u/dolfin996

My supervisor enjoys making me cry

I think my PI enjoys making me cry. He seems to know how to push my buttons in just the right order, and when I have started crying, he doesn't stop. Today, I made the a call on an experiment, having refered to the other lab members; I decided to make my own choice to throw out the experiment I was performing this week. My PI prepared a series of questions, stating "Did you ask your lab mates?", "What did they say?", and "They could have felt undermined by your decision (to throw it out)". I struggled to put myself back together after this meeting, and I have been crying most weeks because of personal clashes in the group. I wish he would see how much effort I am putting in, but instead I am left to feel humiliated.

The experiment was thrown out for a perfectly valid reason. How do I not let it upset me when it means so much to me? I take every feedback to heart.

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u/dolfin996 — 2 days ago