Horseplay Earnings
b'Have you ever been accused or caught horse playing at work? I\\u2019ve seen so many meme\\u2019s on social media this week I\\u2019d like to talk about that for a minute. Welcome back everyone. I\\u2019m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! My first trip to HR was over a bit of horseplay. Me and 2 others grabbed an inventory control guy and shrink wrapped him to a support beam at the end of an aisle. We were on our way to lunch, I guess we assumed someone would come by and cut him loose. A bad assumption on our part, I guess. A cooler lead did walk by and cut him loose about halfway through lunch, to say the least, he was more than aggravated when he entered the break room. We were all friends though, he laughed it off, even bought us a few beverages after work that morning. I\\u2019m still not sure how HR got involved but thank goodness I, and it was only I that got called down to HR the next day, anyway I was extremely grateful I didn\\u2019t lose my job over it.
\\nI once got picked up and thrown down the dumpster shoot, aggravated didn\\u2019t begin to describe my attitude once I climbed back up that nasty thing. I hate to admit it but a couple of weeks later I seeked my revenge. There was a 4 one-gallon case of syrup damaged in the salvage area. I took that and a half bag of flour to the dumpster, made sure to cover every square inch of the shoot and plotted my revenge. Took me a few minutes, it was quite the playful scuffle, but my friend ended up in the shoot, sliding all the way down to the bottom cleaning up the syrup and flour as he slide down. That was at the end of our shift, so I scooted on out of the building. The next morning everything was funny again and he\\u2019s been a lifelong friend still to this day.
\\nAs an order selector, we used tovairs and buggies back then, anyway one of the nightly pranks was to unhook the second buggy from the first and watch the selector take off down the aisle and having to walk back to get the second buggy. Oh, and during breaks you never wanted to take off your freezer suit and leave it hanging on your equipment. Us freezer selectors came back from breaks and lunch on more than one occasion only to find that our gear had been placed inside the freezer and was like ice when we were dressing back up.
\\nNow I\\u2019m not proud of any of these pranks, I wish we were more mature than we were and that we\\u2019d of had the training we all get today. That was back before the OSHA standards and HR\\u2019s involvement in the operations. I found a good definition at https://www.fs.illinois.edu/docs/default-source/safety-compliance/horseplay.pdf?sfvrsn=d65f6ea_0 a toolbox talk article that gives us some information asked What is Horseplay? Horseplay is rough or rowdy play or pranks that occur at the workplace. Horseplay can be activities such as joking that includes physical contact, playing around, racing, grabbing, foolish vehicle operation, social pressure to participate in unsafe acts, harassment, and unauthorized contests. Often workplace horseplay incidents go unnoticed or are ignored as harmless fun. However, making horseplay a part of your workday may jeopardize your health and can lead to serious or deadly injuries. Each year there are hundreds of injuries in the United States from pranks at work. Workplace horseplay incidents may lead to serious injuries at work, divide the workplace, and prevent employees from getting their jobs done. In some states, horseplay that results in injury can result in criminal prosecution. Courts have held that these injuries are not the result of an accident but are deliberate acts.
\\nI don\\u2019t remember anyone ever getting upset to the point that fist flung but I\\u2019m sure it happened. Also we live in a different environment or world today. Not only are we taught that horseplay will not be tolerated by our company, as the article stated it may very well be against the law and we can be prosecuted for a bad act.'