Most often, professional snobbery arises in those occupations, whose representatives have a kind of "secret knowledge" - the skills or abilities that are not available to other staff of the company. And so even the smallest members of this closed "caste devoted to" feel the values against which all other professions are small and unimportant, and behave accordingly.
This style of communication causes a variety of professional conflicts. Snobs by profession become constant stress for others, but they themselves are in a constant state of stress, because around them incredibly annoying. The leadership of the rare ability to do something in the event of such situations, because, as a rule, rarely is a professional in the area in which strong snob.
Oddly enough, most of the adherents of "professional snobbery" are not specialists of the highest level. Most often, such behavior they simply cover their professional incompetence. But communication with their own kind and even superficial knowledge gives them a sense of ownership of the special.
Anecdotes about the system administrators and accountants have become classics. What other profession often become the cause of snobbery?
They all have some common features. Professional snobbery usually occurs in professionals working not with people, and with the mechanisms, machines, computers. First of all, here are the already mentioned IT-specialists, then mechanics and specialists in repairing various equipment. Very often become snobs and those who work with numbers, calculations and documents, such as accountants, financiers, clerks.
But regular and sustained dialogue with people by occupation seemed to be vaccinated by professional arrogance. Least likely to occur among the snobs lawyers, HR specialists, secretaries, doctors, psychologists. Of course, it is rather a trend, not a pattern. And there is no absolute guarantee that all system administrators - gloomy types and kadrovichki - cutie and Darling.
It would seem that ignorance of one another gives bread and butter. Because the money they receive is for the use of their special knowledge. If all professionally versed in computers, IT-specialist profession would disappear as a class. But along with the bread and butter comes and unprecedented arrogance: "I can what others can not." The labor community is conceit heated dialogue with equal and rises to heaven. There it remained until it rises to the level of his knowledge. For a real expert rarely exposed to professional snobbery.
If you are faced with the snobs at work or put in their community - do not give in to provocations. Do not forget the technician pay for the fact that he was repairing your car. And hear his opinion about your abilities as a driver, just remind them that you are the employer at the moment. In the end, the car you had not always, and it is time you get to work on the subway. But who will need it if everyone would have the professional knowledge of motor vehicles?