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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Tugasaki · 61-69, M

Legally your allowed 10% +/-, your right but everything we get is underweight when you are charging a customer by our book weight on what the material rwally is, a full bundle sold straight out to a customer is charged by what our book says the weight is, but the mill tag shows a lower weight. The customer is getting hosed big time, and our rule on the floor is to tear off the mill tag before shipment, the company says to not advertise the company we buy from, but in real fact the stenciling is on the material where the material was made from, so ripping off the mill tag the customer can see his charged weight and mill weight is not the same, hence all tags to be ripped off before shipment ,this is just one example of how corrupt my company are.

Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

@Tugasaki this could become a safety issue if the stock is below the engineering tolerences. Someone could use it in a bridge or structure with a low factor of safety and end up killing a bunch of people.

Tugasaki · 61-69, M

@Tastyfrzz i have checked +/- 10 % its allowed to be, i have mic'd many msterial its within tolerance, my main point is that the company buts it from the mill based on weight, but resells the material by book weight and almost all material is never in book weight. This is where they make a stinking amount of profit over a years time. When we ship 100's of thoasands pounds per day.we load full semi truvk per night at least 5 to 6, not counting what gets shipped during the day time.it adds up.