One place i worked at 20years ago, we had a shop truck for us to chase parts, etc and we always kept it washed and the cab clean. No greasy hands or dirty coveralls allowed. It was well known that our truck was always clean. One day a supervisor asked if we would let one of his operators use it to go pick up something 40miles away. Sure, no problem. The next morning we went to use our truck and there was leftover garbage in the cab
. I collected it in a bag and saved it until the next staff meeting a few days later. As i went into the coffee room and passed by him, i dumped it in his lap. He immediately went ballistic. What the f*** was that for?, he bellowed. My response was ‘The next time you use our truck, take all your crap with you when you’re done’. All the other operators were aghast and the superintendent and supervisors were bug-eyed.
It took a while to get order restored and the immediate topic of the meeting was trash in cabs
The superintendent called me in a couple days later and asked me if i could have handled it differently and i said ‘Ya, but nobody takes me seriously until i get mad and i think i made my point’. He said oh ya, but maybe next time, come to me first
There was less garbage in cabs after that but it still happened. Funny thing was, when that operator finally was promoted to supervisor, he would grumble about operators leaving dirty cabs and he had been one of the worst offenders
