In some labs, they say that some people just cause machines to stop functioning without doing anything to the machines, and one should avoid their company. (I don’t mean you—it’s what a relative of mine was believed to do some thirty years back.) Superstition? Perhaps. Or perhaps these “agents of evil” distract those who are working and they make mistakes? Anyway, it is hard to separate office beliefs into superstitions proper and multidimensional duct tape.
In some labs, they say that some people just cause machines to stop functioning without doing anything to the machines, and one should avoid their company. (I don’t mean you—it’s what a relative of mine was believed to do some thirty years back.) Superstition? Perhaps. Or perhaps these “agents of evil” distract those who are working and they make mistakes? Anyway, it is hard to separate office beliefs into superstitions proper and multidimensional duct tape.
That reminds me of the story of a biochemical lab where one woman effected an experiment through the parfume she was wearing.