Another one of the joys of being me...
Is that I have the pleasure of acting as my boss' secretary. I do all our scheduling, and when that means having 2-3 patients and between 2-6 animal studies in a week, I have a lot of people's needs to balance.
This is not helped by the fact that in November, the cyclotron went down for 3 solid weeks, and that my boss is very tenative at best when giving me HIS schedule, for example his vacation plans.
During our 3 week, unavoidable, emergency, downtime, I had a large number of people bitching at me. Part of the reason I really think this is unfair is that it's profs bitching at me - and I'm a grad student. I don't have the authority to tell them to go to hell, there really was nothing we could do. All I can do is take it, and get these mean emails. Then on Friday, my boss announced he was taking 2 weeks off in January. And I had to reschedule another 4 scans. These people hate me now, and one guy in particular is just throwing a total tantrum. What do you genuinely want me to do? I'm only the messenger, I can't control when my boss decides to take vacation, and I also can't help that you are only capable of doing studies on one specific day of the week. You know, if you wanted, I could put you in on a Thursday or a Tuesday next week, but no, you want a Friday which we just can't fucking do because everybody likes Fridays because yes, it's the day that the clinical load is lightest. And that means you have to wait until the second half of January.
How about instead of composing nasty emails to me, you go bitch at your clinical brethren and try to get scanner time another day of the week? Or just suck it up, and stay til 8pm, like every graduate student who wants to have a prayer of completing a study. If the study is that important, why aren't those options?
Argh. This is the same douchebag who sent us into a room filled with radioactive gas to finish a study. I don't even want to THINK about the dose load from those few hours.
This is not helped by the fact that in November, the cyclotron went down for 3 solid weeks, and that my boss is very tenative at best when giving me HIS schedule, for example his vacation plans.
During our 3 week, unavoidable, emergency, downtime, I had a large number of people bitching at me. Part of the reason I really think this is unfair is that it's profs bitching at me - and I'm a grad student. I don't have the authority to tell them to go to hell, there really was nothing we could do. All I can do is take it, and get these mean emails. Then on Friday, my boss announced he was taking 2 weeks off in January. And I had to reschedule another 4 scans. These people hate me now, and one guy in particular is just throwing a total tantrum. What do you genuinely want me to do? I'm only the messenger, I can't control when my boss decides to take vacation, and I also can't help that you are only capable of doing studies on one specific day of the week. You know, if you wanted, I could put you in on a Thursday or a Tuesday next week, but no, you want a Friday which we just can't fucking do because everybody likes Fridays because yes, it's the day that the clinical load is lightest. And that means you have to wait until the second half of January.
How about instead of composing nasty emails to me, you go bitch at your clinical brethren and try to get scanner time another day of the week? Or just suck it up, and stay til 8pm, like every graduate student who wants to have a prayer of completing a study. If the study is that important, why aren't those options?
Argh. This is the same douchebag who sent us into a room filled with radioactive gas to finish a study. I don't even want to THINK about the dose load from those few hours.