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Someone just earned their spot in the Lab Disasters Hall of Fame by inverting a plate with 88 precious clinical cancer DNA samples. You know, just casually flipping over potentially months of patient sample collection and prep work like it's a pancake. The skull emoji really captures the internal screaming happening here.
What makes this extra painful is that these aren't just any samples—they're clinical cancer DNA samples, meaning they came from actual patients and are irreplaceable. You can't just go back and ask someone for another tumor biopsy because you had butterfingers in the lab. The "overnight = 3 days" timestamp suggests someone came back after a long weekend to discover this beautiful catastrophe.
The reactions say it all: 1 person relates to this pain, 12 people are having an emotional breakdown just reading about it, and 2 people are laughing (probably nervously because they've done something similar). This is why we have trust issues with gravity in the lab.
