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Post by timleschild on Jun 17, 2024 14:45:37 GMT
So... the sarcasm went over his head. wow ! I guess someone will just have to play-faint. get the ball rolling, get it on record!
How else are they going to learn!
It absolutely blows me away,Aussie. A couple of people have gone home ill as a result of this already, and of course won't be paid for their time off. At this less-than-busy time of year, I'm beginning to believe it's the company's plan to save a few quid ... Speak to your Union rep.
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 17, 2024 15:57:38 GMT
So... the sarcasm went over his head. wow ! I guess someone will just have to play-faint. get the ball rolling, get it on record!
How else are they going to learn!
It absolutely blows me away,Aussie. A couple of people have gone home ill as a result of this already, and of course won't be paid for their time off. At this less-than-busy time of year, I'm beginning to believe it's the company's plan to save a few quid ... Simply despiccable.
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Post by number13 on Jun 18, 2024 10:10:50 GMT
So... the sarcasm went over his head. wow ! I guess someone will just have to play-faint. get the ball rolling, get it on record!
How else are they going to learn!
It absolutely blows me away,Aussie. A couple of people have gone home ill as a result of this already, and of course won't be paid for their time off. At this less-than-busy time of year, I'm beginning to believe it's the company's plan to save a few quid ... I had the opposite problem once. Desk under ice-cold aircon blowing straight down at what seemed like gale force. Just right for the rest of the room but after the first FREEZING day I came in dressed as if for polar exploration, in the middle of summer, in a heatwave...
And they wonder why working from home is popular!
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 18, 2024 20:06:41 GMT
Had a doctor's appointment this morning, just an annual check up but still annoying, but I took off for half a day for it and had just enough extra time to go swimming before having to go into work. So that was nice.
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 21, 2024 16:02:18 GMT
Very excited: I am going to travel to the UK tomorrow to take part in the first Invertebrate Medicine conference. I will be giving a 45 min lecture on Ant Health. Muhahahaha- a whole room full of victims where I can drone on and on about one of my favorite topics. No escape!
(I also have a little cooperation going with my local university where one of the ant science popes is teaching)
I am really looking forward to this. It is just so unusual and so different and weird and wonderful. Completely different to my day-to-day work. And yes, I am weird. But weird is better than boring.
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Post by elkawho on Jun 21, 2024 19:42:10 GMT
Very excited: I am going to travel to the UK tomorrow to take part in the first Invertebrate Medicine conference. I will be giving a 45 min lecture on Ant Health. Muhahahaha- a whole room full of victims where I can drone on and on about one of my favorite topics. No escape!
(I also have a little cooperation going with my local university where one of the ant science popes is teaching)
I am really looking forward to this. It is just so unusual and so different and weird and wonderful. Completely different to my day-to-day work. And yes, I am weird. But weird is better than boring. Have fun! I'm glad you're going to spend some time doing something that you love.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 21, 2024 22:09:31 GMT
Very excited: I am going to travel to the UK tomorrow to take part in the first Invertebrate Medicine conference. I will be giving a 45 min lecture on Ant Health. Muhahahaha- a whole room full of victims where I can drone on and on about one of my favorite topics. No escape!
(I also have a little cooperation going with my local university where one of the ant science popes is teaching)
I am really looking forward to this. It is just so unusual and so different and weird and wonderful. Completely different to my day-to-day work. And yes, I am weird. But weird is better than boring. pics ! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
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Post by number13 on Jun 22, 2024 9:28:50 GMT
In our wildlife garden, I've just seen a wood mouse that thinks it's up for the Tom Cruise role in 'Mousion Impossible'...
'Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to reach the bird feeder suspended five feet above ground level between two bushes, and to retrieve the stash of priceless sunflower seeds. This tape will... (etc.)'
(Cue theme music)
... runs up stem of bush, runs along branch, leaps to next stem, up stem, along branch, leaps again, along branch... ... pauses and... LEAPS over a foot through thin air to the feeder tray, with no ropes or safety net. (I'm half convinced I saw it do a back-flip too, show off. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif) ) ... sits on tray stuffing cute face with sunflower seeds.
And after all that effort, it was so chilled (or exhausted!) it just sat there while this number13 bloke walked up and took its picture from no distance away. Then it carried on munching for another few minutes, before...
... one huge leap to bush stem and surfs straight down the stem head first, finally vanishing in undergrowth.
Truly, an Ethan Hunt among wood mice. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/mW7FMmAyG_vqxkNOJyyh.gif)
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Post by number13 on Jun 23, 2024 9:44:25 GMT
I'm taking a short summer break from DU as I did a few years back. (No, not like the time when this old Police Box appeared and like a fool I wandered in and he said he'd bring me back 'in a matter of minutes' and in local time it was two-and-a-half-years later when I showed up again...)
With good weather and outdoor life I've been away from 'Doctor Who' and my BF backlog is growing, it will have to wait for autumn and dark evenings I think. And I've not been at the computer much until late in the day, and the pleasure of your collective online company has then made me far too late in the evenings. Sleep is not only for tortoises, Doctor!
So I'll see you around, later in the year. And the backlog will just keep on growing! The July 'BF anticipated' thread isn't up yet, but when it is, imagine me signed up for almost everything. It could yet be absolutely everything, it looks like a terrific month and I'm sure it will be - even if for me it happens around October; I'll have the CDs ready and waiting.
Enjoy the summer everyone ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/IwGTjEvWiMqDCgEk5m52.gif)
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 24, 2024 19:56:58 GMT
Congrats to Jenna Coleman on the impending birth of her child. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by mark687 on Jun 24, 2024 20:10:11 GMT
Congrats to Jenna Coleman on the impending birth of her child. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif) Who Wedding at the Weekend as well Miss Evangelista [Tallulah Riley] Married Tim Latimer [Thomas Brodie-Sangster] Regards mark687
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 26, 2024 6:33:29 GMT
Reporting back from the conference!
