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<blockquote data-quote="snackdad" data-source="post: 871244" data-attributes="member: 30266"><p>I remember one time I walked up to a gate in a very rich area of California. I whistled and yelled as I usually do. No one in yard, no dog, etc. I walked through gate and resident who heard me opens her door to say hi. As she does her dog rushes past her and straight at me and catches me pretty good on the calf before I connect pretty good with my clip board and back the dog down. I end up with a few scrapes and a small puncture wound to the leg. The owners were going crazy apologizing to me, offering me water, car keys, can we finish your route for you? I told them don't worry, I understand the dog was only doing it's job but really they should put up a dog in yard sign and be much more careful answering the door. They even called me that night checking on me (making sure I did not plan to sue). Whatever, its part of the job. I think over 20 years I was bit about 5 or 6 times. </p><p> A few days later the senior manager wants me to sign something acknowledging that the dog bite was my fault!!! Ha ha can you believe it. I told him "ya right" and walked out of his office. It seems like whatever ever happened to an employee was always the fault of the employee regardless of anything. Gee a Russian satellite lost orbit and crashed into my sprinter. Definitely the couriers fault. </p><p> I know a former safety instructor (he was fired for a DUI) that told me the company continuously coached them how to judge against the courier despite evidence to the contrary. It helps the station budgets. </p><p> GFT everything, refuse to sign anything.</p><p>Remember Mario Savio.... " There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all." That was always a favorite video of mine. Google it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snackdad, post: 871244, member: 30266"] I remember one time I walked up to a gate in a very rich area of California. I whistled and yelled as I usually do. No one in yard, no dog, etc. I walked through gate and resident who heard me opens her door to say hi. As she does her dog rushes past her and straight at me and catches me pretty good on the calf before I connect pretty good with my clip board and back the dog down. I end up with a few scrapes and a small puncture wound to the leg. The owners were going crazy apologizing to me, offering me water, car keys, can we finish your route for you? I told them don't worry, I understand the dog was only doing it's job but really they should put up a dog in yard sign and be much more careful answering the door. They even called me that night checking on me (making sure I did not plan to sue). Whatever, its part of the job. I think over 20 years I was bit about 5 or 6 times. A few days later the senior manager wants me to sign something acknowledging that the dog bite was my fault!!! Ha ha can you believe it. I told him "ya right" and walked out of his office. It seems like whatever ever happened to an employee was always the fault of the employee regardless of anything. Gee a Russian satellite lost orbit and crashed into my sprinter. Definitely the couriers fault. I know a former safety instructor (he was fired for a DUI) that told me the company continuously coached them how to judge against the courier despite evidence to the contrary. It helps the station budgets. GFT everything, refuse to sign anything. Remember Mario Savio.... " There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all." That was always a favorite video of mine. Google it. [/QUOTE]
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