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Not only does upper management make the employee feel like it is their fault but the said supervisors don't know their asses from holes in the ground when it comes to the paper work.

WSIB proceedures...

Report injury to supervisor!
Having done so... supervisor called me a ninny for hurting my self.

Report injury to manager.
Manager is on break!! "Can it wait?"

Employee drives self to hospital.

WSIB proceedures:
A co- worker will assist injured party to seek health care.

Said employee drove self to hospital!

Oh yes... the forms...
Three times I asked for the forms to my manager..
Said they weren't needed.

Doc at hospital asks where is my paperwork?
Duh!!!
To add insult to "injury"... I return to place of employ to finalize paperwork and keep documentation accurate so their sorry asses would be covered. I get a strip torn off of me by the owner!

All the work I left behind.

From what I saw... took three of them to barely tackle what I normally would have had done by now...BY MY SELF!! so they can all kiss my @#$%^&*() cause right now I am seriously pissed off!

INCOMPETENCE, TOTAL DISREGARD FOR A FELLOW EMPLOYEE AND FURTHER MORE...

CAN YOU SAY LABOUR BOARD!!!

NOBODY NEEDS THIS SHIT!!!

   

Hang 'em high, Erinites.

I had a repetitive stress injury at one place I worked. I didn't even know what it was...just woke up one morning and my arm wouldn't move.

I went to the doctor, who described exactly what I had been been doing at work for the previous week. So he filled out his paperwork (required by law) and I phoned my boss and told him I needed phone duty for a couple of weeks. I mentioned that there would be an advisory claim through comp and thought it was all done. Nobody wants phone duty...ever...but there was no reason for me to miss work.

About a month later he received the notice that a comp claim had been filled out, although it was only advisory since I hadn't missed any work. He hit the roof. Phoned me up and screamed at me like I'd done something wrong.

The doctor had initially recommended that I take a month off. I guess I should have.

   

I used to work at a cucumber/tomato greenhouse a few years ago, and they were the same way. One time we were cleaning out old plants (hydroponic plants; they're 10 feet tall and hang on wires). One of my co-workers was chopping the plants off the wires with a machete, and I was in front of him, catching them and taking them outside. I feel something hit my head, and I think it's one of the plants falling down. I hear "Oops, did I getcha?" and I realize he had hit me in the head with the machete. Luckily, it wasn't very sharp, and he hadn't swung very hard, so I got away with a cut on my head.

Another time, I was stabbed in the leg, and needed stitches. I thought I had heard something about accident reports, so I asked my boss before going to the hospital. "No," she said, "This is technically a farm, so they aren't necessary." The nurse at outpatients was quick to educate me.

   

To add to this whole @#$%^&* up day... a fellow patient in emerg had the BALLS to tell me.. "This is what I get for trying to do a man's job!"

The rest is kinda history as my mouth/lethal weapon went off...

   

I saw a guy cut off his toes once.

If you've ever seen framers at work, you've seen them use their bodies as saw horses. This kid was cutting a 2x6 and using his foot support it and ran the saw through his toes. No safety shoes, no proper training...just stupidity.

So his co-workers are all running around in a panic. They had no idea what to do. I got them to call an ambulance and wrapped what was left of his foot up in my shirt. The ambulance finally showed up and I was talking to the guy in charge. He hadn't paid the comp bill. He was freaking out because the kid was going to sue him and was hoping that the kid not wearing steel-toed shoes would save him the fines and settlement. I told him it was up to him to make sure his workers wore safety equipment. He went white.

I don't know what happened in the end. I was just there quoting on a deck and when I went back to build it I asked the homeowner. He was unaware that anything had happened at all.

   

it is the fault of the owners and management. This has always been true morally, but since the Westray disaster the union I work with, the USWA, has been working to make it so under the law and have succeeded.

   

We have no union.
We are privately owned.

!@#$%^&*()

   

Do you mean self employed? As far as I know any group of employees can get together and unionise.

   

Don't know if there is enough of us and I already lose about 1/3 of my paycheck to taxes and union dues frighten me...
My current bosses would rather shut down sooner than ceding any form of control over us.

I've oft thought of it but I cannot trust the sycophants!
And we have em'.

   

but if everone had that attitude we'd still be working 14 hour days and being whipped if we weren't quick enough. The way it is done is you call in a union if a few folks are interested and only thry know who called them and who signed up. With any luck the boot lickers end up licking union leather.

   

How do I go about looking into it without cutting my own proverbial throat?

   

Look in the Yellow pages and find your provincial union organization. They will be able to direct to a union that hadles your size and type of business. Once you have decided which union you want, they will guide you through everything.

   

yeah thats smart. It will get you no job at all, nice job Mr NDP.

   

   

Can’t censor me here eh putz.

+ I guess you know when to shut it when you’re beaten. Maybe you’re learning.

   

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