Analyse af 'The Sandwich Factory'

“The Sandwich Factory”- Jason KennedyThe story is called “The Sandwich Factory”. It’s about a man, who finds a work at a sandwich factory. Everyone has their own thing to do in the factory and go through the same routine every day. We only hear that they go to work, get locked in and go home again when they’re done. It’s why I’ve chosen to focus on the mechanization of human beings. It pretty much describes the world we are in today. Maybe a little too extreme but true in many ways. We, people go to work every day. Usually do some of the same things and then go home again. Many people go to work, to earn money, not because they like it. So does the guy in the story. He works with a mad kid, who shows up with a knife all the time, a woman described as a whore and a boss, who locks in the workers, if they are behind schedule and I don’t think any human would enjoy working there.It’s shown in the text, how every work day is. “The work was carried out beside a conveyor belt. Sandwiches came along the conveyor belt. Dot was “on bread”, splitting loaves and setting the pace for the other workers. Each of us would be there with an ingredient [….] the managers would lock everyone in if we were behind schedule or there was a larger order than usual.” The conveyor belt, which is mentioned a lot in the text, can be a symbol of their work. Something is carried up on the belt and then it goes round and round every day. The persons in the story are all described as a little crazy. There’s a guy with a knife, showing up. “I worked at a sandwich factory where a mad kid worked. He would leer through a hatch and wave a knife at me. One day he ran after my car waving a knife.” This is the first time we hear about the mad kid. We already get a bad first impression of him here. A woman described as a whore “[…] she would’ve been an excellent pirate, giving blow jobs on the high seas and making all the pirates sandwiches. […] so Dot gave blow jobs in and around The Embassy, a seedy nightclub she went to each week.” and a boss who locked in the workers. “Locked doors were a feature of the sandwich factory. The managers would lock everyone in if we were behind schedule” I think they act so weird, because they do the same things every day and they are forced to do it. “There were three ways to respond to being locked in. Firstly, no response, keep working at the same rate. Or start working faster, so the job would finish sooner and the doors would reopen. Or finally, accept that you were here till the end, and slow down, collecting more pay. It sounds like everyone could get a job at the sandwich factory, because it was so horrible to work there. An example could be “Most people left before they made it through a week. “ It sounds like a prison. I believe that, the job at the sandwich factory has turned all the workers into some kind of zombies. They get locked in, if they’re behind schedule and that might have shocked a lot of them in the beginning and then I would think they took it as normal, afterwards. They might do, but they still seem affected, the way they act both at job and in their spare time.