sunnyday81
Proud Member
I wonder if I'm the only one... as I'm sooo stressed at my workplace! I'm on my 3rd final PhD year and have the supervisor from Hell! I mean this is how I imagine Hell if there is one! So, today was another bad day - one of many.
Basically, my supervisor gets annoyed with the smallest thing and makes a big deal out of it. So, for example, today he got annoyed with not letting him know a bit earlier about a machine breaking down which ruined my experiment, which I was just about to do actually. Then he shouted at me for not copying him on a certain email I sent to an external scientist. He said "but I had told you long ago to do that, and next time you do that I'll blow my top off!" etc etc...
In the past he had even threatened me not to sign off for my PhD transfer. I knew supervisors could be like that bit NOT like THAT! There was another time he shouted at me for not replacing the lids on the bottles in the lab straight away (while i was holding 2 other bottles with BOTH of my hands)! I can't count the times he has treated me like dirt. Sometimes he is nice, but that's rare and it doesn't last long. It has made me reach a point that I think it's all my fault and that I'm totally useless. I'm not the only one who suffers, but I think I take most of his anger since I'm the most inexperienced in the lab. I'm also very shy and our personalities just don't click... His lack of humour doesn't help either, he's always moody and if you make a joke you feel stupid as he rarely laughs!!
I used to have sooo much motivation for my experiments (I work in cancer research) but not anymore. In fact I think of giving up such a career after I finish. I doubt his reference letters will be more than just average, either. I'm just counting down the days until I finish!
Anyway...has anyone else been in such a situation at all? I feel so bad right now... and as if that wasn't enough, I was waiting for an email reply from him today and the university server crashed; other people could still login though! Now I can't login at all and I keep wondering if his reply will be good or bad... I'll have a sleepless night tonight I think...
Basically, my supervisor gets annoyed with the smallest thing and makes a big deal out of it. So, for example, today he got annoyed with not letting him know a bit earlier about a machine breaking down which ruined my experiment, which I was just about to do actually. Then he shouted at me for not copying him on a certain email I sent to an external scientist. He said "but I had told you long ago to do that, and next time you do that I'll blow my top off!" etc etc...
In the past he had even threatened me not to sign off for my PhD transfer. I knew supervisors could be like that bit NOT like THAT! There was another time he shouted at me for not replacing the lids on the bottles in the lab straight away (while i was holding 2 other bottles with BOTH of my hands)! I can't count the times he has treated me like dirt. Sometimes he is nice, but that's rare and it doesn't last long. It has made me reach a point that I think it's all my fault and that I'm totally useless. I'm not the only one who suffers, but I think I take most of his anger since I'm the most inexperienced in the lab. I'm also very shy and our personalities just don't click... His lack of humour doesn't help either, he's always moody and if you make a joke you feel stupid as he rarely laughs!!
I used to have sooo much motivation for my experiments (I work in cancer research) but not anymore. In fact I think of giving up such a career after I finish. I doubt his reference letters will be more than just average, either. I'm just counting down the days until I finish!
Anyway...has anyone else been in such a situation at all? I feel so bad right now... and as if that wasn't enough, I was waiting for an email reply from him today and the university server crashed; other people could still login though! Now I can't login at all and I keep wondering if his reply will be good or bad... I'll have a sleepless night tonight I think...
