Omg this woman (26) in my lab while I was doing my masters. She was pretty erratic, intimidating and a bully. She was super into drugs and alcohol (she’s basically the total opposite of me), and found her experiences with them really rewarding, hence she kept using them. She struggled a lot with mental health and hated the fact that I don’t use drugs and I don’t have mental health issues. She had it in for me basically.
Side note: She also was addicted to Ritalin (doesn’t have ADHD) and had a cold one day and was downing cough medicine at her desk and the drugs didn’t react well so we had to call an ambulance.
We were doing similar projects and would exclaim her research was superior to everyone else’s in the lab, that she was the most intelligent and that my research was pointless (I got highly significant results and am writing a paper now). We both used the same equipment for our experiments but we had to share. She wasn’t a morning person, I am, I opted to use the equipment in the morning til just after lunch (8-1pm) and she’d use it in the afternoon. She never came into uni til 11am, and would get shitty that I was still using it (in my allocated and agreed upon time!). She would constantly come into the room I was in seeing if I was done, and she would go off at me saying I’m selfish and not sharing, even though from 1pm she would be in there til 10pm some days.
She tried sabotaging my project by deleting files (computer had a back up she didn’t know about) and before I was due to run participants (before her) she “accidentally” broke the equipment which then got taken away for a few weeks to be fixed and put a halt to my entire project.
I was a research assistant for my supervisor and she tried to have me taken off his project, and have her put on.
Over the 2 years she was there, she actively made live difficult for numerous people. There were a lot more instances of her bullying me and intimidating other people in our lab (including our supervisor). Everyone was beyond happy the day she left. Not one person said goodbye to her. The atmosphere in the lab changed drastically once she left, she was just toxic and crazy.