I Hid My Boss’s Photography Equipment in a STORAGE UNIT... then LEGALLY BOUGHT It at an Auction

Am I the Jerk?

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

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0:00.0	I hid my boss's photography equipment in a storage unit, then bought it at an auction, so I legally owned it.
0:08.8	I worked for The Company. They did three-phase photography, family and children photography,
0:15.2	no weddings or events or anything, straight studio work that was in a portable setting.
0:20.5	Settings booked for 10 minutes,
0:22.2	and we were supposed to shoot 30 to 50 a day. Yes, it's as wretched a job as it sounds. It was fast,
0:29.4	high energy, and at times simply brutal. There are three stages of the work. First, the pre-seller.
0:36.5	They come in two to three weeks in advance and sell
0:39.1	a special 10 by 13 portrait and book the appointment. Then comes the photography. That's me in
0:45.9	this instance. I come in for about a week and take the pictures. Then the salesperson returns
0:51.2	two weeks later with the special along with the six other poses I took and
0:55.6	tries to sell you $400 worth of pictures. I was very good at my part. The company sales average
1:02.3	was about $100 per customer, per 50 customers. The more you shoot, the lower your quality,
1:08.4	because you spend less time taking care of the details, and
1:11.7	details sell pictures. My average was about $175 per 150 to 200 customers. I was making this
1:20.0	company a lot of money, and they consistently treated me like crap. Oh, the stories I have.
1:27.4	Their business model was shoot as many sittings as you can,
1:30.8	as fast as you can. To them, shooting 50 with $100 average was better than shooting 35 with a
1:37.5	$150 average, even though the profit margin was exactly the same. I never agreed with that,
1:44.0	and Boss and I went round and round
1:46.0	about it every week. They withheld raises because I didn't have enough sittings and took my bonuses
1:51.8	because I wasn't meeting their quotas. So I figured out how to be fast, efficient and damn good.
1:58.3	But that's another post entirely. So that's the background. Now the good stuff.
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