Around forty years ago I spoke to a guy I had worked with and he said he had just been discharged from hospital after putting a jack hammer chisel through a 33,000 volt cable whilst digging for a gas pipe.
He said he was lying on a trolley in A&E and a sister came up to him and said “Your boss just phoned, he said to ask you if you will be okay to go back and fill the hole in or has he got to get someone else to do it?”
Typical.
From time to time, ground workers were brought into A&E (nowadays emergency medicine ? ) because a trench had collapsed on them. After having been reassured that there was no life-threatening injury, they wanted to get back to work. No work = no pay!
As for employees, those with the slightest bruise or graze expected a week off. ?
Around forty years ago I spoke to a guy I had worked with and he said he had just been discharged from hospital after putting a jack hammer chisel through a 33,000 volt cable whilst digging for a gas pipe.
He said he was lying on a trolley in A&E and a sister came up to him and said “Your boss just phoned, he said to ask you if you will be okay to go back and fill the hole in or has he got to get someone else to do it?”
Typical.
From time to time, ground workers were brought into A&E (nowadays emergency medicine ? ) because a trench had collapsed on them. After having been reassured that there was no life-threatening injury, they wanted to get back to work. No work = no pay!
As for employees, those with the slightest bruise or graze expected a week off. ?
