The complaint compartment.

[paulsharvey]

Dash cams can save you in very specific instances; but often, I would say most of the time, show contributing negligence on you too. I would say something like 80-90% of accidents could be prevented by either party.

You following too close, your speed above posted. Heck, had a friend where insurance said because he had changed lanes like 400 ft before an intersection, it caused confusion, leading to him getting rear-ended...

Anyways, just think twice about dash cams, and even more times about dual facing, audio, or ones that also capture any vehicle data, such as speed, breaking, acceleration, or anything that auto loads to the cloud/website.

 

[Jstpssng]

My company truck has a dash cam. On more than one occasion I have reviewed something to see what happened. Last summer I hit a moose- how in the heck do you NOT see a 1000 lb animal at 8:00 AM on a sunny morning? The dash cam showed that it came out of the ditch, and there was no way to know it was there. It also showed that my reaction time and stopping distance beat all of those tables we saw in driver's ed. I was able to get slowed down and cut the wheel so that the moose got back up and walked away.

 

[ultrarunner]

At least when public safety ignores traffic signals and lane markers it’s with lights and siren…

In my experience the drivers are young males and often single occupant in city streets…

Far more I’ve seen in city streets compared to blowing by on the freeway like I’m standing still even taking to the shoulders to pass…

When caught most have no license, insurance and a good bet vehicle not registered and surprisingly stolen…

A couple of coworkers with newer cars where able to have the car remotely immobilized which facilitated recovery.

 

[Jstpssng]

At least when public safety ignores traffic signals and lane markers it’s with lights and siren…

In my experience the drivers are young males and often single occupant in city streets…

Far more I’ve seen in city streets compared to blowing by on the freeway like I’m standing still even taking to the shoulders to pass…

When caught most have no license, insurance and a good bet vehicle not registered and surprisingly stolen…

A couple of coworkers with newer cars where able to have the car remotely immobilized which facilitated recovery.

This is nothing new. Young males have always been invincible. Most of us survived, but there's always a few that don't.

 

[Fixastuff]

This is nothing new. Young males have always been invincible. Most of us survived, but there's always a few that don't.

In the 90s I had a friend that used to like running into trash cans on back roads for fun. He was doing it one afternoon and for some reason decided not to hit this one can. Drove past it and there was an older man bent over messing with a push mower right behind it he couldn’t see.

Lucked out for everyone involved. He didn’t hit trash cans anymore but did plenty of other dumb stuff. lol.

 

[Jstpssng]

In the 90s I had a friend that used to like running into trash cans on back roads for fun. He was doing it one afternoon and for some reason decided not to hit this one can. Drove past it and there was an older man bent over messing with a push mower right behind it he couldn’t see.

Lucked out for everyone involved. He didn’t hit trash cans anymore but did plenty of other dumb stuff. lol.

Something I could never understand but some people think it's funny to run over street signs. They must have specially built bumpers or something, accompanied by a lack of brain cells.

 

[Dftodd]

How about every single large corporation constantly adding new training every year, often that has nothing to do with your job. Or adding a new wonderful payroll system to replace the old two systems; but wait; you still need to go into system 1 to view your PTO and system 2 to get tax docs; so we didn't roll out a new system to replace two old ones; we just added another on top to it.

On the training, I get that you need fire safety every year, but then we add "preventing micro aggressions in hiring" and "recognizing and preventing human trafficing" and 12 other trainings, every year...

We've had the payroll service changed a couple times. And there was some growing pains for awhile when they made the switch.

When we switched to the payroll hosting site we use now there was some growing pains.

Management had to use the new system to submit for time off.

Hourly people had to use the old system.

I would submit time off and my boss wouldn't respond to the request soon enough and it expired. So I resubmitted, and told him about it.

That's when I realized he was looking in the new system. I finally had to log in on the new system in my office to prove to my boss we weren't able to submit for time off yet. And that he needed to log into the old system for our time off.

It was about nine months before they got our time off balances switched to the new system and finally fazed out the old system.

 

[Dftodd]

It's absolutely critical that as a US employee that works in the US, I need to know what to do if my cab driver in the Philippines bribes a cop at a check station... I can't pay it, he can, but it need to report the bribe to my office head...

I'm just complaining; and I don't really disagree with some confined spaces, trench safety, fire safety, traffic control training; but all big corps seem to knee jerk react to everything, and assign trench safety training to the girl answering phones, after an incident

We get the knee jerk training on occasion due to someone's darwinism.

We are forced to use auto retracting blades at work.

Someone cut themselves being a bone head.

So we had mandatory knife safety training.

The next week, some idiot in Modesto California decided to use his leg as a table while using a knife to cut insulation on a wire. Knife slipped, dude cut the living snot out of their leg requiring stitches.

More mandatory knife safety training and a company wide policy of using only safety blade or auto retracting blades.

 

[Dftodd]

My company was once going through an on-site IRS audit. It lasted several months. The auditor didn’t come in on Fridays as he had to go into his office to do his time sheet. He made it clear he would be retiring soon and we WOULD be his last assignment.

I used to have an old guy that did my taxes for $20, a form.

Harry was a retired irs tax auditor.

You would meet with him for 20 to 30 minutes at his mobile home in a over 55 trailer park.

His wife usually offered you a giant chocolate chip cookie when you left.

In two weeks you stopped by and picked your forms back up to mail in.

He sure made tax time easy