Hating ex-boss
So I've been working on several papers from my PhD (I graduated nearly 4 years ago) with my ex-boss. These would sit on her desk for 6 months to years before she would send them to me with her comments. I would send them back ASAP (week to month) and they would sit on her desk for minimum of months.
We finally submitted one last June. One of the reviewers requested changes. The changes were reasonable, but annoying. He wanted the characterisaton data to be included in this paper, but (in our minds) the paper was already really long and we had a tonne of charactrisation data (way more than he asked for) that would be reported in a second publication. We basically said we wouldn't make the changes, but would publish a second paper.
The reviewer held onto the paper for the maximum period of time and then threw a hissy fit and rejected the paper again (with some very unkind comments).
I'm now adding in some characterisation data and just got a series of emails from my ex-boss panicking about said paper, as we need to resubmit it now. Her tone just gets on my nerves. Yes, I've had it for a month, but it was a slightly crazy month (when I arrived back in Canada I slept over 12 hours a day for the first 5 days) as I was wrapping up my post-doc and then I wanted to see my family and my husband for a bit. She has sat on everything for months or years. She doesn't have the moral high ground to bitch at me.
But...she just got me a prestigious talk at a prestigious conference next week, so I can't hate her fully.
K, nuff whining, I'm back to typing.
BTW, I noticed some people were going to semi-secret blogs. I understand why people want to, but I do miss the open door policy. And damnit, I'll miss the cheese!
posted by Aislinn Sirk @ 2:17 PM
9 Comments:
I can relate to your story. I'm in the middle of a report right now that needs to be reviewed and approved by a bunch of people. Boss is panicking about how long it's taking, but it's almost completely due to the fact she and other reviewers have taken loads of time off over the last month, and are rarely ALL here to discuss changes!
I don't completely understand the semi-secret blog thing. I like accessing other blogs from my links, so it's a pain to have to remember the addy's and I don't like putting them in my favorites.
I contemplated changing my blog address last month (but not making it secret) because I realized my blog was coming up in the Google search engine. I changed my blog settings to prevent that from happening with future posts, but old posts can still be found in Google if you use the right keywords.
Oh, how do you make stuff not show up on google?
I sometimes worry about people finding my blog and, while there is nothing too dreadful, I do feel it's a bit like someone is wandering around my house without my knowledge.
Bob, from the dashboard, go to Settings, Basic tab. There's a box "Let search engines find your blog". Set this to No.
I googled "mr bob" bobdechemist and your blog was the first hit, so currently, your blog can be found by search engines.
thx,
I'm now secret. I'll check in a week or two that it stuck.
I believe in Academia all things wrong are always the fault of the person with the least number of rungs on their ladder. Which is actually one of the few ways that Academia is like the rest of the world.
Work sucks. I really need to win the lottery.
I miss the cheese too. *pout*
We need someone to give out wedgies and chicken livers every day.
Hey Bob!!!
I saw a show on Quebec and they mentioned Poutine! They rponounced it puh-tin.
They seemed snotty. that's like Coco right? I;m going to bug her now.
You know what your problem is bob? Efficiency.
It takes you way to long to type out the word "tonne".
Economise(canadian friendly spelling-why do you guys hate "z's"anyway?) and go for "ton"!!!
*gives wedgie*
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