well, that was a great start...
I broke a robot. A very expensive robot. I really, really hope the (tiny, but vital) part I broke can be replaced by itself. And that the people who use the robot the most are still on holidays and don't need it tomorrow.
I was trying to be productive today, so I started another experiment at 5pm instead of deciding it was too much effort for that late in the day. I should have just gone home.
On the not-entirely-gloomy side, I did email the person in charge about it and haven't yet been reduced to a sobbing wreck out of guilt... I really don't want to come back here in the morning and face everyone, though.
If only I were still in my lab at home; I would've at least won the weekly award for stupidest lab mistake and got a free vendor t-shirt out of it...
posted by Lucy @ 8:57 PM
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Well, I know absolutely nothing about this sort of thing, but I would bet you're not the first person to break a robot. Right?
And hey, good for you for being productive!
Hope things go well in the morning!
Well, this facility is pretty new, so I might be the first in this lab, at least.
List of things I have broken in the lab:
At least 2 $300 pH probes
Over the years surely $500 worth of glassware
and when I went to write this comment I was fairly confident that I at one point broke some $1000 piece of equipment at sometime but I can't remember now...
and for some reason my department has put me in charge of a $50,000 piece of equipment that surely is to break on my watch...
so point is people break things all the time and it is always ok and not as catastrophic as you initially think
Well, if it's any consolation, and I'm sure it's not, as far as non sequiturs go "I broke a robot" is one of the better tragi-comic opening lines I've heard. I am pretty sure the robot had it coming.
I know I trashed a couple of $3000 pieces of equipment, plus tons of things in the hundred dollar range.
Thanks, Twirly and Sheepish. :) I did try to look up how much the part might cost and found the same robot on ebay for $1100, so maybe it isn't the tens of thousands of dollars I thought, at least...
Big hugs. I still remember the time I dropped an entire box of slide covers and broke most of them when working as a veterinary assistant. I know, not at all on the same level, but the way my boss reacted you would have thought so.
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