A clerk destroyed scientific documents to escape workplace tedium
Evidence
After only weeks of the tedium, I began to carry an extra large purse to work and stuff it full of files, and then dump them in the trash on my lunch hour and then again after work. They never caught me at that, but I did finally get fired for baking banana peels in the chemists’ oven, and I also was accused of selling drugs to my coworkers on my lunch hour. My supervisor assumed the joints I rolled with “mellow yellow” were illegal, and he said if I didn’t leave the premises immediately, he would report me to the police. I knew I could not be arrested for selling or smoking banana peels, but nonetheless I took this as a sign from the Universe to get my ass back to Los Angeles, where I could resume the life of a junior college student majoring in Theater Arts by day and a part time topless dancer by night. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 136
Categorization
- CANDY: The ‘mellow yellow’ banana peel panic and document-dumping scheme is a fun, self-contained story about pre-computer office absurdity.
- XREF: connects to: Colonial archives deliberately destroyed documents deemed too sensitive or lowly to preserve