system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are some of the unexpected tasks you do as an academic?

I went into my supervisor's office the other day and he was ordering books for the university's library. He told me that this is just one of the many random jobs he didn't expect he'd have to do as an academic (in the humanities) when he first thought of becoming an academic. I'm curious what other seemingly random tasks academics have found themselves doing that they didn't otherwise expect.
gpt
You clean also. The lab fridges and places where you store chemicals. Regular cleaning crews are not allowed to to touch these and you end up cleaning them yourself. Same with centrifuges and other common lab appliances.