Life, the Universe, and Everything
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So tired. I was about ready to fall asleep at the fume hood. I had to be up early for a doctor's appointment this morning, and it's thrown my sleep schedule out of whack. But I now have a primary care provider in Sheboygan, and some much needed prescription refills, so all is good. And the doc is all kinds of awesome. We had one of those weird six degrees of separation moments - he used to work with Campus Crusade with a guy involved in the program my parents coordinate who just happened to be in Moscow when I was home for Christmas one year. That's actually how I found Dr. Corrigan's practice. Also in the category of awesome medical stuff, CFC-free inhalers are Teh Win. They work better, they're better for patients and the environment, and they don't taste gross. Yay! Mildly ironic that I had occasion to figure this out within hours of filling the prescription...
Had a staff meeting today at work, those are always fun. We've got a rather goofy group of lab geeks. And the production lab minion who I ranted about a couple of weeks ago (the one who brought us an urgent sample with no notice) is likely to be getting in trouble, if we can find out which one she is. Bringing over urgents with no notice is one thing, bitching at us for things beyond our control is quite another - Tami is NOT personably responsible for the fact that there was no one available to clear the data. Neither is anyone else, for that matter. It happens, we live with it and move on. And there's a reason we didn't respond to her page - we've been telling Maintenance for months that we can't hear pages in the labs. Someone needs to lose their entitlement complex, before we sick Bob on her. No one snarks quite like Bob, and I fangirl him for it. Also brought up my two current pet peeves in the lab. One, I do not leave chemical bottles all over my coworkers' desks; I would appreciate their not leaving them all over mine. Admittedly, my desk is directly below the counter where said chemicals are stored, but it's not really any harder to put them in the cabinet than it is to leave them on the counter, and that's safer, less messy, and not in my way. The other one is actually a fairly major safety issue. There are two hot plates in the RESE hood that almost never get used, and they're older ones, so they don't have indicator lights to tell you they're on. Well, someone was using one last Friday, and didn't turn it off, and I just about put my hand down on it when I went to shut the lab down for the weekend. That would NOT have been cool, pun not intended. I think I know who's responsible for both of those (same person), but I'm not naming names. He's also the one with the blasting heavy metal that sets off my autism and makes me go TWITCH! That also got mentioned at the staff meeting, so hopefully that will solve itself - I'd been delaying talking to the guy about it, since he's actually very nice, and I don't want to hurt his feelings.
Someone needs to have a word with Pro 1 - they brought over paperwork for an urgent, but didn't bring a sample. I don't usually handle Pro 1 stuff, but this stuff just needed an appearance, so I said I'd take care of it. After checking with a co-worker to be sure I wasn't blind and there really was no sample, I went and found Teh Boss. Dawn agreed that there shouldn't be paperwork with no sample. Everything that comes through QC gets an appearance at the very least, so it all has to go through the lab. And the guy in charge of Pro 1 wasn't answering Dawn's page. Sample finally came in several hours later and I went ahead and ran it. Had to pull out the respirator and uber-gloves for that one, carbodiimide is not a friendly chemical - to the tune of "may cause blindness, strong sensitizer, readily absorbed through the skin, respiratory hazard, can be fatal in small doses." I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but that's the gist. So, yeah - not very nice. Let's hear it for PPE.
So tired. I was about ready to fall asleep at the fume hood. I had to be up early for a doctor's appointment this morning, and it's thrown my sleep schedule out of whack. But I now have a primary care provider in Sheboygan, and some much needed prescription refills, so all is good. And the doc is all kinds of awesome. We had one of those weird six degrees of separation moments - he used to work with Campus Crusade with a guy involved in the program my parents coordinate who just happened to be in Moscow when I was home for Christmas one year. That's actually how I found Dr. Corrigan's practice. Also in the category of awesome medical stuff, CFC-free inhalers are Teh Win. They work better, they're better for patients and the environment, and they don't taste gross. Yay! Mildly ironic that I had occasion to figure this out within hours of filling the prescription...
Had a staff meeting today at work, those are always fun. We've got a rather goofy group of lab geeks. And the production lab minion who I ranted about a couple of weeks ago (the one who brought us an urgent sample with no notice) is likely to be getting in trouble, if we can find out which one she is. Bringing over urgents with no notice is one thing, bitching at us for things beyond our control is quite another - Tami is NOT personably responsible for the fact that there was no one available to clear the data. Neither is anyone else, for that matter. It happens, we live with it and move on. And there's a reason we didn't respond to her page - we've been telling Maintenance for months that we can't hear pages in the labs. Someone needs to lose their entitlement complex, before we sick Bob on her. No one snarks quite like Bob, and I fangirl him for it. Also brought up my two current pet peeves in the lab. One, I do not leave chemical bottles all over my coworkers' desks; I would appreciate their not leaving them all over mine. Admittedly, my desk is directly below the counter where said chemicals are stored, but it's not really any harder to put them in the cabinet than it is to leave them on the counter, and that's safer, less messy, and not in my way. The other one is actually a fairly major safety issue. There are two hot plates in the RESE hood that almost never get used, and they're older ones, so they don't have indicator lights to tell you they're on. Well, someone was using one last Friday, and didn't turn it off, and I just about put my hand down on it when I went to shut the lab down for the weekend. That would NOT have been cool, pun not intended. I think I know who's responsible for both of those (same person), but I'm not naming names. He's also the one with the blasting heavy metal that sets off my autism and makes me go TWITCH! That also got mentioned at the staff meeting, so hopefully that will solve itself - I'd been delaying talking to the guy about it, since he's actually very nice, and I don't want to hurt his feelings.
Someone needs to have a word with Pro 1 - they brought over paperwork for an urgent, but didn't bring a sample. I don't usually handle Pro 1 stuff, but this stuff just needed an appearance, so I said I'd take care of it. After checking with a co-worker to be sure I wasn't blind and there really was no sample, I went and found Teh Boss. Dawn agreed that there shouldn't be paperwork with no sample. Everything that comes through QC gets an appearance at the very least, so it all has to go through the lab. And the guy in charge of Pro 1 wasn't answering Dawn's page. Sample finally came in several hours later and I went ahead and ran it. Had to pull out the respirator and uber-gloves for that one, carbodiimide is not a friendly chemical - to the tune of "may cause blindness, strong sensitizer, readily absorbed through the skin, respiratory hazard, can be fatal in small doses." I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but that's the gist. So, yeah - not very nice. Let's hear it for PPE.