Ms Tree: My experience has taught me that looking down on ones subordinates is most definitely not the most successful way of getting things accomplished as a team.
Apparently unlike yourself; my experience taught me that due deference to the greater experience of my superiors was also both appropriate and helpful in mission accomplishment. I was never so incredibly arrogant as to feel some need for a "first name basis" relationship with them though. "As if I care that they are a doctor."..."She knows she is a Dr and I know she is a Dr. No need to prove the point each time we see each other." Wow! It must nearly kiil you to ever offer up even the slightest respect to anyone more accomplished and knowledgeable than yourself, even while you're personally and directly benefitting from theirs. Would it really harm you to address her as Doctor? Would civilization crumble were you to ever evidence the slightest respect for her education and proper title? Should everyone always be considered as nothing more than at best your "equal"? One can now better see where your politics and beliefs come from "Comrade." You recall to mind a counseling session with a troubled teen. The then young man-in-the-making was in a very rebellious state, and offered that he "won't respect anybody that don't respect me first." When it was pointed out to him that just maybe both his mother and his school teachers had a bit larger base of knowledge and experience to draw on, it made not the slightest initial impression on him, but simply angered him further.