Client demands frequent updates about their truckload of onions, trucker maliciously complies: 'You want updates? I will give you all the updates'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jun 20, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

When you get overly worked up about your job, it's important to remember it's just a job; it's not like someone's life is at stake or anything… Of course, this logic doesn't really apply if you're a Cardiothoracic surgeon in the middle of an operation because—well, someone's life is literally at stake. Other forms of employment with the same level of gravitas also need not heed this advice. Still, there's no use crying over cut onions—if you can help it… and there's no use getting overly worked up over your six pallets of onions either if you happen to be waiting on a delivery of a literal truckload of onions.

This client messaged this long-haul delivery driver at 2:30 AM about their onion delivery, wondering why he was stopped by the side of the road and demanding frequent updates as to the status of their delivery. Annoyed at having been woken up and at the micromanaging that the client was resorting too resolved to send them as many updates as possible about their journey. Who sits up in the early hours of the morning just thinking about onions? Who knows, maybe this customer just really likes them.

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    Onions: mayu ken

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    r/ r/MaliciousCompliance 11 hr. ago . mmmmpisghetti ... You micromanage me, I'll malicious compliance you. S So this happened this morning. I'm a trucker, and did a short load just to go from Spokane WA to Portland OR, between my delivery on the prior load and pickup on the next. So dispatch finds me a short load for a little money. Most of the time, when a broker has you install a tracking app on your phone, you call and confirm you're on the load, verify pickup, then they leave you alone. Not
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    Ok, feels a bit micromanagey but fine, whatever. This load is 6 pallets of onions. Not high value, not delicate. Just onions. Appointment is 3 hours away the next morning, so not tight on time at all. When you're going to Portland there's not a lot of parking options, and there are a number of pull-offs and very wide shoulders on ramps on 184. I park on one of these yesterday, at a place where there's access to trails and the river. My dogs and I get a hike in and the dogs swim. This spot is an
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    These mofos wake me up at 230am this morning. "We see you're parked on the roadside... can you send us an update..". . Oh. Oh yes, I will send you...updates. So I sent them pictures of me putting on my shoes. Pictures of my dogs taking a Pictures of me making coffee. Feeding the dogs. The equipment pre trip. Pouring my coffee into my mugs. My breakfast. The GPS showing where I'm going. My truck ready to go with the headlights on. The building where I'm delivering. The bathroom at the receiver. M
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    . Imguran • 10h ago Want to see pictures of the dogs! Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP 10h ago • I can't add them to a comment...ugh. Vote Reply ↑ Share ...
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    GreenEggPage • 10h ago I'm an IT contractor and I hate the micromanaging from some companies. They call you 2 days out, 1 day out, 12 hours before, 2 hours before, 1 hour before... I'm a grown man - I know how to use my alarm clock. > Vote ⇓ Reply ↑ Share Geminii27 9h ago You do, but it wouldn't surprise me if they'd had experience with those who don't. Charge them minimum work rates (X hours at $Y) for each individual call they expect you to answer. Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    Hateful_316 • 10h ago And THIS is why I don't micromanage the drivers I dispatch!! ☺☺ ↑ Vote Vote Reply ↑ Share .. mmmmpisghetti OP. 10h ago My dispatcher was ready to send them a firm email when I told her they hassled me at buttcrack-thirty. I told her "nooo you gotta hear the whole story" She laughed her ass off. No email needed. Vote Reply ↑ Share ...
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    sharkbiscut • 7h ago Yea when I was dispatching back in the day, all I wanted know was: make the delivery? Awesome! Here's the next job. The only reason I'd ever pester a driver to hurry... but only cuz I knew they were 1099s and the next load would be lucrative if they could get somewhere by CoB. Way to be OP! Vote ↑ Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    mellonians 10h ago Edited 7h ago • Do you have driver's hours like we do in the UK? If they wake you at 0230 and expect an answer, That's work and your overnight rest period has to start again ;-) Ө Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP 10h ago • I guess TECHNICALLY you COULD log a check call as 'on duty which would interrupt your 10 hour rest period but nobody does this. And yes, the US is 11 driving within 14 on duty then 10 off duty/sleeper. We also have 8/2 and 7/3 split sleeper. Do yall have
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    FirePfenix 9h ago Oh but it gets so much better when dispatch tries to micromanage the truck gate at some places. I worked security and I had a dispatcher call me multiple times in a thirty minute time span trying to make me push his guy up in order to be loaded (we had a storm, power outage, we were behind). He started sending the driver back to me (he was waiting up the drive for his turn), interrupting me checking in other trucks. Dispatch demanded the scheduler. So I called her. She was high
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    a_Joan Baez_tattoo 9h ago If you have to meet them in person, take a picture of you meeting them and send them that picture. > Vote ⇓ Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP • 9h ago It almost never happens that a driver meets the broker, but oh I would do so that.. ✰ Vote Reply ↑ Share ...
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    puterTDI • 9h ago ngl, I think there was something else in the middle of that pallet of onions. Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP. 9h ago If that's the case I want more than $750 for running it Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    CherryblockRed Wine 10h ago • u/mmmmpisghetti, what was their reaction to your, um, reporting? Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP. 10h ago They asked me to stop and I pointed out that they wanted updates so I was doing what they asked and reminded them that they woke me up at 230am. They apologized. Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    therandomuser84 • 9h ago I was about to come and comment and say this is how we expect truckers to update us at my work... until i saw it was a load of onions... We pay extra for team drivers, so no stops and our products are temperature sensitive and time critical. We spend tons of money for this service, i highly doubt they are paying so much extra for onions... Reply ↑ Share Vote mmmmpisghetti OP. 8h ago I've done high value that involved lots of check ins and are specific on where you can st
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    Snoo-88591 9h ago Man, I've been out of the freight end of the industry for about 15 years. I normally pull a tanker with a pre elog, un tracked, ungoverned truck. 99 percent of what I do is dedicated. Boss says I'm picking up at 1 of 2 places then emails me a load number and rack time. I load it, bust to get it to the receiver, drop and hook then head back for the next one. I used to get downright furious with CHR calling me 3 or 4 times on a 2 day run to get status updates. I couldn't imagine
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    Clickrack 10h ago Automated Solution: Raspberry PI + camera + OBD connection Every 5 minutes, take a picture, use Al model to describe image, e.g. "a man watching dogs swim in a lake" • Text description, timestamp, gps coords, time remaining until delivery, photo and all OBD data to client Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP. 10h ago But then I won't have the enjoyment of getting the perfect zoomed in angle of my dog dropping a morning Vote ! Reply ↑ Share ...
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    AlaskanDruid Missing Rule #7 9h ago Ө Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP • 8h ago Ah. We all went on with our lives. Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    JasonKain 7h ago • Third party logistics here, two things. First, if I could book you on every load I would. Second, you have my shock with working for a broker that actually reaches out to drivers. I thought they were a myth with how many I work with that have no idea where anyone is. Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP. 7h ago First, if I could book you on every load I would. I mean....we're all available for the right money... I've had a spread of brokers who require 1 phone call, to a couple
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    Alakozam 10h ago • Wouldn't that be your dispatchers responsibility ? Especially with all the tracking ? Why bother the driver you have real tike data ffs. Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP. 10h ago I don't mind that a broker wants direct contact...l own my equipment so I do more direct dealing with the broker once a load is booked. I make more than a company driver and eating a bigger portion of the ↑ Vote buffet goes with that. Reply ↑ Share
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    Hayzeus_sucks_cock 6h ago This is the way with micromanaging. Oh you want me to check with you on every decision? Emails, teams messaging about having a How does one like those apples? Ө Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP • 6h ago HR needs to speak to you about your toilet paper use. More than 3 squares is undermining corporate profits. Vote Reply ↑ Share
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    GoatCovfefe • 7h ago So what was the fallout? ○ △ vote Vote Reply ↑ Share mmmmpisghetti OP 7h ago Not much. They asked me to stop, I pointed out they wanted updates, they apologized for waking me up. ✰ Vote Reply ↑ Share
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