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The real bitch about it is that I wasn't informed about it until the second day of work when I had to sign on the dotted line in order to get paid - with rent due and a baby home with the wife. I was quite blindsided by it and would never have taken then job had I known about it.
Fortunately my new job is a research position which qualifies as payback and I won't actually owe the feds any money.
Boy, was the soon-to-be-ex-boss pissed! The arrogant fucker immediately concluded I had only used the postdoc as security while I job hunted, which was not the case, accused me of unprofessionalism and lack of commitment, etc (really, after 5.5 years in a PhD program I lack commitment?!?). I was there for a few months before concluding that a) the work was really not the right field, b) that the pay was way too low to survive on, and c) that the boss was an arrogant, condescending, micromanaging jerk who made every conversation as pleasant as a root canal. THEN I started pounding the pavement for a job.
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