Auntie and others, we share your pain. If I may add to the list of pet peeves: 1. Starting weekly temperature discs on fridge/freezers on the wrong day and/or time. Then 5 days in a row 5 different techs document that the scribe is OK. 2. Not recording medical record numbers and dates on panel scoresheets. Record keeping in general. 3. Not printing copies of panel scoresheets on both sides so you get the extended antigen typings on the the back. Not changing the scoresheets when you open a new panel lot. 4. Filing QC records etc. with bloodstains (hopefully reagent but you never know) all over them. 5. First cousin to the above: finding blood all over the counter, centrifuges, agglutination viewer, outside of the biohazard bin, drawers or cabinets, making you wonder if a worker had been shot or merely had sneezed violently during a torrential nosebleed. 6. Discarding packing lists from the blood center so I have to get copies to check the bimonthly bill. Happens pretty much each cycle. 7. Finding obviously broken thermometers, pipettors etc. in place. Whoever broke them knew they had done so but decided to keep it secret.. 8. Not telling you when the last kit, vial, package, bulb or box was opened so you might have a ghost of a chance to order more before you run out. 9. I put out a half dozen pens and markers a week. Where do they go? Even if we supply the whole lab we should have reached the saturation point decades ago. 10. A tech asked me if it was OK in a pinch to just use one drop of plasma/serum per tube for an antibody screen; another tech had told him that was fine if you didn't have much sample. This was right before last year's competency eval, so I included that as a question. 5 people said it was OK. So we had a little inservice on the value of following the manufacturer's directions, our own P&P, and the need to validate any variations in protocols etc before you do so. I heard a great line a few years ago that went something like "Ignorance ain't what you don't know; it's knowing too many things that ain't so!" Thank you, I feel better.