who veer between treating you with condescension and contempt.

Anyone else know this feeling?

Fortunately these are not my usual colleagues, but unfortunately they are my travel companions for the next three weeks.

Just wanted a bit of a vent, really.

For anyone else who works in university administration, it will probably come as no surprise that these people are academics, and thus (a) behave like 7-year-old children and (b) assume that anyone without a PhD is an inferior lifeform.

Anyway, these things are sent to test us, right? ;)