I've worked in areas where the middle management administrative morons considered themselves some kind of special. It's not an uncommon attitude. Administrators are God's gift to working people and anyone who gets their hands dirty, breaks a sweat, or otherwise labors for a living is some type of ignorant moron. I've seen enough of that B.S. over the years and as soon as Bloomberg started being visible to folks outside of his own little NY city world I could see he had that attitude written all over him.