Earlier today I was using the lift... and saw one of the cleaners going downstairs with a mug of coffee... who's mug? my mug. I didn't saw owt 'cause it's not the end of the world... so long as it's cleaned and put back where he found it.
I got an email at about 2pm... "you can now go back in your lab"
So, in I came... hmm... "where's my mug?"
It was nowhere to be found. Bastards.
Hang on a moment... "where the hell is the kettle? And more to the point... where's the coffee and the sugar?"
Yeah. So the theiving cleaning gypsies have stolen not only my mug and a few others from the lab, but they've also tealeafed, as it were, the coffee, the sugar and the fucking kettle!
Well... I'm not having that... not only did they spend ages cleaning the room - everytime I came to spy on them they were drinking coffee... my coffee... instead of cleaning! I shot off down to see the guy who's been dealing them to tell him of my dissatisfaction... he told me a funny thing...
Our door's on a keypad lock - no code, no entry. They weren't given the code. When they arrived the door was opened for them, when they left it was locked for them. Simple. So... when they'd cleaned the room, the notified the manager and he came to lock up... 5 mins later they came back to him to tell him they'd left something... so he let them back in... and what had they forgotten? Our drinks making equipment!
They were in the middle of utilising it when he came up to see them... so they're going to give it back tomorrow...
On a lighter note, I also noticed that the lab condoms also appeared to have gone walkies... but they'd just been put back in a place miles away from where we left them.
At least the labs sort of cleaner... not that they cleaned the sink... still had the remains coffeeness in there...
Ok, I'll bite...
Why do you have lab condoms?
Just in case there's two of you working late one night? You know how it goes, your eyes meet across a cluttered workbench, you starting trying to impress each other with how complex your PhD is, the next thing you know you're pushing electronic equipment out of the way and tearing each other's clothes off.
Posted by: Tom on May 30, 2007 6:00 PMHeh. Well...
We have this probe that we stick into sick people's mouths in order to take optical measurements from under the tongue.
The probe itself has clevely designed and extremly expensive disposable covers. Whilst these would probably be adequate the clincians worried about it not being good enough should a patient spit or deep throat the probe or something - so in order to protect the surface of the probe further it was decided to chop the end off a condom, slide it on to the erect probe and the add then screw on the disposable cover, thus protecting the probe over it's entire length.
We've also used the condoms as a container for taking measurements on a collagen suspension with the same probe. Whilst we found this funny in a childish way, it didn't humour the guy whose bin we'd throw it in when we'd finished...
Posted by: Ed on May 30, 2007 6:22 PM