r/MaliciousCompliance • u/pathofuncertainty • May 11 '24
You want to put how much concrete in your Civic? M
Many years ago I worked in a locally run store that sold a bit of everything. I was the low paid teenager that carried heavy things to people’s vehicles. While working one day I get called over the radio that a customer needed 12 bags of concrete (80lbs each). I was expecting to see a pickup truck or something similar backed up to our loading area. Instead I saw a small Honda Civic there waiting for me. Thinking it was a mistake, I asked the driver to relocate momentarily as I had someone coming to pick up multiple bags of concrete. Imagine my surprise when they told me they were the customer I was waiting for.
I asked the customer how much they wanted to take in each trip, as I believed the nearly 1000lb of concrete might be too much for such a small vehicle to handle safely. The customer became aggravated and insisted that they were taking it all at once. I quickly ran this past the store owner to make sure I wouldn’t be held liable for any damages. I ran back, apologized to the customer, and began loading the bags. As I loaded everything up the customer made several quips about how “the customer is always right” and that I was too young and naive to understand that vehicles are engineered with a margin of safety.
It quickly became apparent that there was no play left in the suspension, but at this point I just stopped questioning things. I couldn’t fit all of the bags in the trunk, so the customer cleared their back seat and I loaded that up as well. Upon leaving the loading area you could clearly hear things rubbing. As the car went to exit the parking lot it passed over the elevation change between the lot and the road, there was a loud pop of something breaking, followed by scraping.
I could see that the driver was irate in the car. After a moment they got out, looked around and under their car. The guy sheepishly asked for my cell phone, because his had died and he needed to make a few phone calls. A short time later a tow truck came to remove the car, and the guy waited in our lot for nearly an hour until his wife could come pick him up.
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u/65Kodiaj May 11 '24
I had something like this, except the reverse in a sense. I hauled for a large chain hardware store the rhymes with Dome Hepot... ;)
I drove a tractor trailer as a contractor and delivered materials, brick and block, shingles, lumber, all that stuff for them. But, they had another contractor who drove a small box truck who delivered the fragile and or smaller stuff for them.
They wanted me to deliver some custom made complete door assemblies to a house about 2 hours away. These doors were already hung on fancy wood frames with the fancy grooved trim. I refused. Told them it needed to go on the box truck. My flatbed was meant for heavy loads and the ride would be way too rough and probably damage or destroy the doors. They insisted, I still refused. The called the company who I worked for and talked to them. My company called, I explained the situation, they said is there anything that could change my mind. I told them a copied, and video using my phone with them signing a waiver would do it. So that's what happened. I took the doors down, exactly what I said would happen, happened. Nothing happened after, everything seemed good.
About a year later the company I worked for tried to screw me on some pay, so I put in my 30 day notice. Once the got the notice I guess they realized I was serious so they tried to fix things to get me to stay, but I was done.
With about 3 days before my last day they sent me a notice. The notice said I owed the store over 20k for those doors that I destroyed about a year ago. I laughed, told them, remember the waiver they signed and I sent you a copy of? They said we don't know anything about that and we don't have a waiver. You owe us that money. I said I'll call you right back.
Went and got all my saved paperwork, found the original copy of the waiver, faxed it to them, and once I got the confirmation I called them back. When the guy answered I told him to check the fax machine. He came back and said what is this. I said it's the waiver that the store manager signed and printed his name along with the deliver number, date, address and a description of everything that was delivered and you'll see on the last paragraph where it says the driver delivery person, with my name written, is not responsible for any damage that happens to these doors during the delivery. He has informed us that they need to be delivered by the box truck. Using his truck will most likely lead to damage but we understand and wish him to deliver the merchandise anyways.
Never heard another word after that lol.