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We're doing an office move for a large company. The things with these moves is that you always get the little children who are upset about moving away from the place they like and all the people they know... whaaa whaaaa whaaaaa!!! They should be happy to be moving to a new office as opposed to be moving out the door, particularly in this economy but I digress.
Anyways, on these moves, inevitably there's always these assclowns and they decide to protest and disrupt the move in any way they can. This particular assclowns technique was to be unprepared. Everyone was required to be packed and out of the building by 4:00 to allow us to start at 5:00. I ask him when he'll be ready, but he's got an important project to complete, so I let the co-ordinator know that we've got "one of them" on our hands. Come six o'clock, he's still sitting in his cubicle, banging away on the keyboard, without a single piece of paper packed. Every once in a while he'd poke his head up to see what kind of chaos he's creating. Uh buddy, just to let you know... guys who are paid by the hour generally don't care if you delay them.
Seven o'clock comes and we're done, everybody is on the truck except for Mr. Protest. I let the move co-ordinator know, remind her that we're on the clock and let her make the call. We took a break while she dealt with it. Half an hour later she called us back in. I can see that this assclown just literally threw his contents into the boxes because he didn't even bother putting a lid on all but one of them. I could have refused to move them but couldn't put her through that hassle so I just put the lids on myself.
The rest of the move goes smoothly and I'm back the next day to deal with any issues. One of the first ones I've got is a loud "what the hell?!?" that I hear and have to investigate. It's Mr Protest; it seems that he had placed a full cup of coffee inside one of the boxes. Well of course it tipped over and spilled all over everything inside. He is naturally furious and I'm naturally dumbfounded:
Me: .... Ummm I'm sorry sir, but it says right in your move instructions that you have to secure all loose items.
SC: I thought it would be okay.
Me: ... You saw us tipping the bins onto dollies. To say nothing of them going up the ramp, into the truck, and 10 km across the city; you seriously expected a disposable coffee cup with no lid to stay upright on a stack of paper and pens?!?
SC: You should have been more careful.
Me: We are careful sir. Nothing was broken or scratched. A coffee cup is going to fall over with the first bump the truck hits. There's nothing we could do to avoid that. This is why the move instructions tell you to secure all loose articles.
SC: I was too busy to read those... why didn't you check for something like this?
Me: I'm not allowed to look inside boxes... and .... yeah, this was the only one that you actually put a lid on so there would have been no way for me to see.
SC: Well I can't clean this up, what are you going to do?
Me: throw hands up, shake head ... hold on.... ANNA!
Anna's the move co-ordinator, she obviously got into it good with him last night and is stilled pissed about that.
Anna: You did WHAT!?!
SC: You guys rushed me, I didn't have time to pack properly.
Anna: You had two weeks and we gave you three extra hours after everybody had left. You were on facebook when I came and checked on you last night.
SC: That was just a little break...
Anna: I'm not getting into this with you again... this is your problem, you deal with it.
We walk away and she leaves me with specific instructions not to help him with this. I don't know if these were the "important files" he was working on or what he was trying to accomplish but I don't think he got the result he was hoping for
Anyways, on these moves, inevitably there's always these assclowns and they decide to protest and disrupt the move in any way they can. This particular assclowns technique was to be unprepared. Everyone was required to be packed and out of the building by 4:00 to allow us to start at 5:00. I ask him when he'll be ready, but he's got an important project to complete, so I let the co-ordinator know that we've got "one of them" on our hands. Come six o'clock, he's still sitting in his cubicle, banging away on the keyboard, without a single piece of paper packed. Every once in a while he'd poke his head up to see what kind of chaos he's creating. Uh buddy, just to let you know... guys who are paid by the hour generally don't care if you delay them.
Seven o'clock comes and we're done, everybody is on the truck except for Mr. Protest. I let the move co-ordinator know, remind her that we're on the clock and let her make the call. We took a break while she dealt with it. Half an hour later she called us back in. I can see that this assclown just literally threw his contents into the boxes because he didn't even bother putting a lid on all but one of them. I could have refused to move them but couldn't put her through that hassle so I just put the lids on myself.
The rest of the move goes smoothly and I'm back the next day to deal with any issues. One of the first ones I've got is a loud "what the hell?!?" that I hear and have to investigate. It's Mr Protest; it seems that he had placed a full cup of coffee inside one of the boxes. Well of course it tipped over and spilled all over everything inside. He is naturally furious and I'm naturally dumbfounded:
Me: .... Ummm I'm sorry sir, but it says right in your move instructions that you have to secure all loose items.
SC: I thought it would be okay.
Me: ... You saw us tipping the bins onto dollies. To say nothing of them going up the ramp, into the truck, and 10 km across the city; you seriously expected a disposable coffee cup with no lid to stay upright on a stack of paper and pens?!?
SC: You should have been more careful.
Me: We are careful sir. Nothing was broken or scratched. A coffee cup is going to fall over with the first bump the truck hits. There's nothing we could do to avoid that. This is why the move instructions tell you to secure all loose articles.
SC: I was too busy to read those... why didn't you check for something like this?
Me: I'm not allowed to look inside boxes... and .... yeah, this was the only one that you actually put a lid on so there would have been no way for me to see.
SC: Well I can't clean this up, what are you going to do?
Me: throw hands up, shake head ... hold on.... ANNA!
Anna's the move co-ordinator, she obviously got into it good with him last night and is stilled pissed about that.
Anna: You did WHAT!?!
SC: You guys rushed me, I didn't have time to pack properly.
Anna: You had two weeks and we gave you three extra hours after everybody had left. You were on facebook when I came and checked on you last night.
SC: That was just a little break...
Anna: I'm not getting into this with you again... this is your problem, you deal with it.
We walk away and she leaves me with specific instructions not to help him with this. I don't know if these were the "important files" he was working on or what he was trying to accomplish but I don't think he got the result he was hoping for
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