California Supreme Court Weighs ‘Suitable Seating’ Law

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• This, once again, is proof positive, of the stupidity of the courts.
  The lawyer for the companies wrote this:
  “If a group of nurses rides the hospital elevator to go from one patient's room to another, then Petitioners' interpretation would require seating in the elevator, since riding the elevator could be done while seated,”
  I can't wait to see what the 9th Circus Court has to say about that!
  It just sounds to me like these suits are being brought by the lazy and extremely obese.

  • Whatever the Ninth Circus rules will most likely be overturned, judging by their record.

• Can't wait to see a grill at a McDonalds that has a chair in front of it. Oh wait, that's right, robots don't need chairs.

• And the winners will be furniture companies who donated to democrats, and trial lawyers.....Next will be chairs for the obese, persons of color and Lark Scooters for everyone....

  • And the fat people will be saying, "There's no chair big enough!" and the short people will be saying, "The chairs are all too tall!" and the transsexuals will be complaining about the color of the chairs--"Why do I have to sit in a pink/blue/beige colored chair?", etc. It'll be a lawsuit bonanza.

    • They'll have to provide those special made chairs, the ones modified to allow people to sit with their head up their backside.

• Sitting is the new smoking:
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-active-times/sitting-is-the-new-smokin_b_5890006.html

  So in a few years they can sue for adverse health effects from sitting. Put their asses on treadmills.

• Sounds like California's government is totally in the hands of the defense attorney lobby.

  I spent six months as a supervisor in a UAW plant and they had this silly rule about management not being allowed to sit. "The chairs in the plant are for union workers." Bastards. I was working 12 hour shifts and my feet ACHED. But I would never ever let those union shits see me sitting or even acting like I wanted to sit. But in return, I let the union committeeman have it with both barrels one day when he invaded my office space during my lunchtime with some picayune problem. The office was where I would take my shoes off, put my aching feet on the desk, and eat my sandwich in peace, away from all the whining union members. When I was done reaming him out, he would never enter that office again. He wouldn't speak to me for a few days either, which was another benefit.

  • Yup. We'd need a couple of guys on a Saturday so we'd schedule them. They got paid 6 hour minimum. So they didn't show up so we got on the forklift and loaded the truck. Monday there they are with the business rep telling us we can't be on "their" forklift. I told the rep we had them scheduled (which they conveniently forgot to tell him) and that's why. I told the rep if he wanted to write us a check for $20k it would be "their" forklift and absent that don't bother me anymore. Never heard about it again.

    • Even the private sector unions get ridiculous on a regular basis. I was an apprentice, operating a forklift on a project for a cement plant in Victorville, CA. It was a long drive to the laydown yard in the parking lot, but if I was going to go get something for the iron workers, I had to take one of them with me. Regardless of the fact that OSHA regs prohibit anyone riding on a machine without a designated seat for them.

      If I was taking a dumpster from the site out to the big dumpsters in the parking lot, I had to take a laborer with me. So, since there REALLY was no room for two people to ride with me, I was prohibited from taking the trash out, and bringing steel back, on the same trip. Foolishness, that does nothing but cost the contractor more money.

      • One of my cousins used to work for one of the cities around here. If they went to get auto parts 2 guys had to go. Crazy shit.

    • Oh my, that reminds me of when the union went on strike for a few days and me and the other night supervisor had a BLAST driving around in hi-los, loading parts for shipping. We literally raced because we had bets on who could pick the most parts. At one point I cut a corner too sharp and one of my trailers caught the corner and stopped me dead, sending me over the front onto the floor. I looked up to see the other supervisor laughing so hard he was crying. Half a dozen safety violations all at once, but the difference? If I'd been union I would have taken a month-long injury leave and sued GM. As a supervisor I ignored my bruises, got back in the hi-lo, and went back to the race. Which I won by the way. And both of us blew away the previous record for a union worker.

      • Our's went on strike. I hired an attorney who used to work for the Unions and got rid of them. Problem solved.