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Flies in the face of reason
It’s the last week for the employee humiliation nominations this week, and already we’re tingling with excitement, because soon we will be compiling the shortlist and requesting your votes.
This week: ‘In the summer of 1976 I was on a temporary assignment at an ICI crop and plant research centre – I was assigned to the cellar, where they grew cockroaches and Arabian flies,’ says Helen George, who now no longer does this job, surprisingly.
She was shown how to catch flies, sex them and breed pupae, and left to get on with it.
‘A week later I was sent to check on my maggots. It was dark and the light switch was half way into the room. As I walked there, I felt a squishy feeling underfoot. When I reached the light I discovered I was on a two-inch-deep carpet of maggots, with a waterfall of maggots flooding from the bowls on to the floor.’ Yes, it was a joke they liked to play.
She spent the day cleaning them up, and now works in database software. Next week: we pick three finalists, and you get to vote.
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