 Chimet was subject to an inquiry for "anti-people activities", and sentenced to work as a lathe operator for a worker cooperative.Soon after, he was moved to what was considered a lower position, that of copy-editor for Centrocoop commercials, an office whose equivalent in capitalist countries was that of copywriter (Chimet was thus one of Romania's first persons to have this job description after World War II).It was in this field that he gained first-hand experience in marketing, which was to prove an important theme in some of his essays.