"Of course you can go to that conference - it will be great to have a prescence there"
Which then turned into "Ah, we don't have enough money to send you to a fairly cheap conference, despite it being the one you're most likely to further you career at, but we can send everyone else (including temporary students) to a much more expensive one and then also a few people other than you to Hawaii. Also, despite myself having never shown an interest in it before, they've invited me to fly out for free to that conference to give a talk."

Thanks. No really, thanks.


*fumes*
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 2 Dec 2010, 12:55, 2 replies)

Sounds like they don't want you.
It's one of the signs that you need a new job -- I'm bad at recognising them myself, but that one is obvious.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 18:33, closed)

Yep
Time to take the shit on your bosses desk route to giving in your resignation
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 3 Dec 2010, 16:17, closed)