You are out of your freaking mind. I mean, really, thanks for taking the time to apply to my lab. I need a postdoc and it was great to get your email (yay! someone likes me!). But then I opened your email it went on for EVER. Honestly, I didn't read it. It was really, really long. I just don't have the time (though I did paste it into Word to find out that it was OVER 1200 WORDS!). Still, I would have opened your CV to see what was up. But here's the thing-there is no way that I was going to get to it the day before I was leaving for the weekend. If we are being honest here, and I think we are, even in the best of times it takes me a few days to respond to emails from people that are not either 1) my wife or 2) someone that will be voting on my tenure or 3) an editor of a journal that is reviewing one of my manuscripts. SO, when I got ANOTHER email from you after 4 days (3 of which I was out of town over the weekend) inquiring as to the "status of your application"...well...let's just say that pestering me won't help with your job search.
All I'm saying is LAY OFF. I'm doing the best I can here, and you are not helping your case.
OH, and please tell your friend that sending me 5 emails in ONE DAY about a postdoc in my lab is also a poor decision.
xoxo
Gerty
Stories like these make me more hopeful that I will someday succeed as a scientist because at least I am not this inept.
This BLOWS my mind. In what world does anybody, regardless of their training, believe this is appropriate behavior? Boggling.
See, if these peeps had attended any sort of career development training-they would have known that this is entirely inappropriate.
Wow! Finally a use for career development training...I hope this actually comes up at such things!!
Does this mean I shouldn't proceed with my plan of forwarding all potential post-doc mentors my quirky and original science-power ballad youtube video?
Herm, as long as you send it only once and the ballad is not 20 minutes long I don't see a problem with that.
I'd hire you for that, without even reading your CV.
This is so funny! I get email from China about RA and post doc positions. After a couple days, I get a reference letter to go with "application"! WTH?