
Originally Posted by
Wal-Mart
I once played a role in a crazy movie. It was about this kid who worked for a company that configured and sold IT equipment. My job there was to take the off-lease laptop and desktop computers and process them and prepare them to go out to end-users. So I would take these machines and wipe them clean, repair any broken or worn parts and put them in inventory. I started noticing that every so often, I'd get a machine in that did not exist in our inventory. So as I plugged along and came across these machines, I'd stock them in a special location away from the rest of the inventory. I'd even go as far as to put bad inventory control stickers on them so that if someone did find them and ran the numbers they would come back as an "x-ed out" machine..aka one that is bad and has been written off as junk. I started taking these machines home and selling them for cash. On top of the good machines, I had a HUGE stock of broken laptops that I would regularly take apart and build working machines out of. These too were written-off machines and didn't exist as good inventory. In a little under a year, I had managed to stash aside enough money to pay off some $15k in debt (hoooray for not being taught financial responsibility when I was young and how not to use credit cards and loans). It was kinda funny that I left the job just weeks after paying off all that debt, it's kinda like I was given the opportunity to set myself on a better path and I did exactly that- by not just spending all the money on useless bullshit that would not have benefited me for years to come. Great movie it was.