If you can't stand the heat, don't go near our kitchen

I am not ashamed to say that I work for ######rp. What I am ashamed of is to tell you my name.

Ever wondered why the trains seem to run late all the time, even though they now stop for extra minutes in the middle of nowhere in order to not run late (figure that one out).

You see the people that run the organisation have made a request of me.

I am not to leave my locker key in my locker as it is dangerous. To who, how or why this is dangerous I still can't figure out.

They have put a sticker on the toaster and kettle in the kitchen telling me that "surfaces may be hot".

When I was a small child, I remember putting my foot into a hot frypan (don't ask). In the following forty years I have never done it again. I have cooked toast in a toaster. I know that it is hot because when it comes out of the toaster it is no longer bread. I can feel the heat.

WhatR###rp should be doing is putting up signs "if you can't stand the heat, don't go anywhere near our kitchen because you might burn your boo boos on something that could be hot".

By the age of six, I am sure that all children have been reminded thousands of times not to put knives in power points, to be careful of the heater, to sip your hot drink before sculling it all. That is what parents are for.

That guy in the USA who sued because he burnt himself with coffee should himself be fined. If you are stupid enough to not know that a microwave over heats things up and stays a bit hot after use, then you probably don't know how to use the controls anyway. If you are stupid enough to somehow hurt yourself on my locker key, you should be immediately sacked.

Come on Australia, let's demand a right to hurt ourselves without being forewarned. Let us learn from our experiences, not from a sticker telling us what our experience might be.