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

very smart wrote:

Work from homeboy wrote:

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.

My friend was getting up at 4.30am to walk 12 miles to work so he didn’t have to take public transport. He walked 12 miles back home too. Unfortunately he had back problems and couldn’t run. Eventually he quit. He had some investments so was able to retire early. The fear of death was real. We must not forget. We must learn lessons. Something similar will likely happen again. I think the only option is to reduce outgoings, save and invest so you can quit if necessary.

I mean that is what people in the front lines of the military has done for literally thousands of years, as wars have been fought. There is always a chance that he/she could never come back home to their loved ones, for the sake of the greater good/evil (depending on your perspective).

If you are really afraid your job could kill you the thing to do is not take the job to begin with. Once you're committed you need to follow through. Imagine how the Normandy invasion would have gone if most of the guys involved decided they weren't going in after all because it was too dangerous.

Skeechiban wrote: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.

Or you could be a child living in Gaza while the Israelis are attacking you again and again and again.

Work from homeboy wrote:

Skeechiban wrote:

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?

It seems that most people would go to work; they appear to think that work is something worth dying for.

No, they don't think work is worth dying for. No one said that. You seem to be unable to detach from your stupid premise that going to work during Covid "will likely kill you." The few people, like yourself, who actually believed they were going be killed if they went to work, didn't go to work. Others properly analyzed the risk, took precautions, and got on with things. You look like a fool mischaracterizing the thought processes and conclusions of people who worked during the pandemic for whatever silly point you think you are trying to make.

Israeli Oppression wrote:

Skeechiban wrote: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.

Or you could be a child living in Gaza while the Israelis are attacking you again and again and again.

Yeah, except I obviously meant very few people willingly do things that "will likely kill you." Children in Gaza are not willingly looking for rockets to get hit by.

In all seriousness, you had to try out this tangent here, when you could have found 2 or 3 other threads that are actually about Israel-Gaza and that actually discuss the point you are so eager to make?

Yea

In reality, for the vast majority of workers the most dangerous part of the job is the drive to and from work.

You know, when you think about the thread title a bit, you notice that the premise is really wrong. There are no jobs where you have a high chance of the job killing you. The chances are actually really low though some jobs have a much higher likelihood of a worker being killed than others.

Raddison wrote:

In reality, for the vast majority of workers the most dangerous part of the job is the drive to and from work.

Very good point. I have had a few near misses over the years. It’s strange that we accept car accidents as an unavoidable risk. And how it is so often used as a straw man argument to debunk concerns about other risks.

Can't hug a child with nuclear arms wrote:

You know, when you think about the thread title a bit, you notice that the premise is really wrong. There are no jobs where you have a high chance of the job killing you. The chances are actually really low though some jobs have a much higher likelihood of a worker being killed than others.

I guess my premise was that your job didn’t usually have a high chance of killing you, but now it does for some reason. For example, the nuclear inspector wouldn’t normally have had to visit an unstable situation like Chernobyl; likewise, an office worker wouldn’t normally have had to congregate at their place of work during a deadly pandemic.

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

My job is staying alive.

Please apply to the Secret Service. I think you would be a great fit.

If you're too ill, fat, elderly or immunocompromised to be low-risk, then QUIT and let a healthy unfearful person take over.

The government gives you money anyway. Let the rest of us go back to work and you can get a disability check for your weakness and spend the rest of your life wearing pajamas watching TV.

Raddison wrote:

In reality, for the vast majority of workers the most dangerous part of the job is the drive to and from work.

Bingo.

So you're either Russian or Ukranian...