Awkward (and other) questions about MNers jobs-following on from *Pinocchio's 1st thread.

[mignonette]

Following on from this thread by Pinocchio -

"I thought this would be a good way for us to get answers to those awkward questions we would never dream of asking someone to their face in their place of work.

These are questions relating to my life that i would love honest answers to.

Hairdressers - When someone with bad dandruff/psoriasis sits on your chair, do you shrug it off, or do you quickly have a look to make sure it's not lice? Are you able to tell the difference right away or does it need investigating? And do you really want to know what my plans are for the day, or would you rather work in silence?

Teachers - do you get annoyed when parents write in homework diaries that a specific piece of homework was too tricky for their child? Do you take it as an insult to your teaching skills?

Waiter/waitresses - do you expect people to offer to clean up their children's mess before they leave, or do you just shrug it off as part of the job? If you're busy and haven't had chance to clean a table yet, and a new customer came up and asked for a cloth to clean it, would you be offended?

I'm a trainee SLT so not quite sure if I'm qualified to answer any questions regarding that line of work yet.

But i have experience working in a Subway sandwich store, a library, a gym and as a cleaner. So i can answer any cleaning, book or sandwich questions that are burning away inside you all"

Pinocchio I hope you don't mind me C+Ping your original post but wanted you to have the credit for this follow on as is such a great thread!

horry you asked about chimeras and if someone's DNA from a sample could differ from that retrieved at a crime.

Technically feasible, but in practice most chimeras would have started as identical twins so almost no DNA differences, and if not identical would be siblings so again detectable, but mainly the chimeric tissues will be mixed in with the crime samples - if you get merged with a twin it's at a very early stage of development when you are about 3 distinct layers, which broadly become skin, gut, and everything else. So chances are the crime sample of skin and semen will be the same as the skin and saliva cells in the cheek Sean.
And the fact that we don't have loads of examples of police looking for someone and their sibling only to find the perp doesn't have a sibling, suggests its very unlikely to happen.

Ooh thanks, Scientist.

Boffin

And sadly teachers have been in the news because they have been taking bullets for their pupils. (Sandy Hook, Dunblane).

Hog I am a registered MH Nurse, not a psychotherapist. There have been other RMNs (TiredEmma) and psychologists on this thread too.

strictly dancers or other dancers.. do you worry about body smells?
just watching them doing lifts with fanjo in partners face.. I am not very smelly but if I was going to have that level of contact with someone I would have been paranoid

Actors - if you have scenes where you're supposed to be angry/fighting/falling out with someone do you avoid pleasant chitchat with them off camera until you're finished or does it not make any difference?

Thanks for the answer mignonnette. Makes sense.
I always wondered about that after having some psychotherapy when I was younger, and a bit of a tricky time with some of the people who worked with me at the time.
It seems loads of people are fascinated by mental health work.

Never My DH danced ballet and contemporary dance professionally alongside nursing for years.

Dancers are very earthy. He often mentioned putting hands in damp soggy places (armpits/crotches) during lifts etc and says every now and again he started to think 'ew' and then moved on from it. Wind, urine and other fluids are all part of it as not all dancers have rock solid pelvic floors which surprised me when he told me that.

I used to help out w/ costume changes and even make up for a while and the dancers wandered about naked or semi naked without any sense of awareness. Their bodies were instruments, tools to do a job.

Noo Yes, transference is a normal part of the therapeutic process and necessary in part. It is the therapists responsibility to manage it and use it in a beneficial manner. However we cannot all get on with everybody and the same goes in therapy!

ziggie
Can commercial aircraft be made safer than they already are if money was no object? Who is stopping them being made safer - airlines or a lack-of-bite regulator?

One for funeral directors, when a body is being repatriated and flown home, why is a zinc lined coffin required? And why can't it be re-used for a UK burial? (This one is based on personal experience.)