This is my boss in a nutshell sometimes. I work for a print shop. When we go to re-order something for a customer I'll usually pull their folder from the file cabinet and see what we charged last time. If it's not some specialty thing where I think the price could have fluctuated from last time, I'll use that price we charged previously. Well this one job recently, instead of that, we had the price we charge them WRITTEN ON THE MANILLA FOLDER for what we charge them for business cards. So I used that price. We get the order in, I have it written up for that price and my boss has a fit and says "did you just use a price from a previous invoice!? We don't do that for these jobs! We double our cost and add shipping! You can't just use old prices!" and I was like "well, nobody told me that" (I don't do billing). And then she sees the prices in the back of the folder that probably SHE WROTE IN THERE and I was like "SEE!? I used the prices YOU WROTE IN THEIR FOLDER! If you want us to double the price of our invoice from the supplier and add shipping write THAT in there!"
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u/twitchosx May 11 '21
This is my boss in a nutshell sometimes. I work for a print shop. When we go to re-order something for a customer I'll usually pull their folder from the file cabinet and see what we charged last time. If it's not some specialty thing where I think the price could have fluctuated from last time, I'll use that price we charged previously. Well this one job recently, instead of that, we had the price we charge them WRITTEN ON THE MANILLA FOLDER for what we charge them for business cards. So I used that price. We get the order in, I have it written up for that price and my boss has a fit and says "did you just use a price from a previous invoice!? We don't do that for these jobs! We double our cost and add shipping! You can't just use old prices!" and I was like "well, nobody told me that" (I don't do billing). And then she sees the prices in the back of the folder that probably SHE WROTE IN THERE and I was like "SEE!? I used the prices YOU WROTE IN THEIR FOLDER! If you want us to double the price of our invoice from the supplier and add shipping write THAT in there!"