My boss ignores my legal advice and he ends up costing the company $70,000 in fines.

Here's what happened.

Subscribe to Am I the Jerk on YouTube and hit the bell for notifications. Several years ago, I worked as a local delivery driver for a steel processing plant.

We would take stock units of plate and structural steel

and process them into parts our customers could use.

Some processes such as painting would go out to a third-party vendor,

and then come back to us for shipment to the customer.

I worked on a set routine, delivered to the paint shop in the morning, and bring back the orders painted the day before.

While that trailer was being unloaded, I would hook another trailer and deliver finished orders to a customer

about 70 miles away from the shop. This delivery had a hard appointment time of 2 PM, and I could not miss it.

When I returned after making that delivery, I would finish the day with short deliveries or pickups

as needed and then go home.

It was an easy stress-free job as long as I stuck to the routine and made my appointments on time.

Communication between departments was poor though, and it disrupted the entire process.

For example the scheduling department might think a certain production run had been

finished and was gone for outside processing when in reality the

production department hadn't even

started the order yet. I spent a lot of afternoons driving around in an

empty truck chasing phantom orders that I knew had never been delivered because

some office drone wanted me to check and make sure, or running

hot orders out to vendors that were overlooked during my morning trip.

Enter my main antagonist, one of the first shift production supervisors.

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