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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with PPs that it's not everyone in the area at all, and seems to be mostly a problem with upwardly mobile transplants who tend to be very career and status focused.

However, it's not limited to that group, because it's a kind of infectious attitude that others will pick up on. I've worked in restaurants and gyms in DC and sometimes the staff at these places pick up this attitude simply because they are around these people all the time, and also has to cater to them.

I worked at one gym where our manager would make this huge deal out of certain customers because of stuff like where they'd gone to school or because they'd worked in the Obama administration. I was a trainer and it was super weird to me -- I liked clients who showed up on time, seemed to like working out, and were fun or interesting to talk to. Also, I liked people who wanted ongoing training relationships and would give me holiday tips, because that was my job. But my manager would do stuff like reschedule one of my good, awesome regular clients to accommodate someone she had deemed important, who would show up for one session, complain about how much they hate lifting weights, and then never come back. It was such a weird misplacement of priorities. I basically left the service industry so that I could stop dealing with this stuff because it gets really old.[/quote]

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