Hmph

So you guys likely know that I love my job, adore my job, think it's just great. I do interesting research. I need to think about really difficult problems. I have some great people to bounce ideas off. It's a lot of hours, but it is worth it.

Sadly, this hasn't helped me spin off into another fabulous job in the city I want to be in.

Anyhow, a new post-doc joined in Dec, about the same time the Master's student graduated and left. I wasn't impressed with the post-doc at first, but was glad someone else was on the project, as I was moving to part time.

Time has passed and I am way less then impressed with this guy. He is lazy, arrogant and sadly, stupid. I am so disapointed with my boss for hiring him (he has good credentials-previous post-doc with one of the big names in our field at Cambridge University) and keeping him.

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So he tends to come in at 9:30-10 or (on Friday) 11. He leaves at 5:30. On Tuesday he left at 2:30 and Friday he left at 1. He may have left earlier the other days, but it was only Tuesday and Friday that I was looking for him. So he takes 2 or 3 afternoons off a week (this has always been the case.

On our last teleconference he reported some results from an experiment he ran while I was not here. He got amazing results. Super high values-pretty awesome, right? The next day I had a bunch of questions and asked him to show me the results of the run. He had completely messed up the interpretation of the results and was reporting completely erroneous results. I could understand the mistake from a first year student, but he's a bloody post-doc. It makes up look pretty bad.

He also has a way of speaking that sounds very lectury and arrogant that I really find offputting.

Anyhow, working with him actually makes me rethink staying here. I am mainly here because I enjoy it. If I don't enjoy it I see no reason to be here. I think I'll let my boss know. He hates inter-personal disputes, but if I'm thinking about leaving, it won't hurt me.