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“ | We deal in things here that cannot be explained with simple languages. You may see some things unexplainable. THIS IS normally placed! What we do is good for people, and much people will be effect by our product. This is exciting potential for all our client and employee. You will never have experience of such dynamic and friendship anywhere else, I can guarantee. | „ |
~ Stuff Industry's CEO Petter Vangen. |
Stuff Industry is a recurring organization in the SCP Foundation series. It was a small company infamous of being comprised of incompetent and dumb people who just worked on various things without any real collaboration and somehow created a variety of anomalous products that often endangered their buyers. Despite this, the company truly meant to do good, with the CEO Petter Vangen considering his employees like a family and working tirelessly to make things work.
History[]
Stuff Industry was founded by rich former salesman from Denmark Petter Vangen after his old clothing manufacturing business was sold in Indonesia. Around 1982 he founded a new company that would become Stuff Industry, originally named Vangen Thing LLC, in Australia. It was claimed that he founded it alongside his brother Sigurd Vangen who held a few properties in Malaysia, but no evidence suggested he ever existed, and following his alleged disappearance in 1985 Petter was heavily affected by this, becoming seriously mentally ill, his mind receding to that of a child. Vangen went on to hire random people to work in his company, most of which had no real experience, and despite this they were able to create various anomalous products to sell. They managed to profit successfully, but in 1989 Stuff Industry filed for bankruptcy due to Vangen being accused for fraud, embezzlement, forum shopping, securities fraud and liability issues, though he wasn't persecuted any further.
Years later, the Manna Charitable Foundation came across several of Stuff Industry's products and seeing them as useful for helping poor lives, sent Martina Bauer, alternatively know as Spiffy Dodger, to investigate the former employees. She managed to track down several influential workers and even bring in new useful products. However, she hit a dead end after confronting Vangen himself, due to the latter's mental affliction. The investigation ended there as all of the employees had been interviewed while most of the products had been completely lost.
Organization[]
Stuff Industry was comprised of tenths of people, mostly incompetent individuals. The company was separated in the offices, the labs, and the Board of Directors. The offices were tasked with handling negotiations and lawsuits among other things, while the labs were the most important part as they created the company's various products through unknown means and often involving experimental subjects, both of which barely communicated with each other. The Board of Directors was comprised of random people with almost no experience in business. These included Qian Hao-Li, Paget Chevalier, Mr. Tobes, Fateh and Ali Singh Khan, Mr. Wiesz, Mr. Fjordsson, Mr. Black and Mr. White. At the top of the company was Petter Vangen who founded the company and apparently was one of the few most competent workers, working from seven in the morning to seven in the afternoon and giving orders to the Board who in turn consigned them to either the offices or the labs. Apart from that the company was largely disorganized and in disarray, shocking even the employees themselves on how they managed to keep it going for so long and profit from their lazy and useless work.
Relationship with anomalous factions[]
The SCP Foundation had come across several of the Industry's products, but failed to learn more about it. On the other hand the Stuff Industry appeared to have sent spies in various Foundation facilities, but surprisingly for well intentions.
Following the dissolution of Stuff Industry, the Manna Charitable Foundation decided to investigate its employees for their products as it saw some of them as beneficial for the poor people, but didn't find much expect for the pills and robots.
SCPs associated with Stuff Industry[]
- SCP-1934: A phenomenon caused by SCP-2021 that prevents anyone from entering Dr. Jaime Marlowe's empty office in which the lights and a fan continue working regardless of electricity being present or not, no atmosphere seemingly being present and biological matter not rotting. At some point, people seemingly belonging to Stuff Industry wearing hazmat suits entered the office to drop mutilated corpses resembling Dr. Marlowe before noticing that they were being observed by a camera at which point they quickly left, never to return. Stuff Industry itself was unaware of this incident, and upon learning of it the company recalled its embedded employees from the Foundation sites they had infiltrated.
- SCP-2021: Sheets of paper with one side being normal looking while the other is invisible and see through, appearing as empty space, being labelled as "single-sided papers" manufactured by Stuff Industry. The paper appeared to be of interdimensional nature, since when interacting with them mirror duplicates of objects and people could be taken through the sheets. These papers appeared to have caused SCP-1934 as the rotting smell from the bodies was present in the room where Dr. Marlowe experimented with them.
- SCP-2058: A tall humanoid robot constructed of high-strength polymer, carbon nanotubes, reinforced fibers and epoxy, speakers, a retractable chest cavity containing a bowl-shaped opening, and a sheath of galvanized steel. It is capable of inserting metallic objects inside its cavity in which they disappeared without a trace, and occasionally gave terrible advices of criminal and nonsensical nature. It was built along side other robots by Stuff Industry's employee Sarah McGregor, named Smith Jim after her late brother, and originally intended it to be just a toy that gave helpful advices but was further changed to possess smithing capabilities. This instance was recovered by the Foundation from a shipwreck, while the other robots that were left with MacGregor were given to the Manna Charitable Foundation.
- SCP-2077: Pills advertised by Stuff Industry as panacea, comprised completely of random rubbish and if taken apart then they would lose their effects. When ingested whole the consumer's ill body parts would disintegrate while a replacement one regenerated, purging all illness from that part. The parts replaced varied from fingernails to entire bodies, and could even cure mental illnesses, though it also caused the consumer to dissociate from their new parts.
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Trivia[]
- It was suggested out-of-universe that SCP-1441, a automatic paper towel dispenser powered by a cold fusion battery, could have also been created by Stuff Industry, but it was written by a different author and no connection had been established.