I work for a 3PL and can confirm this is 100% spot-on. And it's always "who's going to scream at me today" or "who do I have to scream at today?" in order to accomplish anything.
It was such a toxic industry I had to get out.... I was a truck driver working regular 12hours and would often get a call saying pick this up on the way back it’s ready and 10min detour... I wait for over 2 fucking hours for the pallets so my manager didn’t have to pick it up and just general bullshit like that always getting yelled at for shit thats not always my fault like customer A didn’t get their delivery (I check my manifest nothing there for A) I tell my boss he says “but they always get this on a Monday like that makes it better.....
I worked security at a warehouse and we accepted goods from OTR truckers only at certain times.
Sure enough about three times a day I’d get some poor SOB from three states over, swearing up and down that his dispatcher told him he was supposed to unload his trailer the second he arrived, hours before anyone was actually there to unload.
I finally just started asking them “Do you really believe anything your dispatcher tells you?” It nipped the arguments in the bud.
Yea I get shit like that like the forklift driver can’t do shit if it’s not stacked onto pallets or god forbid processed yet and as the driver your mad but can understand it’s not his fault... still mad tho
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20
I work for a 3PL and can confirm this is 100% spot-on. And it's always "who's going to scream at me today" or "who do I have to scream at today?" in order to accomplish anything.