Amazing AmGen

AmGen is a pharmaceutical company that also deals with other medical technologies. Today I temped for them.

Aside from the cleanliness, it was pretty pedestrian. A team of 4 loaded bags of bottles onto a conveyor, where people cleaner than we (well, they looked cleaner) opened the first bag and placed it on another conveyor, and finally another (yet cleaner... he didn't look human any more) opened the bags and placed them on a huge conveyor that sent bottles around in a marathon until one lucky bottle was chosen to be infected with some cell they hoped would grow for future use ("e" cells, is what I was told).

Others were impressed by the security, but it seemed fairly relaxed to me. Granted, it was a Saturday. They made sure the doors were locked and patrolled the grounds at regular intervals. Really large ventalation shafts in the roof and through the warehousing (with scaffolding reaching up to the ventalation shafts, conveniently) suggested a way in. The only reason they seemed pretty secure is that I can't imagine a reason to break in. Everything I saw was of such little retail value, or so specialized, that it would be hard to find a buyer that didn't already have one.

It was pretty clean.

Oh, and don't drink ethanol. It says so on the bottle.