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I haven't really made too many comics about what it was like being a medical lab tech during the last two years, but this is a pretty accurate depiction! Lets just say when samples come in XXL shopping bags you know that it's going to be a long shift :'D Also, fun fact, in Dutch we refer to a test sample as a 'monster'!
Cat tax! Mr. Chonk is very good at blending in with the carpet, look at those cute toe beans!
If you would like to see more of my comics you can find them on my Instagram (I don't post them here as much as I do there): https://www.instagram.com/amyrevives
NairouTryyshokk
Favorite thing is when people ship samples and they don't label coolers with what temp it needs to be kept at...
Thund3rlizard
Now you got Chonks of samples at home! Be glad! I hear his belly has the best samples. You just have to rub it.
theyallwenttoMexico
Samples. I initially thought you meant samples of drugs given to doctors by big pharma. I was thinking, 'Shopping bags full! Yikes!'.
PastryRaven
I've been wanting to get into lab work since finishing University but I can't seem to get anywhere. How did you do it?
AmyRevives
Well they were absolutely desperate for people so I just snuck in that way, covid was my way in ✨ my medical degree did help though
poopsmagoo
Thanks for looking at my pee and stuff
AmyRevives
You're very welcome!
Darksnider05
The desire to have a cat versus not wanting to be responsible for the life of another.
ToSisPoS
But does Ms. Beans have toe chonks?
AmyRevives
She does indeed, but she's shy!
Onlyhereforthelaughs
I heard that someone donated vials of blood to a Goodwill once. He had been fired from the lab, and was retaliating.
gordy77
As a water lag guy, we'd get samples in drink bottles, open buckets, minuscule medicine bottles...just, no.
TheTeeminSteaminScreaminMemeinSemenCreaminDemon
Hello. I love you. I hope you have a good day!
AmyRevives
Thank you!!
Imjustheretodrinkandcomment
Mr Chonk looks quite put off that you're taking his picture
AmyRevives
I tried to explain to him that his tax is required for Imgur, but his English still needs some work
subject6661
Mijn vorige functie waren de monsters zover te zoeken dat ik eruit ben gegooid ?
DarkHourse
I too would be scared by a bag of monsters.
AmyRevives
If you put it that way it sure does sound more menacing!
TheGingerBeardedBiologist
Ik hoop dat het geen urinemonsters waren...
SeminasRoad
I also work at a lab in NL (Marketing tho). This was pretty much how it was with all the covid samples we received. Insane amounts.
Vulpesferrilata
As a respiratory therapist, thank you for processing the blood work quickly :')
wikidleaf
Had a patient drop off a stool sample...in a rubber maid container and ask if they could have the container back. We have the container back
wikidleaf
But they were upset because we didn't wash the container out
AmyRevives
My goodness, never a dull moment at the lab!
Jijinumerounodriver2
IHearTheCosmos
Damn your art is getting better every time I see it on here. I’m proud of you (I’m sure that doesn’t mean much but I am).
AmyRevives
Thank you!! And it means a lot to me ;D I've been trying my best!
supervillainsevilmoustache
Thanks for providing links to your work! I need to look and buy a print for my daughter. Not sure what, guess I’ll know it when I see it
supervillainsevilmoustache
You have posted some things that remind me of her, and I’d think she would like them very much. As do I, but a different perspective
squishybaker
As a former lab tech, shit can be fun, but fuck being treated like shit.
AmyRevives
I second this! We really are the invisible crew keeping hospitals running :'D but man is the pay rubbish and management too
Kingskink
Is Mr Chonk perhaps a little British Shorthair? Anyway, I adore Mr Chonk
AmyRevives
He definitely is!
Kingskink
I love British Shorthair! I want one.. some day I guess
ICampOntheFirstDate
I've received samples in fast food cups and a work glove. Whatever the field guy had on hand at the time, I've gotten it.
bruudwin
if you ever were a lab tech in a hospital, a big THANK YOU! as a CT tech we usually have to wait on your results if we can give contrast
Pukeko4Prez
Once received pathology slides in a empty almond tin.
ryulis
I once recieved a pathology sample. I did not work in Pathology. I quote the porter "I have overies in a bowl here"
AmyRevives
Never a dull moment in a lab :'D
Sereh
Urine in an apple juice container, stool in a mayo jar, the creativity is endless.
kerrigan778
I vaguely thought you were still a lab tech, did you become a full time artist?
