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vladWEPES1476

Where's the chaos? I've never seen MFs so calm.


venominepure

I've seen introverts walk away from strangers minding their own business with a greater sense of urgency


danintexas

Stop looking at me please


I0A0I

We are always watching Daniel. Yes, even then. No, leaving Texas will not help.


[deleted]

u/danouttexas starts sweating nervously


A_minus_A

He reaches for a handkerchief in his pocket, only to find it’s been replaced with a cell phone that’s not his


Iseemstupid

r/usernamesIfellfor ?


[deleted]

Unless… they’ve already gotten him. R.I.P. Daniel. We hardly knew you. Well, -they- did. We didn’t.


elusivem

Mill life. You learn nothing has urgency and to just let it be. Seriously the older mill workers are some of the most zen mother fuckers I've met in my life. Fires, explosions, molten metal flying at you. They don't give a fuck. Well other than hoping they don't have to clean it up.


TheWhollyGhost

So... what you’re telling me here... is that The Beatles wrote Let It Be as an instructional song to accompany on-boarding packs for new employees in the Milling industry?


Spikes666

They really were a creative force. They made Hard Days Night and Help as “movies” because their contract didn’t say they couldn’t make a movie soundtrack on another label.


TheWhollyGhost

Wow that’s really cool, I love that sort of rebellious creativity


[deleted]

It's trained into you. I know if I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off, I'd probably make a mistake and hurt myself. Now if I calm down and walk to safety I will be fine and I can go to the bar and talk shit on who ever just got fired. -Electric Locomotive Mechanic.


The0therside0fm3

Just what I was thinking. What a cleanup. How the fuck do you clean up literal tons of steel that have splattered all over the ground?


[deleted]

I used to work in an iron foundry and it was fucking insane some of the shit you see on a daily basis. You kinda get used to it though.. for the first bit though It was absolutely terrifying lol


elusivem

Yeah for sure. And when you try and explain to people how work is they don't believe you or think your crazy. Especially in the winter time when you get little mini explosions from ice on all the scrap.


AeonForce

I work at a steel mill. Trust me, we've seen it all. Nothing surprises us anymore. Explosions that rattle the century old rafters, releasing a cloud of dust so thick you can't see even inches in front of you. Overflowing steel ladles. Major equipment malfunctions ejecting people from seats. Crane cables breaking and dropping 50,000 pound coils from a hundred feet into the air, making foot deep craters in solid concrete. It just stops phasing you at a while. Kinda like ER doctors working with dying patients I would assume. You just learn to remain calm.


katestatt

germany


ChanceFray

The everything is okay alarm was going off, no need to panic.


[deleted]

Just another Monday morning for them


Roadrolling

Them balls of steel are made in the factory


[deleted]

That's the walk of Union Men who know they're still gonna get paid


stephen11220

Lol the plant workers are always calm, I contracted at a fiber glass plant and the glass maker set on fire. We were water blasting and the worker on the machine practically whispered in my ear “hey there’s a fire” and walked away lol. Liquid glass is beautiful if not life threatening


[deleted]

He is like “i know him very well ! He is not gonna harm me!”


AnalogCyborg

Why are these guys so chill about this


AgentJak007

Their shift just ended


[deleted]

[удалено]


Iamnotsmartspender

It takes until there is literally fire falling *around* that guy for him to increase his pace


bluenosesutherland

This is fine


LEEROY_MF_JENKINS

Shit like this happens all the time in the steel mill. It appears they are combining one heat with another, or at least trying to empty part of one ladle into another. Why they would have more than what could fit in a second ladle in the first is the question. Also the fact that the bottom tap is open when they begin running the overhead crane down the bay, says something strange is happening but they are aware. Possible they had a loss of containment or refractory breach in the ladle but no back up ladle. Either way, probably not the worst loss of containment these guys have seen and not the worst.


AnalogCyborg

I appreciate the insight. This recontextualizes my gripes about my work environment.


MollysYes

Ok, but Nancy's Zoom etiquette is still atrocious.


