On 22/04/15 07:44, DJC wrote:
On 22/04/15 07:27, Tim Watts wrote:
On 22/04/15 02:07, MM wrote:

Well, they were the ones who became managers. There's always one.

Not always true.

In academia, you might find the dept run more or less day to day by some
"administrator" who slides in sideways and has no academic
qualifications at all. Boy does that **** people off.

Well, better than than leaving administration to academics.

It's more than admin.

Nothing puts a professor's nose out of joint than having an admin person
approve his annual leave request.

More seriously, the admin person does not understand the business of the
department and thus frequently comes up with stupid pronouncements.

And yes,
academics are very status concious, really messes them up when the admin
have better academic qualifications then them.