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0 pointsmlyle1y ago0 comments

What you bought on one grant, and then is lab equipment being maintained and serviced afterwards is now "facilities" costs.

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SJC_Hacker1y ago

The university definitely doesn't "service" it at all. If it breaks, you call up the company and hope its under warranty, or you pay someone to fix it, again off the grant funds.

mlyleOP1y ago

I guess it's fairies performing all those calibrations and restocking all those consumables that can't easily be charged to individual projects.

SJC_Hacker1y ago

They did jack crap. Anything more complicated than a light-bulb or a toilet that broke, the lab handled it internally somehow (either getting the company to fix it or doing it ourselves).

There were a few department-wide resources. Again, ultimately funded off someone (or a bunch of people's) grants

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SJC_Hacker1y ago

The university definitely doesn't "service" it at all. If it breaks, you call up the company and hope its under warranty, or you pay someone to fix it, again off the grant funds.

mlyleOP1y ago

I guess it's fairies performing all those calibrations and restocking all those consumables that can't easily be charged to individual projects.

SJC_Hacker1y ago

They did jack crap. Anything more complicated than a light-bulb or a toilet that broke, the lab handled it internally somehow (either getting the company to fix it or doing it ourselves).

There were a few department-wide resources. Again, ultimately funded off someone (or a bunch of people's) grants

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