The professional way will be to acknowledge that he knows more than you in that particular field. Rely on your strengths. Get your basics in that area right, from a concise source. Do other things better than him like knowing the patient better, putting the whole case in perspective and not just one aspect of his illness.
BTW whats his area of expertise?
I'm not competing with him. It was an issue in the past when we had to work on the same stuff together.
Um, not racist. If you didn't go through the system, grow up here, then there should be some things that are totally off limit to you, especially if it's coming at an expense to our own american citizens with similar qualifications who are getting sidelined in the process.
oh so this guy is an illegal immigrant who tunneled his way into your school system?
does the guy pay fees that ends up in amreeki pockets? if so, i don't see why you think you have any right to get all high and mighty. dull offsprings of immigrants prancing around as if they are some KKK grand-dragons..
nope, he's NOT paying fees, in fact, he's getting an income from here.
meanwhile, american graduates trying to get these positions, are finding it harder and harder to get them.
I know there are total pros to the merit system, but doesn't make sense. On one hand you want more people like us. Then you limit the seats, and bottleneck them, and let the guys from outside get those seats, and the expense is some American loses out and has to take some year(s) off to try to get a job later, with his/her loan interest accumulating to financially kill them?
So yeah, when a punk like that gets into the system, he/she better be damn greatful and come to work with some humility. I can't believe he got away with embarassing his superiors over their knowledge gaps, when those people aren't even GOD DAMN SPECIALISTS.
Urgh. I made a huge mistake. I had the opportunity to nip his wee wee in the bud (a lorana bobbitt of our people, if you will), and I didn't do it, because I had the principle that I did not want to ruin anyone's career.
I'm not sure what my principles are really doing for me these days.
In my personal experiences I have found Indians becoming very hostile towards Pakistanis if they see them happier and more successful than them. I think its the same problem with him.
And you telling him that you are an American and not Pakistani will not make any difference for him if you have a Pakistani background just like it doesn't make any difference for many Americans.
You acknowledgement of his expertise and qualities shows that you have nothing personal against him but it doesn't reflect positively on your professionalism when you say you find it hard to control your temper. No matter how bad his comments are, you have to control yourself or report it straightaway if its intolerable.
All of us have to face these situations in our professional lives. Some people go through it easily without any harm while others get their careers destroyed. You have to think about your future, you might be known in future by the way you handle this situation. You are fortunate that this guy is not there for long so you can take this as a temporary problem which will go away soon.
oh i have NEVER brought up his race to his face, NEVER. I act like I don't even know he's from India.
previously when the and i worked together, i was nothing but praises for him even though he screwed up considerably. He did things that let's say...raised eyebrows, when i told people later on. Things that if I had just been the first one to complain, I wouldn't even be in a mess, cuz he would be in too much of one himself to try getting me into trouble.
Yeah, I'm TRYING REAL HARD to control my anger at work. Guys like him - even their face - pisses me off.
So yeah, when a punk like that gets into the system, he/she better be damn greatful and come to work with some humility. I can't believe he got away with embarassing his superiors over their knowledge gaps, when those people aren't even GOD DAMN SPECIALISTS.
Urgh. I made a huge mistake. I had the opportunity to nip his wee wee in the bud (a lorana bobbitt of our people, if you will), and I didn't do it, because I had the principle that I did not want to ruin anyone's career.
I'm not sure what my effin principles are really doing for me these days.
firstly you're deluded that you got in trouble only because he went to the authorities first. That's not how it works except maybe in the day care centres with toddlers constantly telling on one another.
Secondly, it's scary how genuinely you believe he doesn't have an equal right as you to be there. On so many basic principles of humanity and then on more complex social and political scales, our societies have made some progress on blind patriotic BS. Pity it didn't rub off.
Job stealing argument is usually expected from a red state high school drop-out, not from a first generation immigrant. I find it quite amusing.