His Company Didn’t Value His Hard Work And Burdened Him With Multiple Shifts, So One Day He Left Right After His Shift Ended And His Boss Had To Do The Rest

Sarrah Murtaza

4 weeks ago

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When companies and bosses don’t value your skill and work, you need to really step up and show them what you’re capable of! Sometimes the only way to do that is by not doing your job.

This guy didn’t shy away from talking back at his boss.

Find out how he became the highest paid employee of the company!

You said 7am to 3pm

I worked for a trucking company, they made sucrose for different food plants in the area, Turkey Hill, Pepsi etc.

My job was to wash the inside of the liquid sucrose trailers so they could be reloaded, this was done by hooking them up to an automated wash system.

His job was pretty hectic as it is…

I drove the lot, picked up an empty trailer, took it to the 2 trailer wash bay building, hooked it up and ran the cycle, then parked the washed trailer in the loading staged area.

I was hired as a temp to replace the previous 1st shift guy who injured his knee, when I was hired him and a guy who kinda knew the job taught me how to do it, but there was the only one official 1st shift person who knew the job, the other guy just could kinda fumble his way through it.

This is where the physical work got worse!

Then there was a second shift guy who knew the job as well.

The job required you to be extremely active, you worked in a room that would sometimes seem like it rained from all the steam condensing on the ceiling because you were washing 2 at a time with 190+ degree water for a 20 minute session.

I ended up being hired full time from the temp agency (the company actually bought out my contract because I was doing so well and the 1st shift guy ended up retiring due to his injury)

It kept on going in circles!

About a year later the second shift guy quits out of nowhere, so they hire a new guy, and now I have to train him.

This guy is, less than good at the job I keep telling management that but you know, they’re management.

Eventually he ends up dropping a trailer off the lift truck before putting the lift down, bending the landing gear and doing $11,000 in damage.

Anytime there’s an accident, they require a substance test, he tested positive for it and was fired.

I ended up having to do 1st and 2nd shift by myself since I was the only person who knew the job.

He was okay with working multiple shifts at this point.

It wasn’t that bad because 2nd shift didn’t have as many trailers, so a 10 hour day and I’d usually be done.

Eventually they hired a new guy, very very big fellow and this… didn’t seem like a fit for him.

About 3 months in the loaders come over cuz there’s no clean trailers staged, they found him passed out on top of a trailer.

They honestly thought he had a heart attack or something, but it turned out he was just drunk, so he got fired.

Guess who’s back to working both shifts?

He knew he would manage because he had the skills for it!

At first it wasn’t too bad, I could get 4 trailers done in an hour, so 32 in an 8 hour shift if I’m working hard.

There was literally no way to do it any faster since there’s a 20 minute wash cycle and you still have to pull 2 trailers in, and hook them up.

Normally there were about 25 trailers for 1st shift and 8 to 10 for 2nd shift.

But then a company that took 5+ dry trailers a shift for 1st and 3 to 5 a shift for 2nd, tripled their order for wet trailers due to these onsite processing plant going down.

He was so frustrated at this point in his work life!

I went from 10 hour days to working from 6am to 11pm for like a month straight, in the summer, in a building that got about 10+ degrees hotter than the ambient air was…

I kept telling my supervisor, my plant manager and the company manager that I couldn’t keep this up.

I kept being told I had to do my job, “do as you’re told.”

Well time I worked from 6am to 1am Thursday and back in at 530am Friday… That was the day I caused $5000 in damages.

I backed a trailer out without unhooking it first, ruining the hoses, and pulling a pump off the mounts.

So now I had to get substance tested and since the last two guys failed, on the drive there my manager asked me if I was going to fail.

UH OH…

I said it depends what they test for.

He said they test for everything.

I asked if that included caffeine and exhaustion.

He just kinda blankly looked at me then turned back to the road.

Substance test passed, taken back to work, now I only have 1 wash bay to use due to the damage I caused, and I have to back into it because it’s the first bay that’s broken in a pull through set up and maintenance is there repairing it… I ended up being there till almost 1 again.

Monday I come in, having almost fell asleep on the drive, I pulled my manager aside, the plant manager aside, and the owners son aside… They all said, just gotta do “do the job I was hired to do, do what I’m told.”

They really thought they would manage without a man like him on the extra shift!

They said they’re working to find a new person so I just need to keep doing “my trailers.” So Tuesday, that’s what I did.

When I was hired I was told my schedule was 7am to 3pm and they trailers in that timeslots we’re mine, along with the first two 2nd shift trailers *if they were there by 2:30pm.”

So I got there at 7, did only the 1st shift trailers and 2 second shift trailers as I “was told” when I got hired, and clocked out at 3pm.

I shut my phone off and took my girlfriend to the fair.

The next morning I went in at 7 once again, and got to work. The supervisor and plant manager get in at 9, and 9:05 they’re in my office.

That is so mean!

I get escorted to the office of the owner’s son where he proceeded to chew me out for a solid 45 minutes.

I just sat there and let him rant.

Turns out once I left my supervisor and plant manager had to do my job, and you know since they were supervisors and plant managers obviously they were trained in the position and knew exactly what to do!

They managed to do 4 trailers from 5pm when they realized I left, until midnight… This is the same amount I could do in 1 hour 🤣

So once his rant was over I said, “well, clearly you’re not going to fire me.”

He was taken aback.

That’s right! He had to stand up for himself!

I continued, “you have no one who can do my job, you didn’t take me seriously when I said I couldn’t do it alone anymore and so I decided I’d show you how important I was.

I’ve got a kid, and a life outside this job, the pay is great but I’m not going to kill myself to get it and put in 90-110 hour weeks in the dead of summer.

You said 7am to 3pm when I got hired, that was “what I was told” so that’s what I did.

He laid it all down for his boss!

Here’s what’s going to happen, you’re going to give me a raise and 3 weeks paid vacation, you’re going to let me pick the guy who takes 2nd shift, if you can’t find someone willing to take 2nd I will train them on first and transfer to 2nd when they’re fully trained, but I’ll get the shift differential on top of my raise if I do that.”

He looked at me like I just robbed him, but then after a solid 5 silent minutes, he agreed.

See each trailer that didn’t get washed the night before, was assessed a late fee by the company who it went to, anywhere from $500 to $5000 and just last night I had cost them $21,000 in fees.

I think he realized that would quickly be a problem if they had no one to wash any trailers 🤷‍♂️

Finally some peace!

We ended up pulling over the guy who kinda knew how to do the job from first shift that helped train me when I started there, he took first shift and I went to second.

I ended up being the highest paid employee the wet department (and any department that wasn’t management or QC actually) in only 2 years of being there, when there were guys who had been loaders for 15+ years.

I stayed another year or so but eventually it was more nonsense and I had my fill.

Kudos to this guy for taking a stand!

That sounded so exhausting. Why can’t bosses see how hard their employees are working?!

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this story.

This user knows the management’s plan!