Random one sided phone call overheard at the office:

D - Hi! I'd like to invite you to come for an interview next week for the sales position. Pause. It will be with Bob Chu*. Pause. The person interviewing you is Bob Chu. Sorry? BOB CHU... You want me spell that out for you? B-O-B... C-H-U... Yes, Bob Chu. Pause... Excuse me? The person looking at your resume? Bob Chu will be doing that. Yes. Yes. Okay so we will see you then. Pause. You want me to email you?! OK OK. Bye.

Hahaha best office phone call I have overheard to date! I don't think I have ever heard D getting that frustrated. This guy really needs to work on his listening skills if he wants to be in sales. Email you? Are you gonna ask the client to do that in the future? Almost died from laughing.

*Names have been replaced.

1. Lunch:

Me: Have you ever spilled your sample?
S: Yeah, of course.
Me: What did you do?
S: Pour it again!  It was only 1 or 2 samples.  I told the other people in my lab that if I spilled the whole
     rack which has about 100 samples, I would just give up and quit.

2. Centrifuge

M: Hey, Don’t take out the sample and then pour it back in like that.
Me: Why not?
M:  Homogeneity.  You have to swirl the sample again and then remove, because it’s like you’re splitting the sample and resampling again.  It won’t be representative if you do that.

Later on, waiting for samples…
M: What’s the purpose of mixing up the sample?
Me: Umm… Is it homogeneity… And representativeness of the sample?
M: Yes.  Why do we only use samples that are this size?
Me: Not sure.
M: Homogeneity.  And representativeness of the sample.

I laughed for a full 60 seconds after this. Oh dear, I’m so immature.  I told everybody that I graduated already, and M said that he was surprised because I seem so immature.  Then, S thought I was 2 years younger than what I actually am, because I seem immature.  I hope I never grow up though.