You have to be s***ing me

[draftermatt]

So I work for a concrete manufacturer.

One of the key ingredients in concrete is cement, which we buy from a cement producer.

Yesterday everyone noticed an odor to our product.

About 5 PM last night we get a call from our cement producer...

Apparently the trucking company that delivers cement in barrel trailers uses those same trailers to haul human excrement that has been made into pellets that can be burned for fuel (what that would smell like... eesh).

They forgot to clean the barrel on a trailer out before loading it up with cement and delivering it to us.

So we got cement infused with human excrement.

So our entire day of production now smells like poo, and has little brown flecks throughout!

We had to scrap an entire day of production, and this trucking company will be paying for that, and to clean out our cement storage.

[Sheldonrs]

I bet your boss is shitting bricks right now.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Broomjockey]

burned for fuel (what that would smell like... eesh).

Apparently, not that bad.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I bet your boss is shitting bricks right now.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

Oh, that is so wrong.

Wasted oppotunity, right there. I am certain there is a market for that very substance in the "Ex Boyfriend Brains" industry.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ever hear of Milorganite? A kind of lawn fertilizer? It's processed human waste.

[bainsidhe]

If I were to consider all the strange things I've seen happen at our manufacturing plant....yeah this is a new one.

[HYHYBT]

Eh, shit happens.

[JLRodgers]

The only shocking thing I think of with that is -- you mean they reuse the trailer barrels without cleaning them? I'd of thought that would be so standard there'd be all-but no way to mess it up.

[LillFilly]

You should capitalize on the green movement in housing and start making bricks out of sod and buffalo dung! Or concrete covered haybales; I think that's how they do it some places...

But...Poo Cement....

[draftermatt]

The only shocking thing I think of with that is -- you mean they reuse the trailer barrels without cleaning them? I'd of thought that would be so standard there'd be all-but no way to mess it up.

You would think wouldn't you. Especially since this isn't a mom and pop trucking outfit, it's apparently a very large chain.

The whole poo=fuel doesn't surprise me, I think it's pretty resourceful really.

Our worry was basically
a) Will we get phone calls that people's apartments smell like poo (and this was for the penthouse level in NYC).
b) Will the urea affect the concrete negatively, since technically it's a salt and salt + concrete = bad.

And of course the cement company refusing to take responsibility for it.

Total cost: 3 truck loads of cement $2000
4 beds of production (8,000 s.f. 5,360 cu yards) $50,000

[Crossbow]

You would think wouldn't you. Especially since this isn't a mom and pop trucking outfit, it's apparently a very large chain.

I'm almost tempted to ask which company it was. My company makes logistics software and I'm kind of curious if it was one of our customers...

Nah. Probably better off not knowing....

[mandaliz8704]

Too bad you don't make bricks. You could get into the Brick Shithouse business.

[Amina516]

At least the shit didnt hit the fan....


(little cement chunks mighta hurt!!)

[BookstoreEscapee]

I bet your boss is shitting bricks right now.


Sorry, couldn't resist.

bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

[ADoyle90815]

I guess this was one of those moments.