I used to write copy, & manuals for product joe, so find great annoyance re-doing useless lazy inept, feckless marketing depts job, ..seems to be an easy job for the well dressed incompetents, ..wind turbine projects aint cheap, the marketing dept seem oblivious of the millions involved & what is a reasonable expectation of service for a commodity that will be a "rinse & repeat" set up but requires a blizzard of small scale individual investment at source for each new scheme
I have also had to make valuable warehousing space en masse for literal tonnes of non proof read marketing blurb, which they then conveniently "forgot about" for the best part of 3 years, bad marketing people are a fecking liabilty.the cost to us was far more than the eventual carting away to the dump as the individual tonnage meant it had to be carefully placed even for a big capable, then rare double depth high bay forklift.
The same goiters who would pop over at 5.15pm & expect you to "urgently" remove said tonnage from high bay without notice & load their car with either a ridiculously little sheaf of marketing or many boxes into a hire truck
..the only revenge was to dump the pallet in a far corner say "help yourself" & run away, ..they'd be miffed, dirty frim dust, complain to my immediate boss, who would then point out that warehousing needs to be kept clear, roller doors shut because "no heating" & that Angus was actually doing them a favour even getting a pallet out because warehousing was definitely not his job as an engineer, seeing as he'd be putting in 5 more hours in a work day unpaid before going home.
NB. eeventually I got movement on the stagnant 50 pallets of badly written copy by having a word with accounts, dear old "col" who worked with me when sent to troubleshoot failing firms for months at a time, ..& a man who would get mucky & lift stuff with us, "it's expensive product in expensive space that is hindering us colin, can you grief them for me please, ..Ok Gus, i'll make something up, ..my own theoretical boss was to weak compared to a northern accoutant & a penny pinching scot, we got it down to less than 15 pallets retained & the marketing was told to "do the effing lifting walk it into the bin lorry by themselves"
Our poor warehousing lad was ecstatic, it made his daily job far less frustrating & inherently safer in the aisles.
They were too lazy to follow up with our professional product reviewers, & too timid to creatively "ask for kit back" because they knew not how to deal with people being a "slot in, one size fits all" ..which is in part why our service dept won plaudits & awards collectively & as individuals because we sold to individuals & distribution every day with fast reacting technical assistance for joe bloggs.
A writer reviewer they failed to understand lived in a house choked with kit, so the best approach was to cold call & "see if they needed to make space or not" ..basic sales put into practise that got me several hundred thousand of on paper, & filing shelf space, regularly audited loan kit through the system & kept sales & accounts happy, ..but another job "marketing" deemed below them, making non existent draughting tweaks to packaging that didnt warrant change for a decade or more
Marketing bullshitters, too a man "so busy"
..the department who go home on time, attended award ceremonies "on our behalf" & never offered to get their hands dirty handballing their stuff or the firms on a truck. ..which I used to in my expensive loakes just daring my floating clot on the brain to put in an appearance
With apologies to the few genuinely hard working creatives repping brands out there.
Not bitter, me mam couldnt afford to pay for me to live in london, & work for advertising firms for free when I was a yoof.