The place where my company first had its lab, we shared with a biotech
start-up company. This company had this scheme to harvest cannonball
jellyfish and turn them into collogen for cosmetics etc. They would
get huge numbers of these things from shrimpers, dump em into plastic
barrells filled with lye solution. This would stew awhile and then
they did more magic and then they heated the mess. When they did this,
the whole place smelled like a Chinese restaurant gone bad. I'd get to
work on those days and have to call my employees and tell em not to
come to work due to the stench. I dunno if this scheme worked or not
cuz we moveed out.
HOWEVER, it was nothing compared to their perpetual motion chicken
feed. They had another bizarre scheme to take chicken ****, dissolve
it, somehow get the undigested nutrients and protein out of it and make
it back into chicken feed. You have no idea how bad a smell can be
until you've smelled fermented chicken **** stewing. I told em that I
thought this violated the laws of thermodynamics but they didnt listen.
Then there was the anti-cancer treatment that was s'posed to render the
cancer more to radiation treatment. They asked me to write glowing
reports to the feds but it turned out they were having research done in
China on prisoners so I said no way and threatened to call the
authorities. I soon got some very weird calls from China.
The last straw occurred when they acquired a bunch of very large
freezers that I never paid much attention to. One day, one of my
employees walked in with a horrified look on his face and asked me if
this biotech company was into cannabilism or maybe Soylent Green. I
said, "I dunno" and he said "Whatever you do, dont open those
freeezers". I didnt, we moved that week.