Fountain pens

[32t]

Tim - what ink do you use? I have a couple colours of Noodlers, and they are meant to work in the manner you describe. Nice inks, and interesting pens from that company.

Mostly noodlers inks. My home desk has Lexington Gray and my work desk has Bad Blue Heron. I have a variety of others including the Polar Brown and invisible ones. My wife has Waterman Green on her desk.

One thing about making complicated rules is that the more complicated you say you do things the easier it is to get caught doing something against them.

Working maintenance in the hospital there are very many agencies we have to deal with. We have a couple of compounding pharmacies for example. I saw a list wrote out one time and it was long. Everything from JACHO, CMA, to plumbing and fire inspectors.

We even have an airport license for our helipad!

I recently backed out of a posting for a lead man position when I looked closely and saw that all the responsibility for much of this with no authority wasn't worth it to myself after doing a risk benefit assessment.

 

[RezDog]

Speaking of auditors.
why did the auditor cross the road?
They looked at their working papers and that’s what they did last year.

 

[Bruno]

I recently backed out of a posting for a lead man position when I looked closely and saw that all the responsibility for much of this with no authority wasn't worth it to myself after doing a risk benefit assessment.

Amen. My company put a whole lot of people in senior position into a 'mid level manager' pay grade. Their job remained the same and they got a small raise. But they are no longer on the clock and they have 'responsibilities'

Meaning most of them work longer hours without getting overtime. And as you say, they get responsibility without authority.

Thankfully they left our department alone

 

[32t]

Here is another good one. You are not on call but expected to answer the company phone you are to carry all times...

I have looked into different ink requirements for different jobs. Some interesting things. Many that appear to be of military origin and ex or retired military personnel carry that into the private sector.

When looking into the medical field there are many variations and many are old school and not used anymore but one I noted was that the day shift 0:700 to 15:00 nurses wrote in black. Then the afternoon shift in green and the night shift in red.

On a similar note our company went away from uniforms but then went back to them. Many employees hate the uniforms but the best answer I heard and agree with is that in an emergency situation you want to know who the nurse the anesthesiologist or aide etc. is without thinking.

After the return to uniforms took place one of the things that is not listed made me laugh and smile.

I never realized there were so many variations of shoes available.

 

[RezDog]

In the past the supplier of our uniforms was not very good at consistent dye lots or sticking with the patterns, and as a result our uniforms are not very uniform.
Unless you are doing chart corrections, no one cares what you write with at work.

 

[32t]

In the past the supplier of our uniforms was not very good at consistent dye lots or sticking with the patterns, and as a result our uniforms are not very uniform.
Unless you are doing chart corrections, no one cares what you write with at work.

Are you responsible to launder your uniforms?

One thing that I like about our contract at work is that we get a uniform service so I don't have to drag stuff home from work and wash it in my washer.

Once in a while someone leaves a pen in their pocket and you can imagine the shape they are returned in.

 

[RezDog]

No laundry service at work.
in industry it is super common, but government makes the rules so they can have all the loop holes.