Always Good to Pay Attention

Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper

Made another trip to the local scrap yard today. Had to haul in some low grade boards, copper and insulated wire.



Our yard is a small, family run deal and normally the wife of the owner is the one in the office. Well she is off for some medical issues so they just grabbed a guy from the yard and put him in there. This, sadly, was a mistake.

We did our weights before we went to the yard and we figured that we should have around $650 in scrap for the day. So we got everything taken care of and got our slip. We were just about 1/4 pound off total thanks to a few things that were added at the last minute.

Well the guy does all of his figuring and all that and then hands me the check. I nearly fainted when it said $290.52 !!!!!

I said wait a minute and told him that something was not right. He then proceeded to tell me that he used a calculator and everything was correct.

I quickly scanned the figures and found his mistake. Our total on copper should have been $366.00 but he put it in as $3.66 instead. I pointed it out to him and he just gave a heavy sigh, snatched the paper and check from me and went back to it, all the while giving me the stink eye.

The new check read $652.60...Much better

I am very glad that I was paying attention because I would have been mighty pissed had I already left and gotten all the way to the bank.

Sounds like a pretty good haul to me. Congrats on it, and realizing the mistake.

I always have a saying "Dont mess with my family, money, or way of living, and we will be straight!"

I love doing things at my scrap yard, because they always know what they are doing. The people they have, have been working there forever, and always nice.

Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper

That is normally the case with this scrap yard. But with the normal office person out things are getting a little crazy right now. They chose the wrong person to work in the office because he lacks any kind of normal people skills and so on. I am trying very hard to be patient with him but it is not easy. Despite the fact that I am there 3 days a week at least he still cannot get my name right. He still wants to call me Greg and my name is Craig.

I am still trying to give him the benefit of the doubt considering the fact that he was thrust into this position.

Yeah, but unfortunately, if he can make a very almost costly mistake to you, he could potentially cost the family company some serious cash if he miss calculates a wrong figure and pays more than he should be paying.