Valassis-Durham, NC

This place has the most unpleasent employees I've seen. That is saying something, because I've dealt with some miserable people.
They have a gate, and you have to use the phone to call in your load and get the gate open. I gave the guy the number provided, he told me that's the wrong number, and hung up.
So I called my dispatch to get all the p/u, load, etc numbers they had. After another pleasent conversation with Oscar the grouch, I was told to pull up to the side, and wait for a door to come open.
There was two open doors, so I went in to see if they wanted me in a specific place.
The forklift operator proceeded to cuss at me, saying they don't load but two ####ing doors anyway. Also They told you to sit on the side anyway, and We got a 2 ovlock coming before you too.
So apparently from the office guy telling me to pull up and wait for a door I was supposed to infer that he meant wait for the red truck to leave, and that there is another truck scheduled to come before you.
If people are that miserable with their job, they should do something else. If I was independent I would have drove off and found a different load.

 

Yeah, no kidding. The two places I went to in the Durham area had really rude people. Possibly the most miserable people of any city in the country. I was really kind of shocked, I am accustomed to southerners generally being more friendly than the rest of the country.
Buzzard I am too chicken to do that. While I don't doubt it's possible effectiveness, I'm afraid my side might get lost somewhere along the line. On top of that this load was through a broker we use occasionally, and I wouldn't want to jepordize that relationship, especially in an area we don't deal with that much yet.

 

I noticed a lot of north eastern accents almost. It's weird how few even mild hint of a southern accent I heard. And I'm from Milwaukee so I'm very sensitive to southern accents, Indiana might as well be mississippi to my Midwestern ears

 

It was both places I went to, just the second one was horrible. However, you're right, it's not fair to judge a city off of three people.
The women were prettier than most southern states. So gentrification has its perks!