(Without Slipping & Severing Your Spine)
Author Jerry Bloom visits Today Now to explain how you can make your kitchen floor shine without falling and paralyzing yourself for life.
Related: WCB regulations really suck because they’re so darned finicky about… stuff. Why, the next thing you know, we’ll be living in Stalinist Russia!
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I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you had such extensive knowledge about construction. You know… my field?
Uh oh Red you’ve stirred the Pretentious One™.
RA — Yes, it’s completely IMPOSSIBLE that I would know anyone involved in the field of construction. Like say, my brother-in-law, cousin, or countless other family members, friends and associates…
Oh, but of course, that’s YOUR FIELD. Ergo, you have exclusive knowledge and understanding of this highly rare niche of expertise.
Good grief, what a pretentious twat you are.
Look Mr. Construction Expert, of course the WCB (or “Worksafe” as it now styles itself) is a complete pain in the arse and a notoriously miserable bureaucracy — there’s no great revelation there. But at the same time, it’s also a necessary evil of sorts… and while everyone involved in the business rails against their heavy handed demeanor and oft-times laughably excessive regulation, there’s usually good reason for the standards they’ve been appointed to enforce.
I think this is the first time Ive seen the word pretention used as many times without a picture of Yes or Emerson Lake and Palmer.
Congrats RA, you are the prog rock of bloggers!
“I didn’t realize you had such extensive knowledge about construction. You know… my field?”
colour me crazy but before the hiking of the alexander skirts to dash off to lotus land, i seem to recall that the little prince was a public relations professional or some such. construction?
JS — LOL. Ain’t that the truth? But of course that’s the good sort of pretension — the haute couture fruits borne of art schools and such.
PSA — Who knows what mystery man actually does for a living. I thought he was some kind of a real estate estimator who valued property for repossession or some such spectacularly “B-Ark” kind of peripheral occupation like that — he’s always rather vague about his personal details… and yet, rather curiously, all the while posting pictures of his supposed wife and kids on his blog. Quite weird.
pr, construction, real estate speculation; screw the budget, lets have Rafael fix the economy!
I dare say that he probably wouldn’t (or couldn’t) be much worse than the brain trust comprising Team Harper. But then the same could probably be said of a handful of gerbils.
As a union pipefitter (local 488) I’d guess this RA guy is blowing smoke out of his ass. The level of safety training the union offered was very much appreciated. I never knew how ignorant I was of a safe working enviroment.
Before becoming a union journeyman I spent 15 years as a driller/toolpush in the killing fields of northern Alberta. It was a ringside seat to a lot of broken bodies and missing body parts.
you mean Flaherty isn’t a gerbil?
Canhobo — Yeah, no kidding. Safety training doesn’t materialize out of nowhere or appear for no apparent reason. Of course regulations are by their nature tedious, mind-numbingly boring and may at times seem completely irrelevant or even counterintuitive to common practice, but the reason they exist in the first place and then need to be codified is so that certain uniform standards are properly adhered to. And, sad to say, more often than not, they’re usually the collective product of bad experiences (i.e., poor work practices, habitual negligence, or outright malfeasance).
Nicely said redtory. I’m not so good at putting words up on a screen.
“Safety training doesn’t materialize out of nowhere or appear for no apparent reason.”
no, it doesn’t. used to be, only catastrophic events in the workplace would finally spur sort of corrective action, but since the advent of organized labor, and its proactive approach to ensuring safety not just for their memberships but for working people everywhere, the workplace has become infinitely safer.
KEvron, ibew, local 6
“more often than not, they’re usually the collective product of bad experiences”
oh, you already said that.
KEvron
Yep.
The regs are just common sense written up in a seriously boring format.