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Do American politicians have a thing against letting the common people survive? Jeez, I was in the Middle East, and even the sheikhs and kings there mandated th

Do American politicians have a thing against letting the common people survive? Jeez, I was in the Middle East, and even the sheikhs and kings there mandated that no outdoors work be done in the afternoons or on days with extremely high temperatures. That is, 11 am to 4 pm absolutely blocked, no ifs or buts. Work in the 5 searing summer months happened in the night.

zbrozek 3y ago
Here in the states, municipal construction hours ordinances usually force work to occur during the day.
mptest 3y ago
>Do american politicians One side much much much more than the other. Only one side banning mandated water breaks.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Remember, the side that is banning water breaks in lethal heat for blue collar workers are the party that's here to protect the little guy from coastal elites!
  - deprecative 3y ago
    Don't forget the blue collar workers being denied breaks in lethal conditions are the same people voting for these people. Zero sympathy at this point. They want it? They can have it.
- lamontcg 3y ago
  whoa there, you're forgetting the tan suit scandals, terrorist fist bumps and a couple of dick pic incidents. clearly both sides have their issues.
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    Just you wait until you find out about that laptop that totally exists but uh fedex lost or those email servers that they couldn't even pin anything on her for or that time Hilary was kinda bad at her job and let some americans die in an embassy out of a lack of caution but she couldn't be punished because punishing top level politicians for being mediocre at their jobs would open an entire can of worms that would actually help improve things and oust bad actors so nope can't do that!
    - lamontcg 3y ago
      If you punished top level politicians for being mediocre (or worse) at their jobs then the Republican party would no longer exist.
reaperman 3y ago
I worked outdoors in Saudi Arabia and we just worked 24 hours/day (sometimes I'd go 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives). I'm American btw, just worked on oil rigs there for a couple years as a "Wireline Engineer". In both USA and Saudi, it seemed to be more based on company rules, rather than state/federal rules.
- fakedang 3y ago
  That could be possible. My observations were in the UAE, Jeddah, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. From what I know, the above four countries have some form of rules on outdoor work in summers.
- NoRelToEmber 3y ago
  > 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives Is that how you got your username?
  - reaperman 3y ago
    Username is Starcraft2 reference, loosely inspired by some uThermal build that was mis-referenced by Harstem and maybe misremembered by me as "the repairman build". Thankfully I never had any safety incidents. But nothing I was doing was safe work while under the effects of sleep deprivation. We had a dozen different ways to kill people directly and hundreds of things could go wrong to kill people in more Rube Goldberg fashions. I was unhappy with the work environment so I left. Some of those include: - A 3 mile long cable under +/- 10,000 lbs of tension - A powerful neutron generator that can be started with two button clicks on a windows desktop - Little radioactive source materials like the one that was lost in Brazil[0] - High voltage & current electricity - Shaped charges[1] (these are really only used in military and oil wells AFAIK) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVVGk2OfQQ&t=0m10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVVGk2OfQQ&t=0m10s
    - salawat 3y ago

zbrozek 3y ago

Here in the states, municipal construction hours ordinances usually force work to occur during the day.

mptest 3y ago

>Do american politicians One side much much much more than the other. Only one side banning mandated water breaks.

mrguyorama 3y ago
Remember, the side that is banning water breaks in lethal heat for blue collar workers are the party that's here to protect the little guy from coastal elites!
- deprecative 3y ago
  Don't forget the blue collar workers being denied breaks in lethal conditions are the same people voting for these people. Zero sympathy at this point. They want it? They can have it.
lamontcg 3y ago
whoa there, you're forgetting the tan suit scandals, terrorist fist bumps and a couple of dick pic incidents. clearly both sides have their issues.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Just you wait until you find out about that laptop that totally exists but uh fedex lost or those email servers that they couldn't even pin anything on her for or that time Hilary was kinda bad at her job and let some americans die in an embassy out of a lack of caution but she couldn't be punished because punishing top level politicians for being mediocre at their jobs would open an entire can of worms that would actually help improve things and oust bad actors so nope can't do that!
  - lamontcg 3y ago
    If you punished top level politicians for being mediocre (or worse) at their jobs then the Republican party would no longer exist.

reaperman 3y ago

I worked outdoors in Saudi Arabia and we just worked 24 hours/day (sometimes I'd go 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives). I'm American btw, just worked on oil rigs there for a couple years as a "Wireline Engineer". In both USA and Saudi, it seemed to be more based on company rules, rather than state/federal rules.

fakedang 3y ago
That could be possible. My observations were in the UAE, Jeddah, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. From what I know, the above four countries have some form of rules on outdoor work in summers.
NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> 70 hours without sleep while wiring detonators to hundreds of feet of explosives Is that how you got your username?
- reaperman 3y ago
  Username is Starcraft2 reference, loosely inspired by some uThermal build that was mis-referenced by Harstem and maybe misremembered by me as "the repairman build". Thankfully I never had any safety incidents. But nothing I was doing was safe work while under the effects of sleep deprivation. We had a dozen different ways to kill people directly and hundreds of things could go wrong to kill people in more Rube Goldberg fashions. I was unhappy with the work environment so I left. Some of those include: - A 3 mile long cable under +/- 10,000 lbs of tension - A powerful neutron generator that can be started with two button clicks on a windows desktop - Little radioactive source materials like the one that was lost in Brazil[0] - High voltage & current electricity - Shaped charges[1] (these are really only used in military and oil wells AFAIK) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVVGk2OfQQ&t=0m10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVVGk2OfQQ&t=0m10s
  - salawat 3y ago