It's a warzone out there

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Are you safe in your workplace, think again?

Have you ever been injured at work?

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not seriously, but I did once concuss myself on walking into a big reinforced glass door.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh rick, you is a funny boy. i have not been injured at work but someone not a million miles away from me might be if they do not stop bleating at me.

― katie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, when I worked in a DIY store...I accidently drove a screwdriver across my wrist whilst assembling a BBQ. It wasn't a serious injury, but being a bit of a hypochrondriac I was worried about blood posioning for a bit. I went to my cousin's a few days later, thought I'd show him my cool scar, he was underwhelmed.

― james, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[xXx] walked into own reflection in the big mirror at the ICA bar, crossly refusing to step aside for [as retold fairly hilariously by xXx] "clearly self-obsessed fashion victim coming directly towards me"

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I fell down a flight of stairs when I worked at a certain large chemical complex in the rural NW of England. This was less than 24 hours after playing a 90-minute football match on a full-sized pitch for the first time since school, which left me unable to walk properly. They put a plaque up in my honour reminding people to use the handrail.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, don't you start. I've only just thrown out some health/life insurance people who came round and pestered me and bored me for ten minutes and asked all manner of irrelevant personal questions and made the house smell of bad aftershave. Grrr. And when I gave them what I hoped were polite euphemisms for "I'm not buying any, go away!" they said, "Oh, well, we'll come back later." I so need to be more assertive.

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uhm, that could probably have used some smileys. I was kidding, not being pissed off at you at all, I just needed to rant, and this seemed like an apt place. Errm, sorry.

― Rebecca, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm in danger of jumping out of the window in despair if the clock does not move faster and I do not get solace in the form of a trip to the pubXor after work.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I severed my entire leg whilst working as a dentist's receptionist. I also lost an eye when a freak tidal wave hit my beach hut in Tenby where I was gathering driftwood samples. My right arm is somewhere in Patagonia after a nasty incident with a large bat. Due to a fall into a vat of paraffin I shall never be able to grow hair on any part of my body. A shark attack in an aquatic centre in Berlin means that many of my internal organs are missing. I have no chin, because one night I had to sleep on the Mongolian plains where, as I slept a herd of Przwalski ponies licked my face away. They have very abrasive tongues.

― alix, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So you were LYING about growing the knee beard!! Oh, those precious hopes, all dashed.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hurt my wrist picking up a laptop computer that was packaged in a box. My fault. I'd been told that because I was a girl I wasn't allowed to pick up any boxes or packages - that I had to call the storeman to come and pick up/carry anything that qualified as a package. I'm sure if it hadn't been packaged, if it was naked, I wouldn't have hurt my wrist.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh God, I *was* lying! How stupid was I to let it slip! I was going to buy a knee mirkin and FOOL YOU ALL. You'd never have known. You want to go to pub after work, is it? Give us a bell.

― alix, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm thinking possibly the Silver Cross on Whitehall followed by Fishco? Or I might go renew my membership of the ICA for more of the civilised booZingXor. But I refuse to eat any more of their "street foods" chiz. Fishco I think is U&K.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Needless to say, this invite goes out now to any of my London Homiez. Get in touch, or mutate this into "going to pub and getting chips!" thread num num.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I brutally crushed my right hand at the office two years ago (actually snapped a coupla bones too) and I almost passed out. Not going to tell you how I managed it tho as the story makes me seem extremely foolish. Despite my fragile bones, I still managed to come off as an iron woman missing only the one day to get my Xrays done. The worst part was non-ambidextrous me working the next two months with only the wrong hand. If only I had paid more attention to Elmer the Safety Elephant as a child...

― Kim, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when I went to the temop agency they agev us al this uinfo abotu how not to get hurt but I felt like wow you have to be really retarted to ge6 iunjure in a offi e

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you calling me a r etard Hanle y? Why I oughtta... ouch!

― Kim, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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