To celebrate the spirit of Festivus, we asked you to air some of your lab grievances - in a fun way. We've assembled a collection of the more unique and amusing ones sent in. These are situations we can all relate to, or have a good laugh about.

Enjoy! And Happy Festivus for the rest of us.


Festivus Lab Grievances: Mystery vials in the -80. Where did they come from? How long have they been there? What is in there?!?!



Festivus Lab Grievances: My labmate got mad when I put a Spongebob meme on his desk.



Festivus Lab Grievances: People who don't reorder stock until they use the last item. We don't have instant delivery fairies argh!!



Festivus Lab Grievances: I once got a foam cooler full of dry ice that was about as big as a regular igloo cooler that people use in the summer for camping trips. It took me 15 minutes to find a single 100ml bottle of trypsin-edta.



Festivus Lab Grievances: Labmates who put empty bottles back on the shelf instead of getting more ordered.



Festivus Lab Grievances: I’m going to say it…the PAY WALLS when accessing information. The whole system turns us into pirates.



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Festivus Lab Grievances: Western Blot. That is all.



Festivus Lab Grievances: All that plastic. It’s a necessary evil. But still, it can overwhelm me sometimes.



Festivus Lab Grievances: To the person who keeps ‘borrowing’ my pipette and doesn’t return it to the exact same place: One day you'll get your comeuppance.



Festivus Lab Grievances: A labmate contaminated our pregnant colleague's lab bench with radioactive nucleotides. At least we'll have a young Spider-Man nearby if we need him. (Mom & baby are okay, I promise!)


Thank you to all who contributed.