Fiz wrote:
My last job was at a university and you are so right, they are jerks!! The lecturers can be so condescending and patronizing. What they don't seem to grasp is that if there are no students, then their wages don't get paid, so really they should be nicer. And these people claim to be intelligent...
Unfortunately, intelligence does not always correspond with psychological maturity or health. Thus, there will be condescending a***holes in all of the professional environments, including academia. It comes as no surprise that there are egomaniac lecturers. I've had a couple, in my day and I've also had a lot of decent ones, a few excellent ones, some dull ones and one or two eccentrics.
Power players are everywhere. - In hospitals, In private industry, in schools, in government, in the arts....
The trick is the know when you are being power played and learn to deal with it in confident and effective manner. But, also to be able to tell the difference between that and someone merely being helpful or trying to teach you something (not being insecurely paranoid).