Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dry
My absolute worst irritant in the lab is stuff running out just as I want to use it. If I am doing stuff on my bench using stuff that only I use, this is never a problem as I'm a bit of a horder and always have plenty of buffer, reagents and stuff which I keep an eye on. This works fine in 2 of the labs I'm in as either everyone shares the chore of making up communal buffers and reagents or we all have our own unique reagents we use and aren't used by anyone else.
Today I was doing the lab thing and just getting ready to set up another experiment and cleaning my equipment when the freaking water ran out! Water is about the most fundamental reagent there is, no water = no experiments. Turns out that a nearby water system is broken so everyone has been taking water from my lab. Unfortunately the automatic refill is a bit iffy and I usually check it once a week or so which is fine. Except vast amounts of water have been taken from the system and the tank is dry and it's going to take ages to refill. Fortunately I scrounged enough water for the rest of the afternoon but this sort of thing does my head in. The main fault lies with the SO in the broken lab as he never maintains the system properly and didn't bother fixing it when it was first broken (way before christmas). Gah.
Today I was doing the lab thing and just getting ready to set up another experiment and cleaning my equipment when the freaking water ran out! Water is about the most fundamental reagent there is, no water = no experiments. Turns out that a nearby water system is broken so everyone has been taking water from my lab. Unfortunately the automatic refill is a bit iffy and I usually check it once a week or so which is fine. Except vast amounts of water have been taken from the system and the tank is dry and it's going to take ages to refill. Fortunately I scrounged enough water for the rest of the afternoon but this sort of thing does my head in. The main fault lies with the SO in the broken lab as he never maintains the system properly and didn't bother fixing it when it was first broken (way before christmas). Gah.
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