Integrity test, how are your standards????

[Caliban]

[QUOTE=Driver]Well done, Al. I'm going to send you a greenie if the BB will let me.

QUOTE]
Col, fear not,ey ev doan eet fur ewe.

[ozwinner]

[QUOTE=Caliban]

Well done, Al. I'm going to send you a greenie if the BB will let me.

QUOTE]
Col, fear not,ey ev doan eet fur ewe.

Your mock French is crap, but thanks anywhoo.

Al

[Grunt]

I care alot about my integrity so I lied in the poll.

[Caliban]

Al.
Мой франчуз принадлежит в вашем магазине? Мой русский очень более лучше. Olga, водочка, perestroika

[Stu in Tokyo]

Al.
Мой франчуз принадлежит в вашем магазине? Мой русский очень более лучше. Olga, водочка, perestroika

Это очень поистине!

I run my own business in Japan, we deal with this kind of thing all the time.

I bet you guys have this image of the avg Japanese person being very honest and nice, etc. Well we have a problem with the MIL, she don't see as well as she used to , and she often mistakes a 10,000 yen bill for a 5,000 yen bill ($100 for a $50).

When she give back the wrong change, TOO much change, maybe one in 10 people says something, most just leave in a hurry, when she give back too little change, of course EVERYONE complains in an instant

I deal with wholesalers etc, and on a numbe of occasions they have sent me goods without charging me on the invoice, I always make the call and tell them to add it to the next invoice.

I too can look myself in the eye and not flinch, the only way to live you life, IMHO.

Cheers!

[Sir Stinkalot]

I was thinking about buying two large drill bits on Ebay .... I only bought one in the end .... the seller sent both by mistake. I let him know and then he told me just to keep it. Win Win.

Purchased some finishing products from the WWS last year. Vendor put the decimal point in the wrong spot, in my favour. When I check my statement I let the vendor know who adjusted the price ..... still in my favour. Imagine if I ripped of the great man :eek: .

[doug the slug]

When I check my statement I let the vendor know who adjusted the price ..... still in my favour. Imagine if I ripped of the great man :eek: .

like i said earlier, what goes around comes around

[Clinton1]

I don't want to be a thief, even if I am the only one who knows.

[E. maculata]

like i said earlier, what goes around comes around

Too true, too true
2 christmases' ago SWMBO told me she had ordered a large swing set off a large dept store(let us call them Big X).A few days later I was at home by myself Big X rang up and said it was there, please pick it up, so I drove down to pick it up, went to the loading dock & rang bell , polite young Bloke came out with item with our name plastered all over. Leaving the carpark I rang the SWMBO mobile only to be told she had picked it up a couple of hours earlier, did a 180 went back to the dock got same young Bloke and gave it back.
Upshot he's working in our industry now and is one of my second year apprentices and yes he does remember, he reminded me during the induction we had already met.

[Caliban]

So Bruce, because you were honest, he got the sack from Big X and now works for you? Perhaps he told someone and they didn't approve of him getting out of it so easily? Maybe it was good Karma for you (or him?)

[E. maculata]

Yep, Jim "Karma" or something like it is one of my firm beliefs, things coming back to bite you on the ares is a reality in my world.

[JDarvall]

like i said earlier, what goes around comes around

Sorry doug, Thats BS to me.

That impleys that if your good then something good will happen in return. True enough I think with people as long as the person whose been given a good turn knows about it and people treat you well becuase,,,,your a 'nice' guy now.
But as far as some kind of cosmic or godly connection that ensures you recieve a good unrelated omen in return for a good act from you ....and visa versa.....BS. IMO. That sh*t will still happen anyway. I mean how many trully good people throughout history have recieved such horrible lives and deaths even though they were complete saints from the outset. eh ? ....

I'll always be honest, but not because I'm just born that way. I'll be honest, because......
- I'm sh*t scared of getting caught even though I know the odds of getting caught in the first place are probably a million to one.
- Because its been programmed into me heavily from birth
- Because I like that 'pat on the back' like response from someone who I've just helped out (even if the blokes whispering 'mug' as he walks away ).....nice warm feeling ant it. Bet even the crooks do good deeds for that feeling.

[doug the slug]

Sorry doug, Thats BS to me.

That impleys that if your good then something good will happen in return. True enough I think with people as long as the person whose been given a good turn knows about it and people treat you well becuase,,,,your a 'nice' guy now.
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well that would be right in an ideal universe, but very very often the good that comes back isnt even related to the good you do. and heres the big secret - neither is the bad that comes back when you $hit on someone. when someone does the wrong thing by me i let it go generally because i have faith that somewhere somehow someway, they will cop it and i wont even have to lift a finger for it to happen. it can take years but it all evens out in the end

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I honestly wouldn't think about it. Literally.

As a rule I don't get things delivered so I rarely have to check; items I do buy are checked out thoroughly before paying. (You can teach an old dog new tricks. ) 'Cos I hate ****-farting around, when I go shopping I buy LOTS of items, keeping a running total in my head and so long as I'm not charged an amount that's obviously at odds I'm not normally concerned. There are exceptions, of course.

So, it's only when I buy two and they only charge me for 1 that this situation would pop up; unless I checks the receipts I wouldn't pick it up.

My integrity is fine. How's yours?

[oges]

Depends on the value of the item I guess, I subscribed to a magazine in the US and after 2 months of not getting the first magazine I let them know and another was sent. Within two weeks I had then received both copies.

Emailed the magazine and was agreed that I didnt need to post it back as expense was not worth doing so.