Re: cpm conversion to mrem/hr -Reply

["Houser Brett MSM GRPP US" <brett.houser@usgr.MHS.CIBA.COM>]

Dear Franz,

I read your resume with great interest.  You certainly have a number of very 
impressive commitments/clubs/activities.

As for your posting over the internet, I have the following insights.

     You have never heard of the phrase "Rules of Thumb" or "Typical Values"
     You have never been in the middle of the desert, miles away from the 
lab "swinging
     a meter"
     You spend hours making precise measurements when "ball park" 
estimations would
     suffice

So, as far as I can see, you lack the experience necessary to become a 
Health Physics Technician.  I suggest that you apply for a Decontamination 
Technician Position until you gain the requisite experience (and humility).

Oh, one other point, let me try to define "rule of thumb" for you.  Please 
read your last 15 Radsafe messages and think - "White, Male, European, 
Educated" This is what we Americans call "Typical".


Regards,

Brett Houser

Brett.Houser@usgr.mhs.ciba.com

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At 15:32 28.08.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Franz,
>
>I didn't write the article, chump.  By the amount of your verbose and
>sometime entertaining responses, I would say that you spend 75% of
>your time in front of the screen trying to come off as a
>pseudo-intellectual, and not actually engaging in the realm of Health
>Physics.  By the way, I'm not a Fed, but a contractor.  Anymore
>worthless things to say, Franz?  Now I just press delete whenever I see
>Schoenhofer.  Ah, that felt great.
>
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Dear Radsafers,

I had within about 15 minutes so many positive responds on my remarks to my
private e-mail, that I would like to know you my background.

Dear David,

I am happy to have given you the satisfaction to press the delete button and
to feel great. This does not solve the problem of lack of scientific
knowledge of some (I repeat:  s o m e ) DOE people or contractors which use
a DOE e-mail.
Sarcasm is often a very good tool to make people think.

I would be happy to be able to spend 75% of my time in front of the screen -
obviously you are not aware that there is a time difference between US and
Europe, but you could find out if you looked at the e-mail a little closer.
Now it is 11:20 p.m. in Vienna. I use to work very long at night, because I
am not a pseudo-intellectual, but do work which I think is necessary and I
am heavily engaged in Health Physics. Just to give you and the
fellow-radsafers an idea, I am head of the Department of Radiochemistry and
Radioactivity in Food of the Federal Institute of Food Control and Research
in Vienna, Austria, which plays an inportant role in the Austrian Radon
Survey Programme. I have been heavily involved in the consequences of the
Chernobyl Accident (do you know, what "Chernobyl" is? - I met a lot of even
educated people in the States, who never heard this word, nor did they know
what the consequences of the accident were). I have been a member of WHO
working groups on the consequences of Chernobyl (do you know what WHO -
World Health Organisation - is?). I am a member of the Austrian Radiation
Protection Commission. I am engaged frequently for the IAEA - as
international expert and advisor and in July I have been for four weeks at
Mururoa and Fangataufa (if you know what this is) as chairman of a large
international group for assessing the radiation situation. These are only
some of my committments.

O.k., this is the pseudo-intellectual you refer to.

If any of the fellow radsafers have similar sarcastic comments on our
European conditions - you are welcome!

And to you, David: I wish you a lot of satisfaction when you press the
DELETE key now!

Franz Schoenhofer

Schoenhofer
Habichergasse 31/7
A-1160 WIEN
AUSTRIA/EUROPE
Tel./Fax:      +43-1-4955308
Tel.:          +43-664-3380333
e-mail:                schoenho@via.at