'The look on my manager's face [...] was priceless': Driver complains about the state of his truck, manager ignores him, cue petty revenge

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    Sky - COMELL R500 SCANIA PRG-6959
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    Font - Make my Job uncomfortable, I will make your job more uncomfortable Pardon the formatting as I am doing this on my phone. Also, I was hesitant to post as I thought it may lean a bit towards malicious compliance to some but to me it was petty revenge.
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    Font - This dates back to around 1987 or 1988. I was working for a large logistics company in my country. I was relatively new so low seniority meant you got on. I was assigned a vehicle that was a total POS and should have been condemned years ago. It was what would referred to as a step van (think about those ubiquitous box trucks that are converted to street food trucks). The difference was that other than the chassis it was completely fibreglass. Even though it was ancient it had that god aw
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    Font - Now the suspension on this vehicle was nonexistent. Every bump, pot hole or insect on the road caused a bone rattling, teeth banging feeling even with the overstuffed drivers seat. It was so bad that they had to repair the dashboard weekly as the mounts at either end would break constantly and the dashboard would bounce freely at either end like the wings of an albatross trying to take off from the ocean. It is also very important to note that the only seat in this truck was the driver se
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    Font - Now I was constantly complaining to my manager that I was not happy and went home aching and sore from this POS truck but all new trucks went to the senior drivers even if they had a better vehicle. So one day the manager decides he has to do a ride along, remember there is no jump seat. Said manager decided that a standard 4 legged lightly cushioned office chair would suffice. Queue the revenge.
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    Font - My route was paced and in a heavily demanding, fast industrialized area. Now, this area is not well maintained road wise and lots of rail crossings (you see where I am going?). So I did not break any laws but I made sure that he understood why I was a little pissed. Railroad tracks, no problem. I took the roughest line and never slowed down. Left turn, no problem hard left at the last minute With no regards to my seatbeltless moving seat passenger. I watched that office chair bounce acros
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    Font - I did this for our full 9 hour day and did not back off. The look on my managers face at the end of the day was priceless and I will never forget it. It took about a week and I came in one day to the newest truck in the fleet sitting in my spot complete with a real seat on the passenger side. Nothing was ever said but my old vehicle was as at the back of the lot condemned to be either scrapped or become a French fry truck.
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    Rectangle - More-Jacket-9034 +2. 16 hr. ago Sometimes manglement just doesn't get it until it bites em right in the butt. In his case.. beat his butt all over the truck. NICELY done! 178 Reply Share
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    Font - Womanofcats +1. 13 hr. ago I always say: until the person(s) who actually has the power to change a situation is inconvenienced by it, the situation will never change.
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    Font - queenofcaffeine76 +1 - 13 hr. ago . I always said that if the person who is supposed to fix your problem won't fix your problem, you have to make it their problem.
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    Rectangle - HippieChick067 +2. 14 hr. ago Well done! Instead of walk a mile in my shoes, it was, sit all day, on my
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    Font - Paganduck +1.8 hr. ago My first work truck was a huge, ancient for pickup truck. No radio, no AC (in So. CA), bald tires an the steering was shot. The steering wheel had to be forcefully turned for corners but was almost free spinning while driving straight. The tires were so bald that the only traction came from where the steel belts actually protruded from the rubber. I kept telling my boss, Jabba, that it wasn't road safe. He kept telling me it was fine and would last until we bought a
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    Font - He finally drove it to trade it in for the new truck and then yelled at me for not telling him it was that bad... He then decided he wanted the new truck and I got his old one which was stick-shift and I didn't know how to drive. I destroyed that thing trying to learn how to drive it in our hillside town.
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    Font - Twinrova0922 - 10 hr. ago I'm sorry - I've played too many hours of Wreckfest with the boys to let the mere mention of a step van go so easily: "Help me, Step Van! I'm stuck"
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    Font - Tiefschlag +2.4 hr. ago Downright poetic. Well done!
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    Font - PoMoPopulist 54 min. ago You could have gone one step further. I am sure his seating situation was breaking state safety laws/seat belt laws. You could have made sure he received a ticket from a nice police officer. Probably better you didn't, but it would have been fun.

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