Archive for February, 2009

Snarl

Posted in annoyances, bad admin, cow-orkers on February 13th, 2009 by Black Knight

Just because you’re DVC Research doesn’t give you the right to nick my chair EVERY TIME YOU TALK TO YOUR FUCKING USELESS POSTDOC.

Meanwhile, back in 1951…

Posted in annoyances, cow-orkers, emails, shit on February 9th, 2009 by Black Knight

This person is not particularly liked around the place. This

I just used [the gel-doc system] and the person before me had left a puddle of liquid on the glass base.  Judging from the photo taken I presume this liquid would have been contaminated with ethidium bromide.

This sort of mess left on common-use equipment shows a certain amount of laziness and disregard for colleagues, not to mention the potential damage to the instrument.

So whoever left the mess, get your act together and clean up after yourself.  If the box of tissues is empty, as it was when I used the instrument, go and get another box – like I had to.

None of this is all that difficult.

is particularly vile. But what made me spew a kidney was the line after her name but before the nine line .sig…

SAFETY – Stop and think – life can change in a blink

Bleh. Please.