Top 10 list
10. If you've looked into prices for having T-shirts printed that say "I'm the favorite", you might be working for Dr. Evil.
9. If you're staying in the lab until 11 pm most nights and working weekends and the boss still says you're not working hard enough, or aren't efficient (like Isabelle, the irreproachable postdoc), you just might possibly be working for Dr. Evil.
8. If you can't get enough mutant mice to do your experiments because there's not enough space for your mice in the animal facility, it's all your fault.
7. Likewise, if the technicians at our "state-of-the-art" mouse facility don't respond to your emails, the "communication problem" is clearly all your fault.
6. If we no longer have money to do experiments it's definitely not because the boss ordered to have mice shipped from New York (costing over 1000 Euros) which you didn't even use.
5. If your mice die because we work in a state-of-the-art Institute without air conditioning and you left the window open so sweat wouldn't run off your brow into the open wound of the mouse whose poor guts were exposed, it's all your fault that the mouse dies from an infection.
4. If you kindly suggest that genotyping compound heterozygous mice and analyzing embryos is not really your strong suit and in addition will take you away from studies that will actually contribute to you publishing a paper, you must just be a lazy, sucky, worthless post-doc who's not as good as Dr. M, or Dr. F.M., or any other previous lab member who now has their own lab (or Isabella).
3. If you leave your computer plugged in to make it look like you're working and a) go to the mall, b) go for a "French lunch" (2 hours minimum), c) call your mother. Yep it's Dr. Evil, who's your boss baby.
2. Rather than actually helping you troubleshoot your experiments, Dr. Evil instead spends thousands of Euros to send you to another lab (or to London).
1. Somehow, even though you've just discovered a new muscle stem cell marker that will cure muscle wasting diseases, you're STILL not as good as any other former lab member.
