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Originally Posted by E150GT
It wasn't that bad. 320 dollars profit on a 1000 dollar order. normally it would be about 200ish. That company won't even blink twice at that bill. There are times when money can be made, and there a time when you have to give it away at a small profit, and this was a good opp. to make a few extra bucks.
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E150GT:
After Hunt got caught trying to corner the copper market a few years back, who knows what the price of copper is day-to-day?
You're dealing with a couple of ditch-diggers...they could care less what Valero has to pay to get the job done...they're thinking "The cost of gas will go up tomorrow to recoop the cost of copper..." and they laughed in the truck all the way back to the job-site...hell, they're not paying for the materials out of their own pockets...the only person the MIGHT know what's happening is your boss (unless that's you) and MAYBE Valero's own set of bookkeepers...
Then, you know what will happen?
Those two same guys will be ORDERED not to return to your place for supplies.
Ah...the world of the bean-counter can be filled with bile and vinegar...minds will forment that bile into a "screw-his-outfit" type of rage that will spill over into supplier meetings for years...
Yep, all because of a "$120'ish Snap-Of-Judgement" moment...
Before they figure out that they were the recipients of some "pencil-judgement," I'd call their Business Office (where the field invoices go to) and speak to Mr. Headbean-Adder to see if you can catch the "error" before they do...tell him you had a "Congressional-Subpoena" moment (Ah, youse Honor Sir..I don't recalls da' plaitiff being in the path of the bullet...") and you realized that the amount of beans you counted was WAY OFF...
You're building up some good-will and showing your honesty (albeit, after the fact...
) and to be perfectly honest with yourself...do you (or your boss, for that matter...) really want to lose Valero as a customer?
Probably not...