They're starting off strong this month, by putting loads of disposable gloves in one of the bins intended for general waste, like odd papers and that. These bins are collected by the usual council bin men, and you know what they'd be like if they saw a load of disposable gloves in there, when collecting from outside a science lab. But that's not the biggest fuckup...
There's also a centrifuge tube in there, full of nondescript clear liquid, and labelled with doctor-tier handwriting. Yeah, I can see that fucker going down well with some jobsworth bin man, can't you?
Of course, once the bin men are picking up the rubbish bags, they're well out of sight and mind of the thicks working in the lab, so why should they care, eh? If something's not happening right in front of their noses, it doesn't exist.
Now then, what do we do if the dixie for pipette tip inserts, to be autoclaved and sent back to Starlab, is full*? Do we take the bag out, put it to one side for autoclaving, put a new bag in (carefully, so it doesn't split), and then put our inserts in there?
Actually full of ONLY Starlab inserts. No inserts from other companies, "because that's where they go, isn't it?", no gloves, no 96 well plates, not even any shit-stinking ice peppered with tiny, expired tubes of nondescript liquid.... which is a minor miracle.
Nah mate, nah. Leave the full one full, drag over another clean dixie (of which there is a rather limited supply), put a new bag in that (badly, so it does split), then half-fill it? Why of course! That won't make us look like pigshit-thick, idle cunts at all!
And now that the bag's split, that means when it's full and taken out, it will split all the way down and become a useless plastic "hammock", spilling it's contents everywhere. But why should the thicks care, eh? It won't be them taking it out, that'll be some other fucker's problem. And if a problem isn't happening right in front of their noses, it doesn't exist.
Notice also the spider trapped in the liquid waste dixie, for which a ridiculous "ladder" has been constructed. If only there was some more simple solution like, say, temporarily tipping the dixie on it's side, so the spider can run out. Nah mate, nah. We need to think of some "clever" idea. The mind fucking boggles, it really does.
A bottle of "LB Miller (which looks like Killer) +AMP" from October which has got mouldy. If such a thing happens we do, of course, dispose of it theough the correct channels for biohazard liquid wast-LOL, nah, just leave it on top of the tips-and-tools autoclave (an airtight-sealed bottle on top of something that gets hot...) and make it some other fucker's problem.
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Delightful.
They probably expected me to autoclave it, or at least "know what to do" about it. But fuck that, thick fuckers need to learn how to dispose of it properly, not just fucking guess.
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I went back at the end of the day and what's this? The autoclave's been run and has had time to cool back down to 47-something degrees. This seems awfully fast for an autoclave set to run at 135oC, for 30 minutes, at 2 bar, and with unassisted cooling.
They DID, of course, set it to 135oC, 30 minutes, 2 bar and unassisted cooling, before they ran it, right? Of course they used the correct settings for sterilising biohazard liquid waste, before putting biohazard liquid waste in it, right?
LOL, what site are you reading? Of course they fuck'n didn't
The next day, the autoclave's open and empty. When autoclaving liquid waste, it's important to have the autoclave's internal temperature probe in the same volume of un-distilled water. Notice the bottle is smaller than the one the waste was in... though it does actually have water in it (for once). Also the bottle with waste in it was only about a third full, so the liquid volume is probably about the same. They've actually done something right! Almost certainly by accident, but they've done it!
Once autoclaved liquid waste is rendered safe (well, safe-ish, under the attentions of these clueless fuckers), it gets bunged down the sink with loads of water. Solid bits collected in the sink filter and chucked in the bin. Of course, as solid bits build up in the sink filter, it can't drain.
Now then, do the thicks account for this, by perhaps clearing the filter halfway through the rinsing-out of the bottle? HAH! That's a good 'un, do you do birthday parties?
Of course they've just taken the filter out and put it aside. Their thought processes don't extend any further than "If leave fing in, sink get block". By removing it they do, of course allow all the solid waste to drain down, where it will eventually block up the u-bend in future. But the u-bend isn't blocked right now, is it? That's a future problem, for somebody else to fix... if they can even imagine that happening at all, that is. If something isn't happening right in front of their noses, it doesn't exist.
Still, I wonder what settings they DID run the autoclave on? 135oC for 30 minutes at 2 bar? Shall we check what settings they ran it on?
What's that? 115oC for 10 minutes? Don't sound right, does it?
But wait, how can I know those were the settings the previous cycle was run on? Maybe somebody's changed them? Nah, these are the settings, want to know how I know?
Because I went in the room and found it, door shut, power on... and not running! Because somebody's closed the door, pressed "Start" once... then walked away. It must have "started", surely? Nope! It's just going to sit there doing nothing all night. Fuckups upon fuckups. The first press of "Start" takes you into the settings, where you choose the correct temperature and duration for the run. Once you set those, you then press start again to actually start it. Of course, the extent of the training the thicks were given was apparently "put your stuff in, then press start twice". NOTHING AT ALL about the different temperatures and times required for different loads. NOTHING AT ALL about liquids needing the probe to be in an equal volume of tap water. Nah mate, nah, just chuck everything on "the usual"* run and hope for the best.
Anyway, as this thick was too stupid to actually start the run, they were clearly too stupid to change the settings, so this is the time and temperature the liquid waste got done at. And also the time and temperature their 2l bottles of water, intended for the culture incubator, were done at... then they wondered why it was always having mould problems. Must be them "bacteria falling out of the air conditioner", eh?
* - Actual term used when I asked a woman what cycle she was running her media on.
The Media Kitchen was a seperate lab at this institution, where bottles of bacterial growth media, sterile water etc were prepared (the past tense being appropriate, as the management abruptly shut it down one day... though didn't think to actually tell everybody who worked there about that). All of the Media Kitchen's bottles, tubes, flasks etc were supposed to be put into seperate trays, to be taken back up there for cleaning. But, as we've established, the thicks can't possibly fathom the idea of reading a five-letter word, and making a decision based upon it. Nah, just put all of the dirty glassware in the one, most visible, place where you can see other dirty glassware. Pattern recognition of a kind... though only at an insect-like level of intelligence.
As the roads around this place were pretty bumpy, bottles were also put inside little baskets, when they were being pushed on trolleys. This stopped them tipping over. Now, what do we do with a clean basket, which has only been in contact with the outside of an autoclaved bottle, and a clean, oft-trigene'd trolley, when we're done with it?
Yeah, that's it, put it in the dirty glassware tray (the wrong dirty glassware tray, at that. Fuckups upon fuckups...); make something that was previously clean, and could have just been taken back, contaminated. Now it's got to be run in the dishwasher and autoclaved before being taken back. Half a millisecond of thought energy was saved, while generating all this extra work.
But it wasn't extra work the thick was going to have to do, was it? Nah, that's some other fucker's problem, Why care about it? If something isn't happening right in front of their noses, it doesn't exist.
Whoops! You've taken the last pair of large latex-free (and thus less allergy-triggering) gloves out! What do you do? Just leave the empty box there to be some other fucker's problem? Yeah, that'll sort it.
A recently-emptied non-recycling bin almost completely filled with four giant polystyrene boxes. Not broken down, not left open for other waste to be put inside them.
Ah, but wait, this is one of the greatest seats of learning and scientific research in all of Europe! Maybe whoever chucked them in here has been filling them up with rubbish beforehand, then efficiently throwing it all away in one go?
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Very fuckin' funny... what were you expecting? Intelligence?