Starting a new thread to document the delightful things I am finding out about joining the tech team at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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6, All of our internal sites and services are named after something to do with fish or the sea. All of them. Even like, our stock photography / branding stuff.
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7. The guy who works with the octopus says that when he approaches the giant pacific octopus, they flash and change colors and move towards him
But if he goes on vacation and doesn’t see them for a while, they ignore him and don’t change colors the first day he gets back. Before finally doing it again
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8. I was shown how much they feed a single otter a day and I said ‘I would not be able to afford this at a sashimi restaurant’. It’s true.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
9. I saw a tiny decompression chamber. For fish.
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10. The Hank scenes in Finding Dory were inspired by my workplace. A Pixar animator left a sketch of Hank on a whiteboard behind the scenes. There are nods to Hank everywhere. When I was getting my photo taken for my employee card, the camera had Hank on it and they were like ‘look at Hank!’
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11. From some of the conference rooms, you can hear the nonstop splashes of the waves. Sometimes people stop their presentation, shout SPOUTS and everyone goes to the window to look at whales
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12. The science-y people have such deep specializations. I asked someone a basic question about a jellyfish and she was like ‘well I got my PhD only in terrestrial animals, but what I know about jellyfish is..’ (tells me something I don’t understand)
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13. I strained my back using a scope to look at seabirds. I realized only after that it was set up for children
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14. I like having lunch in one of the staff kitchens. Someone has set up an elaborate harbor seal monitoring system there with DO NOT TOUCH signs and lots of his sketches of seals
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15. Many of the fridges have signs like NO HUMAN FOOD
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@skinnylatte Sounds like a bunch of folks with their priorities solidly in healthy places! I hope it's as delightful as it sounds!! I'm not sure even for something so quirky and interesting I'd want to commute again but it's solidly offering a reason to show up which is more than I can say about most places of business.
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@skinnylatte I'm not sure, but I think I wish I had your job
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@ren @skinnylatte It is the real deal. Never seen an organization with so many lifers.
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wendy boucek for Kamalareplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Your thread is the best - it sounds like you’ve landed (splashed into?) a most (moist) perfect environment. With all the fresh election disappointment around us, your posts are really brightening my day. I’m actually smiling - I can’t kelp (!) myself! 🦭
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Adrianna Tanreplied to wendy boucek for Kamala last edited by
@wendinoakland haha! best fishes!
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I adore that place! I could spend hours in the tunnel where the waves splash over you. It's so peaceful.
If you're a clam chowder fan, just a bit south (walking distance) there's a place called Vivolo's that has the best chowder I've ever had, and I've tried a lot of chowder!
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@deirdrebeth oh that's an amazing tip. thank you!
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16. My name tag was hand made by someone in the machine shop! We have in-house fabricators and crafts-people who make the things for all the exhibits
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17. I'm in a Bird Nerd channel. They share pics of birds found around the aquarium, which are.. a lot!
Today's finds: a great egret and a blue heron. A few days ago there was an osprey and a condor.
At one of my on-site interviews, someone stopped midway and said 'look out there's an albatross'
