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Problem Anonymous
Sup /p/

I would like to ask you something. When I go into work tomorrow morning, my lab manager is going to go apeshit with me. Here's why;

I work in a printing lab. Late the other evening, shortly before closing, a customer wanders in. She plunks two film canisters down on the counter, and we have a brief chat. I ask her what sizes she wants her prints (if she wants any), what paper finish she wants, etc. Somewhere in our little conversation she says "they're black and white". I note this down on the packet, taking her word for it, without bothering to check the canister to see if it's a C41 process or not, knowing that the lab manager will check it himself. She leaves around closing time, so I put the packet down and go home.

I had the day off yesterday, but apparently the lab manager - who is forever telling us to CHECK THE FILM CANISTERS - sees that I have noted down "b + w" on the packet, and throws it into the black and white machine, without bothering to double check the film. Any of you who know much about film will probably know that not all black and white film is true black and white; you get colour process b+w film.

The film goes through the machine, comes out, and it's fucked. He goes batshit-fucking-insane. The guy is an angry angry man, who goes nuts over the tiniest thing, but apparently he REALLY went nuts this time. It turns out that, not only was the film C41, it wasn't even black and white film at all, it was colour film. And not only was it colour film, it was REALLY nice Fuji colour pro film.
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>> Anonymous
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Now, I don't know if any of you have ever worked in a print lab before, but you ALWAYS double and triple check the can before throwing it into one of the machines. Especially if it's a can you're not familiar with, or don't know off by heart. I wrote "b+w" is a reminder, fully intending to actually check the can. Turns out it has big "Colour" writing on it apparently.

So the lab manager is shouting and swearing his head off, threatening to fire me. This happened on my day off, and I have to spend the first 3 hours of the day with him tomorrow.

I ask you, /p/, am I to blame? Baring in mind that he's a condescending, angry, rude, lying prick who's worked in film labs for over 10 years and should know to double check, having repeatedly done the same thing and tried to blame it on others in the past?

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>> Anonymous
Also baring in mind that colour film is a totally different colour from black and white film, and he'd have seen this when he put it in...
>> Anonymous
Both of you are to blame.

You didn't check, and Your manager didn't, your in a photo lab, when I applied for my job at a lab, during orientation they constantly said "Before Doing x, CHECK THE FILM, THEN CHECK IT 2 MORE TIMES"
>> Anonymous
All three of you are at fault: here for not knowing what she was giving you, you for not making sure before you wrote it, and him for not double checking before processing. He has more experience(?) than you so if anything he should be at slightly more fault than you.
>> Anonymous
You are both equal partners in the failure.
>> Anonymous
Blow him in the back of the lab.
>> Anonymous
Blow her in the back of the lab.
>> Anonymous
I can accept being partly to blame, but he is far more at fault than I am.

If our positions had been reversed (even ignoring the fact that he wouldn't have written her name, the date, the size of prints and finish and due date because he never does) I would have checked the can.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Yeah, I'd say he's to blame. Even if it really was B&W, he should've checked to make sure it wasn't C41 B&W.
>> Anonymous
Don't worry. Tell that fucker the internet's got your back.
>> Anonymous
>>267122
Seconded. No matter how bad you fucked up, the person at running the machine should ALWAYS check no matter what. All three of you fucked up, so he's got no right to shitcan you for the same mistake he just made.
>> Anonymous
>>267164
Thanks, Anon, that's heart-warming.

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking it was at least as much his mistake as it was mine.