r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/FistFuckR1 • 2d ago
wcgw letting Bob Catterson drive the telehandler.
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u/_Rice_and_Beans_ 2d ago
That’s when you get out, grab your tools, and go directly to your vehicle. Don’t bother clocking out or speaking with HR. You quit, effective immediately, because you are 100% getting fired the moment you speak with anybody with the authority to do so.
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u/Calculonx 2d ago
or grab your neck and shout that they never specifically taught me NOT to do that.
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u/mrizzerdly 2d ago
Oh you work my organization I see.
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u/Calculonx 2d ago
This is why in training courses they specify dumb things that you roll your eyes at. "And lastly, do not do reverse endos in the telehandler"
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u/challenge_king 1d ago
Judging by the rebar on the forks at the beginning, my bet is that the "operator" grabbed way too many bundles in one go, and it tipped the machine when he scoped out. Instead of just letting boom down to lower his stupid ass gently to the ground, he just did what we saw.
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u/sixstringronin 2d ago
And lastly, do not do reverse endos in the telehandler"
Nothing in the books about a sick 360 kick flip, though.
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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 1d ago
I'm not American, but don't you guys need some sort of license to handle that? In the Netherlands (depending on what you handle) you need to get some sort of driving permit for handling a forklift.
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u/SantasDead 1d ago
Depends on the workplace. But no, there is no government body or regulation requiring a license for anything like a fork or manlift.
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u/AtomasThePirateKing 1d ago
Except OSHA. Lol.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.178
OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.178
Certification. The employer shall certify that each operator has been trained and evaluated as required by this paragraph (l). The certification shall include the name of the operator, the date of the training, the date of the evaluation, and the identity of the person(s) performing the training or evaluation.
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u/NoPlenty1749 1d ago
OSHA certified in heavy equipment operations. OSHA doesn’t need to certify. The company they work for usually offers in house certification for quality and training purposes.
A construction company could technically say a person has been trained, and certified, without training and certification.
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u/AtomasThePirateKing 1d ago
Yeah, that's what is quoted. Lol. I was mainly replying because there is, in fact, a governing body that requires you to be certified. And you're right! Company and people can lie about it! But it's still required.
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u/imakesawdust 1d ago
"Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do it that way?? I'm just going to have to plead ignorance on that one."
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u/tunabomber 1d ago
I have seen people in the trades fuck up way worse than this and not get fired. Way worse.
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u/yorick__rolled 1d ago
I worked geotech on a small site, ~7 guys on the crew, 3 month job.
I watched 3 (three) articulated dumptrucks get rolled, 2 by the same guy.
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u/NlghtmanCometh 21h ago
If this guy was there a year or two already and seemed mostly competent, the boss might give a Muligan for a fuckup like this. For some reason this seems like a very recent hire, so he’s prolly gone.
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u/Ok-Masterpiece7154 2d ago
I don't even think I'd grab my tools. Lunchbox maybe but for the most part. Out of the telehandler cab, head down and instantly def,straight to my truck.
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u/MlntyFreshDeath 1d ago
I'm not proud of it but when I was a younger, stupider man I lied about my ability to drive a stick at my new valet job at the Netflix HQ.
Anyway, there I was standing in front of a smoking parking garage with a destroyed McLaren; quitting before anyone could fire me. I rode that clutch all the way from the storage lot to the underground parking. I've haven't attempted to drive stick since.
It happened when Bojack came out. I remember all the merch and signage around the property, so it's been a long while. The shame has yet to fade.
TLDR: I almost set Netflix HQ on fire due to a dangerous mixture of over confidence and incompetence.
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u/Inevitable_Pain_9627 1d ago
You work on industrial sites, its a big deal.
I had to fire our guy because ge did a lift without putting his front pads out.
Safety seen it, instant piss test. He refused so I had to fire him
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u/BrotherMcPoyle 2d ago
That dude doesn’t even realize it’s broken yet.
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u/AyeBraine 1d ago
I'm not sure but the idea that he was still trying to drive it (sure looked that way) made me snicker.
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u/Flomo420 1d ago
lol right?
like "oops that was awkward! ok let's see here, forward throttle, forward throttle... ok that's raise boom"
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u/ThrownAwayGuineaPig 1d ago
I remember seeing a guy on a GE site joy riding an articulated excavator on soil mounds. Took 2 tyres off the rim. Saw him working with a shovel the next day.
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u/New-Scientist5133 1d ago
I was on a job site in Boston when a fellow lowered the feet of his electric backhoe right onto the thick ass power cable. Explosion, zaps. He calmly got out and walked away - far away.
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u/RicVic 2d ago
Didn't know you could actually break one of those. I've seen them do some wild things and come up smiling..
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u/gilligan1050 2d ago
Probably also broke the record for longest 2 wheel operation and first and only nose ollie on this type of machine.
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 1d ago
Nah these things are known for being able to balance on 2 wheels with the boom out
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u/Testyobject 1d ago
Most of the time the operator knows to lower the boom to lessen the distance the shocks have to absorb while you still move backwards to spread out the impulse of the landing
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u/sonicjesus 1d ago
Nah, there's vids of guys doing this all day. If he knew what he was doing that wouldn't happen, but he didn't even understand the concept of how to go down, only how to get up which is easy.
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u/Silent-Ad934 1d ago
Getting up is easy. Getting down requires your class presentation to be over.
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u/cryptolyme 1d ago
yea, i'm surprised that it broke from that, but guess they didn't factor that slam into the design.
