'The very best thing he stopped was clearing away snow': Company director lays off workers, truck driver employee creates massive delays in return

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 25, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This company laid off a bunch of people, and the remaining employees are not thrilled about the downsizing decision. 

No employee wants to be part of a company that's a sinking ship. If the business you're in starts downsizing and letting people go, it can create a ripple effect. The remaining employees will be walking on eggshells around their bosses, not knowing if they'll be the next to go. And with their coworkers leaving a gap in production, some people are sure to be burdened with additional work. It's a vicious cycle that can lead to burnout and job dissatisfaction, but many bosses don't care about that at all, as long as they're raking in money. 

This dude, Jim, actually took the opposite approach. Instead of walking on eggshells around his bosses after a round of layoffs, Jim decided to just stop doing anything extra at his job. He took on a full "that's not my job" attitude that is so refreshing to hear about. In a world where bosses rule, employees taking power over their job feels so righteous. 

Check out u/Desrep2's tale about Jim the truck driver. Then, this young business analyst saw an opportunity to make thousands of dollars---and they made sure not to let it slip away. 

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    Font - Director pulls the contract on the truck-driver, and quickly regrets it M OC This MC wasn't done by me, but by a colleague at my old work (And yes, this's the same workplace, and director, as my other MC story)
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    Font - At my old workplace, we had a truck-driver, we'll call him Jim, for no particular reason. Our director had decided to cut down on the amount of manpower in the production unit, to try and squeeze some more money out of it.One of the people laid off, was a storage worker, and the director then wanted Jim to take over on storage, and make the big truck, more a "Whoever needs it, uses it" kinda thing, as opposed to having one man who mans it, for the majority of the time. Though, driving the
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    Font - Now my boss, had made a fair fuss about this, during the meetings where this was decided, since Jim, being on that truck, was a very good thing for the company, but alas, Director didn't wanna listen.
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    Font - They then had a meeting, where Jim, and the three people who were the likely candidates for using the truck, were informed of this change (The storage worker had been fired the same day) Now, nobody was realy happy about this, one of the practical problems is, when you have multible people using a tool, wether it by a hammer, a powerdrill, or a truck, it becomes a mess to coordinate, who needs it when, who handles what in regards to maintinance, and so on, and so on.
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    Font - But none, were more unhappy than Jim, and he quite openly said that storage worker, wasn't his job. to which the director made one of many big mistakes in this whole streamlining process he was doing to the production unit. He pulled out the contract, that had a highlighted "Work in the production" bit.
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    Font - So what kinda MC does a pi off former truck driver get up to? Well, glad you asked. Very simply, he stopped doing anything that wasn't related to production.Examples of minor things Jim stopped doing:-Buying basic groceries for the production office (Milk, suggar ect.)-He stopped bringing breakfast to the production workers (Jim drove to a local sandwhich maker, and picked
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    Font - up breakfast, and lunch, for most in the production) meaning that now -everybody- went there on their own, creating massive amounts of delay in every department-maintaining order in the yard, so everything stored out there, was easy to find, and trafic could go through easily
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    Font - But, the very best thing he stopped, was clearing away snow, you see, one of the many things Jim did, was if there was a forecast for snow, he'd set an alarm at 04.00, only to look out the window, and if he needed to clear snow, he'd just go to work, and make sure the snow was cleared, and the roads salted for when everybody else arived, and that, he also stopped.
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    Font - And, this particular us pretty suddenly, quite a bit of snow, and ice all over the place. including, the main office buildings parking lot. Now Jim, being the absolute champ that he was, had made sure that the producton unit had been cleared, but left the main officebuilding (On the other side of the road) to fend for itself, and since we, in the year, winter hit so there was
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    Font - production meet in earlier than the office people did, we could stand there and watch, as they started arriving, and half their parking spots had so much snow in them, that they were unuseable, and how their cars just skipped around on the ice under the snow.
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    Font - It....was....glorious. 3 cars were lightly damaged, and one took a pretty hefty hit, as he clipped the corner of the concrete building. and no less than 9 people fell on the ice, including, the director himself. which resulted in about 45 production workers, standing inside our machine hall, almost ping themselves laughing
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    Font - Edit: I forgot to mention a little fun thing, later that day, an email was sendt out across the whole company, asking if anyone knew why the external contractor we had hired to clear snow, had stopped...aparently, the office nuts had no clue that it was Jim who cleared snow for them, every morning, during the winter
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    Font - BuskaNFafner So what happened? Did Jim get to go back to his old job? 2.1k Reply Share Desrep2 OP Nah, he ended up quitting
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    Font - Deckracer I would have loved to see the face of the director when he realizes that Jim was the one who did all the snow work. 342 Reply Share Desrep2 OP Would've been epic, not sure who send the email to him, explaining that, but he send a very angry email that "The production was to handle snow- removal henceforth"...which we didn't since...y'know, it wasn't in anyones contract
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    Font - [deleted] Man, poor Jim. He sounds like a great guy who cared about his job until the Director came in and F-ed it all up. Noted for when one day I am in a leadership position.
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    Font - Desrep2 OP Jim was an amazing guy in the company, generally, everything was going well untill the Director decided he wanted to earn more money on the company, so he fired the admin-director, and took over, started buying cheaper materials, cheaper external contractors, which in turn, f everything over in the production, and for the company at large
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