We’ve all been there: being asked to do something at work that’s way more complicated or time-consuming than it needs to be. Maybe a manager insists on a pointless extra step or a painfully convoluted process, or a client demands far more time and labor than the job could ever require.
It’s especially grating when you’ve been doing the job long enough to know there’s a simpler way. But sometimes, the best way to make a point is to do exactly what you’ve been told. At least, that’s how it played out for this utility locator. Fed up with contractors constantly demanding that entire properties be marked, even when he was sure the digging would only happen in a much smaller area, one day he (quite literally) decided to draw the line. One the contractor wouldn’t forget anytime soon.
This locator was tired of “mark entire property” requests for tiny jobs
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So they followed the next one to the letter, and it left a lasting mark
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“Not MC. Just tantrum”: Some commenters called the poster out
But others could relate to the poster’s frustration
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