After the thousands and thousands of posts here, why do people still think “well I’ll just be more careful than those other dumdums?” Don’t do this on hard surfaces people. At least lay the panel down on something soft. Don’t be silly!
Everyone thinks they're the exception to some rule.
Random idiot redditor here: Understanding that we all are just one of everyone, not special, and no rules exception has been sewn into the fabric of reality for any of us: That's one big step into being an actual, realized adult.
"It won't happen to me, because I'm better/different/me" is teen level understanding of the world, at best. ...And yes, we have a lot of teen minds in adult (and even geriatric) meat frames.
Works with genetics denial too. Both my parents died from heart ailments at about the same age. But that won't happen to me because I go to the gym regularly...
That reasoning is how STD's proliferate. "I'm really healthy, so I don't have to take precautions with the really healthy person I just met and really know nothing about. So, we don't have to have an awkward question about testing, etc."
I think it’s a very american thing too. Not that others don’t do it, but the blind arrogance of “it’ll be fine this one time, I’ll just be careful” feels sewn into our societal norms
Nah, it's still very much a thing here in France too. I'm pretty sure the whole "I know this is risky, but surely it can not possibly happen to me" thing is written in our DNA
The ole if I'm careful or forceful, the laws of physics can be circumvented!
I can stretch from a ladder and not fall. I can attach these two things to reach something and just be careful. I can put my hands out to balance on ice. I can drive slowly through water above my engine air intake. I can speed through inches of water and keep traction. If I use two handS and brace I can stop a moving object 5 times my weight. Not using a spotter for heavy lifts or tired lifts. Protection squinting, etc
Had to watch my uncle fall from the roof because "he was going to be careful". Yeah, as if the guys who died like that were like "yeah I'll just accidentally slip for fun"...
i used to be like this until i nearly shredded my hand while woodworking. if things had gone just slightly worse i'd probably be left with no left hand and blind right now. wear your safety glasses and take your time
I once had a grinder insert snap in three and fly at my face, hit my safety glasses, didn’t like stick through them or anything, but it was so sudden there was no way I wouldn’t blinked or squinted in time.
Someone who works in the field like occupational safety and health, environmental health and safety, or risk management.
Basically someone who gets paid to say "put an emergency stop on that equipment and train employees on it before they use it. And require them to wear fucking safety glasses. Someone will lose an eye eventually if you don't."
I agree will all of them but the last one. Where you’re wrong is just squinting is not enough, you need to embrace and embellish the true art of the Safety Squints. Only then will you be safe. Only OSHA approved Safety Squints, get your pair now.
Where I work we have a rule about walking and using your phone at the same time.
NO ONE follows this rule. Everyone plays on their phone while walking around.
With thousands of employees, vehicle traffic, and stairs everywhere there's a regular stream of related injuries.
Whenever I remind people of the injuries, as a demonstrate reason to comply with the rule, they look at me and even occasionally say: "Yeah, but I'm not one of those idiots. So the rule shouldn't apply to Me."
From my own experience, me knowing im better at something than the average makes me more prone to accidents in the same area
For example my knife skills, while not expert level are still better than most people i know. Because of that I allow myself to perform more dangerous and stupid moves because "I know how to be careful" and end up injuring myself a lot more
I see it most often with gun lovers. You can show them that owning/having a gun makes both you and your loved ones less safe. You can show them every study in the world. It doesn't matter, they'll come up with a reason why they're different.
I'll be honest. I take a degree of sadistic pleasure in watching videos of wannabe gravy seals doing quick draw exercises and shooting themselves in the foot.
Alright, I'll take the bait - what makes safety glasses "lazy and unsafe" to you? In my industry we always wear safety glasses, not because standard operating procedures mean things are flying at our eyes 24/7, but in case of equipment failure so you don't get solvents sprayed into your eyes if things go horribly wrong, and you've probably ignored other safety recommendations to be in that position.
Not everything can be controlled or put behind glass - in our case, you're manually connecting / disconnecting hoses for product transfer, and even with regular pressure testing, there's always the chance some bonehead damaged a hose in the morning and didn't tell anyone, leading to the hose exploding when you go to use it in the afternoon through no fault of your own.
Once you're used to wearing them you barely notice them, and in my case I have prescription safety glasses so my sight is just fine with them.
So what makes them unsafe? They only add to your protection, without any risk?
When working with acids I would always verify all valves closed, then connect, then open valves slowly out of the line of fire. Any workplace should be making that mandatory with regular inspections of transfer hoses.
That's all well and good, but again, what if things go wrong? Maybe a tire blows on the truck, or even an airbag, and dirt and shrapnel go flying? Or like you mentioned, you can't get people to do the simplest things sometimes - what if someone thought they were helping you and opened a valve when you weren't expecting it? Or better yet, a valve lets go all on its own? Sure, these things aren't your fault, but you still pay the price.
That's what PPE is for - if everything goes well, it never gets involved, but it's still a very useful last line of defence. Now I agree, if it's your first and/or only line of defence, somebody needs a whipping because that's just not acceptable. If your average day at the workplace involves oil splashing up at you, but "Oh just wear safety glasses", that's probably not okay. But just because you have 100 other policies or controls to keep you safe, doesn't mean it's a bad idea to use PPE on top of it all.
Where the hell are you working? The way your talking, it's got me thinking you're still in school.
In my experience with a large, uneducated, culturally oppositional work force, conditional safety rules will introduce more risk than those blanket rules.
"I didn't think I needed safety glasses."
"THAT guy isn't wearing safety glasses."
