It always "amuses" me how you NHS techs look at things.
From where I come from, kit is kit, regardless of its type, or where it is used.
And what's "wrong" with lab kit? I've always found it amongst the most sophisticated (not to mention interesting) in the hospital!
As I've already said, work is work, and there are only so many hours in the (NHS) week ... but (to my mind) it's the bloke who shows willing, and puts in (shall we say) a "little extra" who gets the biscuit. Spending your evenings getting a blood gas analyser to "cal" is one scenario which comes to mind (and there are others).
Having said that, however, I am aware (mainly from the many posts I have read on here over the years) of the unfairness, injustices, discrepancies, or at least "difficulties" that many working in the various NHS Trusts encounter.
Sadly, deserving the biscuit, and being handed the tin, are two entirely different things. So, as I say, the only way (I suspect) of cutting free from all that ***** is to work elsewhere.
