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  • What niche/boring/random thing are you doing at work today?
  • franksinatra
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    Me? Trying to write specification to allow us to go out to procurement to buy a washing machine to clean commodes.

    Living the dream.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

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

    piedidiformaggio
    Free Member

    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.

    franksinatra
    Full Member

    Preparing human prostate glands for dissection

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

    mark90
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    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.

    SaxonRider
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    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.

    sandwicheater
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    Looking for a suitable sized door mat.

    yunki
    Free Member

    Painting this, drinking tea and listening to Mixmaster Morris

    jimbobo
    Free Member

    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.

    loddrik
    Free Member

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

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

    freeagent
    Free Member

    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.

    franksinatra
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    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

    freeagent
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    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

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

    thenorthwind
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    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

    surroundedbyhills
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    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.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    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

    GHill
    Full Member

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

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

    Reign_Man
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    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.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    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.

    jonm81
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    Spending today at work looking for a new job

    footflaps
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    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.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    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….

    breadcrumb
    Full Member

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

    ahwiles
    Free Member

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

    then probably looking for a new job.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    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

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Making a new holder for our cabinet scrapers.

    wrightyson
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    Fitting a fire suppressant collar to a 4″ duct that the building inspector is being a little picky about….

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

    Leku
    Free Member

    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?

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    I’m on here just waiting to be able to use the expression “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.

    NO DISASSEMBLE NUMBER 5!

    binners
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    tomhoward
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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. 😕

    footflaps
    Full Member

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

    You are a Spambot and I claim my £5!

    kimbers
    Full Member

    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

    jonjones262
    Free Member

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

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    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.

    freeagent
    Free Member

    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!

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