Truck Driver to South Africa Prank
6:50A truck driver is told he's being transferred to South Africa for six months, causing him to quit in anger.
Transcript
157 linesHello?
Hello?
Oh, I'm trying to reach Franklin.
Yeah, this is Franklin.
Hey Franklin, how you doing?
This is Roosevelt giving you a call from Human Resources.
You were research.
Hey, what's up, Roosevelt?
What can I do for you?
All right, man.
I'm calling you from human resources, we'll transit partners, where you uh been uh you've been driving trucks for us for uh quite some time now.
What are you?
You six, six, six and a half years right now?
Man, I'm eight and a half years.
He's two years short, baby.
Okay, eight and a half years.
How you doing, man?
I'm good, man.
Enjoying this road life, man.
I love working with you guys, man.
The benefits is there.
I mean, um, I'm surprised to get a call from you.
I mean, I mean, hope everything.
Well, I I'm I'm I'm sure you're on the road right now, you're probably driving.
I wanted to give you a call.
And uh, is this a bad time?
Can you talk right now?
Yeah, I actually pulled over, man.
I had to get something to eat, man.
Okay, okay.
So listen, let me tell you what's going on here with uh with GTP.
What we're doing is we are doing uh some job exchange, and uh some of the uh drivers that we have uh have been pulled out of a pool, and uh some of you guys are gonna be actually driving in different places now.
So for the next six months, uh within the next 30 days here, Franklin.
You're gonna be um you're uh you're gonna be driving trucks in South Africa and you're gonna be for for about six for about six about six months you're gonna drive in South Africa.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Yeah, listen, I ain't got no problem with South Africa, but y'all chat a smile.
I'm not gonna no South Africa.
I don't even have a job on the right hand side of the f road, man.
I love Africans.
I love everything about Africa, but I'm not going.
I got a family out here in the United States of America, and you're trying to tell me I gotta go to South Africa.
Come on, man.
What type of sh are you on there?
Franklin, it's part of the job exchange is what it is, man.
I don't know what type of exchange I got going on, man.
I don't wanna be part of that job exchange.
No, no, I'm not going to no damn South Africa.
This is not happening, man.
This is listen to me, Franklin.
Six months and you'll be back in the States, okay?
Let me let me say this.
What type of national geographic program y'all got going on, man?
I don't know what y'all got going on that y'all calling me.
I'm in the middle of the parking lot trying to eat me a cheeseburger from being on the road all night and you're talking about sending me to South Africa.
What type of sh are you on, man?
There's some foreign exchange program y'all got going on.
I'm not being part of this.
You pull my name out of pool like it was a f susu to come tell me that I'm up to be driving in South Africa.
This must be a joke.
No.
No.
No, no, no.
So you're this is a good this is a good this is a good thing though, Franklin.
I think you're gonna like it and uh No, no, it's not a good thing.
What are you telling me is a good thing?
I got wife and kids.
But I'm gonna
what the f are you talking about, South Africa?
Do they even have f roadways out there?
I'm not gonna f South Cat.
Are you serious?
I'm not here.
I'm not I'm not hearing this correct, brother.
I'm not hearing this correct, Mr.
Roosevelt.
I don't uh South what?
Okay.
South Africa?
Are you serious?
Okay, this but Hear me out here, man.
Let me uh like I said, they they they pulled names out of a pool, and uh you and about fifteen other guys are gonna be going to different parts of the city.
I don't believe what type of pool you pulled it in.
You better put me back in the shallow part.
You're going to the deep end pulling man, get the f I'm not going to f South Africa.
I am not going to no f South Africa.
I don't I'm not taking no malaria shots.
I don't even got a passport.
You want me to go to about that.
Well, listen to me, Franklin.
We're gonna get you all the shots you need within the next thirty days, so you'll be set to go.
I'm not going to I I'll f around go to South Africa and something let me back in the country because of y'all f I I'll I'll f with right now.
I'm not going to South Africa.
It's a job exchange, Franklin.
Okay, let me tell you.
But what type of job is change?
So what so what are we exchanging?
You bringing South Africans over here, and then you bring me over there?
Y'all, my wife is not going to be happy about this.
I'm not going my my someplace basically.
Can I tell you this that your your salary actually doubles the six months while you're over there?
Don't try to f don't try to tell me about that foot in South African dollars or American dollars.
What is it?
What is it?
It's American.
Don't try that.
It will be American dollars.
Franklin, it will be American dollars.
I'm not going to no South Africa.
I am not going.
Matter of fact, this is my last day in the road.
Y'all can come pick up this rig in a and it's parking lot because I'm not going to South Africa.
I don't care how you spell it or you say it, I ain't going.
Okay.
Okay, Franklin.
Listen, uh, you've been with the country company eight eight plus years, and I just gotta tell you, you are obligated.
You've been chosen out of a pool.
All you have to do is six months.
You're gonna get paid double.
Your family's gonna be fine.
You'll be back here.
I ain't obligated to do sh but drive a truck like I do every f day.
I'm not going.
You can't tell me about being obligated.
Let me tell you what I'm obligated to do.
I'm Obligated to throw this truck in fourth gear and drive right through your human resources window, because I ain't going to South Africa.
And I keep telling you that.
I told you that since you got in the damn phone.
I ain't going nowhere.
Okay, uh but but but let me ask you something, Franklin.
You you've been here for with us for eight something years, man.
You don't you don't want to continue your job here with the company?
I don't give a d about this job right now, trying to send me overseas like you setting me up for problems.
I ain't going.
Matter of fact, let me turn this truck on right now.
I'm coming down to see you, Mr.
Roosevelt.
Okay.
Okay, well, hold on now.
Do you know um Jermaine Rivers?
Yeah, I know Rivers.
But what do you gotta do with it?
Okay, let me go on and say this, Franklin.
This right here that you talking to is nephew Tommy.
And your boy Rivers got me to prank phone call you.
You just got pranked by your boy Jermaine Rivers.
Oh, that mother.
Wait till I see Rivers.
So you ain't no Roosevelt, and I ain't gotta go to South Africa.
Oh my god.
This message, Tommy.
Man, I'll be listening to y'all on the road.
Oh, Rivers, you wanna play around?
I'll find some sugar in your tank.
Tell me this.
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