Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: “I Don’t Need You”

Working with others requires patience, clear communication, and, of course, respect, but a new post from the subreddit ‘Petty Revenge‘ shows that not everyone possesses these traits.

Created by a lab technician who goes by the nickname Jacked-Cookies, the story details a frustrating encounter with an arrogant senior scientist whose dismissive attitude led to a costly mistake.

While the organization fosters a collaborative environment, this one scientist insists on micromanaging every task and doing things his way only. Luckily, in the end, he did receive a lesson in humility. Hopefully, he gets the message.

There are type A personalities, and then there are entitled jerks

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

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This petty revenge story is about the latter

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

Image credits: Polina Tankilevitch / pexels (not the actual photo)

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

Image credits: Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels (not the actual photo)

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

Image credits: Jacked-Cookies

The lab technician behind the story shared more information on what happened in the comments

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

People were happy to hear the scientist got what he deserved

Scientist Gets Angry Lab Tech Double-Checks His Work: "I Don't Need You"

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arthbach 2 hours ago

Absolutely awful behaviour on the part of the lab tech. Desperately unprofessional. They saw there were 50uL tips and 300uL tips in the same batch. They KNEW there was a problem, and a problem that would destroy work. Arrogant was an arrogant jerk, but the lab tech was the one who did nothing to prevent the incident. They were the one who should have been written up and penalised. I very much hope that none of the tests were time sensitive.

3points

Gavin Johnson 1 hour ago

Worked collecting and delivering samples, had to work closely with our lab across over three years of sampling. Our team were the beginning of the process, collecting water samples from thousands of sites. We had basic sampling skills, even so the lab manager and all of the team there encouraged us to speak up BEFORE anything became an issue. Their attitude was always two heads are better than one, three heads are better than two. Everyone has an off day every now and again, everyone is human, we all have the potential to make an error.

0points

Jihana 2 hours ago

I wonder how it can happen that there is a mixed rack in the first place. Normally they are even a different colour. Who loaded those racks?

0points

Katharina Sei. 2 hours ago

In some facilities where they use a TON of tips there are apparates that can refill tips (same like refilling by hand but much faster). So if two tip types get mixed up in the apparatus you will end up having two types in the rack. (Like described in the story.) Furthermore quite a bunch of tips are colorless so you wouldn't see the difference at the first glance. (Depending on the supplier only the rack may have a specific colour. And not even everywhere- I really HATE the thermo tips in our lab who all have blue boxes. )

2points

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