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LOL. No man. She was walking around inside the tank we were repairing mumbling to herself and I asked her what was wrong. "Everyone's against me, you're all against me!" I tried to reassure her and she just doubled down on her quiet rambling. It was scary to see her unraveling like that. We need rational people to watch for fires, safety hazards and stuff like that, not someone who mumbles about work place conspiracies. The worst thing that ever happened to her was the kid putting a welding rod through the latch on the portapotty to lock her inside and I yanked that out in four seconds flat and shoved the kid away. She must have heard me warning him and came out yelling about how she was going to report him to corporate office, etc, etc, while I'm trying to pacify her and get her calmed down. It was after that she started mumbling stuff all day. Just that one incident of pranksterism set her off. Not good.

I had a coworker who liked to bang on the side of the portapotty when I'd go in to piss and after about three times of him doing that I stood outside telling him I would tip the damn thing over while he was in it. He'd go in and I'd rush the thing, he'd hear my feet on the gravel and jump back out. After about four times of this he was begging me to clear off and let him piss so I made him promise to never touch the portapotty while I was in it. Truce agreed to and we both left each other to use the portapotty in peace after that.

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I wasn't being terribly serious, that sounds pretty nuts though. I wonder if the toilet prank pushed her over the edge.

Also... of all the careers such a delicate person could pursue, why would they volunteer for something contentious like a safety monitor on a building site?

That's hilarious. Must've been an interesting place to work.

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Haha. Yes, construction jobs are always interesting and all sorts of people from intelligent, to skilled and then mouth breathers and every once in a long while someone who has a serious issue. Yes, of course they got rid of her but in a nice way. It wasn't her fault and she had done nothing really wrong, just can't have someone who is delusional on the job and snapping. After all, we've got enough issues as is with sometimes sketchy people.

Another job I was on at a refinery one of the safety watch girls went seriously out of line with her gangster attitude. Toward the end we had closed up a tank except for a hatch or manway and then it becomes a confined space. Totally different rules as you must have a hood with supplied air. The outside temps were around 110 with inside of course much hotter so we had 30 minutes working time max and she was to sit by the hatch recording entry and exit times for each person. She walks off to use the restroom without asking for relief which would have been given as the safety officer was on hand to relieve her. A guy came out and his exit was unrecorded. She comes back and the safety officer noticed her walking back, checked the log and found the guy outside when he was logged as being inside while I was in there not even knowing what was going on. Safety officer bitched her out and she got extremely hostile with him using some foul language. Like, I guess she didn't know how to say, "Hey, I'm sorry, I messed up and it won't happen again". What she did was a firing offense that could get her TWIC card revoked for life, cost us the contract and a bad mark on insurance. Just a cascade of horrible stuff could come from us getting caught by the refinery making that mistake.

I came out and she went off on me and I had no idea why. Then it was discovered she was having her boyfriend drive her in through security while he had no permission then he'd drive back out. Every day driving in to drop her off and every day picking her up. Turns out her boyfriend was also out of jail for a previous murder conviction and security had not been asking to see his pass. Lax security at the gate. So they fired her that day for insubordination not mentioning the security and safety violations.

So, yes, always interesting working on construction jobs and hopefully you don't see any gore when things go wrong. Like the new kid on a tank job who dropped a long pry bar on his dad who was working below. The bar has a dull point on one end but it still went all the way through his dad's torso. The guy was just standing there with a huge 2 inch thick by three foot long bar through his body. Weirdly enough, little bleeding and the doctors removed the bar successfully. Since it had a dull point he had little organ damage as it simply pushed the organs aside as it went through him. LOL. I wonder how the father son relations were after that, maybe Dad decided to not work on the same jobs as his son.

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That last story. Holy fuck.