cdbeck
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Joined: 8/16/2005 From: Indiana Status: offline
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There are only two things in this world that I hate - Intolerance and rudeness towards other races and their cultures... and the Japanese. No really, I think that rudeness is definately on the rise. But I have not seen so much of it at work, at least between coworkers. I hear a lot of watercooler "sexy" gossip, and you get the occasional stealing of other people's ideas and research (dangerous to do in the academic world though, as it can ruin your career if caught). Now I am in education, and I DO see a lot of what could be considered "client rudeness" from my students. They are pretty brash about accusing us (professors) of not knowning how to do my job, being biased, being unfair towards them, incorrectly grading/not knowning how to grade, not putting attention towards their paper, and other types of things you might expect. It isn't a lot of students, but usually the laziest or ones with the feeling of entitlement that fight very loudly. They also do it in a disrespectful way, accusatory, and typically over email (as they are too cowardly to face me and level accusations - of course I can dismiss them easier over email). I even had one kid schedule an appointment to talk about his grade (which was a good ending grade). He did NOT tell me, this college Freshman, that he was going to bring his mother to the appointment to basically "strong-arm" me into raising the grade. That's pretty brash, and slightly rude, particularly when they leveled accusations that I was unfair and had insulted this "poor" kid. That sort of thing would NOT have flown 50 years ago in a university setting. I don't see much of that top ten list though. Must be in the "grunt" fields far outside of the ivory towers of academia. In our towers we suffer from a sense of arrogance and backstabbing competitiveness - passive aggressive office politics that come out or rumor, research sniping, and professional sabatoge through needless and pointed criteque of a fellow academic's work. SoM
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"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet!" (Kill them all. God will know his own.) -- Arnaud-Armaury, the Albigensian Crusade
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