Fraud.

[Kai]

Not my own fraudulency, which I can garantee you is no more than a complex of emotional imperatives to make me feel I'm not good enough for what I'm good at. No, this title is directed at a former colleague of mine. She doesn't have the best health, physical or mental, which I am quite empathetic of. What I am NOT empathetic of, is the fact that she has walked away after two years of doing absolutely nothing, for the same pay I get. Of course, my advisor is too nice of a guy to ever press charges; he puts it aside by saying something to the effect of "her guilt is enough punishment". Fact is, I don't think she really feels that guilty. I think she's a fucking liar.

So heres to you, you fraud, you asshole. While your fellow international grad student was barely getting by, coming all the way from asia for a masters degree and bringing her family of three daughters and husband along, having almost no money, you were pretending to do your work, and while I totally empathize with your breaks from reality, I don't feel the least bit of sympathy for how you walked away with a masters degree after two years (make that a total of 6 years to get your damn masters) of working, while by working I mean DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You didn't come back and try to finish, you didn't even make an excuse, you just walked away and never made any contact. Oh yes, I meant it when I said I was angry today, when I finally got ahold of you. I thought you were a friend. I knew you wouldn't answer a private message given your propensity for dissapearing, so I tried to cordially assertain your "whatever the fuck you are doing" straight on your Facebook page. And when you did answer, you gave me this "you make it so easy to shoot the messenger because you get excited about bad news".

Well TAKE THIS THEN: I'm fucking PISSED you got away with what you did, more or less stole money in an area of science that has so little, never finished the work you were supposed to do, and given the deadline for that work is March, it probably never will get done. You had TWO FUCKING YEARS to do it right, two on top of the four you've already taken, and you didn't fucking do it. Oh yeah, blame your mental health, but I've fucking had breaks with reality. THAT I can empathize with, given the person has some propensity for honesty and integrity, which I must say you lack behind that veneer. I'm fucking livid with how sick it is that you can just run off and let everyone take care of your shit. Good riddance.

Also, fuck you (for real)

~Kai

[Phox]

Not my own fraudulency, which I can garantee you is no more than a complex of emotional imperatives to make me feel I'm not good enough for what I'm good at. No, this title is directed at a former colleague of mine. She doesn't have the best health, physical or mental, which I am quite empathetic of. What I am NOT empathetic of, is the fact that she has walked away after two years of doing absolutely nothing, for the same pay I get. Of course, my advisor is too nice of a guy to ever press charges; he puts it aside by saying something to the effect of "her guilt is enough punishment". Fact is, I don't think she really feels that guilty. I think she's a fucking liar.

So heres to you, you fraud, you asshole. While your fellow international grad student was barely getting by, coming all the way from asia for a masters degree and bringing her family of three daughters and husband along, having almost no money, you were pretending to do your work, and while I totally empathize with your breaks from reality, I don't feel the least bit of sympathy for how you walked away with a masters degree after two years (make that a total of 6 years to get your damn masters) of working, while by working I mean DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You didn't come back and try to finish, you didn't even make an excuse, you just walked away and never made any contact. Oh yes, I meant it when I said I was angry today, when I finally got ahold of you. I thought you were a friend. I knew you wouldn't answer a private message given your propensity for dissapearing, so I tried to cordially assertain your "whatever the fuck you are doing" straight on your Facebook page. And when you did answer, you gave me this "you make it so easy to shoot the messenger because you get excited about bad news".

Well TAKE THIS THEN: I'm fucking PISSED you got away with what you did, more or less stole money in an area of science that has so little, never finished the work you were supposed to do, and given the deadline for that work is March, it probably never will get done. You had TWO FUCKING YEARS to do it right, two on top of the four you've already taken, and you didn't fucking do it. Oh yeah, blame your mental health, but I've fucking had breaks with reality. THAT I can empathize with, given the person has some propensity for honesty and integrity, which I must say you lack behind that veneer. I'm fucking livid with how sick it is that you can just run off and let everyone take care of your shit. Good riddance.

Also, fuck you (for real)

~Kai

[Cain]

You know the truly sad thing about this?

If you want a job where you coast around and effectively get paid to do nothing (or at least very little) there are plenty of them around.  Even in this current economic situation.  You don't need to effectively drain already stretched science and education budgets to do it.

[Kai]

You know the truly sad thing about this?

If you want a job where you coast around and effectively get paid to do nothing (or at least very little) there are plenty of them around.  Even in this current economic situation.  You don't need to effectively drain already stretched science and education budgets to do it.

Yeah.

It looks like my calling her a fraud did the trick though. I got called out on it (isn't that a laugh?) and maybe one or two people won't talk to me anymore. Oh well, she's actually going to come in and do the work, or so she SAYS. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't have anything more to say to her and feel pretty good after the above rant.

[Reginald Ret]

Kai improved the world a bit by ranting. 

[Telarus]

[Jenne]

It's sometimes hard to get full-fledged ADULTS to be accountable, I've noticed.  Everyone's got an excuse.  Kudos, Kai, for standing your ground and speaking out.

[navkat]

 

I know a girl who's a bio-engineer somesuch. For the longest time, she was working on her Master's, and that meant lots of low-paying research or something. She hated it because of stuff like this: other people not doing their work or not doing their work properly and making her job more difficult. Ironically, she said the big bucks were in like, corporate research or something...which she refused to do.

In what area of study are you working?