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I hate covering for a coworker when they take 3 phone breaks today, strategies?

she just walks out of the lab and nobody gets on her ass for it. I think she might see me as a nice guy. I try to avoid her and I never join the coworkers for social activities because they can gaslight or perpetuate criticism. I eat my sandwich at breaktime with a rest. the rotor finishes spinning the samples to get a fluid for the analytes and beeps before the specimen receptionist loads it up again. Someone has to man the bench itself to unload the samples. Should I: A) take out the blue buckets with the samples from the rotation device and leave them to return to my own work B) Load the urgent samples from the centrifuge and load them on for her because they have a quick need of results C) As a basic grade risk my senior coworkers think I am difficult if I…


  • she just walks out of the lab and nobody gets on her ass for it. I think she might see me as a nice guy. I try to avoid her and I never join the coworkers for social activities because they can gaslight or perpetuate criticism. I eat my sandwich at breaktime with a rest.
  • the rotor finishes spinning the samples to get a fluid for the analytes and beeps before the specimen receptionist loads it up again. Someone has to man the bench itself to unload the samples.
  • Should I: A) take out the blue buckets with the samples from the rotation device and leave them to return to my own work
  • B) Load the urgent samples from the centrifuge and load them on for her because they have a quick need of results
  • C) As a basic grade risk my senior coworkers think I am difficult if I ask why she goes for so many phone breaks.

  • If I approach her, she is a woman and I'm a guy. She will cause drama is my worry. This place is a public sector job. I am training aswell as doing my own work so it does get busy.
  • I am hoping the seniors will get on her ass it is not ok. She is incredibly socially connected around the lab and I worked with someone similar who brought drama.
  • This is exactly why I would like a remote working day. Even just one day from home yet in a lab if your not senior w/ a masters, even then, the stem companies suck that they produce analysers that would not allow to ssh into them remotely to do the statistics etc.
  • Labs should all follow a remote working system aswell. Like who wants to tolerate xyz from their coworkers and in an open office of 2 labs. It gets loud. I will bring some headphones when I buy them.

Conclusion: Destroy my limiting beliefs about what I should do. The seniors tend to ngaf and just do their own work. I don't want to overwork myself when commission on the job is not encouraged or even a bonus. It is too quick in a 9 to 5 work. English is not my first language.

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