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satanic splash-back posted:Work made it against company policy to eat in your car during lunch. What was the justification for that? Unless they monitor the car park, how would they even know?!
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The justification will be that ‘it looks unprofessional to people passing by or visiting the building’, I guarantee it
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I imagine it has about the same justification as the "max length of sideburns allowed" section added to the policy this year too.
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Miftan posted:My work has replaced the nice double ply toilet paper with lovely single ply that even has smaller squares so now I have to use triple the amount just to not get poo poo on my hands. This is a really good indicator that your company is all hosed up and about to sink.
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satanic splash-back posted:Work made it against company policy to eat in your car during lunch. So they have a warrant to search your car for wrappers, right
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satanic splash-back posted:I imagine it has about the same justification as the "max length of sideburns allowed" section added to the policy this year too. At what point does a sideburn become a beard? Do people with beards need a gap between the sideburns and the beard to keep the sideburns under the max length? When they say length of the sideburns, do they mean how far down your face they go or how long the hair that is part of the sideburns is?
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Apr 27, 2023 12:23
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It’s only a beard if they join up in the middle at the chin. A single mm of bare chin renders them sideburns.
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satanic splash-back posted:I imagine it has about the same justification as the "max length of sideburns allowed" section added to the policy this year too. I am guessing no one in your company regularly (or even in an emergency) needs to wear a respirator face mask? I have heard of company regulations about facial hair to ensure a good face mask fitting for emergency situations. But that would probably be spelled out in the requirement.
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^^^ in that instance they'd provide a larger respirator... I forget what they're called, the full on hood things with an air pump to create positive pressure. Outrail posted:You can usually call yourself a scientist even if you just have a lowly bachelors degree (unless there's a bullshit association in your area). Not sure what you're referencing but not in an academic lab setting, friend! I did the lab professional cert route for a decade and while the Pokemon aspect of collecting a fuckton of them was neat for awhile, you still will never become a scientist without a PhD 
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Apr 27, 2023 13:00
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A PAPR gas helmet.
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Tetrabor posted:Can confirm, once worked at a prominent commercial high-rise and there was an unused floor with an executive washroom. As a plus, the toilet was positioned about three feet from the window. I’m a bit behind on this thread so I’m posting this from the toilet chat past: This is the Melbourne Sofitel hotel bathroom on the 35th floor.   Not my photos because the one time a work friend took me there (we worked in the building next door) it was crowded as gently caress and all my concentration was on not getting stage fright.
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goatface posted:A PAPR gas helmet. Yeahhhhhhh! Caffeine hadn't kicked in. I always failed my annual respirator tests cause I've had either a beard or mustache for my entire career, so I was always in a PAPR. Honestly they're kinda more comfy than an N95, for longer durations. A bit sweatier but eh whenever I was doing an autopsy that require them I'd sweat through two layers of clothes cause of extra PPE so what's a little more...
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I was just going by the stories some coworkers told when they were operators at various nuke plants. They had facial hair restrictions due to respirator fitting. But that could always have been something inserted into their union contract as well. And it wasn’t “no facial hair” just a restriction on beards that could impair getting a good seal. So apparently they would all have crazy mustaches.
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Lazyfire posted:Cool, we're getting into something I care about deeply. Each Part Number has a range of Serial Numbers, so if you have P/N 8133-1 S/N 3 tells you all sorts of stuff around which revision of the drawing, the operations done on the part, etc. because we should be tracking the S/N of ever piece to ensure we know exactly what was done for each piece and if we are compliant. The problem here is that I had another part in a box with S/N 3 but the part number was 8888573-900 (I'm injecting random numbers here). The guy picking up the part saw the right S/N, but didn't look at the P/N and so delivered something to a vendor he wasn't technically supposed to. The good news is that vendor does perform operations on that part and so I just issued a new PO to account for the part delivered, but there's no situation where we should be this disorganized. Having this happen twice in less than a month tells me that we need to fix things. Ha, this is bordering on something I care about, since I deal with (biological) sample tracking. If you have something like a "sample number" or "tracking number" or "serial number", then it should be unique at least within your organization, preferably also any other organisation that could receive one, and ideally globally, because everything else is asking for trouble. Having two things with the serial number "3" is a bit like having two unlabeled green buttons where the left one burns the building down, and trusting people to read the documentation. I may have some residual anger after receiving multiple badly marked boxes with sample tubes labeled "002" from different studies. e: In fairness P/N + S/N = a perfectly good unique ID, the way you do it. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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Johnny Truant posted:^^^ in that instance they'd provide a larger respirator... I forget what they're called, the full on hood things with an air pump to create positive pressure. Oh, academia. Not sure if that's better or worse than other jobs.
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It's not an easy ride and the politics and competition can get brutal. I only recommend it to people who want to teach more than they research.
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Orvin posted:I was just going by the stories some coworkers told when they were operators at various nuke plants. They had facial hair restrictions due to respirator fitting. But that could always have been something inserted into their union contract as well. Computer viking posted:Ha, this is bordering on something I care about, since I deal with (biological) sample tracking. If you have something like a "sample number" or "tracking number" or "serial number", then it should be unique at least within your organization, preferably also any other organisation that could receive one, and ideally globally, because everything else is asking for trouble. Having two things with the serial number "3" is a bit like having two unlabeled green buttons where the left one burns the building down, and trusting people to read the documentation. P/N + Batch/N + S/N is arguably the fullest definition before adding in packing numbers. It's also possible to start your serial from origin on each new batch (considering design revision and process batch type numbers in this slot) so if you get lazy and just look at P/N + S/N, you're in trouble again. If you're an operation who can afford to have a slightly more experienced material handler you should be using them to pick lots into packing numbers like a Serial Shipping Container Code as you can trust them to pick the correct full definition needed for the lot and all the idiot material handlers just find the unique SSCC for their load.
