2006-03-07
oo ooh that smell
We work for an inventory company temporarily until our summer jobs at the lake start. I am not sure why we are supposed to be counters right now, but there is the exersize. We do we do this one pharmacy every month. This place is an effin madhouse. We used to do it when it was open, but now do it after normal operating hours. Thank God. It is otherwise brutal.
I am not a big pill fan and less so when back in 88 I think I worked for national water main, when after a rather lame day, was requested to do a little run, and was sent to a pharmaceutical plant, because the liquid starch base used to make their pills, had solidified or what I knew then was gelled. We were sent with a super vacuum truck, a monster of like 45 tons, with its own engine for the vacuum. 4" flex suction hose was laid and taped waiting for us. To give you an Idea of the power, we were suctioning through 175' of 4" and up 40' to the 2nd floor. We broke up this starch with a shovel and sucked it into our truck, cleaning the entire tank in under 2 hours. Then we had to drive from this new jersey plant to another in Pennsylvania, which was The company's lab where it would determined who did what and how. Of course after suctioning it, and it driving in our truck... This starch was liquid again. When we got to the lab site, they had no place for us to dump it and had no idea we were coming. We could not per our instruction leave without emptying the entire truck, so after 2 hours, we were greeted by 2 55 gal drums, when we had like 2000 gals.... So we sat there in Penn, 6 hours from our office, and another 6 hours toget home in Upstate NY, waiting for something, anything. We waited 4 hours until we were told to fill the drums and dump the rest in the pool next to it that had signs that said not to. We could have at that point cared less, and were hurrying to get it done before someone said to stop. All this time we had to smell it. That starchy pill smell. Just like when we inventory the pharmacy
We work for an inventory company temporarily until our summer jobs at the lake start. I am not sure why we are supposed to be counters right now, but there is the exersize. We do we do this one pharmacy every month. This place is an effin madhouse. We used to do it when it was open, but now do it after normal operating hours. Thank God. It is otherwise brutal.
I am not a big pill fan and less so when back in 88 I think I worked for national water main, when after a rather lame day, was requested to do a little run, and was sent to a pharmaceutical plant, because the liquid starch base used to make their pills, had solidified or what I knew then was gelled. We were sent with a super vacuum truck, a monster of like 45 tons, with its own engine for the vacuum. 4" flex suction hose was laid and taped waiting for us. To give you an Idea of the power, we were suctioning through 175' of 4" and up 40' to the 2nd floor. We broke up this starch with a shovel and sucked it into our truck, cleaning the entire tank in under 2 hours. Then we had to drive from this new jersey plant to another in Pennsylvania, which was The company's lab where it would determined who did what and how. Of course after suctioning it, and it driving in our truck... This starch was liquid again. When we got to the lab site, they had no place for us to dump it and had no idea we were coming. We could not per our instruction leave without emptying the entire truck, so after 2 hours, we were greeted by 2 55 gal drums, when we had like 2000 gals.... So we sat there in Penn, 6 hours from our office, and another 6 hours toget home in Upstate NY, waiting for something, anything. We waited 4 hours until we were told to fill the drums and dump the rest in the pool next to it that had signs that said not to. We could have at that point cared less, and were hurrying to get it done before someone said to stop. All this time we had to smell it. That starchy pill smell. Just like when we inventory the pharmacy
