Originally Posted by cordoba

I did something similar during my first summer break at university.

Absolutely mind numbing. And all my fellow workers (most of them working there since their teens) would talk about was their cheap once a year two week long vacation they'd saved up all year for. Whilst I was there, I saw a woman get her hands mangled in a machine.

I was from a poor background, so I had to do it out of necessity. I was at a really posh university, and most of my classmates were on vacation to exotic locations with their Daddies' money. When the people at the factory learnt I was at a top university, they started cold-shouldering me because they thought I was a snob trying to live like a prole.

Then I had to go back and face the private school educated Marxist poseurs in tutorials, talking about the exploitation of the proletariat whilst they looked down on me for being poor and having an accent.