A PI to a classroom of students and postdocs, regarding a scientific issue of signal propagation:
“Here’s an analogy. It’s like when you’re on the same floor as the secretaries, and there’s only one thermostat, and the secretaries, who are always young women with very little body fat and they’re wearing kind of skimpy clothing, are always turning the thermostat way up, and it affects you even though you’re at the other end of the hall, but your feedback doesn’t change the thermostat.”
15 years ago
16 comments:
This asshole doesn't deserve the honorific "sir".
Gee, here's an analogy. It's like assholes who are always wearing their fucking privilege and swinging their dicks around, and it affects you even though you're at the other end of the playground, but your feedback doesn't change anything.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
jc
ZOIKS!!!!!!!
jc for the win
Jesus Fucking Christ!
wow. that's something... else... entirely...
talk about sticking the foot in his mouth.
Wow - that's fantastic :S What an ass.
The funny thing is, he's been perfectly civil and helpful in regular conversation...and then this emerged.
jc wins the thread, though.
Did anyone react in a way that let him know what a jackass he is?
Holy shit! Someone actually said this? Out loud?
EGF, basically no. When you're the old famous guy at the front of a room full of mostly grad students....very few people call you on your crap.
During the raillery that followed between him and another couple of old guys ("Hey, maybe you should get the secretaries to sit in the room with you!" "You know they make electric blankets that can be two different temperatures" etc) I did voice something along the lines of, "Maybe if you weren't treating them like cheap stereotypes they would turn down the thermostat" but I think it went unheard, perhaps deliberately so.
And the guy continued to be perfectly civil and helpful and friendly the rest of the time. It's just...always a little breathtaking to hear some unfiltered side loop of the brain in action.
Creepy and gross. And not surprising at all. Bleck.
Are you serious?! Barf.
LOL to the comments!
One of my advisers occasionally comes out with things like this, but usually when there are no witnesses. He apparently learned that he can't get away with it in front of a large group, but that doesn't stop him from thinking that way.
One of my other advisers says things like this in front of mixed groups regularly... but he seems to think that his age makes it okay. And if we try to chastise him, he says we're being "overly sensitive".
What amuses me most is that I witness this kind of thing quite frequently, and yet the comments here are mostly aghast and surprised.
This is just one example of many. Does that surprise you?
Poor guy, he's probably over heating from all the extra weight he's no doubt carrying around (head, gut or possibly both).
Maybe he should take a clue from the secretaries and wear more skimpy clothing.
LOL. I'm with Mrs. PhD on this. I hear this sort of stuff, not routinely, but often enough. Wonder what he'd say if you said something similar to him with gender roles reversed.
JC and MsPhD are perfect bookmark comments for this post.
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