‘I did as I was directed’: Camp bus driver leaves 40 blue-collar employees standing in the rain after a 12-hour shift

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Eleonora Bader
Oct 8, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

People working blue-collar jobs are the entire reason our cities and homes are running, and they are a vital part of the system we've got pat down. Trust me when I say I've got a lot of respect for those folk… and yet, this story is still undeniably funny, because these workers in question got a pretty fair warning from OP, but ignored it, leaving them stranded in the rain after a grueling 12-hour shift.

But wait, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself… so let me take a step back and start from the beginning. One person, u/crazygrof, took to r/maliciouscompliance to share a story of the time he did the unthinkable when he was a camp bus driver, working in an industrial area, picking up people from various camps and driving them to different drop-off areas, according to their job.

What happened that ended with over 40 blue-collar dudes standing in the pouring rain? You will have to scroll down to find out… Next up, a veteran employee who, in short, got his boss fired for questioning his work decisions. Moral of the story? Don't mess with veteran employees.

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    Font - I left 40 guys standing in the rain after a 12 hr shift. S OC Up until fairly recently, I worked as a camp bus driver in a major industrial area. What my duties where, was to pick people up
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    Font - from the camp (where they lived for a certain amount of time, I was two weeks in, one week out) and take them into the plant and drop them off at a variety of dropoff areas (depending on what their job was), then pick up anyone that was returning to the camp for their rest period.
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    Font - Now, there where certain designated areas for the buses to pick up and dropoff (you know, a bus stop) and only buses where supposed to be parked in those areas. The issue was that people would keep parking their work pickup in the bus areas and block us off. We kept asking them to not
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    Font - do that, they kept doing it and eventually it all boiled over when a higher-up in the company started giving us s t over picking people up out of the designated areas (because people kept blocking the areas with pickups), we explained why we did it and the higher-up promised to do something about it, but never did.
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    Font - The second time that higher-up gave us s tover picking people up out of our designated areas, my manager told us (the bus drivers) that the next time this happened that we should let him know via radio and then just leave. So that's what I did.
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    Font - Now, we didn't just spring this on our passengers. We made sure that every single one of them knew, that the next time it was blocked off, that the bus would just continue on it's way and leave them behind. When I spread the news to my passengers I heard a lot of laughter and could tell that they didn't believe me.
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    Font - However, the next day, it happened again. There where pickups in our areas once again and like the good little minion I was, I did as I was directed, got on the radio to my manager, let him know what was happening, and left.
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    Font - I understand that there was a number of interesting phone calls afterwards. But we never had a problem with pickups in our areas afterwards.
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    Font - Stabbmaster. 3 yr. ago The problem was that you were actively trying to dodge a problem caused by people that didn't give a d n. Once you made it the problem of the person who would have never
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    Font - been affected otherwise, it got dealt with. good on your manager for taking appropriate actions. 8.8k Reply Share
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    Font - Hammer Of TheHeretics. 3 yr. ago You have to make the problem painful for the person who is in a position to fix it. Otherwise, for them, it isn't a problem. 3.9k Reply Share
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    Font - robot_ankles 3 yr. ago The proper alignment of incentives and consequences can accomplish a great deal. 3.5k Reply Share
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    Font - [deleted] • 3 yr. ago "You can't pick up passengers outside your designated area Your area is blocked and we won't do a thing You are still expected to pick all passengers only at
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    Font - the blocked area What you mean you didn't pick up everyone?" IT management, but explained with bus drivers ↑ 1.1k 1.1k Reply Share
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    Font - hotlavatube 3 yr. ago Forty blue-collar workers, tired from a 12 hour shift, soaked from the rain watch their bus drive away without them. Slowly they turn their gaze to the
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    Font - trucks blocking the bus stop... I'm surprised they didn't wreck those trucks! 414 Reply Share
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    Font - Stormdancer - 3 yr. ago There are a great many people who have no real concept that there might be consequences for their actions. This issue pervades many aspects of our society. 40 B Reply Share
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    Font - Tall_Mickey 3 yr. ago I give props to your manager. He did everything right: bumped it upstairs the first time and, when that didn't work, obeyed the letter of the higher-up's wishes as best he could and watched things play out. 157 Reply Share
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    Font - zyzyzyzy923 yr. ago There's a reason why the bus stop was never blocked again. 111 Reply Share Dawn-fire 3 yr. ago 40 blue collar workers just might be able to team-lift and move a pickup... Reply Share 59
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