the job.
Summer? I guess I should recap b4 I forget.
The job: I need $ 4 Costa Rica right. (goin abroad in the winter 2 study in the tropical dry forest for 5 weeks)
So I take an internship at Wyeth. And I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
It was a dark and stormy night. I go down to the plant and they take me into this room with no windows and a broken florescent light above my head. And in this room there are files. Hundreds and hundreds of mammoth 6 inch files.
And in these files, there are documents
Hundreds
Of thousands
Of documents
And in these documents there are staples. Millions
And millions
Of staples.
And my job this summer was 2 pull out
Every
One
And these are not your normal human staples either. They are uber stables from the realm beyond.
You got your phase 1 staples- alligator clip ‘em ::snap:: there, got it - easily vanquishable.
Phase 2 staples: wedge and level required
Phase 3: *warning virtually inexterminable* wire cutters and pliers required.
Tomorrow I my need 2 bring in a blast shield and blow torch
This is a treacherous job as well. Often wile levering said staples out, they would be launched around the room at unrecordable velocities making audible ::PING:: noises as they ricocheted off of opposite angles of the enclosure.
I started putting all the vanquished staples in a box. And since they’re hook shaped, they all stick together in a wad about the size of a melon. This metallic sculpture somehow seems to mirror the mosaic of corporate culture.
Luckily I escaped to a computer every so often and organized Frisbee outings for all interns every day at the local park. So at our lunch brake I drove whoever showed, Usually only greg bassel and Stephanie Johnson, to the ramapo children’s park and played some Frisbee - thank god 4 them or I would have crossed that fine line between genius and insanity a long time ago.
Luckily I never crossed over and I’m still safely on the side, of insanity.
Line of the summer: “you have a horse face. No I don’t mean your face looks like a horse’s face, I mean your face, looks like an entire horse!”