Can someone please tell me WHY ME?!?!
Last saturday, I worked, like all other saturdays. I work as a mail deliverer and smile to everyone... even that ***** principal that stabbed me in the back after an internship. Being polite to the customers is a very important issue to me. I help people, am never rude, and if I made a mistake, I apologise.
But today my boss called me. Someone complained that I scratched his car. I was: "....... Excuse me?". My boss explained me that appearantly I pushed my cart against a car, stood with it for a while, and then walked on.
But the thing is... THERE WAS NO CAR PARKED THERE! Not only that, for that person, I didn't even have mail that day (he claimed I delivered mail to him that day)! And even if there was a car parked there, it wasn't even allowed to park it there! And why would I cross the street with my cart to get to his property and scratch his car, while I have no reason to be there?!
My boss believed me and called the complainer again. What did the complainer snarl back? He had 2 witnesses who say me standing with his car! I completely burst into tears. Never before have I been accused of something like this! My boss: "I understand how you feel, but please also know this is a hard situation for me. After all, it's your word against his... and... wait a sec. Did it rain last saturday?"
I looked up. "No, it did not. I even tucked away my raincoat because it was quite warm, and ended my block with my jacket without sleeves. It's even still in my backpack!"
My boss was silent for a moment. "He said he didn't adress you at the moment because it was raining, and that he discovered the damage later on. But he said he saw you standing there..."
"I had the Kampioen (a magazine; quite heavy and quite a lot to deliver that day); I didn't have TIME to stand still!" My boss burst into laughing. "I was walking with the cart instead of my bike; I had no time to stand somewhere. And there is a yellow line there; I remember clearly there was no car there because the payed parking has started and the complete yellow line was EMPTY!"
I never had problems with that guy. Yeah, I had an issue with his son that he yelled at me for walking too close to a car (which I did NOT touch that time) a long while ago, and ever since then I avoided that side like the plague! Sure, I said to the kid that he could have said it politely instead if so impolite, but that was my right! I have no right to be snapped at by a 12 year old who thinks he's all mighty!
My boss suspects that man has some damage to his car and tries to frame me so he can get the money for it. My boss even told me that she believed me. "If you would have scratched that car you probably would have mailed me right away telling me you scratched something. You are not that kind of person who would walk on." I said back that I could not believe a simple cart like the one I used could scratch a car that much.
The one week I use my cart instead of my bike... and then THIS happens!!! Have you any idea how it feels to be falsely accussed of damaging property, and that someone even throws witnesses into the battle... who are absolutely fake?! I also told my boss that I didn't know how I am supposed to deliver mail there on the next saturday. And I still don't know it. How am I supposed to do like nothing happened?! What if he confronts me? I'm such a softy and a push over... That man called me a liar while there was not a single car parked on that side of the street.
My boss said she'd reply to the customer service that she suspects the man of trying to frame me; his story was quite incosistent and had things that didn't match mine. I did not deliver mail for him that day (because he had none) There was not a single car there. It wasn't raining. I did not stand still. I DID NOT HIT/ DAMAGE A CAR!!!!!!
I still feel so upset. I've been accused to being a liar and damaging property..... but I didn't do a thing!
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