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[quote=Anonymous]A typical example has to do with a prestigious award that I won. Another colleague applied for this award too, but during a different time period so we were never in competition for this award. She didn't get the award. My friends tell me she has been telling people that I had behaved cruelly and outrageously toward her in some way relating to this award. This is not true, I barely know this colleague, and expressed the sympathy that I genuinely felt for her when she told me she had not received the award. There would be no reason for me to feel anything but sympathetic - her loss had nothing to do with my (subsequent) gain. I have learned that there's quite a lot of ill will against me because of this rumor she has been spreading.

I understand that much of the ill will has to do with the various awards that I've won. I don't publicize my achievements, my mentors do - that's how things work in my profession. I would prefer that they didn't, but I don't have any control over this. I do keep a low profile, since reactions can be pretty unfriendly. But for most of these awards, I have not been in direct competition with my colleagues, so my winning has not taken anything away from them. They are reacting in ways that suggest they feel I am taking something away from them.[/quote]

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