I've long been trying to convince my husband that all chemistry profs in my department are the same. Everyone is slightly crazy, plays favorites and generally treats their students like crap. I found further evidence yesterday.
There's a relatively new faculty member who I thought might be the exception to this rule, generally she seems to have it all together and her group looked like the ideal group. Everyone seemed to get along, and she seemed to understand the "plight of the grad student". Apparently that's just not the case. In fact, she seems to be just as bad as my advisor and not only has she badmouthed one of her students to the rest of the faculty - and told the student this - but she's apparently not willing to compromise her management style. I feel badly for the student, he's a good guy.
Anyway, in some respects its nice to know that even with all my boss's crazy, he doesn't seem to be the worst in the department, but on the other hand, I'm really disappointed in this faculty member, I thought she was above this kind of crap.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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They are all crazy. There was one member of the faculty, a young guy who'd been there a few years who was so nice. He ran mechanism evenings and couldn't have been nicer and more helpful if he tried. And then I heard what he was like to work for (I had assumed he would be as lovely to work for as he was to work out mechanisms with). He's an intolerant slavedriver, who's prone to personality clashes. He's the only member of the faculty who routinely has students who started off with PhD intentions taking a Master's. At least one student a year. That's way above average for the department.
Yep. Even the seeminly nice ones are crazy.
And this is why I don't intend to stay in academia.
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