A ‘watch what you’re fucking doing’ cunting for twats who are always looking at their phones and/or have ear buds jammed in their heads in busy and dangerous environments.
Theres a time and a place for listening to podcasts and music, it’s not walking about a busy town centre, crossing roads, riding bikes and e-shooters on roads or on a building site.
Your car (listening only), house or exercising in a gym or outin a park or countryside/bridleway yes, but being distracted while operating machinery or around power tools, telehandlers, forklifts and excavators is fucking stupid.
If you find the job boring to the point you have to listen to audible or podcasts then look for something else.
If your job is dull and repetive but does not rely on communication, machines or using hot/caustic liquid then fair enough, but there’s a lot of people dicing with death because they were distracted crossing a road, on their scooter, operating machinery or working in the vicinity of heavy vehicles.
Getting hit by a JCB bucket because you were standing gormlessly, fiddling with your fucking iphone to skip a track or rewind to something you missed when you should be watching the big fucking yellow thing made of steel will get you killed or hospitalised.
It’s bad enough having younger blokes taking breaks every 5 minutes to check their phone, even without earphones.
One lad who worked with an old colleague did that, walking over to his car, scrolling through his phone, laughing to himself.
Everyone downed tools and looked at him.
The bloke running the site walked over and the kid barely noticed until just a few feet away.
He was told to jump in his car and fuck off. No more work for him.
There are a few jobs where looking at phones and sticking earbuds in will get you killed, in an ambulance or fucked off out of work.
Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.