I understand the frustration 100%.
An extra 5% of waste from you is nothing in comparison to the amount of money that Mohawk saves by allowing those types of character features to pass QC. If you think about it, that split at the end of the board COULD have been used somewhere if you really needed it to be. If that was your last board and you needed it to complete a job, you coulda stuck it in the back of a closet, put some putty in the crack and been done with the whole thing. I know putty isn’t an installation tool but you better have some on your truck. You don’t have to like it but that is reality for a lot of installers out there cus you know almost nobody is ordering 20% over just because. Lowes and HD hover right around 7%. Believe you me, I’ve ran into that exact situation more than once and I’m sure I was even more pissed off then than you are now.
Now I just charge more and roll with the punches when they come.