It’s arguably the worst part of any shoveler’s duties post-snowstorm: scooping up the chunks of ice marinating in a puddle at the end of the driveway after it’s been pushed there by a plow truck.

Even worse? Contending with those chunks after a particularly ornery driver moves the snow there on purpose — more than once.

For Iuri Veiga, shoveling felt Sisyphean following Tuesday’s snowstorm when a driver did just that. The standoff between shoveler and driver was captured on surveillance video as Veiga tried to clear his father’s Brockton driveway.

The incident became so contentious that it eventually led to the city’s mayor severing ties with the contractor who had hired the plow operator to clear up Brockton’s streets.

“That is disrespectful and uncalled for,’’ Veiga told the Globe. “I didn’t need more snow piled on.’’

The video was posted by Veiga’s father, Jov Veiga, on Facebook Tuesday. It shows two people in a driveway as a plow clearing the street approaches.

Veiga, 21, can be seen with a shovel standing near the street and waving the driver past the end of the driveway. But the plow stops short.

“I put the shovel on top of the snow and asked him if he [could] skip my house and do the others, because I was in a rush to take the snow out of there so my dad [could] leave,’’ Veiga explained.

The driver is then seen inching the plow closer, leaving a mess of graying slush, in what appeared to be an intentional effort to block the driveway.

Veiga said the driver angrily swerved around him. He made a U-turn at the end of the road, collected snow from the opposite side of the street, and then angled his plow directly at Veiga, the plow and snow coming within just feet of him.

The truck then backs up, the video shows, receding from the camera’s view. Suddenly, it reappears with a fresh pile of snow, adding insult to injury.

And then he does it a third time.

“Tell me, isn’t that abuse?’’ Veiga asked.

His father later tracked down the driver, Veiga said, and asked him to return to the property to clean up the snow.

When he came back, Veiga claims, the driver “didn’t even apologize.’’ Instead, he asked Veiga if he learned his lesson — “not to mess with the plow man.’’

After the video on Facebook went semi-viral, and was picked up by The Brockton Enterprise, the city got involved.

Mayor Bill Carpenter said he visited the Veiga family after learning about the plow driver’s misconduct, and apologized on behalf of his actions.

After reviewing the video, he met with the commissioner of the Department of Public Works and spoke with the business hired to find drivers to plow the streets. Carpenter said what the driver did was inexcusable, and he terminated the long-held contract with the contractor.

“It is unfortunate that this isolated incident detracts from the outstanding effort of about 200 contractors and DPW employees during Tuesday’s very difficult conditions,’’ Carpenter said in a statement Thursday.

But Veiga, perhaps feeling somewhat remorseful, said he didn’t expect things to go this far.

An apology, he said, would have been enough. Or maybe even a suspension.

“I do apologize if he did get fired,’’ he told the Globe.

“That wasn’t my intention.’’

Steve Annear can be reached at steve.annear@globe.com.