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A meeting scheduled for after hours, on "no-meetings" Thursday. Lol.
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Outrail posted:Oh, academia. Not sure if that's better or worse than other jobs. Worse! Far, FAR worse!
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YeahTubaMike posted:A meeting scheduled for after hours, on "no-meetings" Thursday. Lol. is it obliviousness, or strange rules-lawyering so they can say they technically didn't plan it during the day Thursday so it doesn't count?
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Johnny Truant posted:Worse! Far, FAR worse! The non profit sector would like a review of this judgment.
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Outrail posted:The non profit sector would like a review of this judgment. My labs were all in non profit hospitals, gotcha covered there too lol
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StrangersInTheNight posted:is it obliviousness, or strange rules-lawyering so they can say they technically didn't plan it during the day Thursday so it doesn't count? Our work day is supposed to be 8:30am to 5:30pm, but this meeting is scheduled for 5-6, so I'm not sure what they're trying to do, if anything
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Johnny Truant posted:My labs were all in non profit hospitals, gotcha covered there too lol A grim lol but a lol nonetheless
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Dude on my team hit a goose in the parking lot. So now my day is printing "Have you seen this s goose?" posters and putting them in placed he'll see. The last one will be under the windshield wiper of his truck.
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I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️
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Krustic posted:I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️ wow what a dumbass. everyone knows its ammonia first then bleach.
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Krustic posted:I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️ 
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Krustic posted:I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️ 
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Lazyfire posted:I was thinking "It's my dick in a screambox" which has some terrible connotations. Isn't that just a glory hole?
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zedprime posted:When I worked hazardous environment jobs they made the respirator fit test a condition of employment. How enforceable that is when PAPRs exist is a question but at least they were buying half and full face respirators and if pressed would probably give you the same money as a stipend to get your own PAPR. Right, I think that sounds sensible - I imagine you also have legal reasons to track batches and versions precisely. On our side, which is tracking de-identified (but not anonymous) sample tubes with blood and tissue for a decade, there's another slow but ongoing debate. Our current solution is to print small sticky labels with both human readable information ("DNA from serum, STUDYNAME-01234-T1, 2019") and a unique barcode ID, and then we have a database that tracks those barcodes in different ways. The upside is that it's easy to see if what you're doing makes sense and matches your plan. The downside is that you have to print all those labels, they're not machine readable without removing them from the box, and the labels could fall off. The alternative is something like Thermo's Matrix tubes. Those have laser etched 2D barcodes at the bottom, a custom plastic box that keeps those bottoms visible, and optionally the same barcode text etched in 1D form on the side. They're machine readable, the caps are designed for automatic handling, you'll probably destroy the tube before the barcode becomes unreadable ... and they're super annoying to work with on a lab bench, because at best you have a human readable serial number on the side of the tube, and at worst the only identifying mark is a 2D barcode underneath. The debate between "you can automatically update the 'where in which box is each sample' info by tossing the box on a scanner, and we'll probably use some automation in the future" vs "Being able to see which sample I have in my hand without needing to find a scanner every time is really useful and prevents mistakes" is so far inconclusive, and depends on the scale of the operation.  One nice thing about the matrix tubes is that there's apparently an industry organisation that assigns prefixes to companies, so they're guaranteed to be globally unique.
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Outrail posted:Oh, academia. Not sure if that's better or worse than other jobs. It seems genuinely pleasant where I work, but I'm not sure if that's just a cultural thing in my immediate vicinity or if there are also systemic reasons. Our PhD students are paid decently well; our university-employed professors are gently encouraged to teach but it doesn't seem like a huge commitment, and the groups around me seem decent at hiring people they didn't know beforehand.
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Krustic posted:I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️ I learned about this from Hank Hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-PUl8P5sIs Also made me understand why bleach is not a good cleaner for cat piss.
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Krustic posted:I go into the bathroom and it smells like chemical death. I ask the person tasked with cleaning which cleaning agents they used. They respond- I wanted to get it real clean so I used bleach, then I poured some ammonia on it and mopped it all up. It stinks in there right? ☹️ why does this keep happening
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At work now I have to use my own phone number to log customers into my fuckin rewards thing without them even knowing because nobody wants to sign up for rewards and my metrics have fallen. This place is about to collapse. The boss has to buy tons of the store's product, and now we have to sneak customers into rewards accounts, all just so that the store meets the minimum expectations. e: just to add, this is kind of amusing to me, and not really that different from most jobs I've worked. I'm complaining but it's not that stressful. I will say that despite the chaos at my job and the impending doom of it, this is absolutely the first job I've ever worked where my boss actually works and doesn't just delegate, where my coworkers look out for each other instead of constantly trying to throw each other under the bus. We're not allowed breaks of any kind and usually have to stay 2-4 hours after our shift, but we get paid for that time. I can't tell you how many fuckin unpaid hours I've worked in my life. This is at once the dumbest but also the best job I've ever had. credburn fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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satanic splash-back posted:I imagine it has about the same justification as the "max length of sideburns allowed" section added to the policy this year too. This is hippie discrimination  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHOtxCRhnw e: goatface posted:A PAPR gas helmet. ???  YeahTubaMike posted:A meeting scheduled for after hours, on "no-meetings" Thursday. Lol. It sound's like they're.............. https://twitter.com/ootthursday1/status/1651540493925220352 Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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