Register, and give in to the Dark Side
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005Because of the archaic way in which our institute does its external requisitioning (well, there’s a new system but please don’t get me started on that. Actually, it’s Part 2 of the ‘ordering’ rant , which yet bubbles in your correspondent’s cauldron) we have a level of self-authorization for orders. That is, anything less than a certain amount doesn’t need signing by the PI.
So there is a real incentive to find out the prices of reagents before writing an order. This is, I am forced to admit, not purely from the altruistic motive of not wanting to disturb the boss (or indeed from trying to save the taxpayer’s money); sometimes he’s difficult to find and at others I don’t want him to know what experiments I intend to perform. Such is the enigma that is British science in the 21st century. (more…)
