If you aren't wearing plugs and muffs, it ain't loud, what, I said it's not loud! Ok, I am glad you are now proud... Whatever.
I had the unmitigated pleasure of being the collateral duty safety dude at one place I worked. Yippee, what fun that was.
Had one guy a few years older than I was, always find him running equipment in the shop, no eyes or ears on. Yell at him like you mentioned. He didn't GAF, already mostly deaf from being an armorer in Nam and testing weapons all the time he said.
The rest of the crew was as bad or worse. Carrying and spilling open containers of formaldehyde, with another nasty substance dissolved in it, on themselves, as in head to toe.
The list goes on. And on. And on.
