In the Fall I was home again for another work quarter; they're not as distinct in my mind as the school quarters, so I'll share some general remembrances of co-workers and tasks I performed.
My boss at Cyanamid was Paul, a Penn State alum. Behind his back, one of the engineers referred to him as "Gruff But Lovable Gus" (per the driver of the NBC Bookmobile on Late Night With David Letterman) as a nod to both his demeanor and his appearance - think of young Homer Simpson (big guy, full head of hair, moderate belly), then add glasses. His boss was a guy named Bob who looked like Steve Martin.
The engineers were mostly white guys in their twenties and thirties. Though also white and 30ish, Carolyn was an exception - as a woman with dwarfism, she was a demographic outlier; I admired her gumption. There were a couple of female co-op students (including a Ben Franklin alum) who worked in other areas in the plant; one time we attended Jazz Fest as a group, but overall we didn't socialize much.
One of my tasks was to select and hang safety posters in the plant control room. My favorites were those featuring Herman (the single-panel comic strip), but there were many types. I once received a suggestion from one of the plant operators regarding what should be on the posters: attractive women YES, [black people] NO. When the opportunity presented itself, I hung a poster featuring an attractive black woman, hoping that the sexism/racism conflict would break his brain.
Though for most of my tenure I had a (fairly small) room to myself, one quarter I had to share it with Pat, a contractor who smoked in the office (UGH). To avoid his cigarette pollution, I gravitated toward outdoor tasks, and donned my hard hat, safety glasses, and steel-toe rubber boots at any opportunity ("I need some fresh air - time to head out into the chemical plant!"). One such project was documenting the plant infrastructure by creating Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams ("P&IDs") - graphical representations of the pipes, valves, gauges, tanks, etc. that made up the facility. I enjoyed figuring out how to best organize the lines indicating the chemical flows; I later adapted that skill set to draw video/audio signal flow diagrams for Texas Student TV.