I was so irritated over this one, it's taken me a day to compose my thoughts on it.
Yesterday, we get a notice that there's a huge pile of crap with the old company's logo on it.
Well, once it was promotional material.
Now, it's crap .
Why is it crap ? Because:
- It's all crap nobody needs.
- It's ugly.
- Some jerk decided to sit on all this stuff instead of giving it away to customers or potential customers. So instead of it being promotional material, it just gathered dust until it became worthless crap.
I remember having it out with other "promotions" people who sit on hoards of promotional material instead of giving it away to people who wanted it.
I don't own much promotional material from past jobs, because when people asked for it, I gave it away.
Happened a lot at Rodeo Cookoff. I'd help with getting a satellite truck back to the station (Okay, I was drunk off my ass and needed a ride back in a vehicle other than the shuttle bus), and folks would halt us with Stand And Deliver poses.
Being a Nice Guy At Heart, I'd laugh and hand the stuff out.
When I'd ask for more from the promotions material hoarder-in-chief, they'd ask what I did with the stuff they gave me before.
"I gave it away to people to build loyalty," I'd say. "You know... your job?"
Wine ages. Cheese ages.
Promotional material turns into crap.
Sure, I'm going to hold on to an inventory of the magnets for prizes for the Weekly Challenge. I've got envelopes pre-stuffed, Certificates of Dubious Authority printed up, and CD cases with blank CDs ready to burn the archives on to.
But aside from that, but I'm going to keep some with me at all times to give away to folks that want them.
Why?
Because it's promotions material.
And not crap.
So when they went around asking what stuff people wanted, I said "Tampons."
I'm sure somewhere in that pile of crap, they had 'em.