The Story Lives On
The lab head, also known as the PI—principal investigator—was married but was having an affair with one of the postdocs. The wife found out about it and came to the lab one day to catch the two of them and let them know she knew.
Well, it ended up where the wife chased the postdoc, who was sleeping with her husband, around the lab with scissors. This was in front of everyone, including the numerous shocked grad students. The PI later divorced the wife and remarried the postdoc he was sleeping with.
But this insane story doesn’t even end there. Then, he was able to get his new wife a job as head of her own lab in the same department because he was head of the department. 15 years later, they remain professors at the institution and are still married.
However, the story lives on and has been passed on throughout the years.
Grad students, to this day, still joke about the shady stuff and the professors in question get anonymous gifts around the holidays of scissors from random people at the school. It’s become a thing, mainly because people still find the situation disgusting and wrong.
Everyone mainly felt this way because the PI and post-doc were allowed to keep their jobs. So, since the whole thing has been swept under the rug, there isn’t much anyone can do other than send those people scissors to remind them that everyone knows. Story credit: Reddit / CatumEntanglement