Neurosciencegirl

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Are you kidding?

My adviser just emailed me and asked if the paper she was editing was the most recent draft. Mind you I sent the most recent draft about 2 1/2 weeks ago and was expecting it back any day now. No, no it can not be, she was reading the earlier version. The version I had corrected per her requests and sent back to her. I label all my drafts as such... .1, .2 etc. Did she lose the last one? What happened? I know she is a busy person but really she reads the current draft and saves it w/ her initials with the same number so that should have been on her computer already, making her realize this was an old draft!!! Things like this would be unexceptable if coming from me. But if it is an adviser it is ok? This stuff really bugs me sometimes. Often times I get requests, "I know you already explained this, or printed this out, or emailed me before, but can you just re-email me this phone number, info, paper citation etc." Why? Why can't you just go look up your old email?

Does anyone else's adviser habitually do this sort of thing? I know people forget things, I know people make mistakes, but why do I make revisions if you aren't even going to read them?

ok sorry for the rant, back to lab work.

3 Comments:

  • At 2:55 PM, Blogger PG said…

    Thankfully, this type of thing is relatively rare with my advisor...but there is someone on my committee who is like that. It seems to me to be a consequence of poor organization and trying to do too many things at once.

     
  • At 7:02 PM, Blogger Psycgirl said…

    This happens to me all of the time!

     
  • At 10:35 AM, Blogger B said…

    psycgirl-
    I'm beginning to believe our advisor's are like twins! Except mine is really nice about personal issues and it sounds like Dr. Smooth is less so.

    psychgrad-
    yes I'm sure that is the case, trying to do too many things at once. She normally is very good about this sort of thing.

     

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