Co-Workers in the Den of Iniquity
So when I was moved to my current plant several months ago, I met a lot of new people. One guy that kind of stuck out was this old dude who worked not far down the line from me. Had his head shaved on the sides and back with the top grown long and worn in a pony tail. And this dude was old. Had the tats too, but that’s pretty standard for the Den of Iniquity. Us with the inkless hides are in the minority, I think.
Anyway, he’s a really nice guy. Friendly, liked to joke with me, we got along fine. Then one day this week he didn’t show up for work.
“He called in sick” is what we heard first. Then a rumor went around that he pointed out and was fired. No, a foreman said, he hasn’t been fired. But the next day he didn’t show up either.
Then another rumor started to go around. Seemed pretty far-fetched at first, but turns out that it was true.
Oops!
He was arrested for running a meth lab!
Yep, these are the people I work with.
10 Responses
September 15th, 2005 at 10:38 pm
The darker the den, the brighter your light can shine!
EG
September 16th, 2005 at 12:19 am
In Eugene this week a man riding bike down the street with three marajuana plants under his arm was smiling real big when a cop stopped him. Later the grower reported three plants stolen!
Aunt Lou
September 16th, 2005 at 12:36 am
Hey Tom, Sunday when we were at your Grandpa Krabills I was making the bed. As I smoothed the quilt something caught my attention. A bright red car with the engine sticking above the hood and black smoke trailing out behind to match the black flame design on the body. Somehow it looked familiar! Was the car you featured on your August 1 post titled “ITF Art Critque” the one you had drawn in 1983 to be transferred in embroidery on the 40th anniversary quilt? It was even signed in neat stitches “Thomas”. It’s enlightening when an adult can expound on their childhood dreams.
Auntie Lou
September 16th, 2005 at 8:12 am
What, exactly, does your factory make?
September 16th, 2005 at 11:56 am
is there a connection between your co-worker and your addiction to ice tea?
September 16th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Tom, it sounds to me like you work in a typical work environment in the good (sic) old USA.
Many of the people that I work around at the Lowes store here have tats also.
Mostly the women.
A few guys, but seems like the women, especially the young ones are into skin ink. Along with the tats is the metal jewelry piercing about everything that you can see, ears of course, eye brows, lips, tongue, and if they did not have to cover it up, probably the umbiquitious belly button thingy.
Lowes had to issue a dress code to keep most of the tats, etc covered up, along with love handles, etc, and outlawed dangling jewelry for safety.
Unless a person is blessed enough to be employed by and with other Christians, this will be normal at the job place, especially in plants that make things or warehouse environments. At least Lowes has a dress code of sorts and bans all smoking on their property by workers and in the building by all, and has a drug testing program for all that work there.
I guess that your now incarcerated former co-worker was just building up his retirement savings with the meth lab. Quite a money maker that *crank*; it is a regular reason for arrest in this area.
I wonder, did you, your older co-worker, or others, ever have drug testing or would your company lose all the workers if they did? Excepting you, of course, I do not think iced tea is addictive, unless it is of the Long Island Iced Tea variety! And that probably would not show up on a drug test anyway. {:^)
September 16th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Dave, all his coworkers are hooked on crack, meth, heroin, alcohol, etc, but he’s a good Christian and is just hooked on Iced Tea.
September 16th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Aunt Lou: Oh my goodness, I forgot all about that! You’re right! I don’t know if that is the exact same piece of art, but it’s definitely from the same series.
Hans: these.
Dave B: None whatsoever.
Truthseeker: Ah yes, suffice it to say that if the company required passing through metal detectors half of the work force would be detained!
Yes, we have a random drug testing policy. I don’t know how often they randomly test though or how many have been canned. Earlier this year there was a guy who. . . wait a minute. I’m going to just post it later!
Hans: That’s right!
September 16th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Tom, you will find lots of those kind of people in the “working class.” I used to be a production welder and work at a few extremely bad and dangerous working environments. There is one job that was so bad that I quit after beening with them for only three days. The company didn’t do drug test, so I assumed what the company was like, and I was right- smoking pot and drinking ON THE JOB and who know what else they are on. So I just quit.
It is very dangerous to work around those kind of people, so dont get hurt. I had my close call once because my co-worker was drunk and drop some huge havey metal too close to me, lucky for me, I stepped out of the way just in time. I reported it but it fell on deaf ears. He did get serious hurt(cropped his ear off) about a year later and failed the drug and alcohol tests, but I was working for someone else by that time.
Unfortunate, there are ways to get around the drug tests. Beause of that, I feel that drug test is just a big joke. It isn’t fair for all the clean cut people and christains to work with them.
September 16th, 2005 at 8:54 pm
Tom, Just Say No….
-Ben