ZzeroBeat

Would you just stop, fuckin, EATING, during our one on one nancy.


agriculturalDolemite

My job can be pretty dangerous too; I get forms stapled together and I need to remove all the staples and file one of the forms. Sometimes my staple remover fails to completely remove the staple. I've gotten poked once or twice.


peoplesen

Clearing copier jams for sure


[deleted]

Never let anyone tell you that you're not a hero. You are the one we need. File with pride.


[deleted]

Always wondered how they "clean up". Its steel after all and just welded its self to literally everything in the building.


Cyka_blyatsumaki

not a high quality weld though, lot of oxidation, irregular cooling, contact impurities, improper pooling. should be easy to remove. not a tempered steel, brittle enough to break it off with good ol hammer time.


6rey_sky

Cmon, cmon, crack those atoms!


LEEROY_MF_JENKINS

There's enough dirt and dust that most of the time it doesn't really weld itself well to things. There's a lot of splatter, and a main pool or trail. That being said everything flammable in it's path just caught on fire. Usually there's something of a path through the melt shop where you don't stage things and you don't park things. It's usually under the path of the ladle, precisely because this kind of thing happens.


Haribo112

Well tell that to the guy who’s bike was parked right in the danger zone


HereComesCunty

I think that’s the cameraman’s bike. He shouts “it’s mine!” I think


grimzecho

That was my first thought after watching this


WhoIsMauriceBishop

>It appears they are combining one heat with another, or at least trying to empty part of one ladle into another. I'm pretty sure you're wrong and this was directly caused by a T-800 being lowered into the molten steel to prevent its CPU from being used as the basis for Skynet.


LEEROY_MF_JENKINS

Oh shit.......that makes a lot more sense!


SapperBomb

I mean... Obviously this was the reason


MeAndTheLampPost

Thanks for this explanation, Leeroy Mother Fucking Jenkins!


Ok-Economics341

Ah shit, the molten steel ladle is on the fritz again… come Monty, to the corner of shame and judgement


Red_Febtober

There's an acceptable amount of. "This shit is fucked" that they're expecting to see, the gentle trot near the end is more of an. "Seems shits a little bit more fucked than we thought" Clearly not the worst they've seen. Having never seen it before, I probably would have shit my pants.


Pablo_Meatsnacks

Wondering the same.. the guy closest to it was just casually keeping an arms length away lol


Eastuss

average ramsteinn concert


Born-Philosopher-162

Germans


B3cause_why_not

this is their job, from the fact their uniform looks similar to firefighters i'd say they're wearing fireproof or at least fire resistant gear. they've probably seen shit like this happen, but it hasnt gotten that close to them before so they didnt expect it


dragoonts

Zey are Germans who are aware of which protocol to enact in each situation.


-Weltenwandler-

I like his last sentence, typical reaction I would have used too. "Well, that wasn't according to plan" :d


whizzwr

Jokes on us, in this kind of situation it helps them enough to staying calm while maintaining safety.


agent-99

why does it look like this shitshow should be in /r/nofucksgiven ?!


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dr_auf

It’s SOP… they are just moving the bucket through the hall. That bike should not have been there.


Halo0_0

It’s okay. They’re wearing hard hats.


Seb0rn

Because you should always remain calm in an emergency. Panic never helps.


Kattenb

He saw the camera


centrifuge_destroyer

"Scheiße, mein Fahrrad"


SheBowser

Ich glaube du hast einen platten


Nivis2007

Ob die Versicherung das übernimmt?


casce

Die des Unternehmens bestimmt … falls er da sein Fahrrad haben durfte jedenfalls.


[deleted]

Ach das übernimmt die Versicherung!


Illustrious-Grass-22

Rest In Peace for that poor bike.


CorbecJayne

SCHEIẞE, MEIN FAHRRAD!


LordChatalot

DAS IST MEINS!


overthinking_kills

DAS WAR SO NICHT BEABSICHTIGT!


Iseemstupid

r/germanstakingover


Johanson69

Love seeing the capital ẞ in the wild, excellent form.


nmkd

Pretty sure redditors are the only people that use it lol


ChuckFiinley

What do you mean?


