I really get annoyed sometimes when people say certain things and complain.
I had lunch today with my research group, and for most part, I like and get along well with everyone except one. It also isn't my boss. Anyway, this person for a batter lack of a word is what I would call a "dissatisfied comparer" in the sense that he is comparing things that he is dissatisfied about. Or should I say, complaining about.
He was comparing Australia and the U.S. by saying he made a mistake to come here since all of the people he graduated with who went to the U.S. are all professors and heads of departments in "top" universities, while he is a nothing here. What a load of crap. There might be some differences, sure, but at the end of the day, there is no guarentee that if he had gone to the U.S. that he'd be in the same situation, since if he was brilliant, then why was he working only as a research assistant here for so many years? Why didn't he do a Ph.D. earlier? Why didn't he (or even still, right now, why doesn't he) use the network and contact power of the people he knows to get a better position in the U.S.? It's all a load of crock.
Then he asked, why is it that our research group doesn't get nice laptops instead of desktops, like other research groups in our department or schools within our university. Our group doesn't get them for two reasons I feel, which is due to cost and efficiency. Desktops generally can have better processor power than laptops (generally) for the same cost price. Since most of us do some modelling and calculation work at some point, the desktops are better for this. We don't really *need* to have laptops in our work either since we don't travel around to sites and what not. I think laptops for most part are excessive for what we need/use them for. But he was complaining about it. He should get his own if he thinks its an issue since he gets a scholarship and all. Our research group isn't like others so you can't really compare when it comes to funding either....
Grr. I felt like just punching him and telling him to bugger off then if he wants to bitch about it. I was part of the interviewing panel when we talked to him and unfortunately he was the lesser of evils because he was the most qualified out of the candidates. Unfortunately because he is slightly older than the others, he also comes with a bit of personal arrogance/ego about him from his "experience".... I don't particularly like talking to him, and by the way our boss talked to him in the meeting, it seems that his interaction with him is also on a stretched line.
I'm glad that at least I don't have anything to do with his work directly since it isn't the same "field" as mine (though it is still drying technology).
I had lunch today with my research group, and for most part, I like and get along well with everyone except one. It also isn't my boss. Anyway, this person for a batter lack of a word is what I would call a "dissatisfied comparer" in the sense that he is comparing things that he is dissatisfied about. Or should I say, complaining about.
He was comparing Australia and the U.S. by saying he made a mistake to come here since all of the people he graduated with who went to the U.S. are all professors and heads of departments in "top" universities, while he is a nothing here. What a load of crap. There might be some differences, sure, but at the end of the day, there is no guarentee that if he had gone to the U.S. that he'd be in the same situation, since if he was brilliant, then why was he working only as a research assistant here for so many years? Why didn't he do a Ph.D. earlier? Why didn't he (or even still, right now, why doesn't he) use the network and contact power of the people he knows to get a better position in the U.S.? It's all a load of crock.
Then he asked, why is it that our research group doesn't get nice laptops instead of desktops, like other research groups in our department or schools within our university. Our group doesn't get them for two reasons I feel, which is due to cost and efficiency. Desktops generally can have better processor power than laptops (generally) for the same cost price. Since most of us do some modelling and calculation work at some point, the desktops are better for this. We don't really *need* to have laptops in our work either since we don't travel around to sites and what not. I think laptops for most part are excessive for what we need/use them for. But he was complaining about it. He should get his own if he thinks its an issue since he gets a scholarship and all. Our research group isn't like others so you can't really compare when it comes to funding either....
Grr. I felt like just punching him and telling him to bugger off then if he wants to bitch about it. I was part of the interviewing panel when we talked to him and unfortunately he was the lesser of evils because he was the most qualified out of the candidates. Unfortunately because he is slightly older than the others, he also comes with a bit of personal arrogance/ego about him from his "experience".... I don't particularly like talking to him, and by the way our boss talked to him in the meeting, it seems that his interaction with him is also on a stretched line.
I'm glad that at least I don't have anything to do with his work directly since it isn't the same "field" as mine (though it is still drying technology).
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~hands you a punching pillow~
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