Read about this book today (at YFS and CandidEngineer) and laughed when I realized that it was exactly what I have been prepping for this week. The interested reader would ask; “for what?” and I would look at the wardrobe that I have been enticing for the last couple of days….. low cut tops. Not _that_ low cut, just much more ‘feminine’ than I usually wear in lab.
Why? Well, I have realized that my dear PI and I need to have a chat. You know, like an open one to one conversation about my research and “where this is going”. And maybe more than anything “when is my contract really up and when do you want me out?”.
I’ve been a very nice girl to this point. (Yes, this can be read as “a very meek little scared girl not wanting to upset her bossyboss”) However, I think this would be called “passed the point of what I can deal with” and then comes the action. Or at least the “demands” and not playing the nice post doc but rather admitting that this post doc knows that she has a value and that her VIP PI* would actually need to keep her for awhile since he doesn’t have anyone else who can do the interesting study now... or the post doc can just leave since really- there are limits to what one can put up with.
Of course, this might be a lot of hot air, “a lot of smack” as one can say in this American accent over here …. Then again, I am starting to recognize myself** somewhere in this mess. Due to things I won’t go into my personality has been slightly shoved under a rock for a good period of my time here in the lab, but lately there has been a break through. Something has snapped and is peeking through stating “don’t you remember, you don’t take this but rather DEAL with morons like that quickly before the festering starts”. It feels great, and I just hope that I can catch him in the lab tomorrow since I don't want to wait around for yet another week.
So, I’ve been traipsing around my work place in order to see if I can have a little talk with my boss…. Hopefully I can manage that tomorrow, because if nothing else – I’m getting scared of ruining my nice clothes in lab (no, not wearing much lab coats….) And if nothing else, if it all goes to shit*** I guess I'll deal with that too. I just want to see some of my experiments through but really, I think that the chance of this last alternative happening is kind of slim... he has been dropping hints pointing the other way the last couple of days.
Now I'll leave the lab though. Have to pick out the outfit for tomorrow. Dressed for success, as the say in every movie ;)
*just had to make that abbreviation since that is the hothotair in the air ballon…
**myself = as I was a few years back in a good environment where my personality could and was encouraged to show through.
*** "you have to leave in three weeks, sorry nothing I can do about it.
6 comments:
Ha ha!
I love your post-feminism attitude. SRSLY.
post-feminism?
would that be "using the low cut tops" instead of trying to be "one of the boys"? [I'm really asking]
I've tried both and the last couple of months I have realised that here in the South it might be easier to "play the game with eyelashes" but jeeez... I absolutley hate it. SRSLY.
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek.
Feminism gets a bad rap in most men's eyes: 'hairy legged lesbians' and all the rest of that shit. What many don't realize is that it's possible to dress so that you feel good and still be feminist. Same goes for blokes too. And if you feel good, you'll look good (and looking good helps you feel good).
It's nice to see. And I'm all for women using every weapon in their arsenal to get what they want. If a bloke is fooled by a low-cut blouse then that's his lookout (not to say I don't think you deserve to do well because you're smart, but it helps to tip the scales in your favour however you can).
It's no different from me putting a tie and/or smart shirt on to an interview.
smack talking is an art form best left to the trained professionals i.e. clown like, overly cocky Americans
rpg> I see... well, I guess i'll see how this tactics (very loosely used) works this time.
tgi> you might be right there... :)
Good luck, I hope it goes well! The anticipation of this kind of meeting is (usually) worse than the actual thing in my experience...
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