RedCascadian

RedCascadian t1_ja2wusd wrote

Reply to comment by 28nov2022 in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

It'd s lot of squatting and lunging with 35 lb or less items, so interestingly women's better leg muscle to body weight ratio would make them pound for pound more efficient.

They also seem to take better care of themselves and adopt better body mechanics faster (I train new hires and younstsrt noticing patterns).

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RedCascadian t1_ja2tvdr wrote

Reply to comment by 28nov2022 in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

That's a weird place to go. I work in an Amazon warehouse with 3k employees and I wouldn't be surprised if more of them were women. A lot of the highest performers, too.

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RedCascadian t1_ja0oni3 wrote

Reply to comment by kafelta in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Warehouse worker here. Essential just means expendable in our society. It's why I keep trying to persuade workers to unionize.

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RedCascadian t1_j0hbfne wrote

Reply to comment by WaitformeBumblebee in Toughest material ever is an alloy of chromium, cobalt and nickel by tonymmorley

Aliens: So how did you get your ship so fast without warpsrive?

Humans: "oh we set off nukes behind ourselves and ride the explosion."

Aliens: "the fuck? How did you nit destroy your planet already?"

Humans: "oh no, we get to the explosion ships by shooting a smaller ship with lasers to send it to orbit, or we just hurl it through a giant rail gun into orbit.

Aliens: O_O

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RedCascadian t1_ishkh2b wrote

Reply to comment by quettil in US Federal Reserve sees EV “battery belt” developing as greater than 15 battery manufacturing facilities worth greater than $40 billion are in development in the US by ForHidingSquirrels

This is what many of us think of large portions of the white, southern working class.

I'm a white working class guy in the PNW. I'm also a progressive and am organizing a union in an Amazon warehouse.

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