>>11137623I'll give you an example. I mean, I'm not 100% innocent, I'm a bit scatterbrained and this was the very first lab I had been in. But when he was showing me western blotting, for example, he told me to write everything down. So I wrote everything that I could and I got all the numbers down, and mind me, he never gave me a protocol until after his little tutorial. So when I was doing it myself, I got to the part where I have to move the gel from the plastic case to the transfer membrane. This is more of a skill than something you can write down, and I didn't know the best way to do it. I wanted his help and his advice and he just raised his voice and was all "YOU DIDN'T WRITE THIS DOWN? YOU WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION?." My first fucking time doing this by they way. One step I wanted help with. He gave me like a ten minute lecture on how I need to pay attention and how I should have some sort of photographic memory watching people do things and writing shit down while I don't even have a protocol. I think a pack of 10 gels cost like 150 bucks so this is to save a $15 gel. No, no cutting edge research, we were setting up a facility to using a premade protocol from a similar facility. He was getting mad at other people too. Always talking about how the "undergrads" never did their jobs.
I'm just getting the feeling that success in academia isn't necessarily about creativity or how daring you are but about how good you are at sucking cock. Because every single person in that lab was a cocksucker. Maybe good people deep down, but cocksuckers, and deeply insecure.
Kinda drunk right now, sorry for ranting.