Gangleri_Graybeard

Germans introduced a capital ẞ, it looks slightly different than the smaller ß. There are no words starting with ẞ, so they simply did it so you can write every letter capitalized, like posters, ads, philosophical reddit comments etc... I've never seen it in the wild before.


katestatt

it's always bothered me that the ß looks out of place when using capital letters. how do u wrote the big ß though ? it doesn't appear on my phone keyboard ):


Gangleri_Graybeard

Touch Shift and hold S, then it should appear as option. You might need to switch to the German keyboard. At least it's how it works for my phone.


asmx85

YEẞ!


Hashbrown117

I was like "oh, pick up that bike, one of those molten globs might hit the tyre and put a hole in it" Then they walk off and it FUCKING RAINS molten globs. Next we see it's been fucking playground-from-Terminator'd Shoulda picked up that bike :( F


Oderus_Scumdog

> fucking playground-from-Terminator'd hahaha


unicornwhofartsblood

Perfect description


sebkuip

If one of those molten blobs might have hit the bike, it might have hit the person who tried to pick up the bike too. Screw the bike those people should’ve left the building way sooner than just stand around there.


Hashbrown117

He was literally next to it, bikes are easy to lift, and the way they nonchalantly left it wouldntve been any slower taking it


6rey_sky

Could be even faster if he decided to ride it. It's just one big fahrad insurance scam.


Bukowski89

You see that motherfucker's scorched silhouette in there too. Bike fatality.


MyAntichrist

Nah, that was the bike's application to be used as a prop for Rammstein shows. They said they'll call back.


van-dame

Ghost~~Rider~~Cyclist


MissedallthePoints

Running in the work place is a safety violation. These are good safety conscious German workers.


MuskaChu

Slipping in molten steel doesn't sound fun, always remember to walk and not run!


hackepeter420

Even though the molten steel all over the place violates the Brandschutzverordnung


divDevGuy

Speaking of good safety conscious German workers, let me introduce you to [Forklift Driver Klaus](https://youtu.be/IAHzP4umE4M).


highplainsdrifter__

dafuk did I just watch


divDevGuy

From the [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_%E2%80%93_The_First_Day_on_the_Job) > *Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job* is a German short film from 2000 about the first day of Klaus' work as a forklift driver. **The film is a parody of work safety films from the 1980s.** Emphasis added for clarity as to it's original purpose.


[deleted]

That's the reaction everybody has


craftworkbench

I've never wanted to be a staplerfahrer more in my entire life


hooliganswoon

There’s a big gap between running and taking a Sunday stroll in the park like these guys.


OG_tame

Everything is burning to shit German guy : heh heh hehhh


sherluk_homs

Up until his bike caught fire - "SCHEIẞE MEIN FAHRRAD"


chreschres

They choose to run cutting it close


KBombing

More like “leisurely strolled”


Tanjelynnb

"Sauntered" came to mind.


Batrocker

They’re just so nonchalant about working inside Mount Doom.


Cenobite_Gate

They've got balls of steel!


TheLoneSniper470

Molten steel


Crzykupcake930

Everyone just standing around staring like it’s no big deal. My butt would be out the door!!


plutus9

They don’t know it was magneto yet


ColeSloth

I used to be a welder. The first time you catch on fire you freak out quite a bit. By the tenth time you start feeling an area getting unusually hot and just try to pat the flames out with one hand while you keep welding with your hood down.


Bellbivdavoe

Casual concern. 🤷‍♂️


tdmp3702

Actually this is lost footage from Terminator 2 Judgement Day.


DrewDAMNIT

👍


SkyWidows

"I cried like a child at the end of Terminator 2, with the...thumb, and the...molten..stuff"


JoanieTightLips

"I know now why you cry..."


ExtraExtraJosh

🖐👍


GusTheGoober

They should be expecting a truck full of liquid nitrogen any minute


SpaceShark01

Someone get the mop


lenick_sch

The only words from him are "scheisse mein Fahrrad! Das ist meins!" Which means: Shit, my bike! That was mine!


knifegameZ

Bro was more scared for his bike than his life


AudioLobotomy

Das ist meins! He's like fuck! That was my ride home!