In the past couple of days, I traveled to the UK to take part in the first Invertebrate Medicine Conference. I gave a talk on ant health. It was a very nice cozy veterinary conference that reminded me a lot of the cozy little conferences we had during my PhD time in New Zealand. Lots of interesting talks and discussions, plus the venue was a dedicated Invertebrate Zoo, the Bug Parc. They have a huge hall with a very large Atta cephalotes colony (Leaf-cutter ants) and they plan on adding more ants and have a dedicated ant hall!
Interesting research going on, so there are people who study the ability of spiders to feel pain (they do!), built doppler probes to provide anestesia heart-beat surveillance for tarantulas (listen to some amazing spider heart-beats) and an acquaintance of mine who is breeding fancy isopods and she is performing caesarians and surgeries (including taking x-rays!) on her fancy isopods (these are fancy breeds like "rubber ducky" and "panda" and so on).
The Bug Parc (Lenwade, UK) is definitely worth a visit and they are still expanding.
For me, the conference was a great success.
Lots of interesting people to meet, some great chats and discussions, plus, people seemed to have liked my talk. So yay!
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 26, 2024 7:23:10 GMT
Reporting back from the conference! In the past couple of days, I traveled to the UK to take part in the first Invertebrate Medicine Conference. I gave a talk on ant health. It was a very nice cozy veterinary conference that reminded me a lot of the cozy little conferences we had during my PhD time in New Zealand. Lots of interesting talks and discussions, plus the venue was a dedicated Invertebrate Zoo, the Bug Parc. They have a huge hall with a very large Atta cephalotes colony (Leaf-cutter ants) and they plan on adding more ants and have a dedicated ant hall! Interesting research going on, so there are people who study the ability of spiders to feel pain (they do!), built doppler probes to provide anestesia heart-beat surveillance for tarantulas (listen to some amazing spider heart-beats) and an acquaintance of mine who is breeding fancy isopods and she is performing caesarians and surgeries (including taking x-rays!) on her fancy isopods (these are fancy breeds like "rubber ducky" and "panda" and so on). The Bug Parc (Lenwade, UK) is definitely worth a visit and they are still expanding. For me, the conference was a great success. Lots of interesting people to meet, some great chats and discussions, plus, people seemed to have liked my talk. So yay! You had me at hello !
Spider heart beats !!!
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 26, 2024 11:05:32 GMT
Had my 8AM appt today to donate more blood through my work group. They panicked when they saw my moon boot- there are very strict guidelines regarding donating blood- the questionnaire you have to fill out has 33 questions and they go Very graphic of a se***l nature for obvious reasons.. And a couple years ago the 40ish year ban on English born and raised people donating blood has been lifted (all to do with the mad cow disease late 70's/early 80's?)
I assured them multiple times there is no break, no fracture/stress fracture it's all muscle swelling.
That was my 4th donation in the last Aussie financial year (1st July to 30th June) so that ticks the box in my work PDR about charity work etc- I do a few other things throughout the year too.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 26, 2024 11:19:03 GMT
Had my 8AM appt today to donate more blood through my work group. They panicked when they saw my moon boot- there are very strict guidelines regarding donating blood- the questionnaire you have to fill out has 33 questions and they go Very graphic of a se***l nature for obvious reasons.. And a couple years ago the 40ish year ban on English born and raised people donating blood has been lifted (all to do with the mad cow disease late 70's/early 80's?) I assured them multiple times there is no break, no fracture/stress fracture it's all muscle swelling. That was my 4th donation in the last Aussie financial year (1st July to 30th June) so that ticks the box in my work PDR about charity work etc- I do a few other things throughout the year too. Well at least at your next Work Eval you can say "See I've literately met this years blood quota which do you want next sweat or tears" Regards mark687
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Post by bonehead on Jun 26, 2024 13:51:08 GMT
Sorry to hear this. The work environment plays too big a part in our lives, I think.
Trivial in comparison perhaps, at our place, the cool air fans were taken away from our rooms/work stations nearly two months ago and haven't been replaced. A wire had come loose on one, and therefore they were all treated as a health and safety issue; with the oncoming warm weather, days have become uncomfortably warm. Not illegally so, but people are becoming ill spending 8 hours in the heat and humidity. "We're looking into it," say the managers when they occasionally emerge from their air-conditioned offices. In other words, they couldn't care less.
Yep, when we're unhappy at work, it casts a big shadow over our lives. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/lgNpjqMBrdKJZtuYfRpf.gif) Just to quote myself here, we've had an update on the air fan situation. The noticeboard tells us "We are awaiting a date when we will look into this." What? My friend mentioned to a manager that there will need to be plenty of First Aiders on standby as the temperatures rise, because staff members are going to be passing out in the heat. "Oh don't worry," our manager laughed. "We've got lots of First Aiders." This is an extraordinarily worrying situation. I should point out that I work for a pharmaceutical company! Just an update on this fascinating (as I'm sure you'll agree) journey. We now have air cooling fans in the workplace - lovely big, industrial strength fans! I wrote a letter to the management pointing out the situation, and how genuinely unpleasant it was to work in the heat (now reaching 28 degrees). Didn't think it would even reach the relevant people before it hit the bottom of the bin. A week later, the fans were installed, and a manager carted me away to a little room for a chat to 'make sure I was happy'! Unheard of!
I'm not saying my letter did any good, but I'm feeling quite smug about all this anyway.
And do you know what a young lady I work with said after they'd been installed?
"It's a bit cold."
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