Seriously!Okay, so it looked more like this:
What's the occasions you say? Well, Dr. BossMan took us (research scut monkeys), plus research coordinators and some of the attending docs out for lunch because one of the RCs was leaving.
It was in this cute little café type place where I had some yummy, yummy pasta. Anyhow, Dr. BossMan was there (of course, since he was footing the bill). The RCs, us three little scut monkeys, Dr. Charming, Dr. Nice and two other docs from my new hospital site. Yup, 5 docs in this tiny little restaurant. Good time for any of the other patrons to have a medical problem... maybe not so good for residents left at work or the patients at the hospital
So, it was a lovely meal with lovely food but at the same time it was so awkward. Is it an oxymoron to say that it was uncomfortably good? Does that even make sense?
Like I'm sitting around here with FIVE doctors, one of which is my boss, another of whom I could not even turn my head in their direction, much less look at because they made the blood vessels in my face perpetually vasodilated and erythematous (think about it), who were all discussing I dunno what. It was so very awkward. Should I laugh? Should I nod my head? Should I make small talk? Am I talking too much?! Too little?!?! Am I eating too fast? Too slow?? Too much? GAH!!!
Basically, in the end I spent the time talking to one of my fellow scut-monkeys [who also agreed on the awkwardness of the whole situation] and trying to avoid looking at Dr. C because of the subsequent increased core temperature & all.
But I still enjoyed it. I'm never one to turn down food right?
So, thanks Boss!
P.S. Docs on call having beer? How shocking.
3 comments:
how shocking indeed =P i guess once you're an attending you can get away with anything. unfortunately i'll never be able to, due to my embarrassingly low alcohol tolerance.
i totally agree about lab lunches being insanely uncomfortable, especially if the PI is there. and if you add a bunch of other docs (one of which apparently makes your heart flutter)... i don't know how you got through it, but kudos ;P
just think though... some poor little research assistant is going to feel the way about you and me the way I felt about Dr. BossMan today! Gah! How frightening
Ha! I had almost the exact kinda experience when I worked at my lab. I went through the exact thinking you did, and ended up doing the exact same thing. Only difference is that the student sitting beside me and I never discussed the awkwardness and just talked amongst ourself. But we went to Korean BBQ that time, ha, so the other time we weren't talking was spent cooking raw food for the prof or whoever's close-by, slaving all the way. ^^;
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