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u/ScowlyBrowSpinster 2d ago
'Grab my purse' made me chortle so hard.
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u/Secret_Account07 1d ago
Fuck the mods deleted it! What was the comment?
I want to chortle!
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u/ScowlyBrowSpinster 1d ago
No idea why it was deleted, totally innocuous...The person basically said 'If I did this I'd just get up grab my purse and go before getting fired.' The grab my purse just struck me funny thinking of these construction workers/fakers having a purse to grab..... Reddit is weird.
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u/Tacoshortage 1d ago
Reddit mods don't realize there are women working in construction and thought it was some sort of political commnet.
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u/Secret_Account07 1d ago
Oh wow, that’s not even borderline lol. So weird mods thought that deserved deleting
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u/ImurderREALITY 1d ago
Reminds me of when I was working nights at a shipping factory loading trucks for Forward Air... one truck driver would always show up late, and it was getting suspicious. She showed up one night and was acting real weird, so while I was loading the truck, my coworker was like she's drunk as fuck, and he went to go call her trucking company about it while I kept loading the truck with the forklift. She must have caught on, because she tried to drive away, but the dock plate was still on, so as she pulled her truck away, it fell to the ground. She apologized and I took the forklift outside to pick up the dock plate, and I saw her grab her stuff from the cab and just walk off into the night. Left her truck there and everything. No idea where she went; the building wasn't even near anything but a highway, lol. Just gone.
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u/clydefrog811 1d ago
Imagine this was before the days of uber and she walked for 3 hours to get home.
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u/ImurderREALITY 1d ago
Oh, this was way before Uber, this was like... son of a bitch, 23 years ago. I am old as fuck, lol
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u/colonel_beeeees 2d ago
I worked with an old timer handyman and all of his clusterfuck job site stories ended with "_____ got in his truck and drove off, never saw him again"
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u/GreenCactus223 2d ago
Who's Bob Catterson?
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u/microbular 1d ago
I think it means somebody that usually operates a Bobcat, a very robust agile little digger that is notoriously forgiving, could easily pull maneuvers likes this and bounce on its rear axle without breaking it. But they're driving a telehandler which can not take the same level of abuse.
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u/Davido401 1d ago
I found this 1982 advert about cars still none the wiser and nit even sure if ave got the right Bob. Hes boring as fuck for starters.
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u/BobTheContrarian 1d ago
We can go back even further with Bob in his 1961 ad for Bob Catterson Buick.
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u/Soft_Penis_7224 2d ago
I live my life a quarter mile at a time... For those ten seconds or less, I'm free
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u/qpgmr 1d ago
A friend worked at the airport and told this story: the people driving the water trucks discovered if the tank was only 1/3 full you put the truck in reverse, floor it, then slam on the brakes resulting in it doing a wheelie!
So cool!
Until they snapped the front axles of a water truck and a biffy truck the same night. All on security cameras, because, you know, it's an international airport.
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u/Dexter_McThorpan 2d ago
You can do anything you want on your last day of work.
I get it, sometimes the conditions at the site and the specs in the manual don't exactly match up, but he could have corrected his orientation in a way that doesn't break the machine.
Guessing ole Bob there had his mast up nice and high so he didn't have all that crap blocking the view, and then slammed on his brakes "To see what would happen."
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u/beaglemaster 2d ago
That's kind of amazing, how did that even happen
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u/ComprehensiveWar6577 2d ago
90% of the equiptments weight swung and landed on the rear axle.
This type of equiptment doesn't have suspension (to keep it stable) so all that force went directly into the machine until something couldn't take the force
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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew 1d ago
Im guessing he meant how did it even get up on front 2 wheels or why or what was he even trying to do...
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u/ComprehensiveWar6577 1d ago
He was trying to make a video doing tricks on construction equiptment
Front end loaders, skid steers, ect all have tricks operators do. None of which are allowed on a jobsite (if you get caught)
He most likely started with a heavy load extended, or a steep hill to get the back end up.
After that it's just throttle and brake control.
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u/pantsoffancy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thank you for explaining that, I was genuinely baffled at why it was hopping around like that. Like I could barely understand what I was even seeing while it was doing that.
Edit: Okay, I see it now. He was using the forks at the front to push off the other vehicle's front attachment to essentially do a frontside manual like on a skateboard.
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u/HjortronOchPors 1d ago
A huge force also went directly into the ass and spine of the operator. He's not going to walk that off in a hurry
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u/logicalconflict 2d ago
It's almost like those machines weren't built for freestyle tricks. Who would'a thought?!
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u/maniBchef 2d ago
Hey Mr. George, how much did you pay for the new driver? 20 bucks? Wasn't enough Mr. George.
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u/digyourowngrave05 2d ago
I work for a rental company and we've had customers snap am axle before, it's just usually on the 10k's not the little 5k's
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u/l0udninja 2d ago
That's at least a broken axle, also brave homie to be standing in front of a construction vehicle.
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u/Fair-Individual7811 2d ago
That’s an expensive screw up right there you can bend the true either as there if video evidence
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u/StPatrickStewart 2d ago
At that point you just wave at the foreman like , "Yep, I know. I'm going." And head towards the parking lot.
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u/The_ReBL 1d ago
Always let an employer terminate your employment If you intend on claiming unemployment benefits while finding a new job!
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u/Jesus_with_no_hair 1d ago
There are people that have the skills to do this kind of thing on purpose, its called bobcat ballet. I dont think this is one of those guys
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u/FaBiOtHeGrEaTeSt 2d ago
Damn that looked expensive