I’d totally be a minion. Sure, the fringe benefits would probably be crap, but the business cards would look cool as hell!
That’s because they called him Maestro.
We don’t mind the PhD thing so much, really. It’s the Tapatalk shout-out that pisses us off…
I’ll happily grant PhDs the right to call themselves “Doctor” all they want, including at restaurants so the front staff can call out “Doctor Nudnik” when their table is ready, when making appointments for hair styling etc.
Lots more palatable than the legion of rug doctors, basement doctors, doctors of chiropractic and such that litter the landscape.
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Ph.D’s are quite uncommon in my agency (though their numbers are increasing), so anyone who has one gets noticed. But the only time anyone non-ironically calls me “Doctor” is when my boss introduces me at a public meeting before I step up to give a presentation. I don’t know if the public cares, but I think such formality is reasonable in that limited context.
Out of curiosity, I did a random search through my inbox to see if the professors I’m in regular correspondence with have Ph.D in their signatures. About half of them do.
Ever notice how your boss says “I’m the boss. If you don’t like it, then quit.” The nerve of them. I should be able to do whatever I want at work, regardless of what the job entails.
Judging from some of the threads the OP has started, I’ll guess one of his (?) more commonly used phrases is “What, you think you’re better than me, huh?”
Oh, thanks, doc. You don’t know how long I’ve had to wait for other PhD’s. My primary care “Phud” is booked til May, and there’s a $29.99 copay from my HMO.
Anyhow, I’ve got a pain right here… and I think it’s because I tried to layer Suburban Angst over Nihilistic Ennui. Can you prescribe anything for that?
Folks who were working at my facility back when people were often paged on PA system tell me that a certain fellow would page himself from time to time, just to hear the announcer say “Dr <so-and-so>, please call the front desk” (or something like that). I strongly suspect that Mr. <so-and-so> was a jerk before he got the doctorate though…
All of his threads so far are questions. Perhaps the highlight of them all, sort of a meta-question, is “Is there such thing as a stupid question?”.
I’m happy to say that, after philosophers struggled with this epistemological issue since the beginning of civilization, we finally have the answer thanks to our new member the OP, who provides evidence that the answer is incontrovertibly in the affirmative, with so far eight spectacular examples of stupid questions, all personally provided by our esteemed new join. I wanted to cite a highlight but they’re all so ineffably stupid that it’s hard to pick just one.
We Humans have a tendency to want to BE gods. To have power, fame, wealth, whatever we think will make us happy, respected, feared and let us do whatever we want whenever we want it, regardless of the feelings or well being of others.
Human Nature.
Just like when some people get their black belts in a martial art, they immediately become swollen with pride and a false self-image of power, lord it over those of lower ranks and want to close the door behind them. This kind of thing is ludicrously common.
So likewise when people gain any other position of power and influence, no matter how small the pond.
Power corrupts.
I knew two PHDs who thought themselves more learned then everyone else.
One is this punk who got in in something like Political science from Cambridge and he never let’s anyone forget it. It’s his “argument winner”.
The other was my grandfather. Now his degree was in something a bit more deep (AstroPhysics). He didn’t think this made him better than everyone. The fact he had read about *everything * on the other hand…
The spouse, who has a PhD and teaches undergraduates, has been known to drop a “Look, I’m not saying all this stuff for my benefit - I already have my degrees” from time to time to make a point about paying fucking attention in class.
She doesn’t bang people over the head with her PhD but does insist that, when titles are used, the correct one is employed. So she’s fine being called by name, but don’t call her Ms or Mrs.
Hey, I didn’t spend 5 years at Evil Doctor school to be called ‘Mr’!
About 18 years ago at the place I worked we got a new government program manager. At the next staff meeting (no gov PM in attendance) my contractor PM announced that we would always address and refer to the new government guy as “Doctor” <yip-yip>.
Since I always could be counted on for a question, I raised my hand and asked if the new government PM would always address and refer to me as “Master” (based on my highest degree at the time).
[crickets–forever].
(Well, forever, at least until it was found that his doctorate was from a well-known diploma mill, and if he ever met a differential equation he ran screaming from the room. Tough.)
I’m afraid you have a near-terminal case of *déjà vu *. As I told you before, there’s nothing I can do about it.
I dunno about PhD holders, but I have found from experience that everyone who broadbrushes people with advanced degrees as “arrogant” is pretty much a fucking dunce.
I have a 17 year-old convinced the world revolves around her and she doesn’t even have her GED yet! 
Not sure why everyone is down on PhD holders putting the acronym in their signatures. I thought that was common for folks with advanced degrees?
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