Thursday, April 7, 2011

weirdness you find out at conferences

Apparently, it is not the best idea to post career-related things to Blogger when you are not completely sober. Who knew?

4 comments:

Sisyphus said...

wait wait wait --- that sounds like a story, and I want to hear it!

Fretful Porpentine said...

You have me friended on LJ, right? I will do a long SAA post, which will include the story of my encounter with my successor at New SLAC. I realized quite early on the morning after that I shouldn't have posted this particular story to Blogger, as it is probably a shade too identifiable.

Flavia said...

Wait, what if *I* want to hear the story?

Cursing the fact I wasn't checking my blogs during the conference!

Fretful Porpentine said...

Flavia -- Well, it's not very interesting, actually. The short version is that I ran into Successor at the reception, and she said some things that suggested she had experienced about as much jealousy-and-paranioa as I had about her. All of which may, potentially, say a lot more about my former colleagues than it does about either of us. Or maybe it just says that the outside-candidate-hired-in-preference-to-current-VAP situation is hugely awkward for both parties, not just for the VAP.