u/zoolilba

So this happened yesterday and I've been trying to figure out how to tell it coherently. Basically the situation is I work in manufacturing. We cut wood so we have a system that is supposed to suck up all our sawdust. It then goes outside into filters and a barrel in this like outside closet space. So at my work there's a maintenance supervisor (70 y/o), a safety supervisor (pushing 60-65) , my supervisor (maybe 30) and production supervisor (maybe 50s)

Last week the local fire department did their annual walk through. And when they got to our dust collection closet they found it's full of dust because it leaks all over. So now suddenly the safety supervisor and maintenance supervisor think this is a big deal. And it is. But they've known about it for years. The maintenance supervisor is the one who built the system 10 years ago. When they rebuilt it from the old system. My past 2 supervisors had been trying for years to get maintenance to do the cleaning and fixing and we never got a straight answer from the maintenance supervisor because he doesn't want to do it. We empty it on a regular basis as part of our job which is fine but we don't have time to stop our work (that makes the company money) to do all this cleaning and repairs. The maintenance supervisor got away with not doing it because the previous production supervisor was a boomer and didn't give a fuck about workers.

Now I have a new younger supervisor. When they decided it was a big deal they tried to get us to do it but my supervisor pushed back. He went straight to the new production supervisor and he agreed immediately that maintenance should.... Do maintenance . So now they might get to it next week.... If they have time. Suddenly it's not so important.

Oh and we have no drinkable water in our building and we asked for some like last summer and still got nothing from this maintenance supervisor. (New production supervisor wasn't happy about that either)

And the safety supervisor is giving me a hard time because I use my own ear muff hearing protection. Because last time I asked him for some he didn't have any. "But I can always just ask" he has some now but I have to go to him and get them. If he really cares I feel like hed bring them to me. I didn't have the energy to call him out on it.

Oh and the safety supervisor doesn't like that we plug extension cords into other extension cords. So I pointed out (in front of the maintenance supervisor ) that when we have a long cord and it has a cut on the outside of it maintenance just cuts the cord in half and adds two plugs. Making it two short cords. My supervisor offered to bring them all the short cords in exchange for long ones and they suddenly said to wait and might put in some extra outlets for us when they have time.

Oh and the maintenance supervisor who's 70. He was training a nice hard working younger guy to replace him in the next year. But he decided recently to stay on for another 4 years so the good worker quit.

I'm so tired of boomers