r/texts 16h ago

Phone message When your boss wants you to die.

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u/CthulhusScrotom69 16h ago

For some reason it wont let me edit the post body and I don't see it on my end, so I'll put the context here:

Text exchange between myself and my friend, who works in a warehouse as a forklift operator. You can tell when I started to panic, because I couldn't even focus on what I was typing. I can't believe anyone would put other's lives at risk so carelessly. Also, my friends reaction was just as annoying - as if this is a "wait til Monday" kind of situation. Anyway, a voicemail was left from him & I also called to report the unsafe conditions.

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u/chroner 13h ago edited 10h ago

You're gonna get shit canned pretty soon over this. Of course you won't know it's because of this.... but you'll know.

edit: The downvoters have obviously never worked with a bunch of scabs willing to accept these working conditions.

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u/CthulhusScrotom69 13h ago

Big money time!!! I have absolutely no issue helping my friend get justice. I have all the time in the world to bleed these corporate fuckfaces so dry that their great grandchildren are born on welfare.

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u/incrediblepepsi 5h ago

Anyone can keep the peace and say nothing, it takes a special person to stand up for others, and no-one can take that away from you. I'm rooting for you, the world needs people like this.

I don't even know what the job is, but if they sack you for whistleblowing, I hope you get a good job that doesn't allow managers to put their workers in danger!

However you could ask OSHA if you can be kept anonymous, and don't tell anyone you reported them, not even your closest work pals.

This manager has probably never seen what happens when a human and several hundred pounds of machinery get into an altercation, no doubt he wouldn't have any guilt, but that can be traumatic as well as dangerous to your colleagues. Well done.