Post Office Nazi

So in my desperate attempt to spend out the last of the $52, I asked the business office if I could buy stamps.

"Sure, just use the P-Card. Let me know when you need it."

P-Card is short for Purchasing card. It has the name of the department and the University of Arizona on it and a VISA logo on it. For the signature, the manager wrote "Picture ID Required".

No biggie, I'm going to drive to the post office. I should have my picture ID on me anyway.

I try and pay for stamps with said card.

"We cannot accept this card. VISA rules dictate a signature on the back."

Me trying to sound rational "But there's no name on the card except a department. So if my department manager had signed it with the words Microbiology and Immunology you'd accept it?"

"Yes, I cannot accept this card as is."

I take it back to the manager and told her my story. She said he was just being a prick by not letting me sign it.

I certainly won't be taking any more of my business to that post office. Plus, they lost out on a sale of about $25 in stamps.

Then in the ten minutes it took for that adventure, someone took my good parking spot (the kind you get if you're here early enough). That just pissed me off even more. Bad enough I came back empty handed, but then get stuck in the sweltering sun all day to boot.

More frustration

Oh, and I was told that our department was given $500 to spend on whatever you want for your lab.

So I sent in the orders. I looked at prices in a catalog and online. Not including taxes, I was over by $2. I bought from places that don't charge shipping. But they also apparently give us discounts on stuff. I don't know what the discounts are because I don't know the University's account names and passwords to see these prices.

So after taxes, I still have $52 to spend *grrrrr*

BP going up

My boss is going to make me want to jump off the roof these days.

He asked me to show him how bad the flow is on a majority of my recent experiments. I figured to prove that it wasn't just one dish, I overlaid the control with the nicotine treatment. When I did that, you can't see the gate on the FSC v. SSC. And when you overlay with gate stats, it shows the stats for one dish, and not the other. So I figured it was easier to not show the stats then trying to explain that the stats were for the untreated.

His notes: "what population was anaylzed" on the FSC v. SSC. and "what are the %"

So I'll have to manually enter each stat and make it in the color of the respective population (untreated is blue and nicotine is red). It can be done - just will take a while and is a major pain in the ass. Especially when you can easily understand that 90% of it is not expressing a TCR.

It'll be just as easy to write them in colored inks and save a tree. Because I'm sure he'll find something else to redo anyway.

*sigh*

Excuse me while I beat my head against a wall.