American companies treat their employees like children?

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Saltydog wrote:
djmom wrote:Not to hijack the thread, but remember when everyone was using those cardboard things inside their car under the windshield to block out the sun and keep the car cool?

We passed them out as promotional items one year and it actually said "Do not use while driving".
WARNING: do not read while eating raisin bran crunch :oops:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thank you for the laugh!
SJfromNJ wrote:linne - I work for a large Swiss family owned corporation and I get similar emails from them.
Perhaps it's something to do with a very BIG company.
I haven't seen something like this before and first I thought it was a joke (son often send me jokes)

Plus, people get complacent and do dumb things that jeopardize the safety of themselves and others, and, the safety dept. has to justify their existence.[/quote]

Thread winner.


I agree! Have been thinking of the same.

I am afraid that all these warnings prevent people to think for themselves. You risk that every time something bad happens people will excuse themselves “ but I was never told”. Or another risk is that people will not read the warnings because most of them are ridiculous.

here one more warning my son got:

· Walk on sidewalks if possible. If covered with snow and ice, walk along grassy edges for traction.

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California Girl wrote: But no one ever reminded me about safe footwear in an office environment (other than maybe they don't allow you to wear flip-flops to work).
Flip Flops are the least of my worries. I work for a huge company but we manage our dress code, safety, etc. on a department level.
It is amazing to me what people wear to work and think that it is acceptable for a Fortune 100 company.
We are allowed to wear jeans on Fridays and people look like they have been working in their yard or working the streets in some cases.

We were in a remote office for a few years and someone brought in a space heater that was large enough for a small home. It tripped all the breakers and actually started a small electrical fire. 2 hours later we got power back to the office (of over 300 people) the employee asked how the company was going to reiumburse her for the heater since the fire caused damage to it :roll:

It is sad that some people do not have enough sense to navigate the most common situations.
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This reminds me of an email I got from a friend:

An Obituary Printed In the London Times. Interesting and sadly true:


"Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, "Common Sense", who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouth wash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust. His wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility, his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights; I Want It Now; Someone Else Is To Blame; I’m A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
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Carolyn wrote:Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Ah yes the infamous McDonalds coffee burn case. This incident was reviewed at a product liability conference I attended, and surprise, the media let the scandalous headline get in the way of the truth.

In reality, McDonalds badly mis-handled this case and was setting themselves up for this kind of judgment by requiring their restaurants to maintain their coffee at scalding 185 -190 degrees F. and then added insult to injury with a lame response to her request for them to cover her med bills.

For the conference attendees (corporate risk managers and the like), it was a case lesson on what NOT to do pre and post incident.

For those interested, this looks like a pretty accurate account:
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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Oh, the McDonald's coffee case.

We studied that case in a law class, and I remember that particular McDonald's had been cited several times by the local health department for having an unsafe coffee temperature.

But in a country where people are so prone to litigate over the tiniest thing and have little sense of personal accountability, everyone covers their hind-ends with some pretty strange warnings that the smart people seem to find to be common sense.

Those warnings did give me a chuckle, though.
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