Explore A Green Option For Unused Inventory

I've worked a few places that were literally drowning in old never going to be used again inventory but there was no way in hell the ownership would part with it given they valued it at former sales value and then some even though it was now obsolete worthless junk that took up loads of needed space.

Yet oddly enough they had zero issue with selling off items of company equipment and gear ( good company vehicles and fabrication floor equipment that was regularly used only to replace it with cheap worn out junk later) at substantial losses whenever they felt they needed some extra cash flow to pay for the owners or his useless kids vacations or most recent legal troubles.

You seem to have really bad luck finding a job that meets your particular disposition.

Family owned businesses are always a problem after the owners kids grow up and are used to being spoiled little rich kids. The present first family-elect being a perfect example of this.

There are ways to soften the blow of unsellable inventory, at least at tax time, there's not much you can do about spoiled brats.

Obsolete managers have little or no real value to anyone but the bar or liquor store.

I found a few but circumstances well beyond my control ended them.

Departments were shut down, company went out of business, company moved, company shut down until business picked up.

That represents 4 jobs i had that I probably would have made long term careers out of if I had any say in things.

As far as rich kids inheriting the business not all are bad. One of my good friends has largely took over the multi million dollar business his dad built and he is an all around good guy that has never acted like he is worth millions let a one better than anyone else because of it.

But yea he does not represent a majority by any stretch of the imagination.

Try working in a University, where the Academic's buy huge expensive 'the latest thing' toys, play with them for a year or two (often less) then want to buy the next 'latest thing', but cannot sell the last toy as it's still 'owned' by the funder of the research. Then there's the 'it'll come in useful one day' Academic who will never dispose of anything, even though it's 10 years past it's final write-down/write-off and hasn't been used in many more years, and all too often is broken as well. Then they 'discover' e-bay and buy even more Components Required (for) Another Project, because it's cheap and it might be good for spares if nothing else!

D R E A M J O B!

If the buildings had elastic sides perhaps... But as they don't the academics and their 'teams' find ways of sneaking stuff into plant space, so when a major piece of building infrastructure needs maintenance its buried in Components Required Another Project.