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( Questions of Days )
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Electricians are here. There is a lot more drilling and banging involved than I would have expected.
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A thing I got good at when I used to work in a lab; writing down step-by-step instructions. If it ain't part of the documented process, it does not happen. Conversely, if you do something - write it down. I used to absolutely lose my shit on one manager who would go into my lab and make changes and just breezily say, "Oh yeah, I adjusted the oxygen on the fermenter this morning" without writing it in the book. I would write Dr F made changes, no entry recorded and initial it just to cover my ass.
(It's probably worth noting I started my job there just as the Krever Inquiry was wrapping up and watching them comb through notes and records put the absolute terror of incomplete documentation into my psyche.)
A thing I am proving to be not good at, doing the same thing in verbal instructions. I say, "Hey since you're downtown anyway, can you pick up some crossword puzzles for the Old Man" - and then it genuinely does not occur to me to add "and then drop them off at the hospital that is literally a block away from where you are standing right now and do not bring them home to me at the house which is 40 minutes away."
So yesterday I went over instructions like make sure they wear masks and put up the barrier for the cats and maybe we should make a sign for the front door just as a reminder - and it did not fucking occur to me that I would have to say out loud, with my face hole, YOU SHOULD WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF PEOPLE so of course they fucking didn't.
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Electricians are here. There is a lot more drilling and banging involved than I would have expected.
***
A thing I got good at when I used to work in a lab; writing down step-by-step instructions. If it ain't part of the documented process, it does not happen. Conversely, if you do something - write it down. I used to absolutely lose my shit on one manager who would go into my lab and make changes and just breezily say, "Oh yeah, I adjusted the oxygen on the fermenter this morning" without writing it in the book. I would write Dr F made changes, no entry recorded and initial it just to cover my ass.
(It's probably worth noting I started my job there just as the Krever Inquiry was wrapping up and watching them comb through notes and records put the absolute terror of incomplete documentation into my psyche.)
A thing I am proving to be not good at, doing the same thing in verbal instructions. I say, "Hey since you're downtown anyway, can you pick up some crossword puzzles for the Old Man" - and then it genuinely does not occur to me to add "and then drop them off at the hospital that is literally a block away from where you are standing right now and do not bring them home to me at the house which is 40 minutes away."
So yesterday I went over instructions like make sure they wear masks and put up the barrier for the cats and maybe we should make a sign for the front door just as a reminder - and it did not fucking occur to me that I would have to say out loud, with my face hole, YOU SHOULD WEAR A FUCKING MASK WHEN THE HOUSE IS FULL OF PEOPLE so of course they fucking didn't.