If you’re disappointed with BoingBoing you have to say it.
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How dare teachers at a public school not know to catch business fraud immediately when it’s perpetrated against them?
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I bought a yearbook in freshman year of high school. It was overpriced and kind of underwhelming, but it had one redeeming quality. A cute girl who I had a serious crush on signed it along with her number and “- call me”, which led to an unusually nice summer during one of the formative years of my life. 
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Ok. ::Puts on teacher face:: I’m very disappointed with you, Boing Boing.
Seriously, though, I am.
As I said, I do not know the specific details of this guy’s case. All I know is my experiences over the past 10 years. I’ve met the shady characters, and in my case, they weren’t the ones from Jostens.
And here I was thinking that school administration had control of the purse strings but chgoliz has opened my eyes. Apparently it’s the teachers who control where the money is spent. This is a total game changer. Oh wait, nevermind. That’s not the case at all is it?
But I did learn something else. If you overship to a school for years, as suggested by this article’s title, we can frame that as an immediate issue.
And I’m Jon Bristow.
Maybe not a racket, per se, but…
It really isn’t the “World’s Finest” chocolate, now, is it?
#Is it?!
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As I said earlier, if you took delivery of a shipment in the private sector without bothering to verify the contents of the shipment matched the order, you would be fired for incompetence.
[/quote]Dude, that happens constantly without anyone getting fired. And that’s with employers staffing shipping & receiving departments that schools have exactly none of.
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Maybe I’ve worked for a different sort of company than you have. It’s hard to say. But verifying a shipment before accepting delivery is pretty basic stuff that any business should be able to manage with or without a dedicated receiving department. I certainly expect at least that basic level of competence from those with a fiduciary responsibility for public funds.
it seems that many types of organizations even have policies in place
https://hhs.texas.gov/book/export/html/40576
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/purchasing/guides/delivery.html
https://www.york.cuny.edu/administrative/business-office/purchasing/policy-and-procedures-for-the-receipt-of-purchased-goods
http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8560/receiving-and-inspecting-shipments.pdf
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I am well aware that institutions with loading docks tend to have better receiving than High Schools, and that many pencil-pushers have written many policies on the matter. I can’t tell if you are speaking in the most simple terms because you are pretending you know more than you do about logistics, or if you think I’m an idiot.
A scam typically doesn’t work by incompetence, it typically works because it’s not worth spending the effort to fix the problem. Fixing a cable bill takes a ridiculous amount of time on the phone, but I’m sure Jostens has numerous people whose jobs are dedicated to fixing shipments just a phone call away.
Oh wait, I read the Reddit thread.
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