adventures-in-asexuality replied to your post “Somehow my lab has managed to lose a four foot steel table. Apparently…”
How do you LOSE a four foot steel table?!
Weeeeeeell. My boss bought it on the internet and told me in passing “It’s been delivered! Move it to where it needs to live permanently now! I think it’s somewhere on our floor.”
I spend about a week and a half investigating various parts of the labyrinthine warren we work in. Packages of all sorts of other things turn up, but no table. So I go to my boss and say “…where EXACTLY was this delivered to?” We don’t find out, but we DO find that someone named “TBISHKP” signed for it.
No one in my lab is named anything resembling TBISHKP. The mail guy for our building also has no idea where this thing went. The mailroom and admin people for the two most likely buildings next door for this thing to be delivered have also never heard of it, and appear to think I am somewhat crazy. So yeaaaaaaaaaah. (This is not the first time this has happened, although never with anything as spectacular as a four-foot table.)
Table is still missing. I have given up until I can make my boss call the nice folks at Amazon and figure out where the UPS guy wound up next week. Bleh.
captainheartless replied to your post “Somehow my lab has managed to lose a four foot steel table. Apparently…”
Sounds like the beginning of an episode of a grad student sticom!
Oh goodness, don’t say that or I’m going to have to huddle in a corner wondering what the punchline is. Like the table will turn up in that shower with the incredibly passive aggressive note about pissing all over everything and then I’ll have to manhandle it to its final home or something. Ngh.