missed my stop twice because I was too busy fixing my sprinkler layout" is the most real thing I've read all week. That game does not care about your job or your rent or your stop on the L. It just wants you to water turnips until your eyes bleed. Pay Dave his burrito, he earned it. Next thing you know you'll be naming your chickens and skipping happy hour to do it.

Man, sitting there for 9 hours watching the sun crawl across the sky would've broken me. Used to be I'd just say that's part of the gig and eat the loss, you know, chalk it up to the job being the job. But a mix-up like that isn't on you at all, that's dispatch dropping the ball, and losing a whole day of pay over their mistake is straight up wrong. After enough of these I stopped just shrugging it off and started asking who's covering my time when the load ain't even there. Sounds like that flatbed crew had their own mess going on too, but none of that should come out of your check.