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35. I asked someone what a conference room was called. They said (seabird name). Unprompted, she grumbled: totally inaccurate. The room only has photos of pelicans. It’s not right. It’s the wrong bird. No attention to details.
(Did you know there is a photo version of this thread)
36. Upon entering a room we were overwhelmed by an intense lavender aromatherapy.
Coworker: what’s with this spa treatment?
Very queer person: gurl it’s either lavender or Dead Fish smells
(Thousands of anchovies are washed up on the beaches here this season. Maybe hundreds of thousands. It is impossible to keep your windows open)
Personally I am used to it coz it just smells like ikan bilis
37. I got an invite to go watch some employees play guitar in front of the sea nettles so I’m putting on my shoes to go there (we are closed for an all hands, all fins event)
38. We took a large org-wide team photo and the photographer said SAY ANCHOVIES
39. I had to shout to be heard while presenting in a conference room because some of the gulls started absolutely screaming right outside
40. We shut down all of today and tonight we have a staff and guests only 40th anniversary party. Not only is there delicious food at every part of the aquarium, it’s also magical seeing all of this
Watching my guests (some of whom have never been here) gawk at everything is so fun
41. I posted my first question in the ‘All Staff Q&A’.
(Picture of fish)
‘What is the scientific name of this fish?’
Got a response in 1 minute (Zaniolepis latipinnis.)
42. At a meeting this morning
I asked my coworker ‘do you think people hear what we talk about, and have the same ?? Face I did when I heard people talking about gelatinous zooplankton?’
She thought probably but we both agreed gelatinous zooplankton is cooler than databases
43. I had lunch with the ‘Director of Puns’ today. She looked forward to working closely with me. I said I hope it all goes swimmingly
44. I learned that cool videos like these are shot in the office next to mine
https://www.youtube.com/live/h6VIMHKAqew?si=1owwfHl0WeHN6e4N
45. Saw someone write ‘oysters are an embodiment of queerness’ and I truly feel like I’ve found my people
46. I’ve been fascinated by ‘whale fall’ since I first learned about it here.
Here’s an incredible video of a whale fall exploration dive in the deep sea just off Monterey Bay.
47. I talked to real people about animal poop 5 different times today (I counted). Different animals too
48. I found the internal form for ‘booking an animal encounter’. My coworker said ‘usually it’s for team building or bringing your family on behind the scenes visits BUT if you want to hang out with the octopus or otters on your lunch break by yourself, I don’t see why not?’
49. She then said when she went to hang out with the octopus she got octopus hickies all over her arms and they didn’t go away for a long time.
50. Today I got stopped in the hallways. Someone I didn’t really know said, ‘hey are you the one who posted the pic of the Townsend’s warbler? I saw the same bird but didn’t have my camera so thanks for taking the cool pic’ (when I worked at a database company, all they talked about was emacs vs vim)
We then agreed to go on a lunch bird walk
51. Apparently they will pay for us to get Spanish lessons, so my taco dreams are going to be bumped up to the next level. Did I also mention I met a guy who has a database of 90 taco truck rankings in Monterey, Salinas, Watsonville, all the way up to Santa Cruz
I’m emailing him to have lunch (at a taco truck)
52. People were asking me if I got a bluetiful sweatshirt and I thought they were all mispronouncing beautiful, but there really is an employee sweatshirt called BLUEtiful. It’s blue.
53. My manager showed me a special spot in a building facing the ocean that he called the ‘binoculars corner’. There are comfy chairs and binoculars you can use.
I zipped down my jacket and showed that I already had a pair of binoculars. He said ‘oh yours are better’
Then I told him about how I went to someone’s office just before that and she had a SCOPE SET UP FOR WHALES (that anyone visiting her could use)
54. Idea for a blog post title describing my new job going from tech to tech in an aquarium: From Monads to (Octopus) Gonads
55. I just read an obituary for a stingray and it made me cry
56. I posted a question in Q&A ‘Will a science-y person tell me the name of this fish?’ (It was long spine combfish, and a director of animal operations personally responded)
Now people are saying they should change their job titles to ‘science-y person’
57. I just saw a video of a penguin and an otter getting eye drops
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/animal-training-enrichment
58. I met someone at work who said ‘I’ll be your whale watching friend, we can go any time’
Achievement unlocked!
Related to:
59. You might have missed this if you haven’t seen my other threads about Monterey. But here’s a sight and sound I see / hear on my way to work in the morning
60. here's an aquarium personality quiz from my workplace: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/exhibit-aesthetics-quiz
61. i've stumbled upon the 'otters and birds' 'weekly weigh-in' database
62. this is a pun-friendly workplace and i've been going ham.
someone was like 'what are your feelings about tacos' and i was like 'i only have taco fillings'
63. There is a poster in the kitchen with the little paws of some otters.
It says ‘Isn’t it PAWSOME??’ (Some free things and how to get them)
64. Our store has lots of animal shirts (obviously). I like the octopus one that says I’M CLINGY, the otter one that says PLAYS WELL WITH OTTERS, and the sunfish one that says HOLA MOLA
65. super cool video of octopus and the aquarist who works with them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBFRu4gkdA
66. I visited a lab at work today. It’s where the microbiologists and water quality people work. They have fridge poetry magnets that go, I kid you not:
‘My beautiful fluorescent phycocyanin cyanobacteria’
67. I was in a workplace safety training and it told me to beware otter's teeth, crab claws and penguin's beaks
68.
TIRED: Sending an emoji reaction to a coworker's birthday greeting
WIRED: Sending a heart reaction to a 2 year old African penguin's birthday greeting
69. I woke up to an employee-only video: ‘we play Christmas carols with violins for the African penguins’
It was exactly what they said it was
70. for the second time this week i asked someone, 'is your Zoom background a photo of siphonophores?'
71. I heard people say ‘happy narwhalidays!’
72. i was trying to dm with a project manager but accidentally messaged the octopus guy instead. sorry, but octopus guy is much cooler
73. it's kind of ridiculous that i can see SEA ANGELS any time i want
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-angel
74. i just said 'we should build an api for whale watching. whale-pi'
@skinnylatte AP-aye, aye?