Excalibur wrote:Do u get to keep stuff for free?
Do you ever just keep some items and mark them missing from inventory?
Is this contract work?
What's the weirdest thing you have kept stock of?
Keeping items and marking them missing would be construed as theft and I would be fired. If it was one of the pharmacies I do, or heaven forbid the airport duty free stores, or on the Indian reservations I could get charged with a federal crime, so no I don't screw around. However, I find if you ask for stuff nicely they'll freely give. At the medical supply warehouse, (surely the weirdest thing I've taken inventory on) I asked one of the salesmen for a sample and he gave me a hip joint. I now have a saline breast implant to go with it. http://i.imgur.com/V873Mrf.jpg?1 I use it for an ice pack. At a craft store I counted thousands of silk flowers, they let me keep the broken ones. I gave them to a friend and she hot glued the flowers to barrettes and put them on her kids. Sometimes you find awesome deals in the clearance sections, old stuff way below cost.
I work for a national corporation that has offices in 49 states. (we in Washington cover Alaska) Washington State has a business and occupation tax on company inventories, we are at our busiest this time of year. We have like three district offices in Washington with managers and secretaries. The sales force negotiates the contracts with the stores... the managers juggle the people and places, I get a schedule every week and a paycheck every other week, minus my taxes. I suit up, and show up, and try not to screw up. Such is life. I find myself at the malls a lot. You can't beat mall food, like a hot dog on a stick, or an Orange Julius.
The medical supply stuff, has to be the strangest stuff I've counted, hip joints, bone cement, tiny screws and metal plates. The trenching equipment rental place was strange in the opposite way, big metal plates, girders, bracing, pumps etc. I liked doing the marine supply place with anchors and marine hardware. I do drug stores, so I invariably get the aisle with condoms, lube, adult diapers, enemas and suppositories. I've counted pallets of liquor, $30,000 handbags, musical instruments, dishes, weird smelly asian groceries, porn, guns and sporting goods, shelves of narcotics, parts warehouses for auto supply stores and exercise equipment. I do a lot of clothes, I seem to get stuck with bras and underwear. if you've recently bought underwear in Western Washington. I've probably handled it. Let that sink in for a minute . Washington is a legal marijuana state, some of our associates have counted weed shops. One associate was asked if she would be okay doing a sex shop, with toys and bondage gear, she was fine with it and I think it was nice they asked her first.