<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I'm a new graduate student and I do not have extensive lab experience and I am in the process of learning. My advisor assigned me to a post doc who should teach me about the project he has worked on in the past. He has two months left to train me. It is important for my advisor that I learn the necessary skills to pick up the project.
I am more than happy to work and I have new ideas on how to even make the project better and my advisor told me to share these ideas with the post doc to make the project progressive. Unfortunately this post doc does not like that I have new ideas that I am bring to the table; he adermines me at every opportunity. He seems reluctant to teach me, all he wants to do is finish the two months he las left and go back to his country without "giving the advantage" as he suggests.
Lastly every time I email him about any updates and either call him or email him, he gets extremely irritated. Especially when I email him, he is insecure and apprehensive and does not want to contact me. He thinks I'm emailing him too much or that I am contacting him way too much. I think a weekly update email or asking him to train me is not bothersome.</p>
<p>I am the type of person that is pretty honest, straightforward, does not like to be in gossipy atmosphere and I just want to get trained to be able to work and go home. Yet this post doc gossips about me with other students, and the other students make my life difficult by blocking every opportunity I may profit from. </p>
<p>Now he tells other students to contact me to tell me where he is and by then it is too late and he already finish the project and I have not learned anything. If he does teach me, he rushes through the discussion and then he yells at me by telling me he already thought me a certain subject if I ask questions.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound like a complainer and go to my advisor with this issue, but I don't know what to do, please anyone help me with a sound advice on how to deal with this situation or individual.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>