This is going to be a LONG venting blog...Let me once again reiterate how much a HATE my lab. I took Friday off for Chinese New Year's, as did all the Chinese people in the lab. So I check my email this morning, and I had gotten a nasty email from our new lab manager (who's only a year older than me, but thinks she's hot stuff cuz she's the manager...even tho all she really does is paperwork). She writes:
"Jen,
Did you come to work today? "B" (My sort of boss here in NY....not my real boss) was not aware that you would be out today and neither was I.
Are you sick.
come talk to me about this on Monday.
-"R""
FIRST of all, i had already TOLD "B" that i would not be in today, even thought she's not my real boss. But she's a blond bimbo biatch and I'm sure she did not remember. She doesn't even remember when she's supposed to meet me to go over her own data.
SECOND of all...what does it matter to the lab manager if i'm there or not. Unlike other professions, the lab manager doesn't really manage the technicians and post docs, etc. She's just a fellow employee. They just take care of the paperwork, and ordering supplies and stuff like that. The techs and post docs work under their PI's (private investigators) and they answer to them. So if you're going to be out, you tell your PI.
THIRD of all, I am SURE that I am the only one that got a nasty email. I think the lab manager dislikes me for some reason. She thinks that i don't pull my weight in the lab because i'm never in the lab. I tried explaining to her that i do most of my work at LARC and i'm there for hours....HOURS. Most people spend several hours a WEEK at LARC at most. I'm there hours a DAY...because my sorta boss has 350 mouse cages...avg, 4 mice a cage. And then my real boss has 170 cages. That's 520 cages total,and growing, that I'm taking care of. Everyone else has under 100 cages. It's totally insane for me to be taking care of that many mice. When my real boss was still here, he had TWO technicians taking care of his formerly 400 cages.
The deal that my real boss worked out is that I help out this woman with her mice in exchange for me staying at the lab and continuing his ongoing experiments while he's starting his new lab in Ohio. The key word is HELP OUT the woman...not do all her freakin work. I was supposed to wean and get DNA from the mice. And that's it. I'm supposed to spend 15% of my time on her work. But NOOOO, I end up weaning, getting DNA, processing the DNA, then running PCR's and genotyping the DNA, and doing whatever necessary assays for her. That's a good 90% of her work. She has not touched her lab bench in MONTHS. She just sits in her office "reading scientific articles" and "writing grants". Which means nothing.
AND the lab manager knows EXACTLY what's going on. SHe noticed too that my she-boss doesn't do anything, so she asked me about it. And i told her exactly what's going on. And the lab manager would say all this bad stuff about "B". BUT, when "B" is around, she'll kiss her ass and lecture me or call me out on stuff, as if I'm not doing any work because "B" is an MD and has higher status than me or whatever.
ok, FOURTH of all...(told you this was long), the freaking Jewish people have SOOOO many holiday, aside from the national ones. And they're ALWAYS taking days off...especially in the Fall. And oh, that's ok. The lab manager is totally peachy with that. She'll even saunter over and sweetly ask, "oh, how was your holiday?". But noooo, with me, it's different, 'hmmmm....the chink's gone. WHERE IS THAT LAZY CHINK? Let me ask everyone in the lab where she is. No one knows. Let me now write her a nasty email and tell her to report to me because I'm the MANAGER."
They've all taken their vacation time all at once, so they would take 2-3 weeks off at a time, which is fine...cuz they can do whatever thye want with thier holiday time. But I chose not to...well, not really chose...but I CAN'T cuz if I did take that much time off, I'd have a BIG mouse mess on my hands when I got back. I freakin even had to go into work during our Christmas break to take care of my mice.
So, basically, I hate everyone at the lab. Especially my she-boss and "R". Maybe she doesn't like me cuz i don't kiss her ass and pretend to be interested in her stories about her composer bofriend who she talks incessantly about. The lab was totally different my first year at the lab. Our lab had a totally different layout...and I shared a room with only people who worked with my real boss. And we had the best time, blasting the stereo and singing and dancing along. We would talk and work all day...and go our for dinners and each other's birthdays. But now they're all gone and I'm the only one left. And we can't even play music in this new layout (everyone's in one BIG room) because people think it's distracting.
And I don't talk to anyone because they consistantly make ignorant comments that I've grown too tired to contest. (This is still after I've repeatedly told people that I was born in America) "does your passport say Taiwan or China?" "What did you do for chinese New Year's when you lived in Taiwan?" "How does the Chinese food here compare to the chinese food you ate in China?" "you got a WHAT on the verbal section of your SAT's?...oh that's high...i'm suprised." "I saw this MUTT on the train and she was really cute...she had her dad's coloring and her mom's slanty eyes." "oh, is your boyfriend American or Chinese?" "what are you reading? oh an American novel?" It's neverending. These are people who PRIDE themselves on being open minded and having met people of diverse backgrounds. They BRAG about eating sushi...but when they went to shabu shabu and saw people mixing in the raw egg, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW, that's SO gross...who DOES that?" and when I brought in a Bah-tzang for lunch, "what IS that...it looks totally sticky"
But whatever...just a few more months...At first, I was planning to work til the end of July...but now I'm not. No matter what I end up doing next year, I'm leaving as early as possible. I'm not going to spend my summer taking this crap from them anymore. I'll probably work til the end of June...take whatever money I have left from days not taken off (somehow I get the idea that the lab manager will send down a sheet saying I used all my days off)...then go back to school...or whatever...and PAYCE BIOTCHES. I will never go back to visit or whatever. Mebbe i will just let all the mice loose. hee hee RUN FREE!!!
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