Also we're starting to have serious issues with "too many samples not enough queue space" now that so many people are using the automated system (its been up for about a year now). With only 23 sample holders (holder 1 is for the shimming standard the director keeps there) and people like me submitting 7 at a time that's sort of a problem. Though the bigger issue is probably people submitting night queue stuff early in the day and then blocking anyone else from using that holder for the rest of the day. And there was a bunch of night queue stuff lined up already. And you can't pull a sample out to run yours before theirs is scheduled to run because it's locked in the computer.
To illustrate the point: While I was fixing my giant mistake someone came up and wanted to load samples and I looked at the queue and went "well there are only 6 available spinners and I have 7 samples so...". And he said "well I just want to schedule overnight experiments". For 4 tubes. At 1:30PM. And I had to go "well these that I'm using will be free in 3 hours (or whenever they finish) and those slots will be available". Like I'm sorry if you don't want to come back, but I was not only here first, but I'm loading short experiments for day time running.
