'Supervisor was suspended': Trucker sticks to company's strict (yet inconsistent) safety protocol, risking a nasty performance review to prove a point to management; wins a weekend of PTO and a new pair of boots

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    Font - Posted by u/Two-Faced-Hoods 10 hours ago Fine I'll follow the rules to the book and go home with pay M OC
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    Font - So now I've left my old job I feel like I can finally share this story. I drive trucks and I was doing job which just wouldn't get done if everybody followed all the red tape. It's kind of
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    Font - the place where you sign all of the paperwork stating you'll do it this way but the reality is, you can't but that's fine because the paperwork is there just to protect the company from legal
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    Font - recourse. Now I'm not saying we all did dangerous stuff but you know it was just little things that made your work a little easier and more efficient.
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    Font - Well all of a sudden the company started to enforce every policy. What really annoyed me though was that you never knew which policy they had decided to start enforcing, until you got asked
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    Font - to see a manager and told you were being put on performance review because you had been observed on CCTV. What was more annoying was the supervisors
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    Font - would report you for something petty but then the next day be asking you, and expect you to do something that was far more dangerous and risky than the thing they reported you for.
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    Font - Things like, you'd be reported and put on performance review for leaving your keys in the truck for a few minutes on Tuesday but then on Thursday you'd be expected
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    Font - to use a tail lift in a public area with people walking under the lift with a 1 ton pallet on it. This despite the fact the company policy states that tail lifts should only be used outside of store opening hours.
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    Font - So I started to follow the rules explicitly. My daily hours went from being around 10 to around 12 or 13 but my ultimate f**k you came when they decided all PPE had to be signed out by upper management. Before
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    Font - this change they had a cupboard full of stuff like, gloves, hi-vis jackets and most importantly for this story, steel toe cap boots. If you needed something you just asked a supervisor and you'd have a new pair of boots within a few minutes.
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    Font - Well on a Friday I noticed my boots had broken and the sole was separating from the boot. I left for work on Saturday morning telling my
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    Font - wife that I would probably be coming home because I knew upper management only worked Monday to Friday so no new PPE could be provided.
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    Font - Sure enough, after showing the supervisors and manager on duty my boots, they couldn't get me any. They spent about an hour trying to
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    Font - find me some but eventually told me I would have to go home without pay. I told them that I've turned up to work and that I'm willing to
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    Font - work but it's the companies responsibility to provide their staff with PPE and that it isn't my fault if they can't provide any. After a while of refusing to back down, the manager went to go call someone in
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    Font - the legal department. He returned saying I would be sent home for the weekend with full pay and some new boots would be provided to me on Monday
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    Font - What's more one of the supervisors told me that I should tape the boot up with tape and that if I didn't he'd report me to upper management. I also put in a
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    Font - grievance about this conversation and said supervisor was suspended from duties involving other members of staff.
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    Font - Thing is before the company started to get petty, on Saturday morning I would have just set off for work 30 mins earlier and got some cheap boots myself on the
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    Font - way to work but I they honestly eroded any good will I had left and I was past the point of caring. I had a nice weekend though.
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    Font - Ben_Hocking +3 · 10 hr. ago As someone who researches and provides support to safety-critical systems, I'm all about enforcing safety protocols. However, it should absolutely be consistent, and expectations about what can be accomplished should account for corners not being cut. I 100% support this compliance!
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    Font - dogfoodengineer - 6 hr. ago Enforcement and compliance are pointless if you ignore human factors. Behavioral safety stuff is quite interesting
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    Font - Cowboy_Corruption +1.6 hr. ago Managers are all about following the rules so long as it inconveniences employees. But they have absolutely no compunction about throwing them out the window the first moment it costs the company anything or might cause themselves difficulty or involve a little bit of effort.
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    Cloud - "Fine, I'll follow the rules by the book and go home with pay"

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