One of the most unexpected and arguably most negative professional interactions I've had over the past few years was meeting somebody who said: "Hi, I haven't read any of your papers but I can't see why they were published nor what they add to our understanding". 
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OMFG! was this a senior researcher? Not seniority explains it, mind you, b/c being a total ass doesn't depend on experience.
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More senior than me, for sure.
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this would not be a good person to ask for career advice

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To be honest, I doubt I will ever interact with this person again or if I do I will do so with more of a "plan" let's say.

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Also yes, this person clearly has an agenda which they are implementing (arguably very badly) here.
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I had rockstar Profs walking up to my posters and then saying without reading about it: "Have you read my paper xyz. It's all in there. Good luck.", and going to the next one. I could fill a book with these and other infantile tricks.
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What a garbage person. Probably the same type of person that wonders why no one can take their "criticism"

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Or why... there's 0 women in their lab.
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No, it is not strange, it is obnoxious.
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It's strange in my experience, but I will be much more prepared for in future now.
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I once had a senior person in my field come up to me to tell me that he didn't think my sub-field existed. Not on moral grounds or anything -- he just hadn't heard of it, so didn't believe it could be a thing. I don't understand people sometimes.
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So that could have been a cool conversation but they were to shit to manage it.
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Yeah, some weird type fo threatened though, but yes, my hunch too.
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What the absolute fuck would inspire someone to say something so needlessly shitty?
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Probably they felt some type of threat? But no idea, grasping at straws here.
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