What's with the silverbacks these days? I have one who is a psychopath and playing dangerous mind games with froshers; another who threatened me with his lawyer this afternoon because he didn't get a copy of the minutes of the staff meeting (which he actually attended for a change! Why can't he take his own notes?). A third is trying to sneak in a travel grant to go visit his buddy ManyMilesFromHere.
The fourth is whinging because he really, really needs a personal secretary to get his flights sorted out for him. The fifth refuses to be in the same room as the psychopath. This one I can at least understand, Prof PsychoPath needs a bath.
The sixth one I caught trying to butter both sides of his bread, i.e. have me spring for some fancy, "necessary" equipment and also somehow charge it to his grant as well. When accosted he protested that the one I was to pay for was for his colleagues, as they need one too, but don't want to share his. 25 cents says he won't let them use his toys.
Where are the grown-ups? Is this silverback sickness catching?
They know the system is ripe for a financial implosion, and are angry that they don't have enough cash to flee to the Embezzler Hilton in Sao Paulo, Brazil like the Dean. So they take out their misery on YOU.
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