just remembered..
from reading all the posts about stores throwing away good stock.

I used to work for a company that sold electronic goods. Rhymes with Murry's and is the name of Indian cuisine.

They used to throw away all sorts of stock. I was a warehouse worker and we had to destroy it all.

I'm not even kidding whilst working there I smashed up laptops, hundreds of TV's (not just CRT but LCD's and Plasmas), PC's, surround sound kits, kettles, toasters, blenders, fridges, cookers, tumble dryers, washing machines.. I even used to offer to buy the products at a discount price and managers would refuse.

I actually remember one manager (who was known for refusing staff to buy these products) with a pair of PC speakers in his hand. He finds them and says "oh, i'll have these, I need some PC speakers" I say to him "thought you can't keep this stock" whilst looking at them he ignores what i say and goes "ah they won't fit my PC anyway they have a different plug" I say "they will fit mine" he then looks at me and smashes them on the floor and says "if I can't have them no one is having them" and walks off.

The delivery drivers used to come and raid the skips. One driver left with about 6 Dyson cleaners in his van. I just used to leave them to it, fair play to them.

It makes me sick to think about how much money they were just throwing away. At the same time I did enjoy smashing up TV's worth more than my car.
(Cannibal Clown, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 21:49, 8 replies)

My only question is...
Why?
(St. Dymphna, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 0:05, closed)

They do this because.......
nobody will go into the shop and pay £1500 for the new 2009 model 38" lCD telly if they can buy the 2006 52" model for fifty quid.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 9:23, closed)

..
I see your point, but surely selling that one end of line TV for £50 is better than scraping it and getting nothing ?
(Cannibal Clown, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:35, closed)

They don't get nothing
They get to sell the £1500 one.
( waffle1 is lurking on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 4:34, closed)

My question is
where can I find this skip?
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 9:19, closed)

better yet
where can i get an application form?

plonk the telly in a binbag round the corner,pick it up after work,sorted.
(The Blue Brony Flogging a Dead Horse Since, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 10:32, closed)

haha
I was tempted.. SO tempted.

I remember one day I had to smash up an awesome sony surround sound off of display because it was missing a few wires (which we also sold). I made phone calls to people arranging them to come pick it up. Finally someone said yes, but then I bottled it and smashed it up.

Managers were known for scouting the bins at random times and if the manager on duty found it they would have known it was me (after begging for him to sell it to me for a discount price)

I know one guy who was given the job of smashing up one of the TV's. He bubblewrapped it, stuck a sold label on it, walked it out of the warehouse, through the shop floor on a sack barrow, told a manager the customer was waiting outside and then he got another employee to help him lift it into his boot. Fucking outstanding!!
(Cannibal Clown, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 19:41, closed)

I can't understand
Why this wouldn't happen more often..? Surely the TVs are worth a fair chunk of a week's money?
(Not him., Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:08, closed)