[Closed] What niche/boring/random thing are you doing at work today?

Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

Dealing with the continued fallout of a bunch of Open Source vulnerabilities. Another day, another dollar/pound/euro.

Deciding on whether to take a blue or black rollerball pen to a very dull 4 hour technical workshop where I will partake in a large amount of doodling/scribbling rather than paying attention to what's going on.

Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

Pretty good chance you have won the thread before it has even got going

Installing and configuring System Center servers and completing the approprite qualification documentation for Pharma/FDA compliance. Which means the whole thing takes about 3 times as long as normal, is about 10 times more mind numbing and results in deforestation of large areas of rain forest due to the huge amounts of paper consumed. Who said we're living in the digital age.

Finishing an article for a special edition of a journal that was due at the publisher's about two months ago.

So stop distracting me.

Looking for a suitable sized door mat.

Painting this, drinking tea and listening to Mixmaster Morris

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editing my first report,all 23000 words of it. contacting an nhs trust to ask them if they realise they have an eye clinic as they don't mention it in any of their literature.

Been working long hours over weekend so have just gone back to bed where I will spend most of today.

[s]Writing a report and updating Excel sheets on high risk equipment,for an audit.[/s] Reading STW and looking at bike bits.

Producing technical documentation for the refrigeration plant which will be fitted to the Royal Navy's next generation of surface ships - The T26 Global Combat ship.

Producing technical documentation for the refrigeration plant

Can you not just download that? When my Hotpoint fridge broke recently I just got the instructions as a PDF from interwebs

Producing technical documentation for the refrigeration plant

Can you not just download that? When my Hotpoint fridge broke recently I just got the instructions as a PDF from interwebs

Producing technical documentation for the refrigeration plant which will be fitted to the Royal Navy's next generation of surface ships - The T26 Global Combat ship.

Rum's better unchilled anyway

Hanging around on STW all day till the board meeting starts at 4.30pm where i will present a one page report and talk for about 10 mins, having spent 2 hrs listening to my parent organisations stuff very little of which has any impact on me whatsoever. If I am really lucky I'll get to present first and GTF, then I'll have the other pleasure of attending the Bike Club committee meeting..

Waves at BigG and MattOAB.

Preparing human prostate glands for dissection
Pretty good chance you have won the thread before it has even got going

Sadly it's almost can everyday occurrence. I am however trying to negotiate a discount on a new frame too

Optimising one particle basis sets so that people can carry out accurate quantum mechanical calculations on rubidium.

[quote=rOcKeTdOg spake unto the masses, saying]Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

I'm hoping that's on a professional, rather than personal, level?

Writing a document on where/why to use 3650 and 3750 switches in the network of a multinational company, complete with visio diagrams and tables of various software options depending on the environment they are installed in.

Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

They're not still attached to the humans are they?
That would be a proper PITA for all concerned.

Spending today at work looking for a new job

Not when you're designing it in the first place!!

Sounds overly complex and expensive - surely it would be cheaper to just buy a fridge online? If you need more capacity just buy two and haggle for a bulk buy discount.

I'm hoping that's on a professional, rather than personal, level?

Had it been personal, he'd have been preparing them with fava beans and a nice Chianti....

Currently constructing the rear wheel arch/turret for a competition car then later I'll be playing with carbon. Usual kind of day really.

trying to find the stated measurement uncertainty for The Alicona G4 vs G5.

then probably looking for a new job.

J - Member
rOcKeTdOg spake unto the masses, saying » Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

I'm hoping that's on a professional, rather than personal, level?

Purely Histological

Making a new holder for our cabinet scrapers.
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Fitting a fire suppressant collar to a 4" duct that the building inspector is being a little picky about....

I've got a security access meeting shortly, that should be fun, I'd rather be preparing prostrate glands for dissection through.

I'm on here just waiting to be able to use the expression "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

I think I may put it on a tee-shirt.

You rapidly unscheduled disassemble it, you buy it?

I'm on here just waiting to be able to use the expression "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

NO DISASSEMBLE NUMBER 5!
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Copying all the emails I sent to customers last week into various customer PST folders in a shared inbox (there are about 1200 folders, holding around 50gb of mails) so as my boss has access to them just in case there are any issues in the future, and I'm not in to sort it out.

It is absolutely a productive use of my (every) working day. 😕

there are about 1200 folders, holding around 50gb of mails

You are a Spambot and I claim my £5!

transferring a load of tumour samples from big tubes to small tubes and moving them to our new -80 freezer as well as checking it all adds up on the databse, sigggghhhhhhhh

I'm just studying Gillian Anderson's teeth to check how far they're going behind her top teeth when she closes her jaw

I wish I was footflaps. But these mails go back years. 99.9% of them have never been looked at again. But it's how the team (just this team) has always done it. So that's that.

Not when you're designing it in the first place!!

Sounds overly complex and expensive - surely it would be cheaper to just buy a fridge online? If you need more capacity just buy two and haggle for a bulk buy discount.

We not getting involved with the fridges and freezers - that is someone else's job.

These are chilled water plant, which provide process cooling and service the HVAC System.

each one is the size of a shipping container!

rewriting a years old very wrong technical work instruction for a liner hanger system.

Tribal knowledge no longer allowed 🙁

Making a composite & leather 'Kleenex' box cover, a gift to one of our customers, which matches the interior of his
747-800 that we completed a little while ago...

Similar to this...

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Random enough for you?!

