$15,000 and we haven't yet gotten the bill for the auditor's hotel and travel.
What does R2 Certification buy you?
If the auditor finds 5 "Major" Non-conformities, it is game over, you are disqualified as vendors for your statewide contracts. And you paid the assassin. But in the history of R2 that has NEVER happened. Huh. Why? Because the tick bleeding the $15k for year doesn't want to kill its host. They always give at least one NC to guarantee another bite, but never the 5 disqualifying (unless the client is bankrupt).
If the blood sucking tick R2 ISO auditor actually kills / disqualifies its host...
Thousands of public collection programs would be abandoned. So the art of the auditor is to find minor nonconformities and just so many majors, to keep the state recycler feeding the auditor.
This particular auditor says she does not accept the same paperwork that has been accepted at every monthly NCER inspection, every Sony and Panasonic etc. inspection, every Vermont and Massachusetts DEP inspection - she, a Nashville auditor - has seen through the massive environmental degradation... which hasn't occurred in the previous 15 years of audits.
But she let me know she has us by the balls today. Not the first time.
The cited MAJOR offense? That these stacks are labelled by "completion date", when the stack is full. Not "commencement" when the first item is placed on the pallet (with no stack to put the label upon).
In every case, the stack is made in an hour, on the same day. The commencement date is the same day, let alone NOT 365 days later. And our auditor has chosen THIS hill to murder us upon.
TheTh. Cheril Norville
