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MaxS 5 posts
7 years ago

Quote From pm133:
I will back out from giving further advice on this

... and then proceeds to give more advice ;)

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MaxS 5 posts
7 years ago

Quote From Hollis1234:

Quote From MaxS:

Quote From pm133:
I can perhaps offer one last bit of advice. If I was your supervisor and you made any sort of dig at that postdoc you would be in serious trouble. You would be left in no doubt to mind your own business. You would be told that deliberately sabotaging a fellow worker was unacceptable and downright childish. More specifically I would crucify you for attempting to tell me how to do my job as regards supervising that postdoc. In every way this would be bad for you if yo need me as a reference for future jobs. If I was the postdoc and I found out you had deliberately attemtped to sabotage me by gong to the supervisor your life simply would not be worth living. I genuinely hope that for your sake you back down over this.

What on earth? You sound psychotic. Have you read Hollis' posts above? The postdoc is clearly at fault and the supervisor needs to be made aware of the situation.

In fairness to the poster I failed to inform the thread that it was the post doc in question telling me to take up the slack for his lack of action. I just said I had to take up the slack. Saying that I do think the poster is being a bit dramatic about his crucifixion threat,

Oh I know, I read through the whole thread trying to understand why that poster is so angry and vitriolic, but it's no excuse for that language. That is a really bizarre post - "your life simply would not be worth living", etc.

Plot twist: he's the postdoc.

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MaxS 5 posts
7 years ago

Quote From pm133:
I can perhaps offer one last bit of advice. If I was your supervisor and you made any sort of dig at that postdoc you would be in serious trouble. You would be left in no doubt to mind your own business. You would be told that deliberately sabotaging a fellow worker was unacceptable and downright childish. More specifically I would crucify you for attempting to tell me how to do my job as regards supervising that postdoc. In every way this would be bad for you if yo need me as a reference for future jobs. If I was the postdoc and I found out you had deliberately attemtped to sabotage me by gong to the supervisor your life simply would not be worth living. I genuinely hope that for your sake you back down over this.

What on earth? You sound psychotic. Have you read Hollis' posts above? The postdoc is clearly at fault and the supervisor needs to be made aware of the situation.

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MaxS 5 posts
7 years ago

Hello, thanks for the reply.

That makes sense - I thought there would be a minimum completion time. Four years seems okay to me since (and correct me if I'm wrong) but it seems lots of PhDs in arts/humanities actually take longer than three years in the end? I would rather pay 4 years part-time than 4 years full-time!

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MaxS 5 posts
7 years ago

Hello, I have submitted my PhD applications for philosophy. In the event that I don't get funding due to the high competition, I am considering other options such as self-funding. I was wondering whether it is possible to enrol part-time but with the (hidden) intention of completing within 3-4 years to save money on fees? Is there any university regulation which would prevent this? And do you deem this unethical? My subject is almost entirely independent research so I do wonder how the £5k cost of full-time tuition fees is justified even taking into account the services and journal subscriptions, etc. Part-time fees seem a fairer approximation, though perhaps I am being biased! Many thanks.

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