It’s terrible. I don’t have enough to do at my current job, and I’m constantly trying to find work or finding things to read. But I’ve noticed that when I don’t have enough work to do the office politics is unbearable. You become keenly aware of how much people are assholes, and assholes to you specifically.

I’m currently going through this -- trying to get a co-worker fired for theft of time. I don’t like that I had to do it, but picking up someone else’s slack because they feel like they can take time off, but still count it as working is incredibly demoralizing.

They’ll pay what’s called sponsored research, which is a drop in the bucket. They are not spending the full cost of the clinical trial.

I don’t think a lot of people know about the tech transfer world in universities and non-profits and how much your new medicines and medical devices are being invented at a university level and not at a pharma.

I’d like to see how much money they are spending on in house R&D verses getting a license from a university or non-profit who has people doing the drug discovery work. Doing clinical trials ain’t cheap, but if Merck is licensing the technology from a university, they are paying a fraction of the cost. The University…

This is the picture I’m going to show when I say that I’m an evil baby hater.

I don’t know. I bought a really cute top for my birthday and then got asked if it was from Talbot’s. It was not from Talbot’s. I took offense. I’ve been a grandma since I was 17 -- I love going to bed early and cardigans -- but I’m not ready to dress like a middle aged woman.

Does she also refuse to talk to you about work, but will send vague emails about things you need to do? Or when you’re in a meeting and there’s only one chair left, she’ll stand against the wall because the chair is next to you? And she won’t invite you to things, but will give a vague “everyone is invited to this…

Office relationships are the worst. I’m dealing with a bunch of cliquey hags right now.

It hates poor women and children. Rich people are welcome! Bootstraps and all.

please tell me there’s a hair shirt involved?

whenever I heard that someone is doing keto, all Iwant to know about is their cholesterol levels. I naturally have high cholesterol, so going keto would be a no go. and I do intermittent fasting without even trying since I’m not a breakfast eater.

hate to tell you, but he should worry. My sister had a patient come in with, I think it was a stroke or some heart problem (I can’t remember so this story is terrible), perfectly healthy 32 year old. The only thing the doctor could think cause it was the Keto diet that he had been doing.

As long as I can still cure cancer with cranberry and celery juice!

As someone in academia who works with emerging technologies and inventions, you will not believe the shit we have to patent because so-and-so is a somebody and you can’t tell him or her that their idea is shit. There are technologies that we’ve spent millions on patenting and covering startup costs just to have them…

My co-worker has taken 40 documented days of sick and vacation in a year and 3 months since she got hired. We’re only allowed 29 days vacation and sick. I don’t know how to tell my boss because this is a co-worker who doesn’t like me and makes it known that she doesn’t like me, and she a favorite of said boss. How do…

I agree with this, but I also have a counter in that sometimes doctors are shit. I’ve had restless legs since I was 18, before restless legs was a thing. Went to several doctors, including a neurologist, and the consensus was that I was depressed. So then I got put on Paxil that did nothing but give me the shakes.

And she did it all in some serious heels!

It’s the bathroom paradox. There’s a certain amount of time you can be in the bathroom and have it be socially acceptable. Too little and people are suspicious. Too long and people are really suspicious and wonder what the hell is wrong with you. Same with being single.

The same thing happened to my nephew when his diet consisted solely of goldfish crackers. Mind you, he was four and an extremely picky eater. Does Trump eat goldfish crackers?