Grilled Steak anyone? From a postal truck dashboard!?

[Tbs77]

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/az-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-unsafe-summer-work-conditions-for-postal-workers

 

Postal worker cooks steak on truck dashboard to showcase 'inhumane' working conditions during extreme heat.

 

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30 minutes ago, Tbs77 said:

 

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/az-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-unsafe-summer-work-conditions-for-postal-workers

 

Postal worker cooks steak on truck dashboard to showcase 'inhumane' working conditions during extreme heat.

 

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With many of our brothers experiencing Phoenix for the first time this week I again feel the need to post this little salute to Phoenix, a truly beautiful place.

Moving to  Arizona.

 
  May 30th:
   Just moved to Phoenix, AZ...Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings.  Mountains and deserts blend together. What a place! Watched the sunset  from a  park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home.
  I love it here.
  Welcome to our town:
  
  June 14th:
   Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem.  Live in an air conditioned home, drive an air conditioned car. What a  pleasure to see the sun every day like this.  I'm turning into a real sun worshiper.
 
  June 30th:
   Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today.   Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing  for  me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
 
  July 10th:
   The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do  people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's nice and windy  though.  But getting used to it is taking longer than I expected.
  
  July 15th:
   Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.   Missed two days of work, what a dumb thing to do. I learned my  lesson though. Got to respect the old sun in a climate like this.
  
  July 20th:
   I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I  left this morning.  By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had swollen up to  the size of a shopping bag and exploded all over $2,000 worth  of leather upholstery. I told the kids she ran away. The car now  smells like Kibbles and poop! No more pets in this heat!!
 
  July 25th:
   This wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as heck. The home air conditioner is on the  fritz and  AC  repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order  parts.
  
  July 30th:
  Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now.  $1,500 in stupid house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did  I ever come here?
 
  Aug 4th:
  It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed  today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to about 90. Stupid  repairman leaked in my pool.

I hate this stupid city.
 
  Aug 8th:
  If another wise acer cracks, "Hot enough for you today?",   I'm going to tear his throat out. Stupid heat! 

By the time I get to  work  the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like roasted freaking Garfield!!
 
  Aug 9^th:

  Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts and  sat on the black leather seat in the ol' car. I thought my butt was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh. Now my car smells like burnt butt and   fried cat.
  
  Aug 10th:
   The weather report might as well be a tape recording:   Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do Squat for two months and the  weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever  rain in  this barren desert?
  Water rationing will be next so $1,700 worth of cactus just might dry up and  blow into the damn pool. Even a cactus can't live in this heat.
 
  Aug 14:
   Welcome to Hell!! Temperature got to 113 today. If I had wanted to move to Death Valley, I would have moved there instead.
  Forgot   to crack the window and blew the damned windshield out of the Lincoln. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?"

  My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail.

 

 

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[Qapla]

Kinda sounds like Florida without the humidity ...

 

 

 

Now, back to the steak - it really wasn't grilled ... it was cooked in a plastic bag and placed on the dashboard - something we can do here in Florida from about May-Oct.

 

 

Back in the 1870's we had a couple of pioneers sisters in our hall who used to heat their lunch on the dash on a regular basis.

[Tortuga]

Just now, Qapla said:

Back in the 1870's we had a couple of pioneers sisters in our hall who used to heat their lunch on the dash on a regular basis.

1870 Dashboard? Pioneers? Kingdom Hall?

[Qapla]

That should be 1970's ... but the time to edit the post has expired

[Lee49]

31 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

1870 Dashboard? Pioneers? Kingdom Hall?

It was a covered wagon, they knew how to use the natural elements back then! 😆

[Brandon]

This seems mild compared to the unfair labour practices in many other parts of both the US and other developed countries.

I does remind of the this podcast episode though about Amazon workers in Kansas passing out from heat exhaustion in a giant warehouse: ‪https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=413276‬