soapbox

I had a summer student a year or so back who is now a data analyst here at stacy. We’re currently working on turning his work into a paper, but it’s slow going because everyone has other, higher priority, work.

He apparently has a review tomorrow where they’re going to ask him about his progress and one of his goals was to have this paper done by now. At a meeting today, he asked my boss, “What should I say about the fact that the paper isn’t done?”

I love my boss’s answer, “Blame me. Scientific work never gets done on time, so just say you have a collaborator who’s being impossible to work with and changing everything.”