I do not have any pets myself, but I do dogsit from time to time. Today, I ordered a short Uber ride (5 mins), and as I closed the door, the driver said: “I smell a dog on you. If you own a dog, you should have ordered Uber Pets”. Then he went on a rant about how he’s trying his best to keep his car clean.
Has anyone else ever heard of that? Is that even true?
What are your PIs thoughts on taking vacation?
I just had a last minute trip scheduled, and emailed my PI immediately that I will be taking ONE DAY(!) off and will be consequently missing our subgroup meeting. While they approved of my day off, they made some weird comments of if I had put all my vacation days into the calendar because they haven’t seen me around in my office. I am co-advised and have two different office spaces and a few labs I work in across campus, so I explained my part of the project required me to be elsewhere, and if they wanted to chat with me they can always reach out on Slack. They proceeded to apologize, but were making some comments about me to the other grad students.
This was my first time taking time off, and now I am scared what will happen if I take eg. a week off? If you are in a similar position, how do you deal with situations like this?