It all depends…just saying that the ones I have dealings with are in philosophy.
Exactly what I was going to post.
Agreed, with emphasis on “partially.”
No, urologists aren’t assholes. They’re dicks!
But their eyes say “yes”.
Professors/academics tend to be complete blowhards. Get them in a room and I swear that they arrange themselves in order of degree. I’ve never seen such obvious awareness of rank outside of the military.
Yep!
People interpret the arrogance that goes along with being arrogant as asshole. The reason many STEM (science, tech, engineering & math for you Little Brains) folks are “held back” is because while they are good at the STEM skills, many are absolutely horrible at the non STEM skills that one needs to advance to leadership roles.
Yep.
Working as a government contractor, having daily contact with those in uniform, I have to narrowly concur with the above statement. Primarily, O3 (Army Captain, specifically) seemed to be particularly asshole-ish. They seem to have their “eyes on the prize” of O4 (Major). I even had one admonish me a bit when I responded to a question of his with a simple “yes”. He eyed me and said “sir?” I said “pardon me?” and he reminded me that HE is an officer. I reminded him that I am a civilian and not his subordinate.
I’ve heard that criticism from non-STEM folks, but having been in both the public and private sectors in engineering, that has not been my experience. What I have seen is a conflict between engineers and architects wanting to do things correctly ( from the point of view of the responsible person in charge ) and others holding purse strings.
The first thing I thought of even before reading anyone else’s response was finance/investment broker kinds of guys. Interesting that so many other people thought the same thing - they really have quite the reputation.
Second thing I thought of was college professors. I know a number of people who work in college administration and have horror stories about what assholes they are.
As for the military, much though it pains me to say it (being the son, brother, and nephew of them), military officers do seem to have a higher than usual incidence of assholishness. Enlisted guys are usually all right. But officers have the very psychologically unhealthy experience of having great control over a lot of people from very early in their career. Too many of them are used to walking around base thinking they’re the cock of the block. The only sweet revenge is that the moment they step off base no one gives a shit what rank they are.
Good for you. Sounds like he needed to be knocked down a peg or two.
What I’ve noticed in STEM fields is usually a lot of people are angry, miserable, frustrated, etc. I wonder if that is due to people in those fields having below average interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
This.
Any high end sales organizations are usually 80% assholes.
Especially consulting, software or hardware sales, chemical or engineering sales. People that can make 10% commissions from four million dollar deals, and close several deals a year. That level.
Shipping clerks, if that could be considered a profession.
I’ve got to second teachers. Try to convince a teacher that she’s wrong about something. Anything.
Porn.
Needing to write a prescription the proctologist grabbed his thermometer and said, “damn, some asshole has my pen.”
Well that’s true. I’ve tried arguing with professors in class before and as they visibly get angry the rest of the class develops goose bumps and their spine shrinks about 2 inches because they know wrath and judgment are coming. Ahh…my days of youthful indiscretion.
I remember some ‘female’ English TA marking my freshman English essay with a big red mark concerning the spelling of ‘judgement’ as ‘British spelling’. I brought a copy of a Merriam-Webster Collegiate to her and shoved her nose in it and made her aware that ‘judgement’ is a ***correct ***alternate spelling, and made her change my grade. This was when papers were hand-written, by the way. ‘Judgment’ is a stupid spelling anyway. Do we have ‘managment’? The ‘e’ is necessary to indicate the soft ‘g’ sound! Most TAs think they are so smart. They are not!
I’m surprised this hasn’t been added already.
Professional Athletes. There must be at least two a week on TV proving it.