No, OP decided to follow what the maintenance guy rudely told him to do. That's the point of the malicious compliance subreddit. Maintenence guy was a "d*ck" first.

Agree with everything you're saying, also the way he spoke about the security guards was very rude.

At your age you should be wiser than to be on the internet so much that you really think joking about "boomers" is much of a thing in the real world. It's mostly an online phenomenon and even there mostly from people that don't realize that most people they talk about are gen X, or even early Y already. Never met a real life boomer that actually gave a single f**k about the "boomer" thing, that would be really too steriotypical, so there's that. Don't waste your life online.

Maybe they were. It sounds like security is on site, just not super close to that door. I've managed a warehouse. Trucks often get there when they get there even if you are expecting them. I didn't stand by the loading dock waiting for a semi truck I knew was supposed to show up that day. You do what you need to do with the people you have available. It sounds like security was trying to make it work and grumpy old man was making things more difficult than they needed to be.

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No, by the article, security was sitting in the office and telling the old man to go open the door. BS the man was in charge, it would be security’s job! Even standing at the door fir 2 hrs, that’s the job of security. This is made up.

Security's job is to sit by the MAIN door to check people into the building. Not by the back door to keep opening it for someone they already checked in who was making a large delivery. Also building managers are not usually in charge over who can or cant come in - that is at the tenants (in this case likely a few companies) discretion. Thier job is to maintain the physical building and possibly collect the rents each month. Even in a stand alone (aka owned by the occupants) building the building manager is way down on the totem pole and only in charge of maintenance, not security.

With respect, it sounds like you don't have much real world experience with this sort of situation. Also, unless I missed it, at no point does it say where security is located, office or otherwise. The maintenance manager is said to be in his office near the door in question. In addition to security (apparently) already disliking maintenance guy, if he was the only security person on duty he would have to prioritize. He may have been manning an entrance gate. He may have been in an office or room monitoring security cameras. He may have been assigned to walking rounds. In any of those cases, he may not have been free to just stand by a door for two hours. "Maintenance manager" might mean he maintains whatever equipment is in the building. It might also mean he is just the head janitor. My brother is the latter in a food processing plant. My point being - crochety old man may have been overstepping his authority. He is there to maintain something, not oversee security.

They likely were by the people who ordered the shelves. But that doesnt mean that tenant told the building manager. They had the paperwork necessary for security to let them in. It also takes time to unload so much and most places would just leave the door open while they were delivering once it was checked out.