Violence in the workplace is increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/49259951Speaker 0 (0s): Hello, my friends. Welcome to Wednesday. Welcome to Wednesday. We made it til Wednesday. We're halfway there. Are you on the very top of the hump right now? Are you going up the hump or are you coming down the hub? Isn't hump a funny word. Some camels have one hump. Some of them have two. Do you think the Campbells that have two humps can carry more water? If you were going to ride a camel, would you want to sit in between the two humps?
Would you want to be on a Campbell? Had had one hump. And if you wanted to be on a camel that had one hump, would you want to sit in front of the hump for in the back of the hump, you might be able to reach your arms around the hump and like hold onto it. Like it's a adult on a jet ski and you're a child. I don't know. I've never written a camel before. I'm just, I'm just asking. I'm just asking. All right. Is that so wrong? Oh, you can see how this one starting out.
Can't you, you can see how this is starting out. Yes, indeed. My friends. Let me ask you. Have you ever been attacked by a dog? Have you? I have a couple of times and yesterday I got attacked by two dogs. I know what you're thinking. You should ride lucky George two dogs. Ah, it's not fun.
It's not fun, especially. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm in good shape, but I'm not 22. Okay. You know what? Let me, let me begin at the beginning. Okay. How about that? That's always a good place to start. Imagine walking up a Hill, let's say it's Oh, I don't know. 40 meters from my friends who are on the metric system and a hundred yards for my friends in America.
And you're walking up this uneven pavement in low wind ball, hold a 70 pound. Rottweiler comes running towards you. What do you do? What do you do? I'll tell you what you do. The first thing you do is you look back to see how far it is to your, your vehicle. You look back and you see the dog.
Speaker 1 (3m 1s): And then in that split few seconds, you make a decision. Should I go back to my car or do I take a defensive posture for me? Luckily I wasn't that far from my vehicle. And I see it's important. Cause you don't ever want to turn your back on a dog. Want to do that unless you're not really in danger.
And I wasn't really in danger for this first one right here. So I turned around. I make it back to my view. Not a big problem, not a big problem, but rest assured the customer though. We're supposed to get that package. Yeah. They're not getting that package. I want to help everybody out. But the moment your dog attacks me and you go on the list, you go on the list. I'm sorry. You go on the list.
Which brings me to family. Number two. Now this scenario is a little bit different. This one's a little different. Aye. As the delivery driver. No, all the ducks dogs in my area. I know the route. I know the people, but there's this one family. And they have, they have three dogs. Most people abide by the leash law.
However, some irresponsible pet owners, they don't think they need to abide by the leash law and a real quick subject here. Anyone who's ever I've been bit by a dog, knows this. The people that own the dog, that bit, the person they always say without fail. My dog never bites anybody, which is bullshit because your dog just bitten me. What you mean to say is my dogs never bitten me.
That's what you dummies should say. Don't say my doctor a bit. Anybody it's just been me. Okay. Back to my story. So the first time walking down, another driveway kid grabs his 65, 70 pound sharpei and the dog's teeth are like Highrise getting all nuts.
And the dog is wriggling and he wriggles free of the eight year olds. Not the kid's fault. I get it. It's not the kid's fault, but it doesn't change. The fact back to the dog, ran up and began. You know, it was like slow motion. Like I see him coming towards me. This is one where I couldn't run. I couldn't turn. I wasn't going to turn on. I'm too damn slow. I'm too damn white to run. I can't make it. So this time the dog's running at me and this is one, right?
It's kind of square up my feet. I got to take my defensive posture. Things kind of slow down and he's running. And as he gets close, I can see like his lips are kind of the top part of his snout is pulled up and I can see the red and his white teeth. And I realized that the dogs about two and a half feet tall, which puts his snout right on par with my balls.
And I don't like that. Not one bit. So the dogs running, I'm doing some math in my head thinking this dog two feet tall right there, right at my crotch area. So I grabbed, I grabbed, I had like a little, little ads, kind of like a little mini computer. You know, the things delivered people, you know, the little computer that delivery people. They carry with them.
