[Adjutant Stormy~]

I'm sure I'd fuck that up too.

[Cause]

I feel like I have no oversight at work and this bugs me. I am a PhD and I should be able to work on my own and I have been. However in 7 months working, no one has really checked on my progress, looked at my work,, questioned what I am up to, asked me if I need anything etc. Its nice to be trusted like this but it also feels like I am adrift. I made one mistake early on because no one would double check my work,which I asked them to do since it was a new technique for me and would have taken 5 minutes for someone to do so. Their is also no teaching culture which is unusual for me since I am fresh out of the university scene. No one will take five minutes to go over new equipment with me which results in simple errors as I adjust from the equipment I know to the quirks of the different equipment my new lab has.

[worry]

Active shooter at YouTube HQ. http://abc11.com/liv...be-hq-/3297446/

I'll reserve any assumptions I may have at the moment. Absolutely horrifying though.

[Morgoth]

Cause, on 03 April 2018 - 11:51 AM, said:

I feel like I have no oversight at work and this bugs me. I am a PhD and I should be able to work on my own and I have been. However in 7 months working, no one has really checked on my progress, looked at my work,, questioned what I am up to, asked me if I need anything etc. Its nice to be trusted like this but it also feels like I am adrift. I made one mistake early on because no one would double check my work,which I asked them to do since it was a new technique for me and would have taken 5 minutes for someone to do so. Their is also no teaching culture which is unusual for me since I am fresh out of the university scene. No one will take five minutes to go over new equipment with me which results in simple errors as I adjust from the equipment I know to the quirks of the different equipment my new lab has.

It sounds like you need to hunt down these things for yourself. Ask someone to look at your progress. Organize a meeting with your boss to give a status update. Ask a colleague to do a double check of your work. Figure out whom you're supposed to deal with if you require anything and so on. Often in business environments you will be expected to work these sorts of things out yourself.

Ideally all this should have been provided, especially the teaching, but the more specialized you become the less you get of that sort of stuff. At least that's my experience.

[Abyss]

Morgoth, on 04 April 2018 - 09:42 AM, said:

Cause, on 03 April 2018 - 11:51 AM, said:

I feel like I have no oversight at work and this bugs me. I am a PhD and I should be able to work on my own and I have been. However in 7 months working, no one has really checked on my progress, looked at my work,, questioned what I am up to, asked me if I need anything etc. Its nice to be trusted like this but it also feels like I am adrift. I made one mistake early on because no one would double check my work,which I asked them to do since it was a new technique for me and would have taken 5 minutes for someone to do so. Their is also no teaching culture which is unusual for me since I am fresh out of the university scene. No one will take five minutes to go over new equipment with me which results in simple errors as I adjust from the equipment I know to the quirks of the different equipment my new lab has.

It sounds like you need to hunt down these things for yourself. Ask someone to look at your progress. Organize a meeting with your boss to give a status update. Ask a colleague to do a double check of your work. Figure out whom you're supposed to deal with if you require anything and so on. Often in business environments you will be expected to work these sorts of things out yourself.

Ideally all this should have been provided, especially the teaching, but the more specialized you become the less you get of that sort of stuff. At least that's my experience.

Good advice this.

Also avoids the moment when someone decides to pay attention, dislikes what you've been doing, and adds a lack of accountability to the shit list. They can't say you didn't tell them if you told them and sent a follow up email telling them what you told them.

[Mezla PigDog]

Morgoth, on 04 April 2018 - 09:42 AM, said:

Cause, on 03 April 2018 - 11:51 AM, said:

I feel like I have no oversight at work and this bugs me. I am a PhD and I should be able to work on my own and I have been. However in 7 months working, no one has really checked on my progress, looked at my work,, questioned what I am up to, asked me if I need anything etc. Its nice to be trusted like this but it also feels like I am adrift. I made one mistake early on because no one would double check my work,which I asked them to do since it was a new technique for me and would have taken 5 minutes for someone to do so. Their is also no teaching culture which is unusual for me since I am fresh out of the university scene. No one will take five minutes to go over new equipment with me which results in simple errors as I adjust from the equipment I know to the quirks of the different equipment my new lab has.

It sounds like you need to hunt down these things for yourself. Ask someone to look at your progress. Organize a meeting with your boss to give a status update. Ask a colleague to do a double check of your work. Figure out whom you're supposed to deal with if you require anything and so on. Often in business environments you will be expected to work these sorts of things out yourself.

Ideally all this should have been provided, especially the teaching, but the more specialized you become the less you get of that sort of stuff. At least that's my experience.

