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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Still Just a Rat in a Cage - Laboratory Chat!
 
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Miss-Bomarc
Aug 1, 2009

Sundae posted:

Is this seriously how it's going to play out? Every time I refuse to stay late, this schmuck is going to take it up the rear end from the company? For gently caress's sake dude... it's not worth your health. You don't even get overtime!
It could be that he's just so astounded by the awesomeness of SCIENCE that he doesn't see spending twenty-four hours working as a bad thing, because OMG SCIENCE. He looks at an all-nighter in the lab the way you might, e.g., look at an all-nighter playing 'Starcraft'.

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Miss-Bomarc
Aug 1, 2009

Solkanar512 posted:

You've never actually worked in a private lab, have you?
...I do now, and so do a bunch of family members, so I'm...not really sure where you going with this?

I'm talking about OMG SCIENCE because I was that guy, at one point. Since then, it's not so much "got disillusioned" as "realized that staying twelve hours after closing time watching the computer make things rotate is not going to save the world".

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Miss-Bomarc
Aug 1, 2009

Acelerion posted:

I recently figured out a solution that is demonstratively beyond anything on the market but we cant make it because some other assholes have a patent vague enough to cover the process. They have no clue what they have. So instead of technological progress we are going to sit on the idea and hope they are dumb enough to not figure it out until after their patent expires.
Why not form a partnership with that patent holder to jointly market the solution?

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