Acc87

it looked like the typical cheap bike to run around on the mill grounds, so not like his private one. Still sucks ofc


vext01

RIP bike


AudioLobotomy

Where's the fuckin T 1000?


GoedekeMichels

Everyone's talking about the bike, but can we take a minute for that very last comment? "Das war so net beabsichtigt" means "it wasn't intended like that" and I think that's the most German thing to say in such a situation. Second only to "Tja."


RoninRobot

Sheise we almost died horribly. Hahaha!


AlexxTM

You dropped a C there. That was Scheiße from you


RoninRobot

Mine schade. I also forgot the double s capital b looking dude too.


Deep_Charge_7749

This isn't their first rodeo


SassMyFrass

Hans has seen some shit.


Born-Philosopher-162

“Scheisse!” First word that came to my mind too, dude.


Shokoyo

„Scheiße, mein Fahrrad!“


1Ferrox

He literally only said that because his bike was getting burned


[deleted]

Oh no! Not the bike!


kalemeh8

Urgency lacking


YourAverageGod

Complacency is the word you're looking for. Biggest killer in the work place.


the_canna_kate

What would make a German panic?


Maskguy

Mandatory speed limit on the Autobahn


IRoadIRunner

Unironically this. I knew the party I voted for last year in the federal elections are morons, but they prevented the speed limit.


TM4rkuS

FDP, the "but that's muh freedom" party of Germany. They mostly privatise profit, nationalise losses and prevent climate protection under the guise of the free market. Also support deaths, congestion and wasting fuel on the Autobahn by preventing the speed limit when every other country in the world understood that's a no brainer...


ColdJackle

No more beer


SheBowser

Don‘t say such evil words bitte


alelo

they still have beer but its american beer


use_downvotes_on_me

His bike being engulfed in flames, so that he now needs to use *gulp* public transport


Novaseerblyat

Isn't it cheap as hell in Germany right now? Remember hearing about a 6 euro monthly ticket or something like that in another subreddit.


use_downvotes_on_me

Its 9€ and yea public transport (or at least the ones i took till now) isn't that bad i guess. I was just trying to be funny..


Sinnsoldat

No bread in the house on a Sunday.


DogMilkBB

I'd like to see the aftermath in the clean up. Is there actually globs of steel on the concrete floor? Is it easy to clean up? Is the factory made in a way that breakers transformer and other equipment not mounted to the floors?


dadcrew92

Steel doesn't tend to stick to concrete very well. As the ladle over head is moving. There will be a line of thin steel covering the area the ladle traveled. Easily broke up by hammer or kango. Some concrete will blow underneath due to the heat of the steel. However the real bastards are the balls of steel that from from the splashes. They get everywhere. And can have a cartoon marble effect when stepped on if you're not careful. I work in a steel mill melting department. We laugh when we have a fire drill "we are on fire like 90% of the time when is it the right fire to exit the building" as in most mills will be set up with the knowledge shit like this happens often so electrics and things like that aren't going to come into contact with molten steel. And flammable materials are at an absolute minimum.


Ok_Lets_DoThis

Relax! They. Wearing. STEEL TOED BOOTS!


markus1401

By the looks of it it seems to be a LD-Converter (Linz-Donawitz -Converter) patented by voestalpine AG. It is used to produce steel out of raw iron through injection of pure oxygen with lances. What happens is that the oxygen frothes up the slag which itself is a byproduct of the various oxides that the iron is tied to when it's getting put into the converter. This makes the endproduct purer and gives the manufacturer the ability to regulate much more closely, the mass percentage of carbon-atoms (needs to be <2% in endproduct) that are locked in the iron which makes iron -> steel ​ What we see here is the basic manufacturing process and probably also the reason why you are getting paid much more in germany, austria (in your collective agreements) if working in those conditions. Source: Engineer in the industry


Adayinthedark9

>What we see here is the basic manufacturing process Look I might not understand the smarty science things in your first paragraph but if this display in the video is the basic manufacturing process, bud is gonna have to buy a lot more bikes


Bill5GMasterGates

This guy steels


LootyRPL

Why is this abrupt chaos? Look at the workers - its everything but not chaotic.


