I'm trying to work here!

[asimplechord]

Dear Facility Managers,

Please to not be f*cking with the vacuum and air-flow during regular business hours. It was irritating enough to lose vacuum pressure for the traps last night at 6pm, but I can understand that you were trying to avoid inconveniencing us during the most common work hours. I was happy to see that pressure had returned when I got here this morning. But it is now the middle of the freakin' day, and the traps? Not working again. No suckage. And that is bad. So I'd appreciate it if you either turned it back on or warned us ahead of time, so we could plan around the outage.

If this issue extended to the back-flow in the tissue culture hood, and all my plates end up contaminated, I'm going to be seriously pissed. So, yeah, WARN US NEXT TIME. It's not like we don't already get a bazillion inane "oh, be careful of the sidewalk cleaning on Fannin St for X days this week" messages. They go into their own filtered subfolder entitled "Construction Crap" in my Outlook mailbox. One more? Wouldn't have hurt.

No love,
Me

Comments

[angela-snape.livejournal.com]

Wow, you would think they'd, um, think before they do things like that?

Hope your plates aren't contaminated!

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Well, at 1pm they sent an email saying that vacuum pressure was expected to be out from noon to 7pm. Very helpful.

Meh. Yesterday was not a good science day. Nothing wanted to work: my Westerns were either completely blank or completely dirty, and even my gels didn't want to polymerize.