Sod off
To all researchers, postgraduate students and research assistants,
Would you like to help motivate today’s science students to build a bigger
and brighter generation of Australian researchers?
No I would not. There’s too much competition for jobs already.
The Student Research Scheme is a national program that offers selected
senior secondary science students, the opportunity to complete a brief
research project under the supervision of practising researchers in
laboratories, offices and field study areas.
Unlike work experience, students are presented with a problem or an idea,
and undertake a minimum of 20 hours of real research to develop their own
sets of results and findings in order to complete the project. The project
can be a small part of ongoing research, or a project specially designed for
the scheme.
Hang on… actually, you know, this would be the perfect chance to poison their little minds against a career in science for ever.
Mwah hah hah hah.
April 14th, 2008 at 22:27
Too right! I used to get outraged at all the dead wood… but when the management wolves attack the pride, they generally catch the fattest, slowest and oldest of the pack…. thus forming a nice buffer for the rest of us… The last thing we want is for the pack to be full of ambitious thrusting cubs …… let them go into accountancy!
April 15th, 2008 at 07:45
I don’t set out to poison their minds against a career in science, nonethelss my training methods tend to be incredibly dissuasive.
And clearly The Cardinal never worked at “a certain Fortune-500 Biotech Company in Southern California” where the fattest, slowest, and oldest (provided of course they had enormous egos and particular oral talents) were automatically promoted while imaginative, hardworking, and otherwise likable innovators were tortured by phrases like ‘metrics’ and ‘deliverables’ until they decided to retire to low paying jobs as a junior high school science teachers because it was more spiritually rewarding to spend their days in the company of hormone riddled lunatics than to try in vain to make a lasting contribution to the scientific knowledge base.