> >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

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