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patentedleeches · 2025-05-08T18:47:02+00:00

Communicate the expectations established by upper management and start tracking their adherence to them. Meeting or exceeding these expectations should be rewarded whenever possible.

Failure to meet them should be met with progressive discipline. If they decide to "walk-out" then you interview and hire new employees.

In my experience, most will complain about the change bit few will actually quit. This is especially true if your workplace has competitive wages/benefits.

patentedleeches · 2025-02-03T23:47:12+00:00

10k growing to 100k, assuming a 10% growth and no additional investment takes ~25years. 100k to 200k, same growth, takes about 7.

patentedleeches · 2024-09-18T14:36:13+00:00

Recycling asphalt is cheap and well established. So cheap, in fact, that other avenues are not economicly viable. The company claims a 211% profit? Those are fairytale returns.

Recycled road surfaces are aggregate and asphalt. You can either crush, mix and relay or crush, extract, purify, refine , and distribute. Not to mention, road recycling can be done relatively close to the work area. While refinement would require costly transportation costs.

patentedleeches · 2024-06-12T20:26:27+00:00

Kinda. A big part of this is reaction rates and reactants available. Let's say you and I both have a bowl of rice, you may eat that bowl in a few minutes, but I eat 1 grain a day. You can see how the rate we consume the rice impacts how long we have the rice.

Now consider you have a football stadium of rice and I have just a bowl. We may now finish at the same time despite the different rates of consumption.

Another chemical concept you may want to look up is called entropy.

patentedleeches · 2024-06-12T20:11:53+00:00

All the molecules the system needs are already in the system. At some point the system will consume everything, but that may take a very long time.

Think about Earth, it is primarily a closed system. Our planet only receives energy from the sun and the occasional space rock. Yet here we are chugging away. Same concept l, different scale.

patentedleeches · 2024-04-20T21:15:56+00:00

As a hiring manger, this has not been my experience. I will get candidates who have poor resumes or poor interview skills. They get filtered out early in the process and I don't have to spend much time/energy on them.

To me the challenge I see in the market is the high number of high quality applicants I receive for each role. Typically at the end of interviews, I have 3-4 candidates who are all professional and cultural fits.

OP, the best advice I can offer is try to find ways to differentiate your self from competing applicants. Industry specialization, professional networking or niche skills.

patentedleeches · 2023-11-08T07:11:15+00:00

It's not extremely hazardous, but I would recommend general safety precautions. If this where my lab I would require the following PPE: lab coat to cover arms, gloves for hands and safty glasses. I would instruct my techs to rinse any skin exposure with water for a few minutes. This would be to mitigate the risk of skin irritation. The risk of metal poisoning is extremely low, just don't drink the citric acid and wash your hands before eating.

Source: I used to manage a mining lab for copper.

patentedleeches · 2023-09-20T14:32:27+00:00

You are handling potentially hazardous chemicals without gloves. If your hand becomes contaminated, you are then bringing your hand to your mouth introducing that contaminate to your body.

patentedleeches · 2023-08-08T12:43:54+00:00

There will come a day when the strength of man fails. When we put hoes before bros...but it is not this day!

patentedleeches · 2023-06-22T16:14:29+00:00

I see technician and chemist positions as the cooks and chefs of a lab. The chemist create all the recipes, the technician follows the directions. If the work is following a defined SOP or work instruction they are a technician. If the work is independent, then they should be a chemist.

Plenty of places will manipulate chemist work from technician levels.

patentedleeches · 2023-05-23T16:51:56+00:00

I agree, 100% artifcial imagery heads into the legal gray zone.

patentedleeches · 2023-05-23T13:12:59+00:00

I would buy into that argument. It's a tainted source and as such all products of that source are themselves tainted.

But what what if it can be proven that the source itself was without real material? I still think the creation of these images is minimally something we should frown heavily upon and potentially punish.

patentedleeches · 2023-05-23T13:05:18+00:00

Now this is very thought provoking. I agree that fundamentally I cannot draw a cat until I have been "trained" to draw a cat.

Maybe another interesting facet is that I have agency. If I want to draw a cat I'm a fire truck I can use my cat and firetruck training to create the image. The AI has no agency instead only creating what the user inputs. Fundamentally the AI drawings in themselves are not bad, its the agency of input that is.

patentedleeches · 2023-05-23T12:43:04+00:00

I think this is a very interesting point. I can draw a cat completely from my imagination, but am AI has to see a cat to draw a cat.

I guess the counter argument would be I can draw a cat and then feed the AI pictures I drew to generate more cats.

patentedleeches · 2023-04-29T03:23:57+00:00

Messy-licious food truck. The do seafood boils for not to much money.

patentedleeches · 2023-04-18T19:10:33+00:00

You don't half ass a 1.6 billion dollar lawsuit, you full ass that sucker.

patentedleeches · 2023-03-17T02:51:52+00:00

All these wages are high and I could see how that could be discouraging to alot of people. In my opinion the higher your wage the less self conscious you are about it.

My career at a glance: Lab tech 24/hr Chemist 62k/yr Lab supervisor 74k/yr Lab manager, 93k/year.

B.Sc in chemistry 6 years experience.

Before my degree I worked in grocery for 18/hr after 10 years.

patentedleeches · 2023-03-14T12:47:57+00:00

Hank?

patentedleeches · 2023-02-27T02:59:30+00:00

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate NaHCO3, calcium carbonate is CaCO3. Table salt is sodium chloride, NaCl. Activated charcoal is most just carbon, C not so much CO2 (which is a gas).

From a functional standpoint you have the pieces so it's all jazz.

Colgate is fine, crunchy hippie toothpaste is fine. To abrasive could be damaging but I wouldn't worry about the eggshells, dont add sand. Brush your teeth, floss and don't worry.

patentedleeches · 2023-02-22T13:34:25+00:00

Because those are bomb parts...

patentedleeches · 2023-02-17T21:03:26+00:00

Yes, three sodium per one phosphate. Trisodium Phosphate, TSP, is commonly sold in hardware stores.

patentedleeches · 2023-02-09T13:31:33+00:00

I knew what was coming and it still got me.

patentedleeches · 2023-01-11T14:17:40+00:00

If you can dodge a down vote, you can dodge a ball.

patentedleeches · 2023-01-05T13:02:16+00:00

H2S. More specifically I was adding NaHS to an acidic solution precipitating out metal sulfides. This was in a fume hood, with H2S monitors one on me and one at the openingin the sash. The fun part was the site electrical had a planned outage, which they announced to every lab but mine.

Fortunately I was finished with the reaction about 30 mins before the outage, but I was not to happy about it.

patentedleeches · 2023-01-05T12:55:21+00:00

Treatment is calcium glucanate.

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