What is it with people who don't really understand what they are doing?
I say this because today I started work on some more samples from the medical folks in Bega/Batemans Bay region. Initially, the samples and project, as I understood it, was about dental samples and biofilms in relation to bacteria and necrosis of dental tissues. A big issue that they are trying to solve.
Then, they told us that they were sending a few more samples on Monday to us, to arrive Tuesday. Well, they didn't get here until Wednesday morning.... And we pop open the esky to find that it's not dental samples, but femoral head samples.... a very big WTF?!
In any case, what is more bothersome to some extent is that they might not realise that, we're talking electron microscopy... not light microscopy, so giving us 2cm+ size tissue samples of bone and cartilage is excessive beyond belief.
I shouldn't be complaining since they are still paying me at my casual hourly rates, so I will process the samples and see how they go. It's just time consuming more than anything else but I guess that is what work is all about. Getting paid for doing something for someone else in your time. I did have a entertaining time though, since I ended up talking with these two ladies from the EMU about stuff for nearly two hours since we had to share fumehoods. They are both PhD students at the EMU and were surprised to learn I knew so much around the joint since they didn't realise my own background and history in the department haha.
Ah, I have to do a lot of critical point drying tomorrow......
I say this because today I started work on some more samples from the medical folks in Bega/Batemans Bay region. Initially, the samples and project, as I understood it, was about dental samples and biofilms in relation to bacteria and necrosis of dental tissues. A big issue that they are trying to solve.
Then, they told us that they were sending a few more samples on Monday to us, to arrive Tuesday. Well, they didn't get here until Wednesday morning.... And we pop open the esky to find that it's not dental samples, but femoral head samples.... a very big WTF?!
In any case, what is more bothersome to some extent is that they might not realise that, we're talking electron microscopy... not light microscopy, so giving us 2cm+ size tissue samples of bone and cartilage is excessive beyond belief.
I shouldn't be complaining since they are still paying me at my casual hourly rates, so I will process the samples and see how they go. It's just time consuming more than anything else but I guess that is what work is all about. Getting paid for doing something for someone else in your time. I did have a entertaining time though, since I ended up talking with these two ladies from the EMU about stuff for nearly two hours since we had to share fumehoods. They are both PhD students at the EMU and were surprised to learn I knew so much around the joint since they didn't realise my own background and history in the department haha.
Ah, I have to do a lot of critical point drying tomorrow......
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