I know we only meet once a week for one hour and have known each other for well over three years. Plus, you’re my advisor. Thus, I understand how you could have forgotten to include me in the research you’re about to present at a departmental colloquium next week, and I appreciate it. I work too hard already meeting with your students and teaching classes; I don’t need more on my plate just now. Even though I’ve only been asking every week about more research we could work on together, I understand how it could have just slipped your mind that I might have wanted to get involved with a project that could result in a pretty good paper for you and your collaborators. Thanks for saving me from working too hard!
I understand your motivation wasn’t entirely altruistic, though. What with your two endowed professorships, flourishing consulting business, and 120 publications, I could see how you really needed another A+ to put you over the top. I recognize that it is at least half my fault that I have no pubs yet, but there is this previously rejected paper you’ve been sitting on for nearly a year that we could work on. No? My work on writing and rewriting the introduction, performing the lit review, and responding to the reviewers’ comments should just be brushed aside? I understand. A less-than-top-tier publication at this point could really harm your reputation, and I’m sure that it wouldn’t help mine much. No schools expect applicants to have at least a few pubs with their advisers, do they? No. surely not.
Let me again extend my thanks for not including me in on this latest bit of research. It really would have been a lot of work, and for what?.You’re the best!