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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20. Tino the octopus dislikes whitebait. The guy who works with him read a paper that says ‘whitebait is like cucumber to octopus’. Bland and too healthy. He ignores it completely
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Tim W (admin (and human)) last edited by
@tim there are some fish that live way down and when they have to come up, they can also get the bends, like a scuba diver
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Negative12DollarBillreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte
My kid has seen so many sitcoms and comedy movies that he once asked me "does every adult hate their job?". I'm going to show him this thread. Your sense of joy is really infectious, thank you. -
@skinnylatte I think Tino is my new favorite Mastodon character. Thank you so much for sharing all this joy from work!
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@skinnylatte I guess I need to start doing these things at my work.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Negative12DollarBill last edited by
@negative12dollarbill hehe yay
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@coffeenlanguage yay
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@skinnylatte as someone who has loved the Monterey Bay Aquarium my whole life, this whole thread is like getting insight into the inner workings of Santa’s workshop 🥰
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@bluestocking hehehe
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@skinnylatte Oh this was all glorious.
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Michael Thériaultreplied to Michael Thériault last edited by
@skinnylatte My oldest works in trade show set-up and take-down out of Sign and Display Local 510 and loves being dispatched to Monterey, because he gets put up in a motel and between the former and the latter can spend his days in the aquarium. He was so impressed by a jellyfish exhibit as a small boy that I made him into one for Halloween, complete with fish in his tentacles.
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@mtheriaultsf I love that everyone has a great story like this
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@skinnylatte truly a delight to read, thank you. I've visited Monterey Bay Aquarium a handful of times over the years and I love it a little more each trip. It's very cool that you get to work there!
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21. I saw a photo at work of some of the African penguins waddling around reception (before opening) and I’m certain I will lose my shit if I see it in person (they take them out for walks..)
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@skinnylatte did they do photo shoots like this at the beginning of the pandemic? Maybe multiple places and/or the aquarium did this with animals loose and people home.
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@zackstern yes!
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@skinnylatte it is now very obvious that you have the perfect job for you — and also for many of us, your followers/fans/groupies on Mastodon.
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@sumisu3 hehehee I am happy
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22. All of our meeting rooms are named after animals. Fish, birds, and others.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
23. I always do a leap of joy when my badge unlocks the aquarium door in the morning before we open. I run to the open sea exhibit and also say hi to the octopus.
My office is unfortunately a 7 min walk from it but I sometimes have meetings on the main campus (the aquarium itself).
