So I've worked for the company I'm with for 7 years. Climbed the ladder from a material handler to kind of being in charge of the steel inventory, no title, but significant bump in pay for the extra responsibility. The other day, a customer for whom we're holding onto some material before it's stamped into parts at one of our production facilities had a meeting with the higher ups at that building. They called my direct supervisor and asked
“what do the yellow highlighted lines mean in the location spot in inventory?”
“That's a floating floor location, we're overstuffed and not everything is able to be put in a permanent home safely, so anything yellow is just kind of “on the floor””
Customer apparently didn't like that too much as we now have a black mark on our record with them. Now if they'd asked me, or even had the meeting in this building instead of at the production facility, I would have been able to take them right to their material, I and the other material handlers know EXACTLY where it is. Since shit rolls down hill, I got a disciplinary write-up for the material not being in a location. In the 7 years I've been here, never had a single mark against me. I expressed my disagreement but signed the notice because I had work to get back to. I asked for a copy of the notice for my own records, went home, and made my own form in Word that mirrored theirs. I filled it out for “Causing undue mental and emotional stress by using employee as a scapegoat” and wrote the managers name on it. I left it on his desk for him to sign, we'll see what he thinks of it on Monday.