I grabbed that thing and I'm squared up. I'm an M in my wrestling stands kind of, and the dog jumps lunges. I turn out of the way. And I come with my right hand and smack them on the back of the head. Right? Not real hard. It was like a grazing blow. Think of like a boxer that like pulled back his head and the other guy just kinda caught him on the chin a little bit. Now the duck now, now me and the dog are circling and he's barking and I'm yelling. He's barking. He said, all right.
I'm like on the fucking apex predator. It's kinda funny when I think about like that, but it's true. It's true. I was yelling at him, the dog jumps again. And this time, like he catches my shorts, which is scary. Cause again, that's right where my balls are. Right where my balls are. But lucky, lucky for me and him, I guess he's snagged my shorts. Do I get off a mean crack with my computer right on his dome.
Right up, right up above his eyes. Right? Let's out a little whimper, just running back towards his house. Now I'm on the attack. So I chased the dog down the driveway and now I'm yelling. Like, I don't know, man. I'm yelling, I'm yelling. I'm mad, screaming out obscenities telling the dog on the apex predator.
Neighbors are coming out. The lady runs out of her house. Tackles her dog. Kids are watching their jaw, the Slack jaw looking down with their mouth open. Adrenaline's going, I'm mad. Okay. That was the first time. Right? There's no recourse. I don't know. I don't get to go and yell at the lady or the kids we've already addressed it.
It wasn't the child's fault, but I'm still mad at my adrenaline's still going. So I just let it go. But a month later, same house, same house. You see, let me, let me just interject it for a minute. I'd be well within my right. Not to ever deliver another package for those people. But that's not me. That's not my style. So about a month later happens again. It happens again.
This time the doctors came flying out. Like I didn't even see him. He came running out and he tried to sneak up on me. But because we had had a previous battle, I think he was a little nervous. Cause he came out, tried to sneak attack. I turned around on him and I just yelled at him and he ran. I felt like I haven't established some dominance. I know what you're thinking. Hey George, why don't you just bring the dog to treatment?
Hey George, why don't you just get a dog whistle? Hey George, why? You know, why don't you just maybe try to make yourself known so that people know you're there. Those are all options. But number one, I'm not going to spend my money on someone. Else's dog. Don't get me wrong. I love kids and I love dogs. However, I just don't have a lot of extra money where I can spend it on other people's dogs. Not to mention the leash law. If you're a responsible pet owner, you should abide by the law.
And the law is either keep your dog behind a fence or on a leaf. Otherwise you're responsible. So that was the second time. Now mind you, this is on my route. And I, I care about the people on my round. So I, after the second time after I get mad, I get over it. And I think to myself, you know, this is a teachable moment. You know what I should do the next time I go there, I should pull the kids and the husband aside and explain to them why this is irresponsible.
I should explain to them. Maybe they don't know. Maybe I know because I'm in the business and I've been bit by dogs. And I know the repercussions of dog bites. Maybe those people don't understand that if their dog bites somebody they're going to get automatically sued for 10 grand. If the dog breaks the skin 10 grand, not to mention the dog's going to get put down. You know, maybe those people don't understand that. And maybe if I explained that to them, especially the kids, they didn't, they would understand why it's a problem.
And maybe I can also explain to the kids how, you know, dogs don't ever really bite their owners. But because they're protective of other owners, they may say, I see intruders as a threat. And then that's why that happened. Maybe, maybe I could work in some psychology and help out the kids and then help out myself and then create a better relationship. Right? Yeah. George, that sounds like a great idea.
So the next time I go, two days after the second time I see the husband and I put there's no one around, but the husband, which is good, right? Because as a man, if my wife, my kids do something that gets them in trouble, I would hope that if my kids and my wife were in a position, a dog, our dog attacked another man. I would hope that that man would wait for me, another man or the husband to come on.
So he could address that issue with me like men. Right? Right. So I see the man and I said, Hey, first off, I just want to say your kids are very respectful. I start off with a compliment. Right? They were, he says, thank you. I go, you know, I do have an issue. I've noticed your dogs attacked me twice. I don't like it. It's very difficult for me to move through my day when I have dogs attack me.
