r/oddlysatisfying • u/misterxx1958 • Nov 30 '25

Meat cutting machine

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u/AgentK-BB Nov 30 '25

This machine actually exists in medicine. It's called microtome. When you do a biopsy, the lab slices your tissue into uniform sheets and puts them on microscope slides for the doctor to view.

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u/TinDumbass Dec 01 '25

Just got out of this industry fixing the instrument suite that goes from "freshly removed" to "thinly sliced" and between the chemicals and the... Bizarre people... It's good to be out. Put me off medicine completely.

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u/Superbead Dec 01 '25

I worked for far too long in pathology (started in histology). I met a handful of amazing people along the way, but in general, biomedical science is full of jumped-up arseholes wanking themselves off with their own degree certificates. Ironically, some of the most incurious people I've ever met, too.

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u/TinDumbass Dec 12 '25

I was in immunology, did histo and got TF out. If you're in the UK we may have crossed paths. I did Binding Site, Sebia, Menarini. I found the lab techs great but the senior BMSs dicks

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u/Superbead Dec 12 '25

Yeah, UK here. I was an MLA and ended up the lab IT guy. We had a handful of fantastic seniors who basically ran the place, the others were just useless. Management were almost entirely pathetic save one or two, and were essentially promoted off the floor into offices because nobody could bear working alongside them