Trust me, also happens with a closed office door if you're next to the entrance (+female, was less frequent with male office mates)
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my door was closed and the undergrad still knocked and treated me like a secretary... *sighs*
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Yeah I know. One even said "I didn't want to disturb the professor (m)" and I responded "Well, you DID disturb me now, thanks"
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NICE! *high five* I don't feel a lot of empathy towards any UG who behaves like this; just as bad as from above.
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Ha, yes! Sometimes it's not meant in a bad way eg "you look like a master student" (as long as I am not teaching), but that was...
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I generally will slap (metaphorically) anybody who downgrades. Even from perspective of being role model we shouldn't be lowered.
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I don't think it's right. At the end of the day the way we look and stereotypes go together and we need to disrupt that a little.
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I remember somebody thinking I was 35 once because I was assertive (???) altho meant in a nice way, that was also stereo. Hmm.
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That's got to be worse if it's your own private office, and people still think you're the secretary.
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It's not. Haha.
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Although X is a PhD student. *sighs*
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As a Bioinformatician in a chemistry department, late 90s, based in an alcove outside a professor's office, I got that *a lot*
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ughhhhhh so sorry!

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No need to apologise, I very much doubt it was you asking ;)
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