How It All Goes Down
High Voltage
- Piper gets assigned to the electric shop instead.
- Unfortunately the GED program was canceled. The classrooms were overrun by toxic mold, which is not in line with Common Core standards.
- She pretty much has to teach herself how to do everything, so... good thing she can read.
- One day, her boss, Mr. DeSimon, drives Pipes and a few other prisoners out to a pump house… and leaves them there.
- Piper wants to look around, but the other women talk her out of it. One thing you don't want to do in prison is get mistaken for an escapee.
- Mr. DeSimon comes back with brooms for them to clean out the root cellar of the pump house.
- One day, Piper accidentally leaves work with a screwdriver in her belt. That's a weapon.
- She chucks it in the Dumpster and hopes no one finds it. When an air-raid siren goes off, she's afraid they found it and know it's her, but no one ever knows she was briefly armed with such a deadly weapon.
- Over the next few days, Piper makes prison friends, sneaks off to watch television during work, and, when Minetta leaves, gets offered the job of van driver.
- Piper turns it down because that position is notorious for being a prison snitch. (Different than a Golden Snitch.)
- Piper then gets offered another unofficial job: Pop's best friend.
- See, the kitchen diva's BFFP (best friend for prison) Nina is leaving, and she needs a replacement.
- Piper turns down that job, too, because she doesn't want to leave Miss Natalie. B Dorm is her "ghetto home" (6.120).