Timeline for Is it normal for PIs to change projects to unrelated research
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| May 7, 2014 at 20:28 | vote | accept | Leon palafox | ||
| Mar 22, 2014 at 20:40 | comment | added | msouth | @Leonpalafox I agree that there are situations, such as the one you described, where it is not practical/safe for you to raise objections. (Or where so much is at stake that you can't be sure if it is practical or safe.) So, yes, there are exceptions, and it sounds as though you are in one of those exceptional situations. But the rule should be that if there is a problem, you talk to your manager about that problem and try to get it resolved. | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 18:58 | comment | added | Leon palafox | @msouth I actually disagree, there can be any number of reasons people do not talk up ahead of the exit interview, and it does not have to be a rant. I've worked in several places, and exit interviews have been a great medium to give one last suggestion to the company or working group. I'm on a working Visa, which means my PI has all the power to essentially send me back to my country if he wishes, that is an unfortunate position to confront people about not liking your work. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 5:48 | comment | added | msouth | Regarding "if it is not, at least I can speak up in the exit interview", I think you should know that in the working world in general it's not considered a good sign when you have a problem with your work situation and you don't take steps while still in the situation to address it. Wherever you apply for work next is going to want to know what you do when conflicts arise. If your answer is "build up resentment during my tenure there, then unload about it in the exit interview", that's not really very positive. You might want to talk to the PI now about your concerns. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/438533305538207744 | ||
| Feb 25, 2014 at 23:24 | comment | added | Suresh | It's also possible the PI thought that the interface design problem was solved, and it later turned out that the signals weren't yet good enough to do any kind of learning on. Not your fault of course, but this can happen. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 23:13 | answer | added | badroit | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | trutheality | I bet the PI doesn't see it as a significant topic change because he sees it as a brain-machine interfaces project, not an ML project. It's a sort of shift that can only happen in a highly interdisciplinary field, where you perceive it as a field change and the PI perceives it as a focus change. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:41 | history | asked | Leon palafox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |