‘The tow truck is on the way’: Driver refuses to move his truck after it constantly blocks office entrance, employees report him as payback, leading to a costly dispute

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 7, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Much like the neighbors in your own home, it is important to have a good relationship with the neighbors in your place of work. Usually, those neighbors are other companies that reside in the same office building as your company, but some people have to deal with rather unexpected kinds of neighbors that are hard to come by.

Imagine having a chemical plant as your work neighbor. Think about all the things you would have to deal with when sharing a neighborhood with a plant that deals with chemical and toxic products.

The employees in this Reddit story paint the picture in a detailed way since they had to deal with this exact problem, when even the plant's truck drivers were causing them problems, with the main one being that they kept parking their trucks in a way that blocked the employees' entrance to their office.

Scroll down to read the employee's response and revenge on those entitled drivers. After you are done with this story, click here for a story of a server who caught diners trying to sneak in drinks to a restaurant.

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    Still waters run deep, and there's sharp rocks at the bottom
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    Far too many years ago, I worked in a retail plumbing store. There were two of us that worked the counter. The other guy, Tim, was, generally speaking, a very nice, well mannered guy, always polite
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    to everyone. He worked opening shift, I worked closing. Over the back fence of our parking lot was a chemical plant that manufactured fertilizer. They
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    were the worst neighbors is so many ways, but one of the most obnoxious things they did was to have trucks arrive with various chemicals for their plant, and they'd just dump raw powdered
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    into the parking lot, and have their workers (with no protective gear) start shoveling it into bags. We'd have to literally hose our cars off to be able to see to drive home at night. I'm amazed I never
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    saw anyone working there with an extra hand growing out of their forehead. And one day, a bigger than usual truck - a tractor trailer - was parked up next to the gate into
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    our back parking lot, close enough that Tim couldn't get past it to get to the back door without actually climbing over it. And the alarm system was configured such that there was only a delay to disarm it before it went off (and
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    called the police) if you came in the back door. Open the front door, and we get charged by the police department for a false alarm.
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    So he goes into the office next door and politely - and he was always polite asks the driver to move it. The driver's response was "Go f k yourself." OK, well, that's anatomically unlikely, but - still waters run deep-f´ing you is certainly possible.
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    So, in climbing over the truck to get in, he notes that it's parked in a fire lane, and calls the cops. Who hated this company as much as anyone (for good reasons, but that's another story), so they
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    showed up quickly, and told the driver, "There's a tow truck on the way, You have until it gets here to move your truck." The truck was moved, quickly.
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    But that's only the beginning of those still waters. There's still the sharp rocks at the bottom. From that day on, every time they unloaded one of their trucks onto the asphalt, he'd call the fire
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    department (who handle hazmat situations). The first couple of times, their excuse was, "Well, the truck was broken, and this was the only way we had to unload it." About the third time, they started
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    writing citations (expensive citations). After a few more times, I came back from lunch one day to find a fire truck parked in the alley, and guys in hazmat suits taking core samples out of their
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    parking lot. They apparently came within a few parts per million of having to pay to have the entire parking lot dug up and hauled off to a toxic waste dump (which, in California, would probably have
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    cost them seven figures - and it's federal law, so their friends in the city government couldn't protect them). But they were never r de to Tim again. Once we (or, rather, the kid
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    who worked in the detailing shop we shared a building with) taught their stupid Doberman to stay out of our parking lot, they were still annoying, but not nearly as much SO.
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    Benegger85 3 days ago Companies like that are why our drinking water is so polluted... Good on your colleague for getting police and fire department involved
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    LulaBelle476.3 days ago D n! My spouse works in shipping and receiving for a company that processes haz waste. It is incredibly expensive just for the transport let alone the treatment. Sometimes a facility will get backed up, too, and be unable to accept any new material because stuff can only sit for so long. I'm glad you took care of them!
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    • NotYourNanny OP 3 days ago At the time (40 years ago), the legal framework for dealing with hazmat was still new, and still developing. It went beyond just the cost of transporting it. No idea how it works now, but then, toxic
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    waste was your problem forever. The only way to make it someone else's problem was to sell it as a product (then it was their problem). So they would also have had to pay storage on it. Forever. (Or until they went out of business, and it became the feds' problem.)
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    D LulaBelle476 · 3 days ago Depending on what's in the dirt they do have a way to treat it now. Spouse's facility got through a lot of soil from the train crash in Ohio.
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    NotYourNanny OP · 3 days ago The trick there being to determine was was, in fact, in the dirt. They'd been doing it for years, and not with just one chemical. God only knows what was there, and what it had turned into, and He would have required a careful lab analysis.
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