10-23-2015, 09:09 PM
beejee wrote:
"Tom, are you expected to train people from India to do your job prior to exiting your post?"
I'm not leaving my post, at least not yet. There's no way I'll be training other people to do my job, though. One of my responsibilities has to been to recommission the Michelle imager/specrometer once again at UKIRT and it is our current primary instrument. No other observatory in the world has the capability Michelle offers.
Other than myself, there is only one other person on the planet who knows how to make the instrument work. However, they are busy with MIRI on the JWST.
Not trying to boast, but if I leave then UKIRT closes. Too many friends and colleagues will be affected; I can't do it. The telescope and all the people I've worked with are more important. But then there's Pam, but if I don't have a job it hardly helps Pam...
It's life. No one said it would be easy.
"Tom, are you expected to train people from India to do your job prior to exiting your post?"
I'm not leaving my post, at least not yet. There's no way I'll be training other people to do my job, though. One of my responsibilities has to been to recommission the Michelle imager/specrometer once again at UKIRT and it is our current primary instrument. No other observatory in the world has the capability Michelle offers.
Other than myself, there is only one other person on the planet who knows how to make the instrument work. However, they are busy with MIRI on the JWST.
Not trying to boast, but if I leave then UKIRT closes. Too many friends and colleagues will be affected; I can't do it. The telescope and all the people I've worked with are more important. But then there's Pam, but if I don't have a job it hardly helps Pam...
It's life. No one said it would be easy.