Reading harold_maude's journal

It was invantory day today. I'm glad it's over. Everything went well, which is good, but all thoes numbers. UPC's SKU's and the amount and differences in counts and all the other fun things that go with the event.
We spent a week preparing for it.
And it was cleaning time too. Everything that needed to be gotten rid of was and everything else that had to be put out was and now that it's done, life will return to the patterns and rythems that go with winter.

It's amazing to me that people spend so much money in December for Christmas and still their not satisfied with that. I know that lots of the money spent went for gifts, but alot of what the money went to was in the "other" catagory.
Which translated means "I want this and I want it now"

How much stuff can a person have before they get to the point where the "need" to shop goes into a sleep mode. It's not like it's food. But it's stuff and things and more stuff and do hickies and whacha macallits, and what ever other name you want to give to the flood.

And I can say with out too much worry of being wrong that by summer when the yard sales start that a big portion of what has been bought will end up being disgarded in favor of the latest, newest gaget that is out there on the market.
Or the lastest fad.

I live in the most wasteful contry in the world. Any given day you can visit any dumpster behind any apartment building and find a vast amount of household goods that there is nothing wrong with. It's not broken or wrecked, it just simply got borning to have around. The new fashionable stuff is better.
And people buy that belief. And they go into debt for that belief.

In this country you can aquire a whole house full of furnature for next to nothing at a variety of second hand stores or even free when you get it out of the trash.
Last summer we saw and 8 foot white leather couch sitting next to a dumpster and there was nothing wrong with it. It looked as if it had never been used.

I see the waste where I work all the time as well. Brand new things being thrown out because they have been discontinued. And on the heels of all the waste comes more stuff and things to take it's place.
When the beginning of the year comes round invantory begins.
I wonder what an invantory of how much next to new stuff there would be if it were all kept record of. My guess is that the numbers would be off the charts.

I'm glad this day is done. I can get back to trying to do what it is that I guess I'm suppose to do. And most of the time it has nothing to do with the job I was hiered for in the first place. So much for thinking that if you get hired for a job that it's what you get to do.
I've come to the conclusion that most of us out there who work for corporations are nothing more than trained monkeys.

I have started looking around for a new job, but I think that most of what's out there is pretty much like the job I have now.
I seriously think the perfect job for me is to run my own business where I don't have to view people like wallets with legs because that's what's required of me by some corporation.

And I don't think we would do alot of invantory. Simply because we would end up selling outdated things that have been disgareded.
And alot of recycled things too.
Laid back and very little stress. Maybe a crazy coffee house for artists right in the middle of it all.
Sounds more like fun than a job.
Sounds like something of value. Now all I have to do is win the lottery so I can do just that.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.