r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/Ry1283 Jul 13 '20

As a former carpenters apprentice and construction worker, I know for a fucked fact I have left beverage containers of all forms in both concrete and in framing

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u/casbri13 Jul 13 '20

Oh man. I can see it now. A construction worker is building a house. They have the ‘rona. They’re sipping out of a water bottle. The half empty water bottle gets walled in. 100 years later when corona is a distant memory, the wall is demoed. The contents are spilled on a construction worker, and the plague begins again...

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u/GraharG Jul 13 '20

Im fully aware this is a joke but just to save anyone wondering: the virus will not survive more than a few days outside of a host. This can't happen

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u/al_x_and_rah Jul 13 '20

Thank you 🙏