LillyPip
As a disabled and queer woman, 3 categories that are now under attack, this makes me very angry. I’ll just say [removed].
Yes, but mightn’t this OSHA info be useful to put the fear of god into them? Based on what I’ve read in OP’s post and comments, it doesn’t sound like the employer is taking any kind of precautions (break room with AC, etc).
There’s no legal case here, but if people are unreasonably uncomfortable, it seems bringing up the OSHA regs (specifically, not generally) could at least get them to improve conditions a bit.
My ex and my son both work in a state and industry where OSHA is a guideline and not a rule (different companies), but if you bring up a possible OSHA violation in a health and safety meeting, it’s taken seriously. Not because they’re worried about citations, but because often that can be grounds for a civil lawsuit if something does happen (it’s a basis for ‘they should have known’), and they will try to meet those standards to cover their ass, right?
I’m talking about residential and commercial property management, not manufacturing, though, so it may be different.
e: I am not arguing with you; I defer to your expertise. I’m just curious and annoyed on OP’s behalf. If this were my son’s workplace, I’d be angry.
Thanks for that link. Will doomwatch tonight.
e: for those like me who can’t afford streaming services, it’s on YouTube.
e2: I’ve only watched part of this, but it’s showing how intelligent and seemingly rational people believe this shit. ‘Normal’ people are in this cult.
Fun fact: conservatives in Tennessee privatised their fire department, with predictable results: people’s houses just burnt down.
A man whose house is on fire will say anything to a guy with the means to put the fire out — best not to trust him, unless you can get it in writing.
Even funner fact: libertarians took over a government in Grafton, New Hampshire, and then the bears moved in.
A couple of choice quotes:
The bears, for their part, were left to navigate the mixed messages sent by humans who alternately threw firecrackers and pastries at them. Such are the paradoxes of Freedom. Some people just “don’t get the responsibility side of being libertarians,” Rosalie Babiarz tells Hongoltz-Hetling, which is certainly one way of framing the problem.
Meanwhile, the dreams of numerous libertarians came to ends variously dramatic and quiet. A real estate development venture known as Grafton Gulch, in homage to the dissident enclave in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, went belly-up. After losing a last-ditch effort to secure tax exemption, a financially ruined Connell found himself unable to keep the heat on at the Meetinghouse; in the midst of a brutal winter, he waxed apocalyptic and then died in a fire.
Turns out public services are – shocker! – for the public good, and taxes aren’t theft. Who knew public works and social programs actually help communities? Crazy, I know.
Despicable.
Nah, he’s just a liar. He said that at a press conference where literally everything in his view was either a person, man, woman, camera, or tv (well, plus the podium, but that’s a big boy word).
Cunningham’s Law:
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
On the other hand, he’s well known for eating things he wants to hide. He eats notes after meetings.
I would be surprised if he hasn’t had someone redesign the US flag for him, based on his ‘vision’. So eating the flag to hide it is totally on brand.
This mess is driven by Project 2025, which was written by a bunch of accelerationist Evangelical death cultists who are desperate for Jesus to come back and rapture them.
They think the looming climate crisis is a good thing since it’s one of the signs. That’s why they care about Israel, because it’s part of their doomsday fanfic. They touch themselves at night dreaming about how they’ll be sipping mimosas in heaven watching the rest of us burn. They’re gleeful about killing us all.
Of course they’re YOLOing this shit. The sooner everything collapses, the sooner they’ll get their preordained rewards, and they want to be fat and happy in the meantime. And by the way, if you aren’t ‘blessed’ enough to be rich already, you must be wicked and you deserve it.
They’re going to pillage and kill us all if we don’t stop them.
Welp, it was nice knowing you all.