AmyRevives
Oh no I'm still a lab tech, it's just that covid calmed down so I'm no longer swamped in work!
Nocran
A XXL bag of samples that need testing and organizing. Oh baby that sounds like fun. I might be weird…
AmyRevives
It's when they're leaky then the fun stops :'D full PPE and risking your life for min wag is a bit meh
Nocran
Agree on the min wage. Then again I work in a store and I had to clean up a pallet of beer that tipped over once. Also not fun.
coldnar9
I stopped being a lab tech when the local grocery store payed its workers better then what I'd been payed for 5 years.
AmyRevives
Hahaha yeah... I'm probably gonna job hunt again soon too! They actually decided to pay me less but promoted me to have more responsibility!
fromagewit
Classic
EroticZombiePants
I thought shit like this only happened in America and not places that actually have workers' rights.
AmyRevives
Let's just say hospitals are for profit wherever you go, so as a patient I'm all good, as an employee ehhh earth worm status :'D
JosipStar
Apply for jobs in the private business sector that manufactures your equipment like roche, Siemens, Abbott, etc. they hire med techs.
frischcode
Would you prefer if the samples came in buckets?
Sereh
You'd be surprised at what patients will give you as a container and think nothing of it.
FredNet84
I would feel very calm and reassured, ready to face anything with my bucket.
Wraid
somnif
We used ice buckets all the time in my lab, but relatively few samples per bucket, thankfully.
yomahnn
I might know of someone who could help. @elbowdeepinahorse
NapoleonTrousersnakeBonaparte
The soldier might
djhash
M…my… my sample.. comes in.. ok no.. I’m gonna stop myself there.
ryulis
Work in a hospital lab, 24 hour urine collections do indeed come in buckets. Sometimes multiple....
colmustard1985
No, Never. The buckets were only for the most important samples to be tested. 2/10 They were packed right. And nobody should have used them!
GodsFoot
There's more
KentStandit
Noo...
AmyRevives
Probably :'D those shopping bags give me heart palpitations now!
dlshark
“But I only needed a few drops of blood!” “Eh, keep the change”
HiddenSanity
*Management starts installing a forklift bay, for samples.*
AmyRevives
We actually have two forklifts :'D stuff does come in by the pallet!
frischcode
Loads shopping bags of boxes of test tubes into bucket. There you go. -- Management
AmyRevives
It would be funny if it wasn't so true! Management wanted us dead I swear
frischcode
We appear to have a difference of opinion. It's funny because it's true. I worked in the microwave lab. Sometimes samples came in buckets.
UnhelpfulAnswers
Speaking of things that don't belong in bags
AmyRevives
The Canadians are quaking!
7Spades
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AmyRevives
DAT ZIJN ZE AAAHHHHH
7Spades
Waar een Albert Heijn tas al niet goed voor is XD boodschappen, verhuizen, labmonsters........
PicassoCT
No lab automation? All that is need is a rattle to sort them into racks and then a robot?
AmyRevives
Nope, we do it all by hand... I think cheap labour is less expensive than a nice sorting machine :'D
PicassoCT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Ary4IfK1k but seriously alot can be done without expensive machinery..
PicassoCT
All you need is a vibrating sieve, beelining the flask into a fixed position. Then a collab robot like UR + some cam could handle them
PicassoCT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F72M04Wni20 work smart not hard.. and stay safe
ryulis
I mean we still need to label, look for signs of leakage, make sure the sample is viable etc etc.
PicassoCT
Labelling can be done with a label printer (okay those are expensive), leaking check can be done with conductivity sensor or by visual
ratcamper
Bags? What in the fresh hell???
AmyRevives
This was exactly my reaction!
ratcamper
This has been haunting me. Was everything okay in there? Some things should not be transported in bags.
AmyRevives
Yah we survived, the labs I worked at were just wildly unprepared for the workload- but the more samples we processed the more the CEO made
AmyRevives
But the lab techs, including me, never saw a penny of the millions made :'D I always thought hard work would be rewarded, apparently not!
ratcamper
But it is! Who is rewarded isn't specified though. Glad you made it through that with at least some of your sanity intact.