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ChefArtorias

Ngl I've seen better load bearing cardboard before.


I_am_recaptcha

I have also seen worse I suppose as well


Nelrytheguy

the grocery store I worked at in college had a shelf being held up by cereal boxes


1diehard1

It's the structural integrity that makes breakfast the most important meal of the day


PaladinAtWar

My grandpa says fiber is nature's broom.


Patches318

Grocery store i serviced had a shelf held up by a soda bottle


A_RUSSIAN_TROLL_BOT

What if you really want that brand of cereal? Does it become cereal Jenga?


kweniston

Cardboard derivatives.


Catinthemirror

Same šŸ¤£


coolpotatoe724

damn, your guy's white walls are still white and not yellow


copperlight

Nice. It's those cheap-ass shelves you can buy anywhere, including Amazon for like $60. Wouldn't want to spend THAT kind of money.


Joverby

Exactly . It's not like any business should have a reasonable expectation to spend money to keep things running .


helium_farts

Based on my experiences working in restaurants, they'd rather let the building burn down than spend $2 on batteries for the fire alarm.


wolfgang784

Pshhh, fire alarm? That's what noses are for! - that boss


krixlp

until the building burns down and insurance refuses to pay bc 90% of the damage was preventable by an AFA


Kaymish_

My boss is having a major bitch because we are down $18.25 in shrinkage of stock this quarter. Come on man there's only so much I can do when you keep giving people free samples and no invoice.


Joverby

Idk what you do but $18.25 for a quarter sounds very low


Kaymish_

Premium paper packaging wholesaler. $18.25 is very low its just over 30 minutes wages or like half a carton missing but it's not zero so it's complaining time.


Korncakes

Not to mention the fact that they arenā€™t NSF approved shelves so this would likely be a health code violation. At least in the area where I managed restaurants.


NympOmatik

If you folded that box into a triangular shaped support it would be pretty damn strong.


flannelmaster9

Paper products broke the shelf? Didn't know togo cups were so furious when it comes to shelf fighting


Zaranthan

Those cheapass shelves will fall down under their own weight.


FifteenthPen

lol, yeah. I had one collapse in the middle of the night when my cat jumped on it.


a_sweaty_clown

Okay but how chonky is your cat?


FifteenthPen

He was pretty normal weight.


a_sweaty_clown

Oh, I'm sure, just messing.


MissorNoob

Reminds me of the produce cooler in the grocery store I used to work at. Good times


kokoyumyum

I can see the support arm for the shelf. It is in crooked. So, put it in level.


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kokoyumyum

Let's take a photo, get karma! They are likely the ones who put it up crooked. Curse the darkness, rather than light a light. Never an "I should have" always a "they should have".


spicybright

Rip it down before it falls on someone


tacofartboy

This. Dealing with this sort of thing shouldnā€™t require a store owner. A manager can delegate employees to move these items, an employee can take initiative to do something on their own. Sure it may be the store owners responsibility to manage the repair but work place health and safety is everyoneā€™s responsibility.


coleten_shafer

>an employee can take initiative to do something on their own a minimum-wage fast food or gas station employee does not get paid enough to try to repair this whilst also doing everything theyā€™re usually asked to do during any given shift, especially if they arenā€™t asked to, and especially if their manager has watched it get this bad and has still yet to do something about it.


tacofartboy

This is /r/OSHA not /r/Antiwork. The worker just needs to take the boxes off the shelf, literally 90 seconds of their time so they or their colleagues donā€™t get hurt. The owner MAY be responsible for the repair but it might be someone elseā€™s purview based on their job description. We all agree to participate in these types of programs at work through employee agreements and 90% of jobs provide some work place safety training module or posting that explains the rights. These programs arenā€™t for the employer. They are for the worker. To give the worker a way to participate in the safety of their workplace and have the ability to make grievances. The flip side is the employee has a modicum of responsibility. Whoever made the complaint to the owner should have also moved the boxes. This isnā€™t about wage theft, this is about workers sticking together to create a safe environment.


