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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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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
It's unfortunately a standing practice in all industries. A 2" by 4" really isn't a 2" by 4" either.

The DV (Daily Value) percentages on food products, same thing.

The ethics in business is long gone. Why they can get away with selling the air in bags of potato chips. After all that air has the SCENT of potato chips.

This is actually allowed because otherwise the government would be considered anti capitalism.

This started BTW with pet rocks back in the 1960s.

The government had to consider the value of such a rock and what could be considered false advertising.

Thank capitalism for this moral value insanity.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer potato chips are sold by weight not volume, it's the allusion that fools people.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Virgo79 yet the bags are nothing but air! 😆 Air weights nothing!
Tugasaki · 61-69, M
@Virgo79 when it comes to my purchases on vending machines and their prices i always buy the products that have the most gram weights, 70 grams for $1.20 vs a chip bag of 32 grams at yhe same price is just foolish.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@DeWayfarer says right on the bag
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Virgo79 I never noticed that the bag mentions it's nothing but air! 😆

Perhaps in the very smallest print? 🤷🏻‍♂️😈