A Delivery Driver Threw a Tantrum on the Dock—Then Learner a Two-Day Lesson in Malicious Compliance
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Complaining to the person who controls how fast your trailer gets unloaded is a bold move, especially when that complaint turns out to be completely unnecessary.
One dock worker did a driver a favor, clearing his load fast enough to send him straight to the storage yard. Instead of a thank you, he got accused of being too slow.
That complaint wasn’t quickly forgotten — instead it was remembered, stored away, and used to exact the perfect petty revenge.
The next visit came with a 90-minute unload that had nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with proving a much-needed point.
Keep reading for the full story.
Truck driver called me so, so I lived up to his expectations
I work for a large equipment manufacturer in shipping and receiving.
One of our regular suppliers sent a new driver from a different terminal.
At first, the shift started off normal enough.
I was outside working on a project when he pulled in, so I headed back into the receiving dock.
When I checked his load, I realized it was something that could go to the storage yard. So, I sent him on his merry way.
This truck driver wasn’t so merry, though.
I would have thought that he’d be happy, but no, he just complained that I was too slow and he wouldn’t have had time to wait on me anyway.
The next day, however, I needed the material he had on his trailer.
This then prompted this petty employee to move even slower.
And boy, did I make a show of taking forever to unload it. I took at least 90 minutes to unload his trailer, and he was ticked off.
Come Friday, I decided to mess with him. I unloaded his trailer in 11 minutes and turned the light green for him to get his papers and leave.
This really grinded this truck driver’s gears.
He came in cussing up a storm.
Told me I intentionally wasted his time on Wednesday, multiple expletives later he stopped yelling at me, and I calmly told him that he told me on Tuesday that I was slow, and that I wasn’t going to make a liar out of him.
He called my boss. My boss told him to buzz off.
He really took this truck driver for a ride!
What did Reddit think?
This truck driver likely lacks the self awareness to realize this was a situation that was 100% his own making.
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This fellow employee has played similar schemes in the past.
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This user makes another apt comparison.
Nothing forces a reality check quite like getting exactly what you asked for. This driver wanted slow, so slow is precisely what he got, timed down to the minute.
Calling someone out for being slow only works if you’re prepared for them to lean all the way into it. This driver clearly wasn’t, and the cussing match that followed proved he understood the game a little too late.
Some people really do talk themselves into their own consequences.
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