$12/hour, no benefits, lots of overtime. It was my first job as a bench chemist out of school and it was worse than dishwasher at a restaurant. As the new guy, “glassware/sample technician” was the role and it involved cleaning everyone’s used glassware after they often used gnarly stuff, plus signing out samples to everyone in the morning and signing them back in, in the evening. When anyone was working with a controlled substance sample (medical grade marinol/meth/coke/sufentanil/remifentanil) they couldn’t be outside storage overnight and had to be weighed in/out with a second witness so you’re always last to leave. Worst glassware ever to clean: “midget impingers” used for the determination of sulfur dioxide in medical superglue. But at least I was the one who dirtied that glassware.
at this point being able to get a job as a dishwasher is a profound privilege
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$12/hour, no benefits, lots of overtime. It was my first job as a bench chemist out of school and it was worse than dishwasher at a restaurant. As the new guy, “glassware/sample technician” was the role and it involved cleaning everyone’s used glassware after they often used gnarly stuff, plus signing out samples to everyone in the morning and signing them back in, in the evening. When anyone was working with a controlled substance sample (medical grade marinol/meth/coke/sufentanil/remifentanil) they couldn’t be outside storage overnight and had to be weighed in/out with a second witness so you’re always last to leave. Worst glassware ever to clean: “midget impingers” used for the determination of sulfur dioxide in medical superglue. But at least I was the one who dirtied that glassware.