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    Lab Rats Announce! Who here works at an Optical Lab?

    I know there many here, but since many of us have mixed backgrounds, just thought I'd give a shout out to the fellow lab rats!

    Who here works in currently in an Optical lab? (not just edging in a retail office)

    Lab rats, Announce!

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    I need a beer.

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    HERE! Oh never mind I sold my company so I don't count anymore.

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    I used to.. You have no idea how many times I want to say "Just let me come in and do it myself!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jubilee View Post
    I used to.. You have no idea how many times I want to say "Just let me come in and do it myself!"
    Baha me too!

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    Lab rat here too...first post here too!

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    I don't work in a lab anymore, and I think something is wrong with me because I miss it!

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    Got my start working in the lab. Don't work in one as much but I do miss it
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    Ok... so it seems to me that those of us that have worked in the lab and no longer do, miss it. Hmmmmm....

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeAurelius View Post
    I need a beer.

    That is a true lab rat announcement!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattHDJG View Post
    Lab rat here too...first post here too!
    Well Welcome to Optiboard MattHDJG! (that is a lot of initials by the way)

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    I started in the lab too, however since I wasn't afraid to talk to the patients, I was pretty much thrown on the floor once I had my license. When I've worked on and off (and on and off) for the LC, they would use me to fill in when they needed me. It was always a nice break from the patients.

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    Quote Originally Posted by optilady1 View Post
    It was always a nice break from the patients.
    It's nice to have a break from patients. I was just thinking that a few min ago when I was dispensing a pair of glasses. After giving the patient her glasses and checking adjustment she says, "Oh...don't get too close...I'm REALLY sick." Great. Thanks. Clorox wipes anyone???

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpstick777 View Post
    That is a true lab rat announcement!
    Needed one today, too. At 8:45 AM. It was one of those days...

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    Once upon a time.... sure do miss it, but nothing wrong with advancement
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    I grew up surfacing glass, writing tickets by hand, using alloy, and cutting my own aluminum tools.
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    Redhot Jumper I used to have one for close to .............................

    I used to have one for close to 20 years. It was also the second lab in Canada that got unionized ................what a time to remember.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharpstick777 View Post
    Well Welcome to Optiboard MattHDJG! (that is a lot of initials by the way)
    Thanks! Yeah it might be a little much

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    Have one on me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wes View Post
    I grew up surfacing glass, writing tickets by hand, using alloy, and cutting my own aluminum tools.
    Same here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wes View Post
    I grew up surfacing glass, writing tickets by hand, using alloy, and cutting my own aluminum tools.
    No hand-written tickets and I used plastic laps instead of aluminum but I was doing that up until a year ago.

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    Kids, I was cutting metal laps on an oldfield lap cutter way before aluminum came around the surfacing room! I am not in a lab now, but sure have been there. We scored the lap with a file, before we started using the metal pads.

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    No stone laps?

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