I used to survey laboratories for radioisotope spills and I'd walk around in a lab coat with a clip board and a Geiger counter people would just bunch up the against the walls when id get into elevators
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Replying to @atonal440
oh yeah there are stories best one was a routine survey of the geology building lab on the first floor applied to use something or other, we went in and found really high background gamma radiation eventually we tracked it to the fourth floor which was HOT
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Replying to @eigenrobot @atonal440
i accidentally contaminated my labmate's purse once she then managed to run afoul of some security types scanning the subway with a geiger counter she was not pleased with me
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Replying to @eigenrobot @atonal440
bingo we had the ghetto-est setup for doing radioassays you can imagine, it was basically impossible not to spill screaming hot buffer all over the place
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anyway i after that i became the lab radiation safety officer the labmate i irradiated set the lab on fire once she was the fire safety officer set a thief to catch a thief, is what i always say
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Replying to @halvorz @atonal440
i miss the hilarious safety and health violations in bio labs I will admit i did have a good time with that
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We never worked with anything more dangerous than 0.5M caustic solution so the grad students at the biochemistry lab I worked with never gave two shits about PPE during a normal day.
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I’ll never forget the Paul Revere ride one of them made around to the lab rooms the day the safety officer was doing inspections he came running breathless into the doorway with jorts and a half-buttoned lab coat on, “BARB IS COMING!!”
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fucking BARB
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goddamit Barb she's why i had to hide all my plants behind the window shades "hey it's sunny out why don't wDONT TOUCH THOSE SHADES ITS LAB INSPECTION DAY"
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