• Vanth@reddthat.com
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    A company I used to work for that made some equipment primarily used in laboratory settings wanted some photos for marketing materials. Me, being the only lady engineer there, was asked to be in them. Hair, makeup, lab coat even though I was on the machine shop floor for my day-to-day job, the works. They couldn’t find a male engineer they considered photogenic enough so they asked the cafeteria manager, aka the janitor with additional duties to keep the coffee pots brewing and napkins on order. They even gave him fake glasses to make him look more studious. He did make for a way sexier scientist than I did. Straight up grey fox science man. He watched enough House MD to spout good fake medical lingo, making me laugh too hard thru the entire shoot.

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    3 days ago

    Two reasons to wear a lab coat in our lab

    1. higher ups or funders are coming and we need to look sciency

    2. the AC is high and its too cold (we dont control the thermostat)

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        19 hours ago

        this, do not take personal protection equipament unseriously, it is very important and may case legal trouble for you or your place of employment if you do not use it, refusing to use mandated safety equipament can and will cause termination of employment and is considered a valid justification for it

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        I always did like the feel of the various chemicals sliding over my gloves. Made me feel quite great about wearing them.

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      3 days ago
      1. depends on the lab, sometimes that could be a really bad idea but that won’t stop the ordering department

      2. ideally, lab coats exist to be taken off

      It has to be tight woven fabric to do its job, keeping acid and flesh eating bacteria from getting on your skin or regular clothes