What a weekend, a real barn-burner!
First, mai thais.
Second, jai alai.
Third, blurry eyes.
Then, on the floor, half-digested, Doris the Lunch Lady's nuclear-hot jumbalay!
Clothes: Damp
Teeth: Piranha
Scent: Pine-Sol
Still, it was all fairly regimented, robot-like work, and wasn't exactly a high pressure environment. But one day my pair of bosses flipped out all of a sudden, and started rushing a single sample through processing in expert-super-speed-mode. It was a strange occurrence, and it took awhile to find out why.
A different section of the lab handled the processing of incoming samples from doctors. The firm's process involved splitting those samples and combining a few hundred of them into a single tube, under the assumption that the majority of samples tested aren't positive.
These guys doing the processing were mostly flunkies and hacks, and for some dumb reason the firm was convinced that their role wasn't as risky as what other sections did. So these guys tended to not worry about safety too much. And one of them, on that day, managed to somehow spray a blood sample in his face. Without goggles or a full-face mask on (I wore both when working with blood). Some got in his mouth. It also happened to be a sample that was going for individual testing after its second-round sample tube turned up positive. All in all, dude was sitting there waiting for us to process the blood that had a 1:16 chance of being HIV positive. That was in his mouth.
I never figured out what happened with him because I left the firm shortly after. Don't play with blood, folks.