• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    53·
    1 year ago

    I worked night shift in a metal fabrication shop about 11 years ago.

    Two bastions of humanity figured out that they could light an oxyfuel torch and adjust it to a neutral flame, snuff the flame out of a glove or something, and then use the torch to fill a plastic sandwich bag with a perfect mixture of oxygen and acetylene. They would then place this bag somewhere and light it on fire, which made a lot of noise. They had great fun until they tried it with a small office-sized trash bag. The word of the day is brisance. It made a tremendous bang which cracked some glass in the shop, but of course our two heroes were caught in the blast amd burned, because a sandwich bag made a loud pop, but a trash bag was more of a bomb. They lit the trash bag like they did the little bags, by holding a lighter to the plastic.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      29·
      1 year ago

      I was at an xmas party one year where the workshop boys did this with an upturned 44 gallon drum. It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard. I thought we were under some sort of attack.

      They expected the drum to launch a little but what actually ended up happening was the upturned metal bottom blew off and launched a LOT punching a hole in the workshop roof. It’s a miracle that nobody was hurt (their hearing probably was). Somehow they didn’t get fired.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        1 year ago

        Somehow they didn’t get fired.

        When someone does something really stupid and shows remorse, you can be pretty sure they will never ever do it again. A new guy might though.

      • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        I was invited to a rural party for new years, I’m pretty sure it was 2003-2004. I drank entirely too much, and saw some friends crushing beer cans, and was inspired. I found an old 55-gallon steel drum, put a bunch of water in it, and rolled it into the bonfire. Once steam was shooting out, I put the bungs back on it and rolled it into the pond. After a few minutes, there was a metallic “bang” and the drum was folded in on itself.

        The guy who invited me to the party told everyone for years that I used my head to crush a steel drum.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      10·
      1 year ago

      We had another shop in the chain I worked for fire everyone for doing that when I was a mechanic. There were no injuries but the neighboring businesses called 911 because they thought there was a bomb.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    48·
    1 year ago

    this is so fucking true holy shit

    i work the night shift and every time day shift comes back in, everything’s settled and quiet, everything’s streamlined and ready.

    When 2nd shift comes in (we actually have 3 shifts, and overnight is 3rd) it’s UTTER CHAOS

    • db2@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      1 year ago

      Here’s one I know a few of you will be familiar with: 1st breaks a machine and can’t run product leaving it for night. Night fixes the machine and runs the orders but has to re-break the machine before 1st comes in or risk getting fired for fixing it and being productive.

      • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Pull the god pin at the end of every shift. Dont tell management!

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      Our third shift is all maintenance, no production, do they do their preventative stuff and nothing really happens. 1st comes in to a well lubricated factory, promptly fucks everything up and passes their problems on to second.

      And every day the cycle begins anew.

  • db2@sopuli.xyz
    441·
    1 year ago

    Based on your title I don’t think you understand the meme you posted.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile day shift has twice as many people working with half the business then wants to complain when we didn’t clean up all their messes.

    I’m sick of taking out trash bags that I put in the night before.