Saturday, July 10, 2010

A mistake I will never forget!

This week is a transistion time between our work rotations.  I have so many new tests to learn.  For the past 2 days I keep getting funny results.  The first day I found out that I did not place the tube in the correct side up.  That 1 day work went down the drain.  Today, it seems funny again.  I found that I didn't zero the UV reader.  And since it's Friday I don't want to repeat the test next Monday so I stayed back a little longer to re-do the test.  And guess what? I found out that I used the wrong enzyme.  So this lesson costs me 2 days of labour and from now on I will never ever forget what should and should not do for this test.

But Murphy's law kept following me, a different test also produce funny results.  And the person who trained me could not reason out why.  So next week I have to find some other people to look at the results and give me suggestions of what to do next.  I guess because this week everyone is running around trying to learn new tests and also have to teach others, it became a bit hectic and out time is out of schedule.  Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I can settle down with all this new tests without bothering others.

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