420 down and only 80 to go
There’s something almost revitalizing about unpacking 500 DVDs from their cases and placing them onto spindles over the course of the longest 4 hours of your life so that they can be shipped more cost-effectively to France. Eventually, the mind-numbing becomes so intense that it goes all the way back around to being stimulating again, you know? But then you remember how someone, or more likely some machine, spent just as many hours wrapping them and packaging them so efficiently in the first place and how someone will probably be repackaging them again once they get to Europe and the frustration at the thought that all this could have been avoided if they had just shipped these damn things directly to France without so many mutually destructive steps in between becomes simply too much to bear.
gaa!
June 21st, 2005 at 11:19 pm
there’s a kind of point when your arms learn the process and can kind of do the work themselves, but then really quickly they just quit and decide to not cooperate at all.
My muscles are seizing at even the thought of your description.
Also, your task and the details surrounding it sound ridiculous.