Couch + Chainsaw = Repo.

[protege]

An 8 pound sledgehammer works wonders on those things.

A 40-pound fence maul works much better

[Gurndigarn]

Oh, there is joy supreme when our company finally decides to scrap certain arcade games they've been holding onto too long... and realize they can no longer patch it and make it better.

Steel-toed boots, big hammers, sawzalls, staff bonfires...


Then there was the time I took over a store that had been run by a guy who got promoted... within a month, six games at that place got scrapped.

[El Barto]

But there are always collections agencies and garnishment of wgaes or small claims.
I guess all of those cost money too.
Maybe I'm just tight with my money, but it seems like a huge loss just for a principal.

If someone is only paying ten dollars a month for a couch, it can't be a very nice couch. Destorying it was probably the cheapest way, anything else might have cost more than the couch did to begin with.

[CrazedClerk]

Remember the loss in this case would be the wholesale cost of the couch, not the retail cost.

It probably isn't as much as you think, some furniture has pretty steep markup on it.

[chainedbarista]

i'm betting that the couch wasn't in resellable condition, anyway, so they'd have a loss no matter how it was done.

at least they got a few knocks back at that scamming (scumming?) wench; nice try, but you still LOSE.

[repsac]

Strange as it may seem (and I may post this in the weird policies thread)

Heilig Myers had a policy that anything with fabric on it. Couch, Chair, or Mattress (well, those were federal, the others weren't) could not, under ANY circumstances be resold after repossession.


As to the mattresses, little known fact but it's illegal in the US (not sure bout elsewhere) to sell a used mattress. Which brings me to the question. How many people actually have gotten in trouble for that?

[AFpheonix]

You know, I worked a couple short, seasonal stints at the zoo when I was younger. They used the same method to remove a dead hippo from a moat.

Come to think of it, they also used this method of removal on a very large dead giraffe, too.

Was there a staff barbeque immediately following?

[Seanette]

You know, I worked a couple short, seasonal stints at the zoo when I was younger. They used the same method to remove a dead hippo from a moat.

Come to think of it, they also used this method of removal on a very large dead giraffe, too.

Could have been worse . See http://www.snopes.com/critters/disposal/whale.htm for an example (note: I disagree with the stated year, since I have a clear memory of seeing news coverage of this event in the early 1990s and laughing about it with my grandfather. I was born in 1969, so would not remember 1970 news events).

[lordlundar]

ahh yes, the corrugate cardboard displays. My stress relief.

I was in such a foul mood yesterday, that the hammer to a norton display made my day.

Manager that was there at the time (all copies on the display were to be locked up) saw me with the hammer and said "Look out! lordlundar's snapped!" I said "damn straight!" and had my fun.

I'm also the store's Entertainment DIF (Destroy In Field) officer. Basically, I round up stuff that's on a DIF list, make sure I've got them all, have a manager double check and make the change in the system, and proceed to wreck said product beyond use.

[Argabarga]

Somewhere, and I don't remember where, but it was quoted in the news that when asked who has a job they're the happiest with, some of the folks who always rank near the top are people in the demolitions industry wonder why?

[Ree]

One year, when all those talking decorations and animals were the rage, we had an entire section of the store set up with them.

By Christmas, we got in another shipment of these really annoying candles that played songs, and there was an island set up in the middle of the store.
Those damn things would play all day long.
There were some set as motion activated, and some had to be turned on with a switch.

There was one in my returns, and we got credit on it. (I think there was a short in it, and it wouldn't shut off on its own.)

I announced to staff that we got credit for it, and were ordered to "destroy in field". I said they were welcome to take out their frustrations on it.
One of the clerks took a sledge hammer, and we set the candle in the middle of the staff parking lot and people took turns pounding the crap out of it.

It was hilarious because the sound kept going until the end when the guy finally drove the sledge through the speaker and then the power box, breaking the wires off.

There was this stupid candle in various stages of destruction with "Jingle Bells" and "Deck the Halls", and several other Christmas tunes playing off and on. It switched to a different song every time it got whacked.
I was wishing someone had made a video of it.

[JustADude]

One of the clerks took a sledge hammer, and we set the candle in the middle of the staff parking lot and people took turns pounding the crap out of it.

Whyfore am I picturing Officespace?

[AFpheonix]

Could have been worse . See http://www.snopes.com/critters/disposal/whale.htm for an example (note: I disagree with the stated year, since I have a clear memory of seeing news coverage of this event in the early 1990s and laughing about it with my grandfather. I was born in 1969, so would not remember 1970 news events).

They did a 20 year anniversary thing in 1990, so that's why it was all over the news again then. Sigh...Oregon: land of the exploding whale, the Rajnishis, Tanya Harding, and the Oregon Vortex.

Good thing they learned their lesson so they didn't try to blow this one up

[Seanette]

They did a 20 year anniversary thing in 1990, so that's why it was all over the news again then. Sigh...Oregon: land of the exploding whale, the Rajnishis, Tanya Harding, and the Oregon Vortex.

Good thing they learned their lesson so they didn't try to blow this one up

I suppose it could have been anniversary coverage, but if memory serves (after ca. 15 years, not necessarily a good bet ) the newspaper story I saw read as if this were a new event.