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Working with jerks, a field guide

JUL 27, 2010
Physics Today
Chronicle of Higher Education : In her Catalyst column, the physical scientist and blogger known as Female Science Professor examines the stressful condition working with jerks: “obnoxious, rude, patronizing, manipulative, controlling, unethical, and/or unpleasantly strange people.” After characterizing the jerks found in academia, she discusses why one might have to work with them and how to break up with them.
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