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(Patriot Ledger) Silly Ever got razor burn? Did you claim it as a job-related injury? Successfully?   (patriotledger.com) divider line 26
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2010-09-05 12:15:43 PM
I knew a guy who cut himself shaving, showed up for work and he called for an ambulance because it wouldn't stop bleeding.

He wasn't a hemophiliac or anything, he was just an idiot.
 
2010-09-05 12:37:44 PM
Morehouse filed an injury report and an unprotected exposure form . . . after shaving with a used razor he found in a section of the fire station that had been closed for several years.

What could go wrong?
 
2010-09-05 12:41:46 PM
www.celebrityrush.com

/Has also had a few problems with a razor
 
2010-09-05 12:45:37 PM
Leary balked, as we suspect most people would, and suspended Morehouse for two days on grounds of filing a false report.

Morehouse appealed his suspension to the state Civil Service Commission, which last week ruled against Leary and ordered the department to reimburse Morehouse for lost pay and benefits.

"It is the practice in Weymouth to complete and submit a workplace injury report for any injury, regardless of whether it appears to be trivial," commission Chairman Christopher Bowman wrote in the decision. "Although Chief Leary may have been skeptical about (Morehouse's) motive for submitting the injury report, he has not shown that it was a false report."


Well, they're right... It's not the Chief's job to determine the severity of the injury, and he never showed it was false. That's for the retirement board to determine. He should have done his job, signed the form (perhaps adding a note saying that he thought it was a trivial injury) and passed it on to the people who have the power to reject it.
 
2010-09-05 12:46:36 PM
Morehouse filed an injury report and an unprotected exposure form, normally filed when there is unprotected exposure to blood or other bodily fluids, after shaving with a used razor he found in a section of the fire station that had been closed for several years.


This is almost a funny way of getting back at the boss for making you trim the 'stache.
 
2010-09-05 12:47:05 PM
he was doing something explicitly required by his job. at the jobsite. using the equipment he found onsite. *sounds* legit. but a razor rash? a firefighter should be a little more butch than that! definitely something going on here we're not being told!
 
2010-09-05 12:49:42 PM
after shaving with a used razor he found in a section of the fire station that had been closed for several years.

Euthanize him, it's the only compassionate thing to do.
 
2010-09-05 12:53:27 PM
Anti-union newspaper is anti-union.
 
2010-09-05 12:53:29 PM
karlandtanya: definitely something going on here we're not being told!

No, it's pretty obvious...
1) Underling gets told by boss to shave his moustache.
2) Underling gets crafty, uses rusty razor and claims on-the-job injury.
3) Boss gets upset about dick-waving contest, doesn't act like an adult, and refuses to pass injury claim on to the people who could legitimately reject it.

Basically, the Underling skirted the rules, but the Boss broke them, which is why he's in the wrong.
 
2010-09-05 12:54:00 PM
I was sort of hoping this story was gonna be about a stripper.
 
2010-09-05 12:55:03 PM
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2010-09-05 01:01:28 PM
One could imagine some industries where razor-burn could be a job-related injury......
 
2010-09-05 01:13:13 PM
Ever got razor burn? Did you claim it as a job-related injury? Successfully?

No, but I have used static mechanical tactile allodynia (periodic hypersensitivity to touch) as an excuse for not shaving (it worked, 'til my boss asked for a doctor's note).
 
2010-09-05 01:26:12 PM
This guy is my new hero. Right after Wally, the porno-browsing work avoidance expert on Dilbert.
 
2010-09-05 01:59:59 PM
JohnAnnArbor: One could imagine some industries where razor-burn could be a job-related injury......

Porn?
 
2010-09-05 02:04:50 PM
In all fairness, his razor-burn was probably aggravated by his menstrual-cramps.
 
2010-09-05 02:17:27 PM
This is an example of why we have a government that cannot afford basic services to its citizens and has to borrow money to prop it up, temporarilly.

Ha ha, we failed.
 
2010-09-05 02:29:21 PM
Why make him shave it in the first place? I've never understood the fascination of making public services into paramilitary organizations, i.e. police and military crew-cuts.
 
2010-09-05 02:59:10 PM
Molavian: Why make him shave it in the first place? I've never understood the fascination of making public services into paramilitary organizations, i.e. police and military crew-cuts.

IIRC facial hair can interfere with breathing gear that's supposed to seal against the face, so there's a bona-fide, work-related reason for the ban, rather than just someone's arbitrary idea of what constitutes "professional appearance."
 
2010-09-05 03:25:20 PM
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2010-09-05 03:43:11 PM
JohnAnnArbor: One could imagine some industries where razor-burn could be a job-related injury......

Stripper?
Bikini model?
Lingerie model?

Perhaps I should stop imagining before I make a mess at work...
 
2010-09-05 04:00:07 PM
geekbikerskum: IIRC facial hair can interfere with breathing gear that's supposed to seal against the face, so there's a bona-fide, work-related reason for the ban, rather than just someone's arbitrary idea of what constitutes "professional appearance."

Yeah, it sounds good when they say it, too.
 
2010-09-05 04:10:00 PM
cynicalbastard: This guy is my new hero. Right after Wally, the porno-browsing work avoidance expert on Dilbert.

Judging by your criteria, your real hero should be Melvin Van Peebles. From the wikipedia article on Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: "Van Peebles contracted gonorrhea when filming one of the many sex scenes, and successfully applied to the director's guild in order to get workers' compensation because he was "hurt on the job.""

I know he's my hero, anyway.
 
2010-09-05 06:40:56 PM
Having been in the Navy, where I've had to wear firefighting equipment, I'll agree that there is a limit to how full a mustache can be without hindering a good seal on our facemask.

What I always found funny was that, in the BlueJacket's manual I got in basic, the reason hair had to be short was for the same reason. Then, after women were allowed to be stationed aboard ship, that comment was mysteriously taken out of subsequent printings.
 
2010-09-05 07:49:21 PM
Where I work every injury no matter how slight has to be reported and you have to go to the on-site clinic.
If the injury happens outside of the on-site clinics hours (as approximately 30 of my 40 weekly work hours are) we are supposed to go to the nearby hospital.

End result:

We are required to call an ambulance if we get a paper cut. Really - that's what the official rules say - without the example of course.

I like to keep some facial hair. I also have to do "asbestos" work (in areas OSHA doesn't actually qualify as Asbestos areas mostly - and a few that do). I don't know I'm going to do Asbestos work until I'm actually at work. I wind up shaving at work a lot. I can't seem to actually get rid of a beard and mustache using only a razor - since my clippers are at home - without getting cut.

Yep. I could pull this and use their own rules to cover it. I have a feeling they would actually re-write the rules if we were to actually follow them.
 
2010-09-06 03:14:07 AM
malaktaus: cynicalbastard: This guy is my new hero. Right after Wally, the porno-browsing work avoidance expert on Dilbert.

Judging by your criteria, your real hero should be Melvin Van Peebles. From the wikipedia article on Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: "Van Peebles contracted gonorrhea when filming one of the many sex scenes, and successfully applied to the director's guild in order to get workers' compensation because he was "hurt on the job.""

I know he's my hero, anyway.


Van Peebles has achieved a level of greatness most of us lesser males can only hold up as an example, without the slightest chance of following in that giant's footsteps.
 
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