Degree Fatigue

The draining experience of being surrounded by a-holes who are convinced that their academic degree earns them limitless credibility. Degree fatigue can lead to distrust, eye-rolling, jadedness, cubicle-induced Stockholm Syndrome, and the reluctant acquiring of degrees oneself.

Plagued by degree fatigue, a lowly research assistant listened once more as a senior faculty member turned the phrase "I didn't see that email" into someone else's problem.