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I have spent more time with my boss in the last week than in the previous year. I spent ALL day today with him. I think that's enough. Actually, it was pretty good, but it felt somewhat inefficient.
Also, I found out today, he renewing the contract of the evil woman in the lab. I have lost a certain amount of respect for him over that. Several people have approached him with "issues" they have had with her and how difficult she is to work with. I wasn't one of them (except for one indirect, specific incident that I intervened in). Unless she is brilliant in the lab (which I kinda doubt, as she works 9-5 and operates in a complete knowledge vacuum and has made several very elementary errors), he should replace her with one of the 14 gadzillion people who are gagging for a post doc in his lab....sigh
Do you think the beach volleyball listed on the agenda for my two day meeting in Florida is a joke? I was planning on wearing a suit.
posted by Aislinn Sirk @ 7:00 PM
7 Comments:
White-skinned nerds and geeks playing beach volleyball? This I gotta see. Oh, the sunburn the next day!
I think Puffy just called you a nerd. And a geek. And white skinned.
And old. I'm sure that somehow translate to old.
Um..
ouch people..
ouch..
I'm not a.. well, I guess I...but I'm most DEFINATELY not..um..well maybe I actually,
Sandles and socks are still good, right?
Or do the socks need to be knee high?
Socks are evil.
Pack your string bikini, silly. That is de rigeur for beach volleyball.
Possibly your evil co-worker has mastered the politics & timing of kissing up to the boss. I once had a woman who substituted for me when I was on maternity leave announce she was going to take my job. (She sucked at lab work but was very good politically.) Anyway, every morning she marched into boss's office (a Med School Department chair), said hello to his secretary & chatted her up. Thus she found out boss's schedule for the day. She would pop out of nowhere, set herself up at sterile hood and look extremely busy. Sure enough, ten minutes later boss would walk by & see her "working". As soon as boss left the floor she folded up & left.
It was entirely pathetic. Sometimes all she was doing was moving reagents from one sterile container to another, but he thought she was working hard all the time.
She waylaid him other places too, but I didn't see that for a while since I was busy actually being productive.
Stupid woman.
I don't think my evil coworker has really mastered politics. My boss just really, really, really hates to interfer with the lab (aka manage)
Fortunately, we are all pretty mature and can handle ourselves. Unfortunately total deadwood stays around.
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