@Pandabear, I've worked in places where every single job description had that kind of a section regardless of the actual demands of the job. Needless to say, there was not a single handicapped applicant passing through HR preliminary review.
Do you consider yourself Blue Collar, White Collar or sonething else?
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Originally Posted by Kjmack
Is this we're BITOG is at now , people announcing their income , LOL . Let's all compare net worth or better yet our DNA so we can all be sperated into little groups . Over in this corner the poor blue collar workers , in this corner the uneducated ignorant pheasants etc etc .
I didn't even know that there were schools for pheasants.
You learn something new every day...
Is this we're BITOG is at now , people announcing their income , LOL . Let's all compare net worth or better yet our DNA so we can all be sperated into little groups . Over in this corner the poor blue collar workers , in this corner the uneducated ignorant pheasants etc etc .
I didn't even know that there were schools for pheasants.
You learn something new every day...
Originally Posted by PandaBear
No, my wife was doing a similar job and they have to "wash" and "clean" lab equipment once in a while that weight that much. Bio lab jobs can be both high demand physically and intellectually.
I work in Chemistry, but it's similar.
The requirement IS is my job description(just checked and its "occasionally", not "frequently") and I do sometimes legitimately need to move some very heavy stuff. The LC-MS crossed the threshold where I actually needed some help to move it off a cart and onto a bench-I think it's around 200lbs, plus has a(fortunately separate) roughing pump that's ~100lbs.
The rough pump on my newer GC-MS is, IMO, undersized but none the less is what Agilent ships these days(at least before they developed the new oil-free pump) and probably weighs ~30lbs. I'm not running my older(early 1990s) GC-MS on its original roughing pump, but back then HP liked the Edwards E2M2 which weighs about 40lbs(I'm using a Varian pump with a slightly higher capacity that weighs a bit more). Hewlett Packard/Agilent MSDs(mass spectrometers) have a vacuum chamber that is probably not over 1 cubic foot and the only designed opening into the vacuum chamber takes a fused silica tube that you'd normally be flowing helium through at a rate no more than ~2mL/min. By contrast, the LC-MS(this one is a Finnigan) has a couple of cubic feet in the vacuum chamber, and the front of it is open to the atmosphere(occasionally with water and/or solvents spraying at it with a high flow rate of nitrogen) via a hole that's probably .75mm in diameter or so-so in other words it needs a big pump to keep the vacuum where it needs to be.
No, my wife was doing a similar job and they have to "wash" and "clean" lab equipment once in a while that weight that much. Bio lab jobs can be both high demand physically and intellectually.
I work in Chemistry, but it's similar.
The requirement IS is my job description(just checked and its "occasionally", not "frequently") and I do sometimes legitimately need to move some very heavy stuff. The LC-MS crossed the threshold where I actually needed some help to move it off a cart and onto a bench-I think it's around 200lbs, plus has a(fortunately separate) roughing pump that's ~100lbs.
The rough pump on my newer GC-MS is, IMO, undersized but none the less is what Agilent ships these days(at least before they developed the new oil-free pump) and probably weighs ~30lbs. I'm not running my older(early 1990s) GC-MS on its original roughing pump, but back then HP liked the Edwards E2M2 which weighs about 40lbs(I'm using a Varian pump with a slightly higher capacity that weighs a bit more). Hewlett Packard/Agilent MSDs(mass spectrometers) have a vacuum chamber that is probably not over 1 cubic foot and the only designed opening into the vacuum chamber takes a fused silica tube that you'd normally be flowing helium through at a rate no more than ~2mL/min. By contrast, the LC-MS(this one is a Finnigan) has a couple of cubic feet in the vacuum chamber, and the front of it is open to the atmosphere(occasionally with water and/or solvents spraying at it with a high flow rate of nitrogen) via a hole that's probably .75mm in diameter or so-so in other words it needs a big pump to keep the vacuum where it needs to be.
Welding Collar
My shirts at work are white.
I belong to a labor union. I get paid by the hour.
So...
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But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
I belong to a labor union. I get paid by the hour.
So...
?
But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
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Originally Posted by Astro14
But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
If you were, you'd be white collar:
![[Linked Image]](https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/attachments/usergals/2019/04/full-83000-31660-pheasant.jpg "[Linked Image]")
But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
If you were, you'd be white collar:
What is the blue collar vs white collar definition?
Originally Posted by MrMoody
Originally Posted by Astro14
But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
If you were, you'd be white collar:
That pheasant looks like a peasant.
Originally Posted by Astro14
But I'm pretty certain that I'm not a pheasant...
If you were, you'd be white collar:
That pheasant looks like a peasant.
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