Weed Jar
Posted in Gossip on 08/12/2005 07:16 am by enjanerdDuring one of my summers home, I got tired of sitting around being unemployed. I went around on a job hunt for a little while before settling on a data entry job at a medical lab. This happened to be the medical lab where my mom used to work, but I totally got that job on my own… ;)
The specimens arrived at the lab in boxes on the conveyor belt. They were unloaded and sent down another conveyor belt for the lab technicians to sort and label. Then, the forms and labels came to me to be entered into the database. It was pretty mundane work and there was no internet or games to play when there was a lull. Most of the time I would just bring a book and read for half the day and work the other half. The daytime shift was usually the slowest, so I was the only data entry clerk there. I would talk with the lab technicians or go around trying to do other people’s work, but I got in trouble because I wasn’t “qualified” to feed papers into their scanner or something like that.
The specimens that came through were usually only one of a few different types: blood, stool, urine. Every once in a while they have something else in the mix, like hair, bile or other fluids. But one day, there was a big stir when something came out of the box at the first conveyor belt. It was definitely something out of the ordinary because people actually seemed excited about seeing what it was. You really can’t say that about a stool sample. This sample was in a medium-sized mason jar. Now, that by itself is weird for a medical lab. Samples are supposed to come in vials or hermetically sealed bags or something. Not in mason jars. But that aside, it was obviously the plant inside the mason jar that was attracting the attention. One of the supervisors noticed the commotion and had to get up to the front and take care of that sample herself. I guess, there was a possibility that someone might try to steal it? Anyway, I can’t confirm or deny the contents of the jar, since I didn’t see the results after it was tested. But it seemed pretty obvious to the people trying to get their hands on the jar that it was filled with weed.