> >At Wal-Mart, my resident expert tells me, the low-level managers, > >whose lives are working-class in many ways (nature of tasks and > level > >of income, for example), still identify with the company more than > >the workers. > > The crucial difference is of course the privilege to boss others. > Once granted, kingly airs are hard to suppress. > In more than one case, I've noticed that people with just a little bit of power (e.g., a guy at Disneyland who sets up the rope barriers for people waiting in lines for a ride) take on airs.
That, of course, is what's wrong with profs. JD
