Threadless wood chipboard screws,no use to anyone.
A trade rumour from many years back,tells of a factory in England making steel wood screws,one shift made the required 1000s but had not checked production quality as the machines ran on.The next shift arrives to do the packing,it would be 100 units per box and per size,only to find that the screw heads had no slots,so they were just scrap?
One machinist (he became a manager later on) looked at the problem and suggested to his foreman,'why not place one faulty screw in each box of 100,I doubt anyone will mind,if they do we give them one screw more in exchange?' So this is what was said to have been done,the shifts faulty production just disapeared into boxes being packed and of course they never did get a complaint,I think of this when ever I see a fault in a single screw,are we being screwed?
Roy
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