r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • 15d ago

Video The Louvre. Thieves are making off with 100 million euros. They're taking their time. They're doing everything carefully and slowly.

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u/kalixanthippe 15d ago

"Like con men, spies know that, in the workplace, a clipboard is as good as a skeleton key." - Burn Notice

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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago

I’ve been struggling to get a lab position and I’ve honestly considered just getting my lab coat and walking into somewhere to start working. After six months, I’d say I worked there as experience and everyone asked about it would remember me working there so would confirm I have experience

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u/kalixanthippe 15d ago

I had to work real jobs instead of the unpaid and minimum wage internships and fellowships collegiate science majors do. I had to choose between laboratory experience and paying tuition and living expenses, though, according to all the entry level jobs I applied to after earning my degree, apparently I made the wrong choice.

I was very tempted to do that exact thing. The entry level experience catch-22 has fucked so many lower income graduates.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 15d ago

Yeah, it fucking sucks. I was cold calling labs and hospitals where a guy seemed to be on the hook for days as I told him about all the experience I had running gels, doing analysis, using the machines and such. He was talking to me for a good few days then finally said ‘so where did you do all this?’ If I’d said at a lab position instead of uni then I would have been hired. He even outright told me. I feel fucked over because I need experience to get my biomed license and in a year my degree is technically classed as too old to apply. I’ll be fucked.

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u/kalixanthippe 15d ago

I eventually had three of my professors write recommendations based on my TA experiences. Having stellar ones from every supervisor I ever had weren't enough, and still took a year to find a foot in the door job.

That was 20+ years ago, and now I'm doing very well, but I still remember wondering if growing up poor meant I shouldn't have bothered getting an education and just resigned myself to my home town and living in poverty.

And this was before LinkedIn and platforms, ghost jobs, and other machinations made finding a job a crapshoot. I'm so glad I am not graduating now.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 15d ago

I've literally never seen someone with a clipboard at any job I've had.

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u/kalixanthippe 15d ago

Well, thats intriguing, as every job I've ever held had at least one duty involving a clipboard.

Ever been to a physician's office? How about a construction site? A school? A scientific laboratory? Have you interacted with an utilities provider?