An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer - you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the gates of Hell and is let in. Pretty soon the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in Hell and starts designing and building improvements. After a while they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day God calls Satan on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next." God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake - he should never have gotten down there. Send him up here." Satan says, "No way, I like having an engineer on the
staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
1. He had only one major publication.
2. It was in Hebrew
3. It had no references
4. It wasn't published in a refereed journal
5. Some even doubt he wrote it by himself
6. It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?
7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited
8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.
9. He never applied to the ethics board for permission to use human subjects
10. When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it by drowning his subjects
11. When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample
12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book
13. Some say he had his son teach the class
14. He expelled his first two students for learning
15. Although there were only 10 requirements, most of his student failed his tests
16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top
17. No record of working well with colleagues
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