I answer here because I don't want to pollute another thread.
I am not entirely clear what you mean. I used to have a partner many years ago, but I started working alone, because my partner was unreliable with deadlines and the quality of work tended to degrade when he was busy.
I also had an employee for a few months about a year ago, but the guy, despite his qualifications, was unable to meet the standards I hold my work to, so I published zero reports on which he worked and redid all the work myself. I have not been able to find an employee skilled and responsible enough so far.
The analyses themselves are always and have always been all done by me. If you see a report with my signature and a verification code, it could have only been me personally who had issued it.
Last week I received an excess of 200 samples and it was not humanly possible to process them all alone, so I got some help with the more menial and less demanding tasks, such as labeling, documentation and weighting. Actually, I believe it was only labeling, documentation and weighting.
Documentation alone takes a lot of time, as, for the cases like this I need all the data to be traceable (so for example, take sample 1C, bold cyp contaminated with nandrolone from the Pristine - within minutes I can tell you what glassware was used, which batch the pipette tips were, whether any samples containing nandrolone were tested around that sample that could have caused the contamination [none], where the rest of the sample is stored, locate the raw data, etc)
Hope this answers your question.
