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    Unprofessional boss--how does a new graduate cope?

    Posted by: unhappy23
    Date: 3/20/2005 8:35:05 AM

    I'm on a graduate programme, aiming at advancing my career quite quickly. However, the first boss I have been assigned to is entirely impossible to work with.

    He misses all his deadlines, annoys a LOT of people, and yet has time to spend a lot of time on email...

    This week he took a surprise day off to play golf, and left me to have to explain why all our deadlines were going to be missed, without briefing me at all.

    Suffice to say, I am continually made to look like an idiot.

    How do I confront him without wrecking our working r'ship?

    Reply from: willy
    Date: 3/22/2005 9:18:00 AM
    Reply: Sounds like he needs a good kick in the butt. Go over his head to HIS boss!
    Reply from: pr3l1m
    Date: 3/27/2005 3:48:00 PM
    Reply: You don't. You finish your semester with him and then get assigned to someone else. If you're in a grad program, then it sounds like you're on some sort of TA-ship or possibly research fellowship. It also sounds like your boss/prof uses students as slave labor, and doesn't feel particularly accountable to them. <<<<>>>> Even if this guy has leads to good jobs -- seek out his co-researchers or co-business associates. Find out who has openings for a grad or who knows of someone with openings. Contact those people -- don't backstab your current boss verbally, don't mention him at all if you can help it, that's fatal -- and then just transfer out.

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