Ask anyone who works in those labs what they put up with in their jobs, and they will entertain you with stories of threats, verbal abuse and generally being treated like maggots at the hands of students. I told him to get a new one. He came back with the new ID and threw it at me. I ve seen people swear and curse at the lab aides, said Mark Quilhot, the lab facilities assistant manager. You get called bitch, whatever, said Debbie Sandlin, a lab technician.
Verbal abuse happens everyday.
That s without question. People come in here and get mad at me for having to enforce the rules, said Jim Norman, another lab aide. The obvious question is why. Or maybe the rules are too oppressive. Like having to show proof that you are a Columbia student and not a suicidal Iranian terrorist using the internet to order a bomb.