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  • #16
    SUPERCITIZENS SCORES ANOTHER VICTORYYYYY!!!

    So... my boss once again contacted me on Sunday, saying how much I dodge working and how I should do this and that and stfu.

    I disagreed. I said, listen, I'm stressed out, we need to communicate and work this thing out together, it's escalating and getting out of the hand so let's stop now, talk together and work this out. I said I just came out of a brain surgery, I'm trying to avoid stress, let's be calm and talk OK?

    He said he wants to see doctor's diagnosis of my tumor, right? I was like WHAT THE ****!? I got pissed off. I've given all the documents required by the law. In here, employer does NOT have the right to see any diagnosis papers. The only thing you have to do is provide them with the sick leave note with some weird code and that doesn't go to your personal boss either. In short, they don't have the right to know WHY you were sick or what the sickness was.

    So I got pissed off saying I don't show it to you, period. That I'm OK, I've told you what I had, you can take my word for it. He said quit bull****ting, time to provide evidence. I said wow, you think I'm lying to you, how can you be suspicious of this, I've been more than open and honest about it? He was like give me the evidence. I said no, he said good, I won't continue your term then. He de facto FIRED me.

    But now he got himself into trouble. All this crap was in email. I talked to the dean, and then head of my department. Suddenly my boss was in deep ****. He thought he had all the power in the world, turned out he didn't. So when we talked together, my boss was quiet the whole time. I provided all the evidence including emails, diagnosis papers, my publication list and publications, showing that I've been more active than doctorate students in general and in fact have better publications than some professors in the last year and that I just got fired and my rights were also sort of abused, not to mention in a totally inappropriate way.

    So suddenly my boss, the god, shut his mouth. It was obvious to me that the dean had told him to STFU and play dead, because he had no leverage and I held all the cards in my hand and could pretty much do what I want with it.

    So here's what I wanted:

    I'm moving to another city. I get a grant for the rest of the year, I make my own deadlines, I don't work for my boss anymore but only do my dissertation where I want, when I want and how I want to do it. I also wanted the head of department as my second advisor so in case our cooperation doesn't work, he can be my first advisor. I wanted all my conference trips paid I've sent my papers into before this solution and to have my language inspection paid for the dissertation. That, plus total autonomy on my own work. So this means that I get to do my dissertation from home, when I want to write I'll write and when I want to masturbate, I'll just do that. And still get paid. Worked out for me

    In short, they're paying me my salary even though I don't work for them. Sort of a cool job to have
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
    THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
    "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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    • #17
      It's kind of like Fight Club Seriously, a cool "job" to have. i recommend it!
      In da butt.
      "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
      THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
      "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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      • #18
        Wow, the guy put it in e-mail. What an idiot.

        With truth and justice on his side, it was only a matter of time before SUPERCITIZEN vanquished his enemies!
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #19
          Pekka Way to make the stupid bastard eat his own ****.
          Libraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
          I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. Sure

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          • #20
            win!
            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
            ){ :|:& };:

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            • #21
              Originally posted by DanS View Post
              Wow, the guy put it in e-mail. What an idiot.

              With truth and justice on his side, it was only a matter of time before SUPERCITIZEN vanquished his enemies!
              He's an idiot when it comes to these things. LIke the things he says and done, some of them are borderline illegal things anyway, how money is spent... he doesn't get it! He is on a powertrip, he really thinks he can do just about anything because he is a director. But let's face it, he isn't a director in a sense of private company or a big organization. Even I've had more subordinates than he ever had. He has bragged how he has like a cool million to spend on a research project, but so does many other people as well and a million doesn't go a long way anyway, you pay salaries and that's it for 3 years. It's not HIS million. He sometimes forgets it.

              This email thing totally did not surprise me. My inbox is full of his emails and many of them are not very nice. I have things where he promises me things like raises if I do this and that, I never got them. I got emails where he trashes me saying I should have my salary dropped because of this and that. I have emails where he advises me to "just write the whole thing again" with no further instructions or comments as to what was wrong with the previous one. What I don't have is an email that says a nice thing about me. So either I REAAAALLLY suck or he's a bad leader.

