I don’t care and I’d do it again! I worked at SteinMart as a department manager for housewares and shoes. I really hated this job, and it was one of those “I’ll take this job while I find a real job” job. The store I worked at opened in 1996, I started working there in 2016. The store still had tons of inventory from the 90’s and the early 2000’s just collecting dust. The back inventory were on shelves that went up 20 feet high and an upstairs area as well. Whenever there was a sale which was weekly the company would issue a dumb report with only “sku” numbers on it, and a generic department area. You’d have to hunt down these particular items by scanning every goddamn item on the sales floor and in the back storage area. This was a nightmare! I eventually stopped scanning things in the back b/c my co-worker who worked there since day 1 said those sku’s in the back aren’t on the sales floor b/c they don’t ring up on sale anymore though they are technically discontinued. The store didn’t have the ability to markdown any items without corporate approval so they were just unsold stock 20 years past their prime. This crap was hindering my ability to have storage space for new merchandise back-stock, and nothing could be done.
We were getting in a gluttony of just crap, and the sales floor couldn’t hold it, the back-stock area was a fire hazard for sure. I was scheduled to go on a week of PTO and my boss told me she was going to cancel my PTO unless I got the back cleared up. She said I was a salaried manager and that I shouldn’t involve any hourly employees in this task. She gave me 3 days to get it done. The logistics manager told me some months ago that the cameras on the dock and back-stock area hadn’t been working for months. Okay, good to know!
I put everything I could in the trash compactor! New and old stock! If it wasn’t on the sales floor, even if it had just come off the truck earlier that day, I put it in the trash compactor. I worked after hours to accomplish my task. It took all night. I didn’t get everything that would have been too obvious. I mostly got rid of all the new things. Things that needed an immediate home on the sales floor, and this was several months of stock, some of it seasonal, etc I got rid of maybe a tractor trailer and a half of merchandise. I also got lucky b/c the compactor was emptied earlier that day. It was a closed compactor so you couldn’t see inside it!
When the other managers got in they were so impressed that the back-stock area was so empty! They said it had never been so empty before. I told them I found spots for every thing on the sales floor. These people were really dumb! They never asked to see my areas, walk it or get a sense for how I fit everything out! They just accepted that it had been done.
I had no qualms about this. This was the first retail job where I was told to take razor blades and cut up unsold merchandise like MK purses, Coach bags, shoes, puffy coats!
The store manager said she was impressed with my work ethic and was recommending me to the regional manager as someone who can assist stores with cleaning up their back-stock areas🤣🤣🤣. My PTO was granted and right after that we had inventory and guess what?! We passed with a top score for our region! No wonder this place went bankrupt!
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Cutting up or destroying wearable clothes should be illegal
I once temped in a Sears near my house. The storage areas were a disaster. We were tasked with fixing it. Nightmare scenario
There is enough info in this post to identify you. I would take it down if I were you.
merch is trash anyways so better speedrun the entire thing
🤣🤣
If you’re going to go to this level, why not smuggle out a bunch of stuff and take it to a shelter a few towns over and leave it on the a front steps?
The driver who emptied out that compactor made out like a bandit too, as well as the guy in the excavator that day.
Source: I work in waste lol
so you started working there in 2016, trashed 100k worth of merch and went to work for Ikea in 2017?
interesting timeline
measuring shitty metrics, will get you shit results …wow having a better inventory score when you have ‘lost’ merch is really insane
I worked for a large construction company owned by a division of company owned by an Omaha resident(if you know you know). Our DM came to town to visit our clients and get detailed information on projects. A week later, they informed our branch that they were closing our office and ending our union contract with the local carpenters union.
They transferred existing work to another firm and let go of everyone.
I was responsible for making sure the new firm received blueprint, contracts, and correspondences on existing work.
I randomly thru out all of the above in no order in the dumpster. I left just enough info to look like they had the info they needed. Removed some identifying info on materials just to cause them chaos.
For months, I received calls from the new company asking me for information to which I played stupid and concerned and referred them to the DM.
I know my actions caused both my DM and the new company hours of grief, aggrevation, and money! No fucking regrets!
Worked for a comutor rail and we had to move a warehouse my previous boss spent 3 years getting rid of old parts and i personaly threw out million bucks worth of crap and they are always begging for more money
This isn’t the flex you think it is. In fact, it’s gross.
You threw out new stuff as well as old?
Yep it aallll on trump. Cant keep blaming biden and kamala wasent pres.
This has always been the weirdest store in my area. Never understood its existence. Makes some sense now.
It happens. I worked for a retailer and the returns were inventoried and loss prevention monitored their disposal. Of course, knowing people in low places, Vuarnets, Seikos, Columbia sportswear never quite made it that far. Bro worked at a nuke and had to dispose of tractor trailer loads of specialized nuke grade stainless fittings bc they’d “expired”.
I would have sold everything online
I laughed pretty hard at this.
Also, it was a terrible name. 30 something yr old me went in there expecting a Bevmo or something. Did end up with a pretty nice pair of golf shorts I used for hiking and trail runs though.
They had you cut up designer clothes and handbags but you had to stealthily get rid of 20 year old merchandise? I’m confused
Ahh the bullshit wagon wheels of retail spinning on stupid street as usual can’t even blame him
Donating the clothes for people to utilize would have been a nice move.
There are a lot of food pantries that offer household items along with clothing. This would have been a viable option, so maybe next time.
Cool you contributed to the huge problem of fast fashion and filled the land full of clothes which should have been donated