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Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?Hi all,
This is just my rant about my PI. Feel free to comment below or anything like that.
I worked for my PI for a year and then I asked for a letter of recommendation. At first, she refused because she felt that I was kind of clumsy at that time (I went on a trip over the summer for three months, and many things have been changed in the lab, e.g. the locations of the equipment, new enzymes and stuff so when I came back I made a few mistakes and then I had to others for help.)
I thought to myself, "****, I worked for this person for a year and now she's not doing me this favor because I made a few mistakes over the weeks?" and then I decided to move on and ask other profs for letters. After a few days, she came to me and said that she will write me a letter because she and other staffs discussed my performance in the lab and they all agreed that I contributed to the lab and it was not really fair for me to get rejected like that.
When she finished the letter, she told me that it was a strong and positive letter and she will show it other staffs to make sure that she doesn't miss any other good qualities of me.
One of the staffs even came to me and said that it was a really strong letter and she really recommended me using it.
Last week, I submitted my letters to an online service that can look at ppl's LOR's and I just got my result back from them. It turns out that my PI's letter was a negative letter and it has some pretty brutal criticism of me. Now because of her, I need to find other profs to write me another letter and the cycle is opening soon. I am so worried that i will not be able to find more letters.
I am just so pissed at my PI right now that she lied to me and tried to back-stab me like that. People, be careful.
Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?
Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?
Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?
That is a really harsh situation. Are you sure you can trust the online company that reviewed your LORs? How did they even get access to it?
What I would do is sit down and talk to your PI about your letter, ask him/her about what she wrote about you and usually you can tell if someone is lying when they are put on the spot. What's also disturbing is that your other lab mates collaborating with the PI to sabotage you.
Might be one of those cases where the bio/chem teacher is anti pre-med/dental students...happens a lot seems like, some absolutely despise them. The only science professors I have told that I am pre-dental are the ones writing my LORs, and its usually after I've already received my grade.
Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?
I kind of want access to my LOR's just to see what they said about me haha. Sorry OP, that really sucks.
Isn't what you're doing right now - ranting about your PI on a public forum- technically "back-stabbing" too?
OP:
Once you get an acceptance make sure to thank your PI. Tell her you used the letter and felt that it really helped you secure a spot in dental school lol.
There's got to be more to this story.. People don't just screw people over like that. I'm not accusing you of being a bad worker, but i've worked with people in the lab and my spouse has too, and there are some people that can just be ridiculously annoying. They are messy, they don't do work, they don't learn well (ie dont take notes and then constantly ask the same questions over and over, and take their nice manager for granted), show up late, leave early, disrupt others in the lab because they're always looking online at youtube videos etc. And just play stupid immature practical jokes all day. If this sounds like you, think about it. I"m not saying it happened, but some people are kind of oblivious to the fact that they're being disruptive. Also, leaving for three months probably left a real sour spot on your PI. Now i'm not criticizing you, just bringing up something i've noticed first-hand in the lab. Just saying.. there's more to this story.
Regardless, if your PI didn't think she could write a positive letter of recommendation, then in good conscious should have told you that and not offered to write a negative one.
+1
multiple people do not collaborate against you for no reason.
There's got to be more to this story.. People don't just screw people over like that. I'm not accusing you of being a bad worker, but i've worked with people in the lab and my spouse has too, and there are some people that can just be ridiculously annoying. They are messy, they don't do work, they don't learn well (ie dont take notes and then constantly ask the same questions over and over, and take their nice manager for granted), show up late, leave early, disrupt others in the lab because they're always looking online at youtube videos etc. And just play stupid immature practical jokes all day. If this sounds like you, think about it. I"m not saying it happened, but some people are kind of oblivious to the fact that they're being disruptive. Also, leaving for three months probably left a real sour spot on your PI. Now i'm not criticizing you, just bringing up something i've noticed first-hand in the lab. Just saying.. there's more to this story.
Regardless, if your PI didn't think she could write a positive letter of recommendation, then in good conscious should have told you that and not offered to write a negative one.
Go to your PI and sit down with him/her. Look at your PI in the face and ask if she enjoys preventing people from reaching their goals and aspiration. Tell your PI how much their life sucks. haha
I don't think you can mail the lor's to yourself because the email has to come from a legit company, school, or whatever. What the company does is that they would receive your letters from interfolio and then they would "recommend" you if you should use the letters or not. They will not disclose any contents from the letters. Thus, it is still confidential because you don't actually get to know the content of them.
If you're interested in their service, I can pm you the website.