So, i work for a government contractor, in a building that used to be an assembly line for the gun turrets of the Bradley APC.
To shift the factory over to an engineering company, they divided up the building from one big, long, empty vault, to a big, long, empty vault with little buildings here and there. Inside the little buildings, you have offices and carpeting and partitioned cubicles. Between the little buildings are odd spaces, dusty equipment, cranes, power and air connections for equipment that's no longer here, flooring where the linoleum is worn out in a path going around workbenches that have been removed, floors warped from the weight of the assembly line, and an area that's either where they parked leaky forklifts or performed dark sacrifices, no one's sure. They mostly maintain or remodel the office areas and pretend the 'between' spaces will be updated by osmosis....
One of our newest interns complained about how the school he attends is of recent manufacture and modern design, while he works "in a building that, from the outside, looks like a place where they might have filmed the movie Saw.'
He expected sympathy, i guess. Wrong business.
"You think it looks like a Saw setting from the outside?" I asked. "I take it no one's shown you the hallway going past the old welder's locker room? Come on, you gotta see this."
Someone mentioned another part of the building where he always thought they'd filmed 8-legged freaks....
Now the intern's afraid to go anywhere alone. I've started calling him 'Bart,' for that Simpson's episode where Bart kept mumbling 'Can't sleep, clown'll eat me. Can't sleep, clown'll eat me.' I'm trying to figure a way to play the JAWS theme near his desk...
