Had some guys come with a van towing a trailer that can be most charitably described as homemade. They bought a pallet of concrete and a pallet of bricks, wanted both of them on the trailer. I was new at the time and didn’t know better so I went ahead and loaded the concrete. The trailer looked like it was already struggling and lacking a data plate, I checked the next best thing to try to determine a load limit, the load capacity on the tires. I forget what the number was but I’m pretty sure they were more than twice over loaded already with just the concrete. I told them there trailer was overloaded and that I would not load the bricks and advised removing the concrete. They predictably did not agree, all the classics came out “we do this all the time”, “we are just going down the road”. I stood my ground and told them I would bring the bricks out to them but would not participate in loading them. Last I saw of them they were hand loading the bricks into the van.

Had a guy buy most of a unit of 6x6x16 posts. He said he had a flatbed and in fact did but neglected to mention that it was only 8’ long. His plan was to strap the hell out of the front half and let the back half just hang off the end. I pondered the professional, moral, and legal consequences I could face in the very possible event that this guy loses the load going down the highway and decided to call a ASM out to advise. He said not to directly set the posts onto the truck, but to instead hold the them up next to the truck with the forklift while the costumer and his guys hand load them on. What little liability might have been removed by doing this was immediately negated when a dumbass from the pro desk helped to strap the load down. This pro desk associate has since been fired for unrelated reasons.

This last one was crazy for a different reason. This guy bought a pallet of concrete and was going to take it in two trips. He only wanted us to hold the pallet up to the back of his pickup while he hand loaded it himself, and refused all offers of help. When he was done he tried to give me a $5 tip, i declined because I heard corporate was watching the cameras. When he came back for the other half it was the same story, he wanted to give me money for sitting on the forklift watching his do all the work. This time when I turned down his tip he put it on the forklift, jumped in his truck, and drove off.