effika (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} effika) wrote,@ 2005-07-29 13:33:00 |
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Dear Work, or I Hate Puncture Wounds
Dear Work,
I am not Macguyver. I cannot make the multichannel pipette magically work again with a pair of dissection scissors (why do we even have those in this lab anyway?!) and autoclave tape. If you ask me to try, I will most likely injur myself and break the extra gaskets we found. Especially when the gaskets are of incorrect size.
Speaking of that, there's nothing like flooding a puncture wound (from said disection scissors) with 95% EtOH for ten seconds to clean it out. Well, I'm certain there's something like that-- shoving salt into it might be pretty close.
Also, do not ask me to label 462 tubes of various sizes (1.7mL to 50mL) as well as 34 microtiter plates (needing multiple markings in multiple places), watch me get them all done in an afternoon because I'm a good worker, and then tell me you gave me the wrong numbers and that I have to do them all over again WHILE I'M TRYING TO CLEAN OUT THE CUT. It does not make me very happy.
And if the autoclave tells me it had to halt the cycle because the maximum heat-up time was exceeded again I'm going to throw its sorry ass into the big autoclave in GLC and watch it suffer.
Dear Work,
I am not Macguyver. I cannot make the multichannel pipette magically work again with a pair of dissection scissors (why do we even have those in this lab anyway?!) and autoclave tape. If you ask me to try, I will most likely injur myself and break the extra gaskets we found. Especially when the gaskets are of incorrect size.
Speaking of that, there's nothing like flooding a puncture wound (from said disection scissors) with 95% EtOH for ten seconds to clean it out. Well, I'm certain there's something like that-- shoving salt into it might be pretty close.
Also, do not ask me to label 462 tubes of various sizes (1.7mL to 50mL) as well as 34 microtiter plates (needing multiple markings in multiple places), watch me get them all done in an afternoon because I'm a good worker, and then tell me you gave me the wrong numbers and that I have to do them all over again WHILE I'M TRYING TO CLEAN OUT THE CUT. It does not make me very happy.
And if the autoclave tells me it had to halt the cycle because the maximum heat-up time was exceeded again I'm going to throw its sorry ass into the big autoclave in GLC and watch it suffer.
