Postdoc update

Okay, so now Mo and I have to meet with the applicant together. You'd think our boss would be smarter than that. All we do when we are together is bitch about this place. FD, Mo, and I had a talk today about how we were going to be honest with all the incoming applicants. We don't want anyone wasting any of their life by being in this void of a lab. I think we already scared away the first applicant. He would have been very good for the lab. He had a good personality and seemed to have the ambition and skills necessary to be a good researcher. Kiwi would only ruin his spirit. The three of us told him how it was - the favoritism, the lack of motivation, the differences in ideas in how science should be done, the lack of collaboration, etc. Perhaps we shouldn't have done that but we hate this place and would never want anyone subjected to this atmosphere without warning.

Mo said it is her mission to have all postdoc applicants turn him down. She needs to be careful because that could backfire, we will waste our entire summer meeting with candidates and going to pointless seminars. Personally, I could care in the least who he hires once I'm gone, I am going to sever all ties with this place. But while we are here we will try to warn people off. I wonder how long before Kiwi realizes that having postdoc candidates meet with us is a bad idea. Knowing him - he won't.

FD is going to do the same thing with the rotation student in our lab. Warn him that he wouldn't join this lab if he could go back and do it again.