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0 pointsolliej7y ago0 comments

I’m curious as to whether you’ve ever had a job like this?

There’s a difference between lifting/carrying the occasional 20lb weight, and doing that continuously for 8 hours.

I used to have 8 hour shifts at a standing only checkout - it took about a month before my back started hurting continuously. This was just a standing on concrete job, not even lifting all day.

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dsfyu404ed7y ago· 1 in thread

>I’m curious as to whether you’ve ever had a job like this?

Several. I edited my original comment to reflect this.

>I used to have 8 hour shifts at a standing only checkout - it took about a month before my back started hurting continuously. This was just a standing on concrete job, not even lifting all day.

Not imagine it being hotter, louder higher humidity, and having to bend over slightly to reach things all the time. Welcome to a dishroom.

olliejOP7y ago

I’m impressed you did that without back pain :)

Just to be clear though

1. I said I got back pain just standing on concrete, without actually lifting anything

2. People are super bad at lifting things properly, so I’m sure a reasonable number of injuries are “avoidable”

3. I’m not saying that everything in this was realistic (there are some questionable options), just that this particular case is super plausible. After all the equivalent in tech is RSI/OOS (whatever it’s called now), and that’s super common even though avoiding it is way easier than avoiding back problems when your job is picking things up.

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