Conversation

Back in 2010 when I was doing my post-doc I decided to have my first child. My salary was 100% paid by an NIH grant. A U01, which is a multicenter grant that includes the NIH as a collaborator. So you’ve got my boss, a guy at a university in New York, and a program officer at the NIH running things.

Guy in NY is not happy that I decided to get pregnant and tries to block me from receiving paid maternity leave, which is a benefit my university offered. He was bitching to the lady at the NIH, and my boss had to get the university lawyers involved.

Needless to say I received 12 weeks of paid leave. He spent the remainder of my post-doc looking for ways to fuck our team over. He hoarded the data from the study and excluded us from any publications. I’ve not spoken to him since the grant ended.

Yesterday I ended up on LinkedIn for some reason and see a request from him to connect. Bruh, as my 14 year old would say.