It’s easy to trust a computerized invoice. They look so formal and official, so they can’t be wrong. The totals are calculated automatically, after all.
Bought a bunch of stucco stuff today–lathe, corners, expansion joints. Enough stuff, and with enough rising prices, that I didn’t know what it’d add up to. So I get the total, gulp a little at the new prices, and write the check. They hand me the receipt that includes…..50 self-furring expanded metal lathe @ 7.5/sheet = $750. Heeeeeeey! That’s not right. Turns out the clerk had used a calculator for the numbers and just typed them into the computer. Obviously hit the = key twice or something and overcharged me $375!!!!!!!!
Geez, thing of all the receipts I haven’t checked!
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Ah, it's just money cloud.
It's just like you to screw the supplier out of money that they didn't deserve.
Sheesh.
Then you have the gall to complain about it on a public forum?
You should be ashamed.
That's human error , intentional or not, not computer error.
A woman who works in a check clearing center told me that once in a while the numbers on a calculator tape didn't add up, I just couldn't believe it.
>That's human error , intentional or not, not computer error.
I know. But the mind first thinks that the totaling would be correct be/c it was prepared by computer. Then to find out she did it on a calculator and just transferred each number into the computer, rather than have a point-of-sale program that took care of it all, well, it was kinda funny and shows we have a ways to go with productivity yet! She was nice, and very apologetic.
It's a lesson to everyone here to check the receipts carefully, be/c innocent errors on the simplest things can cost you your profit!
Classic case Of 'GIGO', Garbage In - Garbage out.
A lot of folks seem to expect miracles from computers as if you could feed them the wrong information and still get the right answers out.
So Cloud, you can send me a hundred and still save yourself over 2 hundred? What a country!
It's all in 1's taped to the paper backing of the lathe. Come help me install it and you can have all you can snag as we go through the pile.
An appraiser friend of ours swears that he has found math errors in a certain spreadsheet software by a certain well known software company based in the northwestern US.
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