As most of my fellow online
collaborative colleagues and close friends know, I recently resigned from my
position as laboratory research technician in a research group at a nearby
university. It has been nearly a month and I don't regret this decision. On
paper, it was due to "medical reasons" and was supported by every
single one of my lab-mates, the manager and even the therapist I was
frequenting through their Employee Assistance Program.
What keeps me up these past few nights is the ivory tower folks and their
candid view on life, research and science while I am stuck with these deep dark
nightmares from the dungeon. The big boss that never responded to my
resignation and the HR department who never returned my phone calls. If this
was the 1950's, lab technicians would be the black eyed housewives that the
community so irrelevantly sweeps under the rug and tells themselves it is
better to not get involved or it will get fixed by someone other than
themselves.
I want you to look at this next image and I want you to know that shit like
this is very real. I am not here to bash a person, business, school or
industry. I am here to address the broken system and how it very nearly killed
me.
