So we've been having a couple of volunteers work in our lab over the past couple of months. They are very nice even if they are a little odd, siblings who act like a married couple. Last month we get an email from a girl who wants to do experiments on the same machine that me and the volunteers are doing things on. We wanted to show her how to use the machine.
So first, she bails out of a meeting with the volunteer.
Next, we decide to meet and she is 45 minutes late for our meeting as well as being kind of audacious and asking if she can use our machine a bunch without cleaning it or doing any maintenance on it.
Then she needs a bunch of stuff from our lab, so my officemate agrees to meet her and prepare some stuff to give her. The girl insists on 9 am meeting (so my officemate spends an hour before this preparing the stuff) and then doesn't show up, emailing about it about 4 pm. She says she'll meet Monday, then she says she no longer needs the stuff that was prepared.
She bails on a second meeting with the volunteer, followed by asking the volunteer if she wanted to come in on Saturday/Monday of a holiday to help her, then yesterday we decide to meet with her. She tells the volunteer she wants to meet at 9, tells me she wants to meet at 11, and ends up showing up at 1:30 after sending text messages saying "well you said you were free all day, so it's okay if I arrive at 1:30 right???" (I had told her that I could meet any time in the day. This isn't the same as being free all day!) She also insisted on doing all her own samples rather than watching us do ours.
This, of course, all being meetings that are out of the kindness of our hearts rather than any obligation (okay, we'd prefer if she didn't fuck up our machine).
What the fuck?
