There is a high chance your job could kill you. Do you still go?

Don't inspectors at nuke plants wear suits that shield them from radiation?

My job is staying alive.

Can't hug a child with nuclear arms wrote:

Don't inspectors at nuke plants wear suits that shield them from radiation?

I’m sure that’s what his employer told him. Chernobyl was pretty extreme though. His house is still radioactive apparently. He used to joke about it before he got the brain tumour.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:

My job is staying alive.

I agree and would like to think I would be the same. But would this translate to you quitting your job? What about dodging draft if it ever came back?

Does the job need to be done? Sounds like it did. If the job is critical for society, and I signed up for the job knowing the potential risks then I am going.

trashcan wrote:

Does the job need to be done? Sounds like it did. If the job is critical for society, and I signed up for the job knowing the potential risks then I am going.

Yeah. There are jobs, firemen, cab drivers, military, that carry a higher risk of getting killed at work than most others. I remember seeing films of workers at Fukushima going into the plant after the meltdown. But it's not certain that the job will kill you. It's possible that guy in the original post would have gotten the brain tumor anyway. MOST people who die from them don't work as nuclear inspectors.

The morale of the story is to drop out of school so that you are not smart enough to be a nuclear inspector.

Pretty dumb covid metaphor.

I bet you’re okay with grocery store workers still going to work all through covid.

Sorry, moral , pendejo. I was a marine electrician for a while . One guy gut his balls burned off when he tried to tape up the individual leads of a hot shore power cable he found on the deck of a ship. Another young man , a father with a few kids, was killed when a tagged out switch for a distribution panel was incorrectly cleared and turned on. Working on that was too scary. I moved into residential contracting.

No, I would just work from home. Don't they have robots and drones and stuff they can send in besides me?

Work from homeboy wrote:

You are a nuclear inspector. You have a family to support. You have a mortgage to pay. Your pension is linked to your job. You are told to go to a Chernobyl-esque nuclear disaster. You know this will likely kill you. What do YOU do?

Very few people do things that "will likely kill you." Soldiers in war zones, and maybe some dare-devil type thrill seekers (e.g., Evel Knievel), being the exception.

Exposure to the coronavirus will not "likely kill you." Trying to draw a comparison, as you seem to be doing, between going to work where you may be exposed to the coronavirus and going to work in a hazard zone where radiation "will likely kill you" (in your hypothetical) seems really weak.

Radiation will kill you no matter what shape you're in. No brainer choice, here.

Covid is a poor analogy to this.

Liberals are inciting mental illness in children. We need to hold them accountable and not be complicit with their misleading and self interest motivated narratives.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:

Liberals are inciting mental illness in children. We need to hold them accountable and not be complicit with their misleading and self interest motivated narratives.

I think you posted this in the wrong thread because it makes no sense at all here

Sometimes people just have balls of steel.

https://youtu.be/KAvqDF3Wujc

stan the corgi wrote:

Covid is a poor analogy to this.

Perhaps in hindsight. But there was a time at the beginning of the pandemic, before work from home was allowed, when it felt like this was the choice we all had to make. How soon we forget.

You sound like you probably work in Human Resources?

Work from homeboy wrote:

stan the corgi wrote:

Covid is a poor analogy to this.

Perhaps in hindsight. But there was a time at the beginning of the pandemic, before work from home was allowed, when it felt like this was the choice we all had to make. How soon we forget.

If your perceptions and understandings on the potential lethality of going to work have changed since the beginning of the pandemic, as you seem to suggest they have, then why even pose this question? In other word, if you no longer have the belief that going to work "will likely kill you" then why even start this thread asking that question?

Work from homeboy wrote:

stan the corgi wrote:

Covid is a poor analogy to this.

Perhaps in hindsight. But there was a time at the beginning of the pandemic, before work from home was allowed, when it felt like this was the choice we all had to make. How soon we forget.

You sound like you probably work in Human Resources?

Still not quite an accurate analogy tho. Covid was more of an unknown rather than a "you know it will likely kill you" nuclear radiation scenario. Nevertheless, I do agree that the feeling was kinda of the same at the beginning of Covid. I remember going to work on the bus at the start of it all and hearing someone coughing and wondering if I was going to be bringing Covid home with me that day.