Wow...I din't know I was starting a s**t storm with that post! Kinda funny to think that that innocent post stirred up a hornet's nest.
G_P: The guy with the pay phones did have documentation. My yard has been in business under 2 owners for 80 years. You don't do that by buying stolen material.
Pistone: What led you to believe that I was a crane operator? Or even a worker on the yard? Believe me you would not want me out there operating heavy machinery! Junker had it right... I am actually the inside buyer for the company. My position is similar to that of a salesman, but instead of selling I am buying the material. A big part of my job is getting to know customers and seeing what they are bringing in. If I were to spend the whole day in my office there would be a disconnect between I and the customers. So when it is slower in the office I throw on my hard hat and go out to the yard. I help customers unload by hand, hand out magnets and say hello to people I haven't seen in the yard before.
So what you may see as a waste of company time and resources, I (and my company) see it as customer relations. Wouldn't you rather have a conversation with someone at the yard rather than be herded through like cattle and treated like you are just a number?
All the goodies that I pull out of the shred pile are just the icing on the cake. We don't run a shredder, just a shear. All of our shred is shipped to a local shredder and we upgrade the cut grades that end up in the shred pile.
Ohh and the tanks that I pull out of the shred pile SAVE my company money. If we were to ship a load with too many tanks in it, it would get rejected by the shredder. This essentially would cost my company thousands of dollars in freight cost. It might even save a life, because I have seen firsthand the destruction a sealed tank can do when sent through a shredder.
Pistone...my company processes the second most scrap in the state of Colorado. We do this because employees such as myself go the extra mile, get to know the customers and genuinely care about the company and the bottom line. You will forever be relinquished to being the worker bee instead of the queen with your mindset.
Now get off the computer and get back to stripping wire before I fire you!
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