So Long, See You. Good Buy

This boquet of used copper has been gleened from remodel projects and repairs performed by the maintaince crew at work. They used to keep it until there was a departmental party planed or to pay for flowers for funerals. The administration one day stepped in and took control of the fund and re-directed it to the general opperating expenses.. . .
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They used to scrap this much copper every 3 or 4 months but the pile you see here is the combination of more than 2 years of administrative accumulation.
And none of them can figure out the change.