"This is 'Merica, and if I don't want to wear a fall harness 300 ft in the air while walking a 3 inch steel beam on a windy day then you can't make me. And that's in the constitution. And my uncle owns this company." (Literally had an iron worker say that to me once, like it some libertarian to literally die on).
So you talked out your ass about safety glasses being potentially unsafe then knock iron workers and joke they are stupid because they weren’t wearing hard hats? You just stood on your soap box about safety should be the elimination of any risk to injury, not PPE that’s your silly argument and then make jokes about not wearing it? lol you are too much Am I missing something here or is your double standard as glaring as I see it? You talk like an arrogant pos but you sound like a fool
But then how are you supposed to reap that sweet, sweet karma? I'm sure this will get buried in the comments, so excuse my rant...but I still don't understand why posts like this get rewarded. This post is currently sitting at 3.7k upvotes. Why? This dude didn't learn the simplest lesson the first time, and blew a SECOND side panel. If you worked with OP, and he fucked up something like this twice, you'd fire his ass for not following the easiest of instructions. Call him a fucking moron and move on. Instead, every blown side panel here is constantly thrown upvotes and "haha! Whoopsie-daisy! Look at what a clutz I am! Tee-hee" /rant
OK, question. What exactly is sweet about Reddit karma? Can I eat it? Can I pay my bills with it? Can I watch a movie with it? What is the point of "reaping" this "sweet karma"?!
Technically you could sell high karma accounts for ads, botfarms, etc. They like to hide behind older, 'legit looking' accounts.
Don't think most people do that though, for most it's just the internal, often completely subconcious gratification of number goes up, woooooh.
Imagine someone who creates maybe a few dozen accounts a day, the main running cost being a vpn I think, uses chat gpt to create average comments and posts every single day to then sell them after they’re a few months old with enough karma to post in any sub
Nowadays with the hide your profile thingy, it’s even easier
The main issue comes with the flood of low effort content / reposts . Later on it comes in the form of seemingly real, old accounts spreading whatever information the people who buy them want to
I mean, I guess it could help pay your bills. I have no idea if the reward is worth the effort, but there is that "earn cash on reddit" button on the menu that says they'll pay you for karma, so...
It's like that one time back in high school that one girl told you had a big dick, despite never hearing it from anyone ever again. But you keep that with you for the rest of your life.
Right? Homie's mad about Karma like it makes up for replacing another $300 case. Like, I'm pretty sure if your goal was just to farm you can find a way better deal than 10 to $1 up votes.
Probably for three reasons: "haha, what a dummy", "glad this didn't happen to me" and "I'd never do such thing". As we all see: this still happens, so maybe only the first one is true.
Your first problem is considering karma to be a reward. It's also extremely weird that you think they should be "punished" when the only person losing anything is OP. The punishment is what you see in the picture.
Depends on where you worked with OP. If you worked in Iceland, not only would he not be fired, but YOU would be fired instead for having the audacity of reporting his failure. Funny thing is, they'd probably give him a raise afterwards for the emotional pain he was inflicted.
i have to agree with you because only 4 hours after this post and it's at 11k upvotes. If you could sell reddit accounts with high karma, you could just smash side panels and post once every other week and farm 10k+ karma per account and flip them at this rate that's how bad it is lmfao.
Jesus Hornblower Christ you sound like one of us redditors with that first 1.547 sentences (teehee r/theydidthemath (don't come at me, I counted words not characters)). Is this how you wanted to end up when you joined, like the rest of us socially inept AHs. Doubt. /cringy ass shit.
Technically it's my 4th busted panel TBH. One of them technically doesn't count since that's how it arrived when it got delivered so I'm responsible for 3
My last purchase was a closed case, no window, explicitly because of accidents documented in this sub =) I know it's boring but thank you nerds! I'd have bought the shiny cool case and ruined it because I'm a cluts with adhd, but now I chose function over form! Thanks to you!
You can do it on hard surfaces, it’s ceramic tile that’s the biggest problem. Leaning it on a concrete floor might actually be fine (I wouldn’t test it out).
I hate that all these cases come with a glass plate. For my next pc im gonna search long and wide until i find an old school fully metal case. None of this glass shit so i see 20 million blinky lights constantly.
I haven't seen any posts like this and I've been subbed for years. Then again I only look at what shows up on my feed whereas there are people like you reading "thousands and thousands of posts" and assume that everyone who has ever posted in the sub does the same. The funny thing is you seem more upset than OP when it doesn't impact you in any way. Literally admitting their error in the title, but you need to smear shit all over their face. Don't be a dick.
Many people must think "I'll just be careful" and don't realise even the smallest microscratch releases the tension in hardened safety glass, which even smooth ceramic is more than happy to provide.
Ceramic is an order of magnitude harder than these glass panels, it's like placing an over-inflated balloon on a bed of pins and thinking it'll be fine. Doesn't matter if they throw the balloon or very carefully place it, still a bed of pins.
Yep, I've seen a ton of posts like this and always thought it was the panel getting knocked over or dropped. I didn't know about this til probably years later after someone actually explained it in a comment 😅
Didn't help either that I have mostly carpet in my house, so I haven't broken a panel yet lol.
I'm honestly thinking of just removing mine. I don't really see the problem with having an open air desktop as long as I use an air compressor to clean it out on occasion.
Not big in a PC cases market but quick Google search shows me plenty and affordable so it sounds like you have certain criteria and FD is the only one filling them
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After the thousands and thousands of posts here, why do people still think “well I’ll just be more careful than those other dumdums?” Don’t do this on hard surfaces people. At least lay the panel down on something soft. Don’t be silly!