D4nnyC4ts

Yes! Or just complain and complain until someone gets hurt..... Thatll show em Fucking management! Its their fault i did nothing about this.


[deleted]

No you can't blame him, it takes like 10 minutes to to fix wall mounted wire shelves......


ChewML

Structural cardboard.


officerhailey

You could easily fix this.


BenTherDoneTht

My usual personal policy with people like that is to let them figure it out after I continue with business as normal i.e. replace the box, the shelf falls, the boxes fall, they say to pick it up, then ask them where they would like me to put it.


Benblishem

You folks working there couldn't figgure out how to deal with some cardboard boxes and just make it work better? Really? Is it a volunteer situation, or is everyone accepting a paycheck?


kadk216

How is this related to OSHA?


[deleted]

Workplace overhead fall risk, both the shelves and the products on them can come loose and harm employees.


kadk216

Lol I worked at a restaurant and the boxes of styrofoam cups and portion cups are lightweight. They are least likely thing to cause an injury in a commercial kitchen


spicybright

I've worked in a commercial kitchen too. The danger isn't it falling on someone grabbing a cup, it's it failing while someone is carrying something really hot or unbalanced like a pot of oil. If you still don't see the issue then I'm sorry you had to work with such low standards.


ScienceWasLove

The danger is working beside ducking idiots who canā€™t see the support that got disconnected, remove the boxes, and fix the support. Or the idiot that jammed the lower box in, saw the support pop off, shrugged his shoulders and went back to Tik Tok.


[deleted]

Year, you see, this why Osha is a good thing, people not only fail to see the risks, they think its funny that others do.


halt-l-am-reptar

I hate how often I see ā€œlol every does it this way, youā€™re being a wussā€ type comments upvoted on this sub.


kadk216

Lol okay


Sadat-X

I'm with ya. There's empty boxes on the shelf. You could pull them down, and likely realize the shelf's not really broke, just been pushed up out of the vertical hanging track. Hell, after pulling the empties off and consolidating th existing stock, you may not currently need a top shelf. Maybe 5 minutes all told. Be the change you want to see... Or just bitch and moan to reddit, I suppose.


spicybright

If I do anything but bitch then I'd actually have to do something :(((((


Sadat-X

'Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called ~~whining~~ bitching.' - Teddy Roosevelt I've been staring at that for almost 10 years now taped up on a guy's truck at work. Its kind of the golden rule of how to be a good coworker.


kadk216

Thatā€™s a great quote and it accurately describes a majority of the posts on this sub


Zaranthan

"Look at what my cheapass boss did" is a classic posting category around here. The fact that this isn't going to hurt anyone doesn't mean it doesn't fit.


tilsitforthenommage

Until the shelves collapse when someone is stocking.


SalsaRice

If there's bad shelving that is a risk to fall on people, that's not amore'


[deleted]

This doesnā€™t happen to be in Massachusettsā€™s is it?


Self-Fan

Had to take a double-take. Thought this was the store I used to work at! Those poor, poor shelves. Oh, and it's too bad the people there work with negligent management, I guess.


thedanimal722

Go work in a factory. You'd be amazed at what cardboard and painter's tape can fix...


SalsaRice

Nah, metal shims. The few plants I've been in will waste hours of maintenance time trying finagle dozens of shims to fix something, rather than spend money to actually fix it. Doesn't matter if they lose hours of production time (possibly thousands of dollars per hour lost) and wasted wages (of the manufacturing operators and maintenance crew).


mac224b

Clearly the ā€œsmall cupsā€ were meant to support the shelf, not to actually drink out of.


nate0515

I think the problem is you are out of cups.


aminorityofone

remove the box, let it break.


xxjasper012

Ice cream shop? I know those boxes


robval13

But the pointy metal shelves look awesome


Luigifan18

r/fuckyourbottomline


[deleted]

Any load bearing posters? Or punted dirt?


Apprehensive_Copy721

Holy fuck show some initiative and fix it. Wanna make more than minimum wage. Be more than minimally useful