I never worked retail which may have saved me from spending life in prison. But I did have inventory to deal with.

I was hired by a big equipment rental firm as part of a team to fix certain problems. They fired 5 to make room for the three of us, we started Jan 2 and spent the first week at corporate in another city. Then we went home to 'inventory'. Turns out that was one of the problems that needed fixing.

I am convinced that there was a 'kickback' with a supplier, there was stuff there that didn't fit anything the company had ever owned. There was no real system to filing parts and there were millions of them.

The one thing it did do was put a computer on the service desk. We convinced the company that they needed to spring for a real live program that we could use going forward.

Oh, yeah. Some of that stuff had been in the bins for 25 years. Dusty didn't really describe it.