Here is the email that I received on Monday:
Hi Psych-O,
I'm afraid I have some bad news. I'm leaving the University so that my fiance and I can live together. Unfortunately, that means you'll have to find another dissertation advisor.
-New Advisor
This email seems to be lacking a few very important things: 1. An apology for leaving me high and dry, 2. Any sort of feeling or compassion for the awful situation he has left me in, and 3. any suggestion that we meet to talk about my options, etc. This is the most rude and unfeeling email he has sent me in the entire year that we have worked together - good timing on that one!!
This effectively limits my options as we only have one professor in our area group who is not going to be away for the next year (either on secondment or sabbatical) and that professor is not taking any students. This means that the department is going to have to try and strike a supervisory committee for me containing one I/O professor (who will be absent for the next year), one business school professor, and one other psychology professor with an in depth knowledge of my dissertation topic. This is because no one on their own has enough specific expertise to supervise my topic except for my ex-supervisor.
I am very disappointed in my ex-supervisor's behaviour and sad that he did not have enough respect for me to tell me this news in person.
3 weeks ago
5 comments:
Unfortunately, this is very common behavior among profs in my experience. I don't know how it is in your department, but being a first year, it shouldn't put you back too far. It's much better the hear this now than in your 3-4th year when you're getting ready to write the diss.
So, so inconsiderate. Would have been so simple for him to call you in to his office for a face-to-face. Sigh. Some people
Man, that's just frustration. SCREAMMMMMMMM!!!!!
Then, have an ice cream.
What a jerk... I'm sorry about this whole situation...
That is so dirty of him.
Couldn't he have even talked to you during this whole process so you could have been prepared?
Or even offered to have you transferred to a new university?
Or just pretended to care?
Gah!!
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