You doing a post doc academic job or job job? If it's the former then it's pretty standard by my experience unless you go to a lab where the boss/lab manager is into micromanagement. If it's a job job then sounds like they take the academic approach. Be a bit pushy but if nobody cares don't sweat it.

[Tiste Simeon]

Bachelorluver, on 05 April 2018 - 10:06 PM, said:

Watching water boil is boring.

Still rather watch that then the Bachelorette.

[worry]

Tiste Simeon, on 05 April 2018 - 10:51 PM, said:

Dang I anyways miss the forum drama.

I love watching these sparks fly between you and BK.

[QuickTidal]

Isao Takahata died.

[worry]

[Cause]

My local bookstore no longer has a fantasy or science fiction section. Just something they call a ‘young reads’and a ‘young adult’ section. I thought this was quite a fuck you

[Andorion]

Cause, on 07 April 2018 - 11:05 PM, said:

My local bookstore no longer has a fantasy or science fiction section. Just something they call a 'young reads'and a 'young adult' section. I thought this was quite a fuck you

Mine still does, but its mostly YA. I basically survive on Amazon and cheap book stores

[worry]

It's one of your Facebook girlfriends.

[amphibian]

Bachelorluver, on 08 April 2018 - 02:26 AM, said:

It’s something I’m going to tear into if I’m physically able to. Checked my account 2 days ago to see if I had enough for this months STARZ and I was a few $ short so I bought a card today so it would be ready for the 16th. Got to my redeem screen and I was at $0.00 and I got angry they would pull it 10 or so days early. Checked my emails to see if they did and I had all kinds of charges.. plus I have some Heads Up app on my phone that I didn’t download and those Neutral Tandem fuckers are calling me every damn day. I block a new number every week. Don’t know what Netral Tandem is other then a telecommunication company and I don’t know why they harassing me so much.

I’m angry. I want to crack someone’s fucking jaw.

Look at your kids phones while you're at this. This might not be an inside job, but Heads Up is a party game young people like.

[Puck]

It's the 8th of April... so, and excuse my French, WHY THE FUCK IS IT ALREADY PUSHING 30°C?! And why the fuck is every fucking idiot you meet on the street puzzled at the idea of this not being season-appropriate weather? Or the outlandish idea that someone might NOT like this weather?

Source: have spent yesterday barely able to get out of bed due to weather-related migraines. And my eye is still swollen half shut because everything's blooming, because yay allergies.

This post has been edited by Puck: 08 April 2018 - 04:36 PM

[Malankazooie]

The news out of Canada about the Humboldt hockey team's bus crash is heartbreaking.

[Dutch]

Puck, on 08 April 2018 - 04:35 PM, said:

It's the 8th of April... so, and excuse my French, WHY THE FUCK IS IT ALREADY PUSHING 30°C?! And why the fuck is every fucking idiot you meet on the street puzzled at the idea of this not being season-appropriate weather? Or the outlandish idea that someone might NOT like this weather?

Source: have spent yesterday barely able to get out of bed due to weather-related migraines. And my eye is still swollen half shut because everything's blooming, because yay allergies.

Yup, the weather is hit or mis lately.

Last week they were talking on the radio about Fall like weather, I mean wtf? It's Spring for crying out loud!!!! Thursday night it even had frozen.

It has been 20'c + weather here today and and yesterday. We have enjoyed sitting outside, but what really messes with my groove is that for two evenings in a row we had to go inside/were not able to go outside and had to close the door and windows at the back because people can't BBQ.

Both times it smelled like a house on fire.

[Mentalist]

Puck, on 08 April 2018 - 04:35 PM, said:

It's the 8th of April... so, and excuse my French, WHY THE FUCK IS IT ALREADY PUSHING 30°C?! And why the fuck is every fucking idiot you meet on the street puzzled at the idea of this not being season-appropriate weather? Or the outlandish idea that someone might NOT like this weather?

Source: have spent yesterday barely able to get out of bed due to weather-related migraines. And my eye is still swollen half shut because everything's blooming, because yay allergies.

Can you please send ALL OF THAT heat to Canada?

The lack of proper spring (when the ground is dry and it's over 10 degrees and we can get people to soccer practices outdoors has been slowly killing my groove for the past 2 weeks or so.

[paran falcon]

50 years old today. 50!!! UGH!!!!

And i thought i hated facing 40...

[Abyss]

paran falcon, on 11 April 2018 - 12:56 PM, said:

50 years old today. 50!!! UGH!!!!

And i thought i hated facing 40...

Death called. Just wanted to say hi. I told her you were in the bathroom.