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manna ([personal profile] manna) wrote in [personal profile] flummery 2004-09-22 03:10 am (UTC)

Wait until you get into a position of management. And you write very careful and clear instructions that are ignored.

For *real* fun, try working in a lab and being the one who has to write out protocols for new graduate students, undergraduate project students, and medics doing their first real lab work. 'Idiot proof' takes on a whole new urgency when people are handling radioactivity, humans tissue samples and toxic chemicals, often all at the same time.

"No, I don't think you ought to put the blood-filled used syringe in the general paper waste bin. In fact, I think it will make the cleaners very tense and unhappy."

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