I've been bitten a couple of times and it's not pleasant. I have a family. I don't want to miss work. You know, Hawaii has a leash law. And I was just hopeful that I could address this with you. And you could this problem, you know, I realize it's not your kid's fault. And I know your wife's probably busy. She's got two kids. Lord knows. I mean, that's two full time jobs. So the guy says, yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. Sorry about that, George.
No, it's not just you. The dogs attack other people that makes me think like, well, what can, I'm not going to, I'm not going to go down. I'm not going to go down that road. I think to myself. So I just say, Hey, well I appreciate it. You know? No, I just, I just wanted to let you know that if it did bite me, there would be a problem. You know, the dog would probably get put down. And if I missed work, you know, the way it works here in the state, I'm from, I don't even have a say my company plenty will automatically Sue you.
I'm just, I'm not saying that to be rude or disrespectful. I'm just telling you that so that you're aware of the consequences. Oh, you're right, George. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The guy said, which brings me to yesterday, walking down the same driveway. You think I'd know? You think that I, even though I had talked to the husband and he told me this wouldn't have you think I'd be on guard, right wrong.
Walking down the driveway here, come Cujo teeth out two and a half feet. Tall luncheon for my bones. Oh, it was one of those days. It was one of those days. No. What do you do? What do you do?
It begs the question. So it wasn't the guy with the wife comes running up, grabs her dog after we do a little sparring and she's apologizing. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's hard. You know, I didn't say anything. There's a lot of things that I wanted to say, but I didn't, but it begs the question.
Are you sorry? Cause if you were sorry, you wouldn't let it happen again. I think what you're trying to say is I'm not committed to solving this problem because I don't care. I'm not committed to solving this problem because I don't care if my dog, I'm the kind of person that would like to make the same mistake over and over and over and over again until the consequences are so great that my dog gets put down and I get sued. That's what you should say.
That's what that lady should have told me. Hey, I would like to, I would like to teach my children not to solve problems. I would like to demonstrate to my children if there's an issue and that you just ignore it because that is the lesson God taught in that teachable moment. You see what's happening here. People I'm losing my mind. I'm losing my mind. Thank you for letting me start off with a story about Don.
Oh, it's funny to me. When I look back, it's funny.
Speaker 0 (17m 50s): I thought, you know what I think I'll do in order to make amends. I think I'll bring the bar. I don't think I'll bring the dog a nice big bar of chocolate. Right? Just make amends. Hey Lassie, come here, pal. I love ya. Let's share this big bar of dark chocolate. You and me? I love dogs. All dogs go to heaven. Is that too dark? Is it too dark?
I'll just play. And I would never do that since I'm talking about delivering. Since I'm talking about logistics, since I'm talking about current events, what do you guys think is happening right now in the world of logistics? I have seen some crazy stuff from you from, from delivery drivers. Be it ups, or be it FedEx or the post post office or Amazon.
Have you seen the amount of turmoil that's happening in these places? Have you seen it? It's crazy. It's really crazy. No there's because commerce has shut down. I guess, comp not all commerce has shut down due to the local court community, not having businesses. Open internet traffic is at an all time high.
The numbers inside logistic companies look a lot like the numbers at Christmas time. And that's creating a crisis, a crisis in that there is not enough employees to handle the volume. And because of that, the amount of injuries, the amount of accidents, the amount of potential liability is increasing exponentially.
I think that OSHA, which is the occupational safety and hazard people, I think they could go into any, any logistics building in any state in any city and find enough liabilities to shut them down. Any one of them, any one of them, I've also noticed an increase in, I think, both apathy and ignorance from the community and from the people working on behalf of the people working the attitude is becoming more apathetic in that.
How come the people in the community don't care about me carrying this hundred and 50 pound mattress up a hundred stairs? Why don't they care about the guy or woman out there working everyday, bringing them a new pair of purple socks. Don't they know that regardless of how they people's opinion on the virus, that there's added stress in the environment. Don't they know that it's difficult to be out and be subjected to potential hazards in this pandemic.
Why don't the people in the community care about the people, delivering things that particular attitude is becoming incredibly prevalent in the logistics industry and not a whole lot of people might be aware of it, especially if you're not in that industry. And if you're not, I would urge you be mindful of the people out there, delivering your goods, be mindful of the people working 70 or 80 hours a week so that you can have a pair of purple socks, which brings me to the point, do you really need the purple socks?
