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sometimes I'm a smartass  

rm_interlukin22 55M
97 posts
9/16/2012 4:59 pm
sometimes I'm a smartass
Sometimes even I can be a jerk.
I'm a graduate student and I spend a lot of hours trying to unravel the mysteries of modern medicine. There exists a lab next to mine who dismissed their senior technician and needed help getting their experiments started with their new female technician from India. First off I'll admit that she was cute and flirty but I dont like to fish off the company pier for what will be obvious reasons.

Being the dumb nice guy that I am I took three weeks to show them all of my tricks and techniques that I have honed over the past few years at my expense in isolating white blood cells from mice. The rest of my lab members were sick of this other lab asking for help and reagents but I persisted. Now as luck would have it my committee got wind of it and complained so I got a verbal lecture on finishing my own work first. In subsequent weeks this same female would pester me about 5 times a day asking for help and reagents ect. Finally I politely told them that I couldn't help them anymore and they should ask my boss for any further supplies. That reduced the requests to about 5 per day.

When the boss told me that we were running low on money for the month and we were out of some of our basic reagents I told the other lab that they needed to buy their own chemicals. After about the 5th time the female in question got mad at me and told me that they were not using our reagents and that some people just could not be taught good manners. An hour later she asked me for something else to which I replied " some people just cant be taught good manners" in a very smart ass British English accent.

She hasn't talked to me for 2 weeks now! Ironically the rest of my lab wont help her when she asks them for help either.

Moral
1 sometimes being the nice guy is not a good thing
2 don't date someone from work
sexxyblue4 64F
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9/16/2012 6:22 pm

 Sounds like you're a "smart" smartass!


rm_interlukin22 55M
218 posts
9/16/2012 7:04 pm

 yep!


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