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by ArkieDukie » May 30th, 2014, 12:09 am
Brief update: had a chat with The Boss yesterday in which he asked my opinion on the personnel swap as proposed by Road Runner. A few recent events have made me rethink the wisdom of working for RR full-time. Therefore, I gave The Boss a well-reasoned list of pros and cons, leaning toward cons. One con is that I don't trust her. The other biggie is that I've recently started some work for a couple of colleagues. As I told The Boss, it's part of my job to help them get preliminary data to get grants, and I don't feel like I can bail on them (which is true). The Boss is concerned that she'd get mad at me for some reason and cut my job. Based on what I've seen, I can totally see her doing that. Therefore, we decided to maintain the status quo. Since I do have some degree of respect for The Boss, I told him that I would not want Bar Minion anywhere near my lab and filled him in on a few facts. He thanked me and told me he had decided what he was going to do (didn't tell me what, though). This means that Road Runner will cut Bar Minion loose at the end of the fiscal year and she will no longer be at our institution. So, as of August 31, buh bye biyotch!
Bar Minion got herself into even more hot water today. She was pressuring Boris to let her run some samples, and he came to me asking for advice. The samples are for another faculty member in our department, and their analysis requires a change in the current instrument configuration. I told Boris to direct BM to Road Runner, since it is rightfully her call to make. That's also what Road Runner told me to do when this issue came up last week. Road Runner is out of town, so I figured BM would just lie and tell us that RR gave her permission to run the samples. Instead, she did the worst possible thing she could've done. She wrote RR an email, COPYING THE OTHER FACULTY MEMBER, and said something to the effect of, "I was planning to run samples for Dr. Colleague today, but Boris told me I had to ask you first. Is there some reason I can't use the instrument?" Saying that Road Runner was pissed is an understatement of epic proportions. RR wrote a not so nice response to BM about the inappropriate nature of her actions. I only know this because she forwarded the message to me and told me to warn the rest of the group that BM would likely be on the warpath. That bitch cannot be gone soon enough.
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-- Albert Einstein