I find the lack of Star Butterfly disturbing . <| sep |> She was pissed at him and was ranting about him to us . He was in general scumlord and another example of a bad PI . As far as not busy , well , his office was immediately adjacent to our bench space and he had to pass bythrough to get to his office . He didn ' t have to go out of the way at all to keep tabs on us . Some tidbits of bad PIness He and my PI started their labs at the same time and were given a joint budget for shared start up supplies . Guess who claimed all of them though ? He would also claim to others that my PI was his postdoc and not an independent PI in her own right . In an attempted multiPI project , he was supposed to handle some human tissue personally , but completely botched it and ruined the experiments , so they had to rearrange duties to keep him as far away from the tissue as possible . He was also terrible to his people . His postdoc ended up miserable and wanted to publish so badly , but he wanted to keep holding out for the bigger story and it was hurting both him and the postdoc because no publications in the lab no funding . His postdoc saved the lab his own words because she got a fellowship . His PhD student wasn ' t getting paid and had to take out loans to keep going before she quit and became a chef . Later he decided he wasn ' t going to publish any of his postdoc ' s work and wanted her to turn it all over for a patent application in his name only , which included turning over her personal computer , too . He threatened to withhold her last paycheck until she did so , but she went to the director of our institute who told Scumlord PI that he could not confiscate her personal computer and he would hand over her last paycheck immediately . Oh , and attached to this lab was also a technician master ' s student who was kind of a loser . He was doing his master ' s something in another labfield and had to take 23 months off because he got a notice that if he didn ' t finish by a certain date , he ' d be expelled from his master ' s program for taking too long 5 or 6 years ? . Somehow he got a grant and then started his lab up again with all new people . Latest gossip is that his postdoc has secretly lined up a new job and is leaving in a few months and his last PhD student switched into my former PI ' s lab .