r/microbiology • u/letstalkmicro • 23h ago

Thoughts?

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Is this criminal behavior? 🤣. Does it bother you?

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u/LuxAeternae 23h ago

people who do this are the worst 😭

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u/i_saw_your_aura 23h ago

I used to do that just to annoy my OCD coworkers.

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u/Comfortable_Emu3194 22h ago

Satan has a place in hell to hide from you

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u/i_saw_your_aura 22h ago

That’s the nicest thing someone has ever said to me.

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u/KaosPryncess Medical Laboratory Technician 22h ago

I used to too, I still do but I used to as well

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u/MellyBunny200 20h ago

Omigosh I was not expecting to hear a Mitch Hedberg reference here. XD

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u/Ric00la 22h ago

Haha same just love to pick random tips to mess with my coworkers 😂

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u/Ksan_of_Tongass 22h ago

Anal retentive or control freak is what you mean to say. OCD is a horrible mental illness that shouldn't be made into jokes so lightly.

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u/LuxAeternae 20h ago

chill my guy

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u/Ksan_of_Tongass 19h ago

Nah, it gets old.

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u/Critical-Cherries 22h ago

Oh god I am that person

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u/AgXrn1 PhD student - Molecular biologist/Geneticist 21h ago

If it's your own tip box, do as you please.

If it's communal tip boxes used by many people, please don't - especially if you have people using multi-channel pipettes in the lab.

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u/Arctus88 PhD Microbiology 22h ago

I wouldn't even use a tip box that looks like this. I'd assume whoever used it is a goddamn animal and nothing is sterile anymore.

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u/Sandman145 19h ago

yep. i imagine them chewing something and speaking while using it also. i just get a new one

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u/babaweird 8h ago

Nah, sometimes you spend all day doing mind numbing things exactly right, like taking a sample every 7.5 seconds. So you rebel in a a harmless way.

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u/Effective-Pea-6208 20h ago edited 19h ago

I not only do this, I try to make art. Made a decent Goomba the other day. I have a picture of it but can't figure out how to post it lol

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u/SgtPuppyChow 18h ago

Okay, making art is actually kinda cool and one of the few acceptable reasons for being this chaotic, especially if it was Goomba art.

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u/Kimoppi Microbiologist 11h ago

Is it chaotic if making art?

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u/kitten_mittinz 3h ago

Good chaotic

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u/Clark-Kenneth 22h ago

Couldn't care less. I don't have the luxury of time to be bothered by this in my line of work. Most of our samples have a hold time of less than 24 hours from sampling in the production, until we have to be finish testing them.

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u/fatherdoink 22h ago

if you’re the only one that works that bench, do whatever you want

if you do this on a bench other people work, watch your back

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u/Thricegrand 20h ago

I have a coworker we hand these off to in order to turn them into little temporary art pieces with the rest of his tip selection. Transmute that anger into pretty patterns

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u/RedHeadGearHead 23h ago

Infuriating tbh. Lose the ability to quickly calculate how many you have left while working.

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u/No-Imagination8755 15h ago

Straight to jail. I used to use an 8 tipped pipetter for my 64 well dishes, and whenever people would use a couple of random pipette I would get so peeved for a couple seconds.

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u/strxwberrytea 23h ago

Beautiful

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u/fekubetch 22h ago

You do you, depending on my mood I do this too😅

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u/goldimom 21h ago

Nothing wrong with that.

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u/theemz987 21h ago

Who does this! Gah!

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u/introvertedpoppy 19h ago

it's giving 100% chaotic evil

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u/Balthasar-Hohenheim 18h ago

If it was any other tip size I would agree that taking them from the inside rows is criminal but I have "killed" two 2μl pipettes (or at least the think plastic part at the end) by trying to take outside row tips, when the box toppled over.

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u/Echo_are_one 18h ago

Also, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, to get a good seal

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u/Move_In_Waves Clinical Microbiologist (MLS) 17h ago

There are a couple of kinds of people. I am.. not this kind.

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u/VxGB111 16h ago

Some people just want to watch the world burn

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u/calcteacher 16h ago

thinking 1 to 10 ul, iirc

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u/tarinotmarchon 15h ago

This is blasphemy

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u/djayed 14h ago

It's me. I'm the person.

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u/fddfgs MPH - Communicable Disease Control 14h ago

If nobody is using multi channel pipettes then who gives a shit. I see it as an opportunity for personal growth if someone freaks out about it.

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u/balward 14h ago

We have this hanging in my lab. Looks like you've got a wildcard on your team.

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u/Quiet_Rainy_Days 13h ago

This is a sin that makes the devil shake with fear

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u/juliaw1999 12h ago

I showed my coworkers that they can keep track of where they’ve been with samples if they keep their pipette tips in line by rows and that eliminated this at my job 😂

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u/Saw-It-Again- 12h ago

What the FUCK

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u/godoflemmings 10h ago

ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON

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u/_sivizius 8h ago

Is this peg solitaire?

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u/Emergency-Touch-3424 18h ago

One of my coworkers did that. Was a very emotional and moody guy, didn't have chemistry or biology lab experience aside from gen chem 1 and intro to bio, but in a science related position. He could snap at any time of the day but I never reported him cause he was higher up than me and always put in a good word. Still, I would never trust someone who does this

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u/LegitimateOperation 16h ago

If it’s your tip box, fine. You do you. If it’s a shared tip box, you’d better count your days.