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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I work in a cleanroom.

It looks more like the bottom picture than I'd like to admit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

I mean, it's not called a tidy room, is it now?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So more like a misnomer room

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can be clean and messy at the same time.

At least that's what my wife tells me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Can confirm, that's what his wife tells him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Clean (no particulates) room that is messy (scattered large objects)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

More like "Industry" vs "Academia". I love the work at the nonprofit academic lab, but I miss the cleanness, efficiency, and prettiness of the for-profit lab. 🥲

[–] anticommon 11 points 2 years ago

I design labs and to be honest it ends up being kinda a mix of both unless we're talking some major FAB

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe in cGMP labs, my for profit experience definitely looks like the latter image lol

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actual real life lab

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

why do i feel rickrolled and why dont i feel annoyed about it?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I am not seeing the random lunch, which should really really not be here, in the bottom picture. Did the photographer pick it up first?

[–] kersploosh 18 points 2 years ago

Movies never show the undergrads hunched over benches getting thumb cramps from pipetting all day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lab boss in real life: "see if you can make oatmeal addictive"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

labs do look like this, but only when freshly build and before actual research group gets in

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Any space*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"No lunches in this fridge. Human biological specimens only"