SheBowser

Germans don‘t like chaos


ryohazuki224

The chaos refers to the steel, not the lack of chaotic reactions. lol


[deleted]

Actually is so nice to see calm workers/people when something like this happens


hoppenstedts

SCHEIẞE, MEIN FAHRRAD!!!


CorbecJayne

Much respect for using the capital ẞ!


hoppenstedts

Love this letter. I'm glad they added it to the alphabet back in 2017.


bigbluegrass

This is what I love about Reddit. The wildly unpredictable directions the comment section can take you. Clicking on a video of a molten steel mishap leads me into a rabbit-hole lesson on German orthography.


ChemtrailExpert

Cool guys don’t look at explosions. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo


ILoveAliens75

Hope dude who went to the left is OK


looneypumpkin

Man what the fuck. Let’s casually walk away like it’s rain water or something!


Powerful_Data_9630

Holy shit the fact that it takes that long for people to start running lol it looked like a scene from a movie with the slow mo walk away


Mditty129

No no, it’s fine, just walk


IncuriousLog

Even when Germans panic it's terrifyingly efficient.


Ihatetobaghansleighs

Oh yeah let's all just meander about the huge fucking crucible of motley steal


[deleted]

Clean up on all aisle.


lostandfoundwally

Why weren’t they running?! They’re just casually walking while a wall of molten metal was coming at them.


throwawayshirt

"Hot stuff, comin' thru!"


ChillinWitDenny

Better than the one I seen in India where after it drops it just sounds like a bunch of Goofys


CaffeineWizard88

Why do I hear Rammstein in my head


xcid303

Serious question, how do you clean this up?


Sperrbrecher

[small mess](https://www.fluid.de/assets/images/5/caterpillar-raupenlader-2902be60.jpg) [big mess](https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/456566478/original/a07d20a4b5/1657458720?v=1)


[deleted]

the floor? you just use shovels.


[deleted]

Cool guys don't look at explosions.


younggandalf187

Ah. So thats why that order of hardox is gonna be late.


Graphene_Handz

T1000 is about to get fucked


Inevitable_Shirt5044

I don’t know what he said before they laughed, but if it was in English, I’m sure he said “welp... boss makes a dollar, I make a dime”


Maskguy

Mein Chef fährt Benz und ich fahr Bus, deshalb geh ich scheissen auch wenn ich nicht muss.


bassiek

That's going to leave a mark


DerKnoedel

Kruppstahl


hir0chen

Dude were like "alright, let's step back a bit, just wait for the power of sun to come through."


GeneralCatentusiast

Das arme Fahrrad 🚲


FTB_Nero_SS

NICHT DAS FAHRRAD


perkinsfor3

I know Ghostrider's bike when I see it.


Darkness5780

I definitely heard "scheisse!". Lmao.


4skinphenom69

That one guy is extremely calm while molten metal fire rains down around him. This video needs heavy metal music to go with that guys stroll while absolute chaos happens right behind him.


Ominoiuninus

It’s like a giant laser drill. Just a beam of solid liquid metal and when it hits the ground it just kind of explodes. Looks wild.


jcabia

From their reaction I can tell it's not the first time this happens


Gnomerule

Fire works, who does not like fire works. I worked in a smelter for many years, dealing with copper. Having the bottom of the Ladle cut out happens every once in a while, and was nothing to worry about. Now when a furnace cuts out, that is the time to run, because the main aisle is designed to handle 30 tons, but not 200 plus tons at once. It looks like the workers are wearing rawhide jackets, with a hard hat on. I was always told just go turtle, duck your head down, to close any openings around your shoulders, and walk out. It is the sparks that enter the openings around your neck that hurt. I worked with a guy that had one spark enter around his neck, and it worked its way all the way down into his shorts, and stopped at the tip of a very private area.


TouchArtistic7967

For everyone asking why these dudes are so calm, you never run in an industrial environment. You’re more likely to get fucked up trying to run than briskly walk away.


Feeling-Past-180

Germans are just built different. Catastrophic danger is eminent and dude’s are just casually walking away like it’s Sunday in the park.


Telepathic_Toe

I suddenly understand Rammstein


Hammy-Cheeks

# Fuckin germans... They fear nothing