Idiot Boss Has Cement Truck Drivers Follow Terrible GPS, Loses Company Thousands

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    Font - Posted by u/codeegan 18 hours ago 2 3 3 Sure thing Boss, I will follow the GPS oc M I drive a concrete truck. We deliver ready mix concrete throughout a fairly large area. Keep in mind concrete has a shelf life of 90 minutes once water mixes with the cement. This is very important on "spec jobs". Our company uses a routing and tracking system I will call the Terrible system. If there is a good route or less than good route it chooses the worst route of all routes possible. Ater working wi
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    Font - New manager starts. After a year he brings up in meetings drivers are not following Terrible system routing. Multiple times we tell him it gives us the worst and longest routes. He doesn't listen. After six months he states drivers will be written up if we continue to not follow Terrible system routing. Drivers don't listen. A few days after this pronouncement a fellow driver is written up. This is talked about. Cue malicious compliance! Next day on my second load I have a load to a locat
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    Font - Route it takes me is southeast 13 miles. North on interstate highway 35 miles (including a chicken coup...weigh station for non truck drivers....trucks are chronically overweight for interstate). East through a large metro area for 20 miles followed by last leg south of about 15 miles. Takes 125 minutes for me (Terrible system gave estimated travel time of 140 minutes so I did well). I arrive and I'm timed out. Rejected and that costs company $1000 for the concrete not to mention 20 gallo
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    Rectangle - AmethysstFire · 18 hr. ago Nothing like a huge hit to the pocketbook to get their attention. Vote Reply Share Report Save Follow NoMoLerking · 15 hr. ago "Shut up and drive you monkeys!" Angry customer Unanticipated costs "I've decided to make some changes around here."
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    Facial expression - Own-Cupcake7586 · 18 hr. ago Common sense means nothing until it bites someone in the coin-purse. Well done.
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    Font - dragonsrawesomesauce · 17 hr. ago Sometimes a GPS doesn't know certain things that are critical for truck drivers. As an example, outside of Syracuse NY there is a road along the lake (Onondoga Lake Parkway) that has a low clearance bridge. That road happens to be the fastest way to get from the highway to the suburb of Liverpool. BUT - it has a low clearance bridge. There are signs everywhere that trucks should take a different route. The signs post the low clearance. Sometimes drivers d
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    Font - FasteningSmiles97 · 18 hr. ago Holy cow. I would love to know if the manager got into any hot water with his higher ups. Vote Reply Share Report Save Follow codeegan OP · 18 hr. ago I can't say this manager took a direct hit over this. He was fired, as well as at least four others, about six months ago after a review of the company before a sale of the company. Rumor is he was taking kick backs for selling under priced concrete. Long story but I think that rumor is close to facts that occ

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