Do you, if you don't need it right now, don't buy it. I know it's tough. Your home, you're bored. You're getting 600 bucks, you know, but think about the people that are out there trying to provide you with the service of essential goods is what you're buying essential. If it is by all means, buy it. If you have an underlying condition or if you're a little bit older and you need something by all means, buy it.
I mean, you should get it. The world of commerce on the internet is an amazing thing. However, in this pandemic be mindful of the people working. One thing you can do is if you're part of the community and you're having stuff delivered, one thing you can do is if you know, you're going to have someone come to the door, then put a little cooler by your door and put like a little note or a sign that says, thank you, delivery person, please, which in this cooler and grab yourself a cold drink.
Here's a little snack. Thank you for delivering my purple socks. I'm just saying, I think it would go a long way. I think it will go a long way. The truth is I've seen a lot of these guys and girls in the, in the warehouse buildings and there's a lot, there's a lot of issues right now on a serious note. There's a lot of issues. I see accidents and I see injuries and I see people attempting to cover up those accidents and injuries.
And I see people that are really frustrated and I see people that are filled with anxiety and there's a lot of people I care about on both sides of the aisle, the expectations for production and the time of a pandemic are incredibly unreasonable. It's unfortunate. Cause I don't see it getting any better. I see it only getting worse.
However, when things get bad that provides us with an opportunity for change that provides us with an opportunity to make things more effective and efficient, right? That's the only way you can change. There's two ways people change. One is through inspiration and the others through desperation, either you in times where things are great, you have a role model or you were inspired and you make a change or things get so bad, you have to change.
And I think that's where we're at now. I think that's where we're at now. You know, in a lot of these places, the they're not taking any precautions. There's no temperature checks. There's no sympathy towards wellbeing. There's no, there's not even any talk about the actual COVID virus. And a lot of places of business.
You're not even allowed to talk about it. Think about delivery drivers like delivery drivers. If I don't care what state you're in, there's a delivery driver that delivered to a facility where people have COVID automatically, that person has become in contact with those people. Maybe that person's asymptomatic at the very least. If someone in your place of work comes into contact with somebody that may have had COVID-19, it is irresponsible for the business to allow that person to keep working without a test, regardless of what your take on the viruses, whether you think it's bullshit or you think it's true or it's manmade, or it's not that doesn't matter what matters is respecting the opinion of everybody.
And in order to do that, if someone comes into contact with it, that person then should be given a test and not be able to cause chaos in the environment. However, it's not happening. It's not going to happen. The large multinational corporations do not want to be liable for this. They want to receive all the profits, none of the liability. They're not even going to talk about it.
And this is going to be the downfall. I believe the amount, if, if the board of directors from these multinational corporations could see the techniques being employed to put out the production, the, the expected numbers of production. If the board of directors could see the methodology in which the immediate management team was producing results, then the board of directors would utilize their thick blanket of plausible deniability.
Pretend like they had no idea what was happening. And they would fire every single manager in every single building, in every single state and every part of our nation. That's how bad it is in the buildings. That's how bad it is. People driving without licenses, accidents, injuries, people that are sick. And I'm I'm saddened because I think that you're going to probably see eruption of violence.
Not to mention, you can read a lot of literature on physiology. And I would say that the majority of doctors agree that when you're tired, when you're stressed, when you're a state of fear, when you have anxiety that you're putting added stress on your immune system. So if there's a pandemic and people are thrusted in these situations is not the company responsible is not the company liable.
Is that not the very definition of gross negligence and should not. The immediate managers be able to be sued, should not. These immediate management people be liable for the re for the wellbeing of the so-called people they claim to lead. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. Then I want to be clear. I'm not trying to bring up these issues to be an asshole. I'm bringing up these issues because there's a real possibility look, I mean, do the research go online and look at the people that are dying in the logistics buildings.
Don't take my word for it. Look it up, look it up. It's a problem. It's a problem. You know, let me try to, let me try to lighten it up a little bit. You guys like Kevin Hart, like I love, I love comedy. I like comedians. I like laughing. And sometimes comedians are funny.
