Breaking the law to break even.
A while ago, my agency sent me to a job for XYZ plc delivering cigarettes in a small HGV. Each vehicle could hold 450 boxes. Unfortunately, I found out (through sheer luck) that the legal weight was achieved at 280 boxes.

So every morning for a week, this happens: find vehicle overloaded, insist on load reduction, refusal, take to weighbridge, come back and get load reduced, back to weighbridge because an overload ticket without recheck will get us arrested. Each weigh-in costs £10 in cash.

End of the week, some manager from XYZ rings up and sacks me. The fact that I don't work for him seems to go over his head. The reason he gives is that "you have interfered with profitability". Apparently, the vehicles didn't make a profit until the load reached 400 boxes. Oops.

No worries, the agency find me something else. 3 months later, XYZ lose the contract. Not only did they lose money, but the manager's cousin took out £200,000 worth of fags one morning and never came back.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 19:16, 3 replies)

There is some justice in the world after all then

(Frample Tromwibbler climbs an obstacle like old people fuck, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 19:29, closed)

"£200,000 worth of fags"
That's some serious rent-boy action right there!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 24 Feb 2012, 21:19, closed)

Plus the price of the missing HGV

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 21:28, closed)