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A great way to ensure you are never selected to write an SOP.

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Little known fact: Bromoethylpandabenzene is very time sensitive and doesn't store well. Hopefully next time she thinks twice before trying to inject an undiluted glue sample just to "see what was in there".

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Don't tempt the universe.

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She made some stellar observations on the subject...

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All a QA department needs is a rehashed idea of an already established concept which creates a maximum amount of paperwork that needs completing by all staff. Preferably with a pronounceable acronym to make it seem fun.

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Keeping it classy...

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Ah yes. That first lab experience where you are told to spike your QC and all you can think is, "Alright - I was hired by a party lab!"

And it's the return of the James Bond Reagent .

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See Comic #6 for a little bit of history.

"Proficiency testing (PT) is the use of inter-laboratory comparisons to determine the performance of individual laboratories for specific tests or measurements and to monitor a laboratory’s performance." -SCC

AKA

These are samples that are super important for continuing to have a job and therefore must be perfect ... but we're still going to pretend that it's a regular old sample *wink wink nudge nudge*.