I'm drawing a picture of the Flying Scotsman. With 6 chickens sat on it. What else would I be doing on a Monday?

Sorting through 200 photos of Bath Rugby players wearing OPPO Headphones.

Pumping wine from a barrel to a tank.

panzerjager - is that going in this....

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😀

Copying all the emails I sent to customers last week into various customer PST folders in a shared inbox

Learn VBA; automate repetitive, boring tasks.

Setting up a IPTV system for a popular financial news channels new HK offices, not done it in a while but since I used to work for the IPTV manufacturer I volunteered, good to get back on the tools...and spending time on STW.

I'm doing a business case ...

I'm making various maps of sales data by transport time to nearby cities to try and highlight that intuition is a terrible way to make a decision as to where to site new stores.

Listing drawings that our tender is based on in our offer letter, there are thousands but usually change by one digit in each case.

getting rid of fake Gas Monkey Garage T-Shirts on Ebay redbubble zazzle etc ....never ending....

Just gonna have some lunch, but then it'll be adding drainage to highway longsections for a housing development.

Fighting jetlag in a conference. One of those days when I have to be there, but have no involvement all day.

Might be a struggle.

Completing multi-page customer review reports, I fear I might have just crossed the threshold when you spend more time telling people what you've done, rather than doing it - but hey ho, every job I've ever had gets to this point in the end.

im 'new business developing' today...

I'm drawing an isometric projection of a proposed mixed use development.

I have just installed Freeradius Radius Server on an archaic Ubuntu 10.04 machine as part of a proof of concept. Amazed it actually worked with only a few issues which Google solved for me....

Might be a struggle.

Just think of all the commission on those paper clips - that will keep you going!

reviewing technical papers on the equivalency of various sunscreen water resistance polymers.

And wondering what to have for lunch.

I am preparing a course for tomorrow in Dundee botanic gardens. 8)

I am writing a 30mins presentation on implementation of risk / benefit in schools/nurseries/play schemes for all the Scottish local authority H&S officers next week... 😯

Doing emails and having a quick browse at STW. Just south of Greenland, 554mph, 38,000ft. No escape from email ever now 🙁

I'm making various maps of sales data by transport time to nearby cities to try and highlight that intuition is a terrible way to make a decision as to where to site new stores.

There's now a professional guitarist in the next room widdling away making short product demos of a bunch of our new gear. This is breathtakingly irritating for me so god only knows what it's like for the companies in the offices above and below ours.

Doing nothing 🙁 can't stand being idle at work. Still, all this will change tomorrow when the Big Project kicks off

Just finished fitting a flameless explosion filter to our wheat transfer dust collector.

Basically a big red box with stainless gauze & a pressure sensing membrane that will be £15,000 please 😕

Little bit bored, looking at STW and changing to an internal email or document to look busy now and then, but only because I'm waiting for our CNC router to be sorted out so we can start cutting stuff on it, keeps tripping the main board, every now and then I go and play on our CNC lathe to try and get that working too - we've only just had some training on it and it's a bit of a headache to get it working properly, I'm quicker on the manual lathe at the moment ... coffee time I think 🙂

john_drummer - Member
Doing nothing can't stand being idle at work. Still, all this will change tomorrow when the Big Project kicks off

We had one like this at my work, a massive change of OS for a lot of users and what did management choose to call it? the 'RBP' ...the Really Big Project.... I kid ye not.

I've been helping a customer set our product up ready to get their customers across on to it. Now doing a little bit of testing on our next product release this afternoon once the upgrade repo is fixed.

Preparing to teach kids to ski. Took a day off to come and work instructing. Makes me happy!

Now warming my stones whilst typing by straddling an electric heater.
I really haven't done much today...

Opening night of a Fine Art Exhibition tonight. I have been managing 36 artists who have produced 61 paintings. The exhibitions runs for two weeks and then we move it to Milan.

I hovered out the MRI. Which, with a metal hoover, is actually more awkward than you'd think - long extension schnozel is needed.

Finding and quantifying metallic inclusions in a cobalt alloy, after that I'm transferring them into our SEM so that I can re-find the inclusions and do some chemical analysis.

Been asked by management to write and set up profile page ... what profile?

ZM is just ZM so why do they want my profile for? 🙄

trying to get my head around seo, my online shop needs more visitors 🙁

Converting data that we deliberately set up to be paperless and incredibly hard/long winded to make paper copies of into...

Papercopies..

Then converting to a PDF to send off-site.

because metadata

:grump:

Tiling.

Just got here but last night I was making sure 2 prisoners didn't commit suicide. (along with keeping an eye on 64 others who probably wouldn't) Does that count?

Week off, so I can't comment, but...... a whole bloody week of DIY. Joy! And maybe a ride or two.

I have until the weekend to provide a view of UK vs Overseas operational costs and effectiveness, strangely CBA though.

This morning I met a lovely 93yr old who told me she wants to live till she's 94 so she can see the statue/plaque that's going to be erected in honour of all the ladies like her her worked in the steel works during WW2. Hopefully the blood in her pee is just a uti and not bladder cancer and her wish will come true.
Lunchtime visit to an 87yr old bloke with a dense stroke and no larynx who is cared for at home brilliantly by his son.
Tonight I had to ring a young girl up and tell her she's go campylobacter in her stool. Couple of case conference reports on children in need to be done before home time, and about a million coughs and colds.
Love my job. 🙂