Teaching labs live in a world of their own: 60 students, 12 workstations, one budget line that never stretches far enough, and equipment that gets treated…
I lost a full week of method development once because a peptide standard kept “disappearing”. Recovery sat at 60%, then 55%, then lower as I diluted further.
I once inherited a collaboration where every shipment arrived fine for months, until one August week when three packages of plasma samples sat on a loading…
A visiting professor once told me he only buys the most expensive vials because “cheap glass cost him a paper”. Maybe it did.
A customer once sent us a photo of a bent autosampler needle next to a tray of 9 mm vials and asked what he had done wrong.
Last quarter I walked past a bench where someone had balanced a full tray of used acetonitrile vials next to the sink “for a minute”.
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