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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MEM1911 on 2024-01-13 15:32:12.
years back in my early days of employment early 2000, when I worked on the loading dock, we were expecting a big load of tech and products for the new office layout, some fancy upgrades and big tech sending the latest computers and network equipment, plenty of expensive equipment, and my boss told me to keep the trucks coming and going as smooth as possible, so we had the team on with a few extras, my responsibility was to get the unloaded pallets and stack them out of the way and ready for return to their owner, (company owned pallets have to be returned).
6am I recafenated and started the forklift, and got to stacking the Chep pallets ready for collection, around 8:30 one of the main representatives came in early and parked on the dock, this was a problem, as the trucks were scheduled for roll in at 9am, I asked him to use the main carpark he told me to fuck of and do my job, my job was to make sure the truckies had unobstructed access to the loading dock, I interpreted this as "I am too important, put it somewhere for me" so to keep from damaging the car too much, I slid a Chep pallet under it and got to lifting it and I put the offending BMW up on a stack of pallets, the entire time singing, "nothing lifts like a Crown, for picking it up and putting it down" (we had a crown forklift), the rest of the crew were in stitches laughing.
many of the truckies rolled up and knew immediately I was on duty, those guys always had the best stories from, some of them had a good chuckle and made off with a fresh cup of coffee, the day was going smoothly and we worked that forklift dry, as the last pallet came off the tank on the forklift emptied, as I dropped off the last pallet, well we got that unpacked and used a tug (small electric cart puller) to drag the forklift out of the way.
so I contacted the boss and told him to get me a payment slip to go get the tank filled at a fuel station, he came down with the form and the representative, he was all smiles and thanks for the purchase of bulk computers and hardware, but that changed when he spotted his BMW, he was PISSED, and threated my Job, demanded to my boss I get fired, I just looked at my boss and said, "we should look at the security cameras" when my boss reviewed the security footage, he pointed out that I did ask him to move and park elsewhere, he then looked at me and said, "Thanks for another day, see you tomorrow"
the rep wanted the car down immediately, I said "we can't, the propane tank for the forklift is empty and gas delivery is tomorrow at 6am" my boss handed me the pay slip for refiling the forklift tank, he said to get the gas in the morning.
the rep spat some more obscenities and said this will be tagged onto the bill if his car was damaged, he said it wont take much more than a postage stamp to send his boss the footage of him obstructing their loading dock and then my boss looked at him and tapped the sign that said "this is a loading dock, park at own risk, we are not liable for towing or moving your vehicle - fines apply"
the next day:
after detaching the tank from the forklift, I lugged that bugger to my car and drove off to get it filled, upon returning with a charged tank of liquid work juice for the forklift I started that bugger and got to moving the BMW down from its perch and ready for the rep to collect.
so its 6:30am, and he has not arrived, so I decided to place this thing in the nearest accessible parking spot, ... on the street, ticketed spot, as our carpark was not open yet, it was the only safe place available.
I contacted my boss and told him and said, "call the rep, its ready for collection, its in spot XX, on the parking meter line", he responded with an "ok"
then I got to work sending off the pallets for the day, it was a half shift day for me, now as for Mr representative he did manage to collect his car before it was ticketed for not feeding the meter, and I heard through my boss the rep got chewed out and screwed out of his "sales bonus" for acting like a dick.
fuck I miss that boss.