sorry, definitely pissed me off.
- Comment on Back up off my nuts 1 week ago:
I actually kind of hollered at the ACLU. I did a one time, small donation a few months ago. I am poor folk.
They have been blowing me up since. I ended up picking up the line on a sunday (I’m sorry, I’m not religious, but don’t business call me on a fucking sunday). It might have been Saturday, statement stands either way.
But I was about to have a panic attack. This woman on the other line let me know she was wofh the ACLU and looking for donations or whatever, but I gave her the news. I’m poor, you are blowing up my phone, I gave a one time donation to do my part and now I feel attacked. You want more and more and more, and I can’t. I said, this behavior from y’all makes me regret donating. She tired to say something, I just repeated, I can’t do this, please don’t call me, and hung up.
These politicians in their photos wear suits that probably cost as much as my entire wardrobe, it’s rude to beg money like this. I hate it.
- Comment on Memes from my biology class #5 2 weeks ago:
Decent folks usually back seat aesthetics to personality anyway.
The meme is still funny. I hobby bird watch, and it’s very true in the bird world. The male birds are colored brightly if they have good nutrition, they are healthy, so the females mate with them. The female birds are boring so they blend into the environment, so they hide better from prey as they do the egg hatching thing.
I went on a first bar date with a fella once, and I couldn’t get it out of my mind he reminded me of a cocky rooster, so boisterous. Too much personality for me, I chose not to go out with him again. A lid for every pot.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
It works a little different for employee owned companies, but you’ve the right spirit. This company grew from about 1972 on- a long, successful legacy. Shame to watch it fall
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 weeks ago:
I worked for an employee owned manufacturing company for near ten years. The philosophy of our company was, “the essence of life is relationships”.
The founder of the company was the only religious person I knew who actually followed it’s teachings, he sold his stock to the company for less than it was worth until we were 100% employee owned. The stock price then shot up from $200 a share to $6k a share in ten years.
The company understood the importance of working ideas from the bottom up, (involving the lowest ranking employees just as much as the highest ranking). We understood the importance of company culture, and even had teams of people to make sure the needs of our employees were being met.
We had a supervisor who by all accounts was a fine supervisor on paper, however he rubbed every single employee the wrong way, he was a cunt if i may. With the support of all of us, we were able to, I don’t want to say get rid of him, it sounds cold, but his name came up on our (truly anonymous) survey one year the company asked him to resign, and he did.
The owner passed away in 2018, and shit got squirrely from there, i left during the pandemic. CEO and highest ranking positions then changed hands to folks not there at the founding of the company, I felt the culture shifting and left due to personal reasons. The stock has since tanked.
I dont understand why these companies don’t see the importance of uplifting their workforce.
I’ll never find and employer like that again i think. It was a magical decade. Of course my stock is tanked now, im to be cashed out this year.
The ladder has been pulled right before my time my whole life so this osnt new. I went from having enough for a down payment on a house, and now i wont even beable to afford a car lmao.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 3 weeks ago:
I love Aggretsuko! Good recommendation
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 3 weeks ago:
I tried to watch Shogun, but couldn’t really get into it. I was really hoping I’d like it. Instead I just be watching The Seven Samurai on repeat
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 3 weeks ago:
Another reason I’m glad to be off reddit. I still check the front page with no account, and they posted a wider image, With many in the crowd in blue. To me it looked altered, like one of those black and white colorized photos. I really can’t tell. The comments were full of people defending this.
I truly can’t tell whats real sometimes, but why tf would you wear blue? Even if more did… why? Match your wife dude- culturally in the states we wear black.
As a mother it’s giving: “I don’t care what (your friends) others are doing, My “president” (kid) should have more decency than this”
Obligatory fuck 2025 Reddit
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 weeks ago:
Hey i wasn’t trying to be hard on you, sorry it came off that way. I’m not married either, and been with my, what we call, common law “husband” for many many years now. The last name thing is complicated for me too, you dont gotta explain to defend your choices, I don’t care what other folks do in their lives, not hurting anyone.
I just laughed and am knocking on you saying youve been meaning to ask her how she feels about the situation, and you’ve “been meaning to ask” for two years since you had the kids, goofball
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t married when I had my children, chose to hyphenate. I’m unsure how I feel for your wife if this topic didn’t come up two years ago, goodness
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 weeks ago:
I was until a few years ago, a machine operator in plastic extrusion. All but one of our engineers were useless. Did they do work? Sure. Was it productive to the line? Occasionally…
We paid $20,000 for a new mil thickness tester, made by young engineers at the local university.
They held a whole “class” to show us how it worked, presentes not by the ones who build it, but by our engineers.
It failed during presentation. So we all learned how to measure manually instead. It never worked. They ended up installing the old one back, which hardly worked.
Then for the next year it sat broken, and unless the old thickness tester was in a good mood, we had to do it manually, which was so utterly time consuming and difficult.
While I think engineers are important so many just fuck around, least where I worked.
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 4 weeks ago:
I find it peculiar we never heard about ms-13 until a few months ago (at most).
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 4 months ago:
Honestly, my mother, born 1961, received $250K in 2000 when my great grandparents passed. my grandmother, has always bought things for my, cars, car repairs, her insurance, grocery shopping, and a few vacations over the years.
My mother has not so much as ever taken me shopping, not even when I was a kid. My other parent, the broke one, bought us everything. My mom, did stretch her inheritance pretty far, but only because her parents helped her out with month to month stuff. It annoys me to no end.
She’s spent the last 15 years convincing my grandmother, her mom, to spend it all. And she has.
I’ll get nothing. If my family actually had love there, if my mother actually took care of me and her other children, I wouldn’t be mad, id understand. That’s not how it went down. My mom spent every, has nothing but a new car left now, the last thing my grandmother bought her, the inheritance gone and she’s now a part time babysitter, after not working 30 years. She was on disability too, this whole time, my entire youth, for get this- mental health. I got to therapy every week still to this day to address my childhood and continued struggles, the same as she did, but she got disability in the 90s when everyone could sign on easily it seems. Her whole life paid for.
I haven’t spoken to her in closet to 7, 8 years now. I can’t imagine my story is unique when it comes to the subject.
My husbands parents are the opposite of my mother, both types of people exist but it’s infuriating to go through what I have with my family. To literally watch your “generational wealth” get flushed.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 4 months ago:
It would be the billionaires stealing the inheritance in this case. Just another trick to siphon money upwards.