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Jul. 25th, 2006 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clodia_risaSir? I know you're not an idiot. I know this because you've survived living in another country and being a graduate student. All signs point to you not being an idiot.
So, please, sir. When you find that a freezer won't open. A freezer with valuable enzymes in it. When you find that it won't open, please don't wonder what is wrong with the freezer. Plesae please don't look down at the small silver hole on the side and decide that the best idea would be to stick your pen into the hole and see if that will allow you to open the freezer.
That hole is called a lock. By sticking your pen in there and opening it, you just picked that lock. So, having picked that lock, you decide that you need to remove those enzymes and take them back to the lab.
Thank goodness you're at least an honest person! You came, filled out the forms, and let me know that there was something wrong with the freezer, and you had to stick the pen into a hole to get it open.
*facepalm*
So, please, sir. When you find that a freezer won't open. A freezer with valuable enzymes in it. When you find that it won't open, please don't wonder what is wrong with the freezer. Plesae please don't look down at the small silver hole on the side and decide that the best idea would be to stick your pen into the hole and see if that will allow you to open the freezer.
That hole is called a lock. By sticking your pen in there and opening it, you just picked that lock. So, having picked that lock, you decide that you need to remove those enzymes and take them back to the lab.
Thank goodness you're at least an honest person! You came, filled out the forms, and let me know that there was something wrong with the freezer, and you had to stick the pen into a hole to get it open.
*facepalm*
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on 2006-07-25 03:59 pm (UTC)I am now working with manuscripts that are being published in a medical journal and it's my job to make sure that all disclosure forms and copyright forms have been signed, among other things. Many, many authors a) assume that the copyright forms and disclosure forms are the same thing and get huffy when I contact them and ask for one or the other, saying they already faxed that and why didn't I get it (when they only faxed one of the two), and b) seem to think for some reason that it's okay to omit portions of the copyright form when we clearly say "fill out portions A B and C". The best thing was one that I stumbled across yesterday (in a MS I had taken over), where there were six authors and only four disclosure forms. Why, you ask? Why that would be because one of the authors had signed his own name and then written underneath "also on behalf of X and Y." *facepalm* THAT'S ILLEGAL YOU DINGUS.
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on 2006-07-25 05:34 pm (UTC)That is really more idiotic than this guy. The other freezers in the room they're allowed to get in whenever (I suppose. I don't manage those) so he just assumed he was allowed in this one.
I put a nice big sign in multiple colors on the freezer saying not to access the freezer without me. I even put my room number (which totally isn't marked in the hall, muwahahah!)