              In short, yes, he is just that stupid to demand things in an email that will later on, for sure, get him in trouble. He really thinks he can say and/or do anything to his minions and they won't do anything about it. Perhaps because the last 3 or 4 people who have left never went against him, they just left without saying a word. Well, he de facto fired me so I wanted some justice. What the hell did he think? If we were somewhere else, I would have sued his ass for some big money. If we were in a private organization, I still would sue.
              In da butt.
              "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
              THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
              "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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              • #22
                You need to update your win column in your sig.
                I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                • #23
                  Nice one Pekka !
                  "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                  • #24
                    Good job Pekka!

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                    • #25
                      It gets better:

                      Turns out I only had done 14 days of vacation during my whole stint in this crap place. So, I had like 50+ left. This meant that as of today, I'm officially on my vacation that lasts until the end of June. Even after that, I have like 16 days of vacation I can't now have since I don't have a contract, so they'll have to PAY them in money

                      Also, we found a new apartment for us today. We got soooo lucky, this is one of the most premier spots in this whole freaking country (in Helsinki), very difficult to get into, and we just got that lucky bounce. For all the crap that's been happening in the last couple of years, we're now getting those lucky bounces Suck on this guys, this is a small harbor area, one of the most respected and well known Jugend areas in the world. Peaceful, and yet the downtown is 5 minutes away. Known for nice restaurants and little shops as well. Extremely nice, extremely expensive, but we got a lucky bounce on that as well Expensive as in apartments start from half a million euros and up, up and UP into several millions.

                      In da butt.
                      "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                      THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                      "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                      • #26
                        pekka

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                        • #27
                          Keeps getting better. Already 2 universities have shown interest to take me as post doc researcher, and a third one actually contacted me first. Not sure how they knew I was looking for a new home, but they contacted me today via email. Weirdest thing ever.
                          In da butt.
                          "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                          THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                          "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                          • #28
                            They read your thread and had to recruit you.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by ColdWizard View Post
                              They read your thread and had to recruit you.
                              I doubt it

                              The one that contacted me was actually my old Uni where I graduated from. I still have good connections there so that's probably why they contacted me. THe most important thing is that all these Unis rank higher than my current one, have much more money and are located in better cities... how do I lose in this situation? I cannot lose. I really have to thank my boss for this, if he had been even half reasonable, I would not be in this excellent situation.

                              To my ******* boss
                              In da butt.
                              "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                              THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                              "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                              • #30
                                It just keeps getting better

                                We did indeed get the apartment we wanted from that luxury "cream ass" part of the city. My SO went there to secure our position, there were many others wanting to get that place as well but we got an offer because she did an excellent job of marketing us as the best possible candidates. So we're moving there in few weeks!! Yikes!

                                So I get my company to pay for the apartment, which is good taxing-wise. We get tons of benefits doing it this way, plus I don't have to worry about the rent then. It's my salary. Then, I get my full grant, which is small if you have to pay rent (but I don't) so we should be secure for the end of this year. Plus, grants are good, taxing-wise, since I officially make very little money now, living off of a grant and having an apartment paid by this company using tax workarounds (totally legal though).

                                THEN my new post doc position looks really good. I thought I had a huge race against real post docs (as I'm still working on my dissertation), but.... my old connection from there said that Whooops, they forgot to post the open position as being open, so I'm de facto only one knowing about it right now, and they don't mind me doing my dissertation still, and they don't mind me living in another city. I don't know, how can I lose? It looks like my boss firing me was the best thing that ever happened to me

                                Now I only have to get one clearance from MRI saying that I'm still clean and cool, and even that looks really promising then. Oh, and my neurologist (all the coolest kids have their own neurologists, brain pimpage ftw!), said that I can now enjoy small amounts of alcohol, since everything has gone well up to date.

                                So... only great news. Maybe ying and yang or God or what ever is working, because the beginning of the year was totally crap, I mean reaaalllly crap with a capital C, life altering crap, but now it seems like just having an idea and it just works out great without much effort.

                                To life

                                Did I say that we know the gender of the baby? It's most likely going to be a girl She won't be dating until 21.
                                In da butt.
                                "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                                THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                                "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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