So I work with samples that have a very short life expectancy, like 24 hours. This means we get lots if direct shipments where our clients are paying for a courier service to get a guy to drive samples like half way across the country as fast as possible. So the fucking problem i have is that we close at 11pm and yet i am constantly getting calls from drivers at like 1am being like “where are you i am outside!!” And I have to be like “LOL I am in bed an hour away.” Which means the guy is gonna have to sit in the parking lot for 6 hours for someone to arrive to receive the package. Inevitably after this happens i start getting calls from the courier PM’s that try and bully me to stay late, literally threatening to report me to my boss if I don’t agree. Luckily my boss is pretty cool and has said in writing that these people can fuck off and I should just leave at closing time.

I know what is happening is that the fucking blood suckers at the courier company refuse to tell their clients that they can’t do something, and instead rely on all us workers to just knuckle under and eat shit to get it done. Like can’t someone actually in charge take responsibility? And the worst part is that I genuinely do feel bad about the samples and drivers. The samples are given by sick people hoping for help and my heart hurts to think their pain might be going to waste. And the poor bastards doing the driving are paid shit to drive their own car 16 hours a day only to arrive after hours because their manager can’t handle a fucking schedule.