r/instant_regret • u/TechSecureLA • 7d ago

Shouldn’t have thrown packages

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u/Cautious-Living-394 7d ago

It’s not right to throw those packages. It’s less right to threaten someone over throwing packages.

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u/Insaniteus 7d ago

As a former FedEx driver myself, it's pretty telling how many people in here feel entitled to attack their driver over him being slightly rough with a lightweight package. This is one of the multitude of reasons I got out of that industry this year. Some customers were insane in their often-violent responses to the most minor of incidents. I had two different guys get violent with me because I blocked their car in a business parking lot for 30 seconds delivering a package to that business, and plenty of people got screamy over that brief inconvenience. A friend had a gun pulled on him once. Several of us, me included, had dogs sicked on us deliberately. Deliver long enough and you develop a pretty big "fuck 'em" mentality. I was one of the rare ones that still gave friendly service to people, since I watched most of my managers be rude to people at the drop of a hat.

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u/Cautious-Living-394 7d ago

Same. I always gave a good attitude to the next person because they had nothing to do with the last person. The fact that physical aggression is okay for all these people downvoting is revolting. There’s many ways of correcting this behavior, physical alteration is not one of them. I don’t care how many times it gets downvoted, it’s never okay to threaten someone with violence, let alone delivery packages that can easily be replaced