Not because of what they say, but because of what they do, they're still funny, but it's a different kind of funny. I'll give you an example. Dave Chappelle is a phenomenal comedian that guy's really funny. And I think he's like a pure that he's like pure at heart. Like he doesn't lie. The stuff he says is really funny because it's true. You may not agree with him.
And maybe not. You may not think that everything he says is funny. However, I think it would be hard pressed for you to find an area where he is not saying what he thinks is true. And I think you would be hard for you to find areas where he's contradicting himself. He's thought provoking in a good way. I like Dave Chappelle. I think that guy's hilarious.
He's the type of comedian. That's funny because he's funny. He says funny things thought provoking things. Kevin Hart, on the other hand, this guy is funny because of what he does. Let me give you an example. I've seen this clown on the Joe Rogan show and you know what, you know what Kevin Hart is it. And I bought his book, right? I bought Kevin about both his books and I read them that way.
I feel like it's okay for me to talk a little bit, shit about this guy in his book. Let me, let me just give you a bit of background. Before I get to the story in his books that are very open about his life. He talks about how he made it in comedy, how he was with together. The, with this girl before he got big and he was never around and he would always leave her to go to the city and do comedy and attain his goal. And then he makes it big.
He cheats on his, his, his wife and he leaves her, Hey, you know what? People change. I get it, whatever. Right? He makes a big as all his money. Then he marries his best friend's sister. And he talks about is the love of my life. I just love, love, love her. She's pregnant. And then he fucking cheats on her and he's there. I'll never do that again. And then she's done her again.
Okay. Okay. I know. I know. Maybe you're not laughing. Okay. You haven't heard the story yet. Okay. So he's on Joe Rogan and he's telling a story about how he's at the super bowl party. And he sees Jeff Bezos and he, his, his handler, his buddy is like, Kevin. I was like, I'm gonna have to talk to Jeff Bezos, man. Tell him how awesome he is. And his friend.
He says, man, I don't know going to do that. Print out a good idea, dude. He said, what are you talking about? He's like, look, man, I'm just saying fucking, you want him to get in that? Guy's nuts. And Kevin Hart tells us for you to know you talking about man, I'm going to talk to him. So Kevin runs up to Jeff Bezos and he's like, man, I know this is the time to sit down and have a conversation with you. But I just want to tell you Jeff Bezos, I admire you, man. I love you. I admire what you do. Jeff Bezos. You're a billionaire man. I love you. I admire you.
Okay? Think about that. The fucking people all around our fucking United States of America are dying. Amazon buildings. Get it. Jeff Bezos is putting people in warehouses with unreasonable, unfair labor expectations. He's cutting their pay.
He's squeezing them for profit. He's using these people like interchangeable parts, which is a lot like slavery. Kevin Hart was Kevin Hart talking about how much he loves Amazon, how much he loves Jeff Bezos. Isn't that funny? Like that's what I mean by like, he's funny for what he does.
Like that guy is a walking stereotype. You're talking about how much you love Jeff Bezos. Hey Kevin Hart, maybe you should love your wife. You ever thought about that dummy. Maybe you should love your second wife as much as you love Jeff Bezos. How about that? You know what I mean? Kevin Hart is a fucking retard, a retard. Granted, he's a rich one. But think about what that guy does that guy's running around, cheating on his wives, being a horrible father, telling the richest white guy in the world, how much he loves him while the richest white guy in the world is borderline and slating people of color.
And you have this fucking dummy celebrate number. If you listen to this, do me a favor. Don't ever watch a Kevin Hartman. And if you do laugh at Kevin Hart, because he's a dummy, not cause he's funny. He's funny because he's a walking stereotype. He's funny because of what he does.
See how I tied that to Amazon right there. You see, I took, it, took a little comedy speech right there and I dropped it over to Amazon. I brought it back to logistics. That's what I got for you guys today. This is kind of a tribute to all the people in logistics, man. This is a tribute to everybody who rolls out of bed, throws on their shoes, goes to work and this for all my friends behind the wheel of a truck.
And I love you guys thinking about love you and your family, man. And I hope this is for all. This is for all the drivers. Now. I hope I'm bringing you at least a smile man. At least a smile. Alright. I love you guys Aloha.