Tuesday, October 07, 2008

JJ and Me

My researcher supervisor (JJ) has definitely a colorful character, but not a particularly friendly one. In fact, I get uncomfortable every time I am in a meeting with him.

He must be mid thirties, has a weird surname and a non-Caucasian look. In the first few weeks that he joined our department, I approached him with a friend in the initiation BBQ. After I found out where he's originally from I mentioned how I thought he might be of Middle-Eastern origin due to the last name and we talked a bit about Islam.
JJ: So is that the one where you guys have to go to a pilgrimage or something?
Us: Ya, it's said all your sins can be cleaned if you do that.
JJ: Oh, so you can rape and pillage then go there and you're good?
Us: ...............O_o
This sounds pretty bad, on his part. His tone showed ignorance rather than "Islamophobia" or whatever you call that. Either way, he's not worth my respect.

Also it seems he's going for a pseudo Gorge-Clooney look or something, he has full black hair but dyed the top part white and has it gelled so much that it makes a curve all they way down. And with that he still comments on people's hairs (mine). One day I had a meeting with another lecturer related to the same project (GZ, who is an awesome Argentine). So I didn't take shower that morning as there was no hot water, and it was raining heavily.. so my hair WAS pretty bad.
GZ: Aalii, what did you do to your hair? Is that a new hairstyle from Iran?
Ali: No no GZ, it's just the rain ya know.
We go see JJ in his office, as I walk in:
JJ: HOLY CRAP, what happened to your hair? It looks like you've just gotten out of bed.
GZ: Nooo JJ, that's new hairstyle that the girl's like, you're not up with the fashion!!
I cut my hair shortly afterwards I think.

Also he's got quite a potty mouth, I admit that I swear a lot but I am not a lecturer dammit!

Examples:

In a meeting:
JJ: Hmm this meter really needs to be .. *What the F*CK is this fly doing here, F*CK*
starts waving arms to get fly away.

When I was complaining about the crappy results I got:
JJ: You did many experiments, you should be more comfortable about your results. Like if I saw those results I would say "F*ck ya, we got good results", its the correlation that is crap.

In the lab with a technician talking about our experiment and how other students might need the equipment.
Technician: Problem is you got students coming on Monday to do the lab, what they gonna do?
JJ: They can get f*cked

He pretty much uses the F word in every second sentence. Oh how I hope to get this over with and get my mark (have a feeling its gonna be very crappy) and then I can tell JJ to go and sit on a pole...

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