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Shrieking Muppet posted:A member of our data review group is trying to tell me my solution preparation is wrong because a volumetric flask is less accurate than a graduated cylinder. Day 47. Was feeling good this morning. After last night's session with Marcy in prep, I felt a break through was in the air. We were about the crack this development wide open. Then I got it, a call from DRG. Old DRG always knows how to drag you right back into the mire. I'd go for a walk in the rain to clear my head, but then I'd have to fill out an F412
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Shrieking Muppet posted:A member of our data review group is trying to tell me my solution preparation is wrong because a volumetric flask is less accurate than a graduated cylinder.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:A member of our data review group is trying to tell me my solution preparation is wrong because a volumetric flask is less accurate than a graduated cylinder. It's right there in the name!
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Nov 23, 2019 18:15
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I called four of my operators in on a Saturday to manufacture an urgent batch, with some of them driving in from 1.5 hours away (bay area madness), and the formulators loving canceled the batch at 10:15AM once everyone was already here. Way to ruin all their weekends, assholes. At least they get 2X OT Pay for the full day for it.
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Are there any thread recommended reads for people who stumble into a position where they suddenly find themselves responsible for setting up a lab? I've got 100m² and dreams of storage space.
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Rozzbot posted:Are there any thread recommended reads for people who stumble into a position where they suddenly find themselves responsible for setting up a lab? Wall cabinets are kinda a pain, tbh. They are expensive and oftentimes less useful than more open free bench space.
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Rozzbot posted:Are there any thread recommended reads for people who stumble into a position where they suddenly find themselves responsible for setting up a lab? I initially read this as 100 square feet and was going to ask who the hell you pissed off. 
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Nov 26, 2019 06:41
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what you do is make sure that the cold air vent is blowing directly down onto your most temperature-dependent setups at all times, even in the middle of winter
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You also have to make sure that the exhaust from your fume hoods is right by most traveled entrance of the building.
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Dance Officer posted:You also have to make sure that the exhaust from your fume hoods is right by most traveled entrance of the building. Our cafeteria exhaust is close enough to our lab intake that I smell bacon every morning right around 5am. Breakfast opens after my night ends so I never get the bacon. I really want the bacon.
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Your lab doesn't have its own hot plate?!
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But thanks for the tips, especially Dik Hz! Depending how hot we are working, our solvents are either aqueous or inorganic oxides, so my ventilation requirements are primarily for dust control and heat extraction which is a lot easier to manage than what you carbon touchers have to deal with.
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Mr Newsman posted:Career progression question: How are you at scripting? Good STAR programmers here (SoCal) make 100k+ easy.
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I just got approved for an internal transfer from pharmaceutical qc/micro to a LIMS/MODA Business analyst position (exciting!). But I got it based on my qc / gmp / change control experience not coding experience. Does anyone have suggestions for what I can start working on that'll benefit me for this new role on the programming side of things?
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Spikes32 posted:I just got approved for an internal transfer from pharmaceutical qc/micro to a LIMS/MODA Business analyst position (exciting!). But I got it based on my qc / gmp / change control experience not coding experience. Does anyone have suggestions for what I can start working on that'll benefit me for this new role on the programming side of things? Which LIMS? What are your responsibilities going to be? Will it primarily be gathering requirements from the business, documenting, and passing the work on to the developers or will you be making changes to the LIMS directly and serving as a system administrator? Lyon fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Lyon posted:Which LIMS? I get a real kick out of you selling LIMS products to this thread for like ten straight years. 
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Lyon posted:Which LIMS? I believe it's labware lims though I could be wrong about that. I haven't actually started in the role yet. I'll be making changes to the system directly and serving as system admin. I'll be serving as system admin for labware, moda and openlab CDS /Chem station. We worked with lims devs for the initial rollout to build it out for us, but that was three years ago now we mostly make changes and new methods ourselves.
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Sundae posted:I get a real kick out of you selling LIMS products to this thread for like ten straight years. I hosed up the one real good opportunity I found here in the thread unfortunately. I’ve actually switched roles to a technical sales/sales “engineer” position so I’m not direct sales anymore but still always on the lookout for opportunities. I work for LabVantage and our product is hands down the best in the market of the major industry agnostic LIMS (us, LabWare, StarLIMS, Thermo). We are continually enhancing our LIMS, ELN/LES, and we are adding SDMS to our core offering. Our current major competitors won’t exist in 20 years (or they’ll just be collecting legacy support revenue) unless they make some major changes. It will be us and IDBS fighting for the market depending on if the customer is thinking from the LIMS or ELN perspective. Spikes32 posted:I believe it's labware lims though I could be wrong about that. I haven't actually started in the role yet. I'll be making changes to the system directly and serving as system admin. I'll be serving as system admin for labware, moda and openlab CDS /Chem station. We worked with lims devs for the initial rollout to build it out for us, but that was three years ago now we mostly make changes and new methods ourselves. Oh boy have fun! LabWare uses a programming language they developed called LIMS Basic which is based on Basic (surprise) so you might want to start brushing up on Basic basics. You’ll also want to start learning SQL. There are some differences depending on if you’re using Oracle or SQL Server but the major principles are all the same.
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Lyon posted:I hosed up the one real good opportunity I found here in the thread unfortunately. I’ve actually switched roles to a technical sales/sales “engineer” position so I’m not direct sales anymore but still always on the lookout for opportunities. I work for LabVantage and our product is hands down the best in the market of the major industry agnostic LIMS (us, LabWare, StarLIMS, Thermo). Eh I wouldn't blame you.
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Lyon posted:Oh boy have fun! LabWare uses a programming language they developed called LIMS Basic which is based on Basic (surprise) so you might want to start brushing up on Basic basics. You’ll also want to start learning SQL. There are some differences depending on if you’re using Oracle or SQL Server but the major principles are all the same. Well that'll be fun! Ah well thanks for the heads up.
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I know some LabWare folks so if you have more specific questions let me know. I can probably get you answers.
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Lyon posted:I know some LabWare folks so if you have more specific questions let me know. I can probably get you answers. I don't have pms but have a few more questions I'd like to ask, do you have an email I can send your way?
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Spikes32 posted:I don't have pms but have a few more questions I'd like to ask, do you have an email I can send your way? Sure, ecksile @ gmail will work.
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Anyone gonna be at SLAS this year?
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Today, I had the amazing privilege of meeting with a county fire marshal at work to discuss the matter of our entire facility design not meeting fire code and wondering how we ever got approval for it in the first place.  Long story short: The entire facility is based off of one main corridor that goes in a circle but has ingress and egress controls at opposite ends (dividing it into a controlled-access lab area and an uncontrolled office area), with everything based off of that central corridor. I threw together a rough schematic of our office area / airlock for the purposes of this post...  The airlock in the top left comes out of the controlled lab area. Elevators, of course, are not emergency egress routes. That staircase around the corner is the actual lab emergency egress. Ends up that the people who built our facility forgot that the fire code doesn't just say "thou shalt have 44 inches of clearance," but that it also says "emergency routes may not have anything whatsoever, at all, in their path. Nothing of any sort whatsoever may be stored or placed in an emergency egress corridor." Just below that airlock is our newly-determined emergency egress corridor-kitchen. It isn't wide enough to classify as a room, is in an emergency exit route, and also is classified as a kitchen. It has tables, chairs, a fridge, cabinets, water cooler, plants, sinks, shelves, etc. The dotted-line area where all our materials and mail are dropped off. The bottom area is more shelves, cabinets, printers and a photocopier. That's all hallway technically, and it's all emergency route. That conference room placement? Creates more "hallway" for the cubicle-dwellers south of it. The conference room door open outward and can block their shortest emergency exit. (There are actually more offices on the southwest wall too, but I got lazy and didn't draw them.) That large room in the northern middle? It's a lab area that needs to dispose of laboratory waste and hazardous waste daily. Where's the freight/warehouse elevator (can't take waste in a standard personnel elevator)? It's the one over by that airlock in the northwest corner. You know... the one on the other side of the kitchen. The kitchen that hazardous and laboratory waste aren't allowed to pass through because people eat there. I have to work with our site architects to  In a week or two once we figure out the plan (we get 60 days to fix it before they come back to re-inspect), I get to tell the people on my floor that I'm (probably, barring some sort of exception agreement) ripping out their goddamned break room and copier.
