Company coruption

Tell me how legal this is, i work for a steel company, we sell bars,tubing and angles, plus plate. We buy our material from the mill baded on weight, for example, tubing 4×4×.375" thickness by 48 feet long, now it comes to us in bundles of 9 pcs. From yhe mill they mark the end in chalk the actual thickness usually 10% less. Its our tolerance, but we sell all our steel by book weight ,so the customer pays a fake weight thinking that the material is actually .378" thick per foot, when its actually less, plus the pay a mark up on selling this tubing, now think of this in the bigger picture when we sell millions of pounds of steel perday when we really pay exact weight from yhe mill, everyday for a year just how much profit we scam from every customer we sell too, it adds up on every bar,plate tubing,sheets,angles, and machined parts that are cut for customers too. I signed a non disclosure paper almost 26 years ago.im disgusted on my companies corruption all our material is marked up by 10 % but thats not counting on the actual price we pay for our material from the mills. By law the mill has to provide exact measurements and weights for deliveries of such material. The law ends there. Whats your opinion of yhis fact ?

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Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

So its up to incoming inspection to verify the weights but i brt there's a clause in the terms and conditions of sale allowing for +/_ 10% variation in the weight due to mil tolerances.

Tugasaki · 61-69, M

@Tastyfrzz i work as a machine operator, i cut steel to the customers specific measurements i have kept a record in the last year where i returned material back to stock because i used yhe drops from one order to cut more parts to the next order, every order i do for this one customer says to scrap the drops or off cuts, i dont, that means this customer has been paying for more material than exually needed, and has been charged for the full amount, orders are not made up unless the cutomer approves the material needed this is my ace in the hole, if i ever get fired i will provide the customer all the evidence order numbers and material used with dates, i will be a ehistle blower, until then i just keep recording what the salesman kepts ripping off this one customer.i provide great cuts and i love my job but it eats at me on how corupt my company is treating this one company i cut for. I have complained to all my supervisors and they say nothing. What can i do. I know in the long term if that customer were to do a audit on their one years worth of business just in my dept alone, they would be pissed.