Well before I went on holiday I told my supervisor that I had tried many different permutations of initial conditions to get the results we are looking for, without success. I said could she run some simulations to see if she had any luck. I assumed she was doing this while I was away but she came to see me yesterday (when we were supposed to be having our meeting) and said could I email her to let her know what I had done so she didn't run the same simulations. I sent her an email outlining my most recent work and thought no more of it. Our meeting was rescheduled to today and ten minutes before the meeting she came to see me saying she needed to know all of the tests I had run and not just the most recent. I was furious (but didn't show it) because all of the simulations to date have been written up in the draft of the paper we are (supposedly) going to publish. There is a big table summerising all of the simulations we have run. I sent her an email listing all of the different test that have been run and asked if I had misunderstood what she was asking for, as they are all listed in the paper. She said that was all the information she needed. Why did she waste all this time when the information was already there? I was on holiday for a week and she could have used that time to run the simulations so we could progress once I returned.
She also asked me to redo the figures in the paper, using a different colour scheme. When I did the figures originally I sent her an email with an example for her to approve, as getting the figures to a publishable standard takes a lot of time. I explained this to her at the time as I didn't want to have to redo all of the figures (it takes around a day to put all of the finishing touches to the images).
I'm absolutely despairing at the moment with how disorginised the whole project is. In stark contrast, the supervisor who I originally was going to work with (and wish I had stayed with) went from the analysis of the results to submitting a paper in 16 days. This has been going on for 2 years! I'm somehow going to have to make up for two years of wasted time in the next three months. It's going to take a miracle.
EDIT: I've decided to arrange a (hopefully) confidential meeting with my secondary supervisor (who published the paper in 16 days) and get all of this out in the open (at least with him). This may go badly as far as my relationship with my supervisor goes but at this point I don't care. As I'm self funded I've invested a lot of money in this PhD and really don't want to see it pissed away.
EDIT 2: Well I have separate meetings with both my supervisor and secondary supervisor today. Initially I was a bit concerned as to how this would go but it really can't get much worse. I've all but failed anyway, through no fault of my own (other than not sorting this earlier).
EDIT 3: Well my supervisory meeting that was originally planned for Wednesday was then moved to Thursday, which was then moved to today has, unsurprisingly, been moved to Monday. This is because my supervisor hasn't had time to look at the results. I knew this was going to happen as I know how long it takes for the code to complete so I'm not surprise. I find it incomprehensible how disorganised someone can be.
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