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Sundae posted:Today, I had the amazing privilege of meeting with a county fire marshal at work to discuss the matter of our entire facility design not meeting fire code and wondering how we ever got approval for it in the first place. Well, it seems that the break room and copier are a glitch in the hallway and you are fixing the glitch. No problem
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Snack Bitch posted:Well, it seems that the break room and copier are a glitch in the hallway and you are fixing the glitch. No problem But there's a coffee maker in that glitch! 
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Well I'll be damned. My boss actually went through with something, and we're now hosting some (final year) students two days a week to validate our methods. And, since my boss isn't around much, that task falls on me. Their first day wasn't promising. Messed up making standards and stock solutions, tried pouring water into concentrated acids, left a mess and a bunch of other stupidity.
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At work today, someone was trying to pull the lid off a vacuum desiccator and wound up breaking the glass cage around one of our scales. Without missing a beat, I said, "Sounds like someone lost his balance." I think I've peaked.
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That pun has a 40 year retention time
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please provide a full breakdown of the delivety... cadence, general volume, position to to target etc thnx in advance
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DEA showed up today to audit our controlled substances, happens yearly no big deal. They just talk to our controlled substance officer, weigh some things and thank us for our time. Since the word audit was spoken our QA site head seems to think they have to be involved. She’s a control freak and generally only seems concerned with making her job easier without any concern for how it impacts others, this has yielded the coveted title of ‘least like person on site’. She seemed to think the DEA are just like the FDA and attempted control the audit as such. Much to the amusement of everyone after about five minutes she was told to go away by the agent because the only person they want to talk to is the one who signs the paperwork for these materials and her prescience was “disruptive” to the audit.
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How on earth does a QA site lead not know the difference between a real audit and an annual DEA audit/reconciliation? 
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Sundae posted:How on earth does a QA site lead not know the difference between a real audit and an annual DEA audit/reconciliation? Well the safety officer at my site has been trying to get use to smash down bags of solid chemical waste with a hammer so we can fit a few extra bags per drum. These bags have glass in them. Idiots are everywhere.
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Sundae posted:How on earth does a QA site lead not know the difference between a real audit and an annual DEA audit/reconciliation? She thinks QA should be in involved in every little thing we do here, she decided one day to write a SOP for DEA visits, EHS said was a dumb idea, seems they were proven right. A previous episode that came up a few years ago is she wanted to restrict us to one brand of pen in blue or black. This was shouted down by purchasing and the admins who realized they wanted to keep her away from there poo poo as much as possible.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:She thinks QA should be in involved in every little thing we do here, she decided one day to write a SOP for DEA visits, EHS said was a dumb idea, seems they were proven right. A previous episode that came up a few years ago is she wanted to restrict us to one brand of pen in blue or black. This was shouted down by purchasing and the admins who realized they wanted to keep her away from there poo poo as much as possible. If you can get me a job as your site lead, I'll make it my first priority to fire her silly rear end.
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Sundae posted:If you can get me a job as your site lead, I'll make it my first priority to fire her silly rear end. We have an opening as a lead in our small scale manufacturing dept but I wouldn't wish this mess on my worst enemy.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:We have an opening as a lead in our small scale manufacturing dept but I wouldn't wish this mess on my worst enemy. sounds perfect for Sundae!
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Discendo Vox posted:sounds perfect for Sundae! I'm actually not looking right now, at least not actively. It feels like cheating to job hunt while on 100%-paid paternity leave, and I still do like my job. 
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So had the eval meeting my with my supervisor, surprisingly she asked me if I would take on being the instrument bitch in our group. This would involve coordinating PMs, repairs and change controls. Part of the reason i left my last group was because i didn’t want to become the NMR mechanic. Now I’m here getting asked if i want to become a part time XRD/KF/DSC/Particle Size mechanic. Part of me wants to just tell no thanks but it would add job security. On the other hand the career path of onsite instrument mechanic is basically seems to only end with traveling instrument service engineer which I don’t really want. I was considering trying to migrate to method development since those jobs are usually more abundant but that leads to long hours and dealing with customers and makes me stay in pharma. Anyone have some suggestions on what questions i should ask about this role or own experiences being the instrument person?
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