(26)
    One day while I was working with a spectrophotometer in my lab when a co-worker walked in wearing a complete cowboy get-up. He proceeded to challenged me to a pipetting race. Not being one to back down, I decided why not. Half-way through our pipetting race he managed to distract me enough that I lost my place and ruined our results, thereby costing our company a fortune. Luckily the boss was more concerned with the "cowboy" than me.
(16)
    One of the former DNA lab shift supervisors used a small conference room near the HR office on multiple occasions for his sexual relations with not only the manager he was dating, but with several other employees as well. Of course the manger was known for her improprieties as well, so there is no need to feel sorry for her. The funny thing is that the new HR guy from the parent company thought that these were 2 role model employees when all the while this was going on right outside his office.
(8)
    The one day i didn't wear closed-toe shoes in the lab, i spilled eight ounces of sulfuric acid on my foot.
(5)
    I think the odd results of our experiment was due to my leaving the samples too long in the waterbath. Don't tell anyone though or there'll be lab politics!
(4)
    I was making buffers on a large scale, 1500 liters, wearing my full face respirator. This entailed pouring large amounts of LiOH powder into the tank. I forgot to put the "keep out" sign on the door. Next thing I know I hear someone coughing and asking what am I doing???
(13)
    I drank a six pack once prior to performing four westerns...somehow the results were the cleanest I've ever achieved. Hooray for EtOH!!
(8)
    My lab partner came back from a 'smoke break' smelling of marijuana.
(3)
    The students in our lab were not allowed to pour the BSA media from the tissue culture class supply vial. One day when the professor was not around, I took some, under sterile conditions, and replaced the vial.
(8)
    Recently I was staining some cross sections of some rodent brains for a neural nitric oxide study. It required the use of several expensive antibodies (a few thousand dollars). After I finished the stains came out great. I left the box of antibodies on a desk for over a week. The entire box is unusable now.... I am just an undergrad, so I have been disciplined and demoted.... Awesome!!!
(19)
    while labeling chemicals, i didn't notice that the label printer was printing the same label for every bottle. Almost four hundred chemicals were labeled as dihydrogen monoxide.
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