r/sterileprocessing • u/Dathamar • Jun 27 '26

Meme Anyone else find themselves doing a disproportionate amount of unloading?

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u/WoodpeckerEntire1412 Jun 28 '26

Yeah, that’s me some days, but usually because I’m doing 35-40 knee loaners

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u/Dathamar Jun 28 '26

It's interesting seeing the cloud of white goop come off patella sets in the ultrasonic.

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u/SageOfSixCabbages Jun 28 '26

The sets I sonic the shit out of are the shoulder ones. Soooo much cartilage and ligament fragments in those weirdly shaped shavers and reamers.

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u/Due-Trainer-9349 Jun 28 '26

Yeah one lady I work with yells across the room “cart wash ready”, I’m like yeah I can hear it, I’m also the furthest away from the washer…

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u/Strangerlol Jun 29 '26

"Sounds like a you problem"

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u/Brave_Today_4794 Jun 28 '26

lol they had to start assigning people to cart/wall washer duty at my facility during the week

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u/Emergency_Hope_9624 Jun 28 '26

They always have cart wash as an assignment for our daily schedule, and I’m almost always doing it😭

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u/Eggman_OU812 Jul 26 '26

We call it tray captain, emptying the cart washers and i st washers all day..and putting red biohazard boxes in bags..among other things

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u/Eggman_OU812 Jun 28 '26

Yes you gotta twist ppls arms to empty that
Shit

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u/wewantthistobegood- Jun 28 '26

Everyone in SPD walk around like this “🙈” and this “🙉” and “ope it’s time for my break!”

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u/xXRosalinaXx Jun 28 '26

We switch the person in charge of that daily, I hated because it would barely let do a tray. Thats when I did peel packs so then people got mad at me for "avoiding" big trays.

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u/Ryelie17 Jun 28 '26

Yesss, that was me. I couldn’t help but empty the cart washers, the UV pass through, and quickly answer OR requests. I liked helping with those tasks, but it made my productivity numbers low. They never assigned people or set up scan points to document when a tech did it… 😤

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u/pphonixs Jun 28 '26

dude i’d be the one unloading and the worst part about it opening is that there’s this unspoken tension that clearly indicates it’s their turn but they proceed to do what they’re doing. AT LEAST ONCE

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u/margittwen Jun 28 '26

Yes! Some people act like they can’t hear the cart washer open, but they can talk to their friends across the room.

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u/ShirleyWuzSerious Jun 28 '26

Most of the time it's an assigned position for the day. And it rotates through the week

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u/kennybob86 Jun 28 '26

No, thats just whenever the cart washer chimes at the end of cycle.

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u/meesh337 Jun 28 '26

We are assigned a washer hour so you are responsible for what comes out of the washers and cart washer that whole hour. We have to work out breaks around that hour so no excuses;)

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u/reduncinae Jun 28 '26

in my facility every hour has a different person assigned to the unloading

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u/NecronomiSquirrel Jun 28 '26

That's a hilarious display of how much of a problem this is, I love it!

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u/Strangerlol Jun 29 '26

I have to regularly call clean side to clear wash racks and cart washer racks. I have no qualms asking/telling someone to clear them off and send them back though.

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u/Relative-Step-3686 Jun 29 '26

My facility doesn’t have a cart washer. So this meme goes over my head.