Carmilla rolled her eyes and gave into the urge to cuff the idiot upside the head, "What are you, stupid? She's the fucking doctor. Or did you not bother to think about this shit and just blindly ask fucking stupid questions?"
It didn't take much in the way of brains to figure it out. If the boss was always busy doing something else, of course there'd be other people around to do the research things, and generally the person setting up the lab was going to be the one using it. Common. Fucking. Sense.