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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Roobubba on September 25, 2008, 08:08:07 AM
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Well, that's 23 hours of my 24 hour shift done (not including the time spent getting ready and travelling!). Feeling nicely incoherent, so I thought I'd come on here to rant about nothing in particular.
Roo
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I work in shift schedules and could not imagine working for 24h... when I have to double my turn (normal 8h) it's a real pain... not even the 8h extra hours payment (here on brazil they are twice the value of your work-hour) worth the while for me...
Although I think if I worked with something that I like I would have no problem to work many hours :D
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Well, that's 23 hours of my 24 hour shift done (not including the time spent getting ready and travelling!). Feeling nicely incoherent, so I thought I'd come on here to rant about nothing in particular.
Roo
What do you do Roo? 24 hours sounds like a bit of a long shift to me. Hope you don't have to do it regularly!
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I'm a research scientist, and I do X-ray crystallography of proteins. We have 24 hour shifts when we go to synchrotrons (like the new Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, where I was last night). I've just got home and am about to get some sleep. I don't get any extra pay for these shifts, they're just part of my job! No such thing as overtime in any kind of academic institution (I work for a cancer research institute which is very much part academia, part industry in style of work).
This one wasn't as bad as about the same time last month when I went down to Grenoble on the train on my own (not speaking any French, and carrying a dewar which must be kept upright and not opened!). Getting there was fine, the beamtime was pretty lonely and tiring, but they don't give you a room to stay over an extra day, so I had to travel back through France, then on the Eurostar, then back to work in London, then back to Oxford where I live... All after a 24 hour shift without sleep in between. Not nice!!
But I'm not complaining about it, it's really good fun (when things work). Now I need to sleep, then process all the data I collected!
Bbbbbbbed calllllls...
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^ and the poor guy doesn't even have nice telecaster to come home to...
(Well, any thread titled "Ugh", started by Roo, just has to have a telecaster in it somewhere - I came in fully expecting a picture of Paul McCartney jamming with Cliff Richard on teles or something...)
Hope you sleep well - puts my recent 10 hour days in the shade somewhat :D
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dang, cr@p like that's why i got the hell out of university. i feel your pain (though i never had to do anything as bad as that). :(
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Sounds interesting Roo - a bit above my head though! I'm just an office worker.
(http://www.thecanteen.com/paul&george02.jpg)
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^ and the poor guy doesn't even have nice telecaster to come home to...
Well, any thread titled "Ugh", started by Roo, just has to have a telecaster in it somewhere - I came in fully expecting a picture of Paul McCartney jamming......
(http://www.thecanteen.com/paul&george02.jpg)
Not quite a tele but it will do. Sorry Roo!
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:lol:
At least the poor lad's got something nice to wake up to now...
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:lol: you're so mean guys 8)
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I aint got no sympathy - your just showing off your pain to justify your high table dinners and your Wellcome institute funding. I spent 2 days watching Babylon 5 because I have so much work to do that I am shiteting myself about doing it!
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^ and the poor guy doesn't even have nice telecaster to come home to...
Well, any thread titled "Ugh", started by Roo, just has to have a telecaster in it somewhere - I came in fully expecting a picture of Paul McCartney jamming......
Not quite a tele but it will do. Sorry Roo!
That is a quality picture! McCartney almost looks cool with that '64 Esquire!
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I haven't seen that picture before though I have seen others from the same session. Anyways, I hope you get some rest Roo. I feel a bit guilty as I have a day off from my job though I shall be helping Mrs 38th in the shop and I am gigging tomorrow night.
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I aint got no sympathy - your just showing off your pain to justify your high table dinners and your Wellcome institute funding. I spent 2 days watching Babylon 5 because I have so much work to do that I am shiteeting myself about doing it!
No high table stuff where I am now, thankfully! No teaching responsibilities, apart from PhD students, which is quite nice for a change (although I'm sure I'll come back to undergrad teaching at some point in my future career).
And don't open up the funding can of worms! Our institute is mainly funded from cancer charities, and the economic downturn has a major impact on us - people donate less in hard times, for obvious reasons, but also the money raised from the stock market by those same charities is less, so we're doubly hit (as an institute) by the poorer times. Thankfully, we have people who know about money in charge of that sort of thing, and it's not left up to academics! :)
Thankfully, my eyes have somehow managed to gloss over that picture... but: bar-stewards!!
:D
Roo
PS don't need sympathy - I do love these synchtrotron trips, they just leave me a bit screwed up for a few days! Can't wait to get crunching the data! Drug discovery is cool beans, really :)
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That is a quality picture! McCartney almost looks cool with that '64 Esquire!
If he had shaved his mustache it would be nice :lol:
Perhaps no scarf too...
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That is a quality picture! McCartney almost looks cool with that '64 Esquire!
with that moustache and neckerchief? o_O
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That is a quality picture! McCartney almost looks cool with that '64 Esquire!
with that moustache and neckerchief? o_O
I would seldom disagree with Philly but in this case......
That coupled with the upside down Esquire makes me feel a bit like Roo
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haha, yeah. :lol:
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That is a quality picture! McCartney almost looks cool with that '64 Esquire!
with that moustache and neckerchief? o_O
I would seldom disagree with Philly but in this case......
That coupled with the upside down Esquire makes me feel a bit like Roo
I'll concede on the neckerchief, but the moustache rocked! I always think the clean-shaven McCartney looks like an off-duty drag queen. Even more so as he gets older:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/paul-mccartney-plastic-surgery.jpg)
Oooh, shut that door!
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:lol:
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He always reminds me of Droopy:
(http://www.leconcombre.com/droopy/img/droopy-wallpaper-1.jpg)
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He always reminds me of Droopy:
:lol: :lol: You're right!
But Droopy is one of my all-time heroes. Macca isn't.
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23 hours of work sounds tough. Good job you ain't a rentboy! :lol:
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23 hours of work sounds tough. Good job you ain't a rentboy! :lol:
Sometimes I wonder....
:D
And I totally agree with you about Droopy, Philly - far too cool to be compared with Macca :)
Roo
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I have to agree Droopy is way cooler
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I have to agree Droopy is way cooler
Classic cool! 8)
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hahahaha droopy :lol: