'Figure it out': Merchandizer gets back at their manager and a tyrannical back room manager
Merchandizing is one of the oldest professions—wait, maybe that's not the right line… but the trade certainly does teach you a lot about the comings and goings of the working world. Show up on time, take some pride in your work, and you'll do just fine. Add managing unruly clients and battling tyrannical backroom managers to that, and you've got some solid real-world experience.
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For those unfamiliar, merchandizers work for distribution companies to work their company's stock from the backroom and onto the shop's shelves. It has always seemed a bit strange that the stores don't pay their own workers to stock their own shelves, but it makes sense that this system has arisen due to the desire of the distribution company to ensure more sales for their customers in order to move more product. So, merchandisers visit the stores they are assigned at a frequency depending on the requirements of that store, organize their company's product in the back room, and haul pallets of product out to work it onto the floor in order to ensure more sales. Got it? Now you're up to speed.
My second job just out of high school was as a merchandiser, and, as I've mentioned above, I feel that the work was a good representative of life itself. One of the most interesting dynamics of the trade was dealing with the tyrants who were the store's backroom managers. They're essentially the representative of your client, and they love wielding their petty power over their domain with an iron fist. While some of these backroom managers were kind, a great deal more was disrespectful or downright abusive, treating the merchandizers with disdain as if they were something they had trodden in on the bottom of their shoe.
Word about these managers' behavior traveled fast—merchandisers love to talk with one another—and merchandisers from across all companies working in that door would occasionally band together to exact a little revenge via malicious compliance.
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