I look up and saw that crates of glass bottles have formed a train with innumerable bogies running at a moderate speed on tracks designed especially for them.
It was really amazing! There were huge tanks almost everywhere with different markings on them. Rolls of tin sheets were lying here and there,huge cylinders of CO2, and the most important thing – uncountable bottles of slice, pepsi, mountain dew, aquafina!
I will surely try flicking some bottles in the next fifteen days, or if possible a whole crate!
Miss Mukti ordered her assistant to take me to the microbiology lab. One thing was really funny about all the people present there – they were wearing SHOWER CAPS! Yes! It was a shower cap. I really didn’t want to ask them if they had any particular name for it. As of for me, it was a shower cap. From workers to officers, from sweepers to managers, all of them were wearing it just for a formality as half of their hair was out of the cap. It really didn’t matter to them if the consumers get a hair strand in their drink.
I had to cross 3 doors to reach the lab inside the plant. After entering the first door, there was a warning in red to get our hands sanitized. At the 3rd door, there was a warning for wearing hand gloves, caps, lab coats & toe-covers. But to my amazement the guard didn’t ask me to do any of the tasks mentioned nor did he do it.
I entered the lab. I saw men and women working, performing different experiments on the beverages. The lab had all possible apparatus required. But one thing to which my attention was drawn to was that even these people were not wearing lab coats and toe-covers. I wonder if they had sanitized their hands or not. Still, they didn’t forget one thing – SHOWER CAPS! :D
I don’t know why I was scared.
Scared of being questioned and judged!!! This is my first exposure in an industry, so this nervousness was quiet obvious! I introduced myself in a very low pitch. Several questions were asked – what my name was? Where was I from? What I aspired to become? Why I chose biotechnology as my career? I felt like they were never ending!
I was made to sit on a chair for about an hour or so, and wait for the lab-incharge, Mr.Sandeep, to come and assign me work.
The best and the most funniest part of the day – While I was waiting, the people working there offered me a lemon yellow coloured drink in a beaker. They were calling it Mountain dew.