Be me

Umm you clearly are a virgin. How about you try being nice to her instead you fucking autist? Women exist in science, deal with it.

Evaluate how much power she actually has over you, i.e. can she throw you out of the lab, can she make your life really difficult, can you change labs without much hassle?

If you answer these questions, then you should get an idea on how confrontational you can be to her. Usually there is not much harm in just playing along and pretend to take her seriously, but should she start to interfere with your work I'd escalate.

>be me
>youngest grad student in the new lab at 24 years old
>am Ph.D with a Masters while others are 28-35 year old masters (I don't think this makes me special btw)
>have a "lab manager" (what the fuck does that even mean)
>he's a 28 year old guy who got his Master's 2 years ago and apparently just takes care of organizing the monkey work undergrads do and filling out order forms
>feels the need to exercise his "authority" constantly
>every time I ask him a question about how the shitty beaurocracy things work around here he stares at me like I have downs for asking a question and acts like everything should be obvious

If that's how it is, then I'm not even gonna talk to him or ask questions if he's gonna be that much of a dick. Is this a good idea to just ignore him? I came from a Master's lab without a "lab manager" so the concept is totally foreign to me anyway. Is he threatened by me? Is me being the younger, more advanced in their career student making him insecure and feel the need to prove "hurr durr I am smert I have da authority"? What do I do? Everyone else I've ever interacted with in grad school has been cool.

show her your Ph.Dick

>have a "lab manager" (what the fuck does that even mean)
>Being so inexperienced you don't know how much work goes into basic lab organization

here's questions mixed with advice from a girl

1) Do you smell bad? Wear the same clothes every time you see her? I find it harder to be nice to gross guys honestly, regardless of how nice or intelligent they are, and I've never met another girl growing up (unless they were gross) who didn't feel the same. You don't need to be a great smelling, attractive chad, but bathe regularly and do your laundry. Spraying axe or something over body odor doesn't help either. And before anyone is like "t. shallow roastie hurrrr" I'm just being honest and I think most people like that simply don't self-assess and realize how gross they are.

2) Has she caught you staring at her? Or have you done anything that she might interpret as showing sexual interest? She might be constantly like omg what a creep, even if you gave her little reason to feel that way. If she is below a 6/10 this is probably not the case. Either way: ignore her

3) If she is not an active student and that's just a job to her, she might hate it and wish she was working on her own project. Does she act this way when other people ask her questions? If yes, it's just envy. Ignore her and don't take it personally.

5) Is she asian/indian/arab? Being a subhuman AND a woman will add up to quite the inferiority complex in a male dominated field, so you should just ignore and avoid her at all costs and go over her head. (after evaluating her power over you as suggested).

6. If you can't go over her head, completely ignore her unless you absolutely have to interact with her, then be a bit snarky back.. Like "ok.. how was I supposed to know that" and just be short with responses like "k" If she's just a power hungry bitch, you being polite and even seemingly apologetic for "bothering" her (aka expecting her to do her job) only makes her feel more empowered.

I already said I get what she does I just think it's basically organizing monkey work in a biology lab and it's a waste of money the professor could do herself

I think I don't smell bad I bathe regularly and try not to come off as gross. She is kinda cute Hispanic girl so maybe she does think I stare at her even though I try to make a conscious effort not to. People have told me they think I can seem like a creeper though even though most people tend to like me once they get to know me and just realize I'm a bit awkward. I dunno I think I can ignore her

I don't hate her because she's a girl I hate her because she's a condescending bitch to me.

why are you even asking these questions? even if OP is a smelly dickwad, like he probably is, he's just going to pretend he isn't so that we all rage with him

more than likely OP ironically thinks everyone else is insecure of his intelligence

Larger or well-funded labs will often have a manager, who typically has a master's degree, has been with the PI for a while and is intimately familiar with the work the lab does, and does exactly what you describe: deal with undergrads and handle the day-to-day management of the wet lab while the PI focuses on other things.

Sounds like you've never been in a decently sized lab, and to be a PhD student not knowing these things probably would be a bit annoying. A lot of people coming in to grad school have worked in these sorts of labs as an undergrad. Frankly you sound like an entitled cunt, and I'd be condescending to you too.

>youngest grad student
>am Ph.D
doesn't follow m8

also lab managers are critical to labs if they're doing their jobs right. we couldn't live without ours