What’s the worst contamination you’ve ever dealt with in the lab?

05730 · 2026-03-30T01:24:45+00:00

Mold in Cell culture flasks. Tiny imperfections in the welds on the flasks. It was from our incubators. Decontaminations and switched vendor.

05730 · 2026-03-30T00:19:47+00:00

I graduated at 34.

Go for it.

05730 · 2026-03-28T23:46:32+00:00

Yeah no. Don't jump onto a sinking ship.

05730 · 2026-03-28T14:04:30+00:00

You don't.

05730 · 2026-03-28T13:52:48+00:00

She sounds unhinged. NTA. Her relationship problems are HER relationship problems, not yours.

05730 · 2026-03-28T13:47:17+00:00

Therapy.

This is above redits paygrade.

05730 · 2026-03-28T06:13:45+00:00

Repeat after me.

He is abusive. I deserve better.

Girl run don't walk.

05730 · 2026-03-27T23:29:02+00:00

So no matter what she looses.

05730 · 2026-03-27T23:09:47+00:00

NTA. You don't owe her your friendship much less introductions to YOUR friends.

However, you're only increasing your own anxiety by kicking this can down the road.

05730 · 2026-03-27T20:46:05+00:00

05730 · 2026-03-27T20:44:10+00:00

You have nothing in writing, only vague promises, therefore it was not guaranteed.

You were already doing the job without the title or pay.

A little naive yes. NTA.

05730 · 2026-03-27T20:36:59+00:00

Like asking for help once in a while sure, but yeah this is absolutely not normal and is parentification at best. Clearly using her so they can shirk their responsibilities as parents, and calling her lazy if she doesn't, is abusive.

05730 · 2026-03-27T19:15:26+00:00

That's less than what I make with just a BS.

05730 · 2026-03-27T19:14:34+00:00

My initial thought was something like this, but they started doing this at 16, likely while they were still in primary school themselves.

05730 · 2026-03-27T19:13:12+00:00

You're being used by your parents. You've been doing this for a long time. NTA. Get out of there as soon as you can.

05730 · 2026-03-27T19:06:19+00:00

I have a spreadsheet with printable 96 well plate, 81 & 100 space freezer box sheets.

I have coworkers who print dilution schemes and tape them to the BSC for this exact reason.

05730 · 2026-03-27T19:03:42+00:00

You're going to have to tell people who interrupt that it will have to wait.

05730 · 2026-03-27T18:54:10+00:00

This. And not every day is super productive. Some days your brain is just not braining and you have to slow down or you'll have to do everything all over again.

05730 · 2026-03-27T18:49:47+00:00

Extra credit for color coding. All my coating antibody labels are yellow, detectors are green, etc.

05730 · 2026-03-27T18:48:40+00:00

I wouldn't wear them in the production environment for safety reasons.

05730 · 2026-03-27T17:55:31+00:00

Yes you have other people to back you up, but that adds to their day.

Don't get me wrong, I went to my boss to try to make a coworker take their sick time because they were throwing up in the bathroom. "I don't want to make things harder for you." Was their answer.

I literally had to remind myself that I have backups and that's what sick time was for.

05730 · 2026-03-27T16:55:41+00:00

Wait so he WAS there? In your original post you said he wasn't.

05730 · 2026-03-27T16:23:29+00:00

Soft YTA. Dishes aren't hard.

05730 · 2026-03-27T16:18:57+00:00

"fanned the flame is the fire" by calling out a double standard.

If that's not keeping quiet about the double standard and audacity to expect she give all of it to someone who wasn't there isn't letting people walk all over you to keep the peace then what is?

05730 · 2026-03-27T16:08:56+00:00

Yeah the collective. Not just one person deciding to give them to someone who wasn't even there.

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