I'm almost finished with this chapter and should hand it in before the week is out. I wish my institution had a set way on how the dissertation should be structured. I asked and was told everyone writes it differently, a lot of help that was thanks.
So I gave FPD (fake post doc) a second chance to redeem herself, yet she still has not done the westerns. Last week I told her to go ahead and just buy the reagents she's "familiar with". I came in one day last week and another postdoc was explaining to her how to do cloning. Well, since she doesn't know how to do it and the PI told her to do something she got another postdoc to do it for her and everyday day she's like "you're awesome, I'll buy you a beer" . Why don't you at least try to do your own work? In the last month, I've made 8 constructs, verified and tested them, have them injected into embryos, screened, imaged and have a new tg line on the system (ALL BY MYSELF) while writing my dissertation and screening for germline transmission for a tg mouse I made (ALL BY MYSELF).
And FPD still has not done the simple western.
I have zero respect for people who don't or can't do their own work, and they don't even try. It makes me so mad.
Let me get back to my work.
Im no longer sympathetic to your FPD - in the time since the last post I myself have learned how to do a Western, and have since done 4...so yea...something must be missing there.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, we have the same issue here re: dissertation structure. Ive been reviewing some from former students in my labs, and they are all completely different...so I have no idea what Im going to do in a few months when I finish this project and ask for permission to write...yikes!