Shepherd At War 👨‍🌾🪖

☕️📖🕯 Business the American way - part 4 of 5 The big problem came on my last day at their factory. I had already successfully shipped all four machines to our customers, and had loaded all of my tools and spare parts into my truck and trailer. I was ready to leave for good when they handed me the final bill for me to pay. There were the amounts for the last two machines I had just shipped to Canada, and the paint job. The amount for some extra hole cutting on their rotary plasma was missing, but otherwise nothing was missing. What really caught my attention, though, was the price they had put down for the paint job. Not 3000$, and not 5000$, but over 16,000$! "Ah, ha, now I get it", my thoughts began to swirl, "that's why he told me the story about the contractor who gouged his customers for changes! He was ashamed enough of what he planned to do, that he couldn't resist revealing his plan in an underhanded way. Now I just need to get out of here with my tools and inventory before he tries to force me to pay this bogus amount"!