h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There are a breed of people who seem to fail to understand that anyone else on the planet is sentient. They appear to assume that because they spent an awful load of time accumulating some largely useless degree somewhere that people can't understand even the most simple principles of what they're talking about. It's like a professor of Mathematics who won't accept that you've added the restaurant bill up right. Or the doctor of Medicine who informs you that you shouldn't use a given type of teaspoon for measuring out cough syrup.

These people are more than 'jobsworths' - the breed of administration personnel that require not only that you fill out a form in triplicate, send it in specific envelopes to specific places, and make no mistakes whatsoever even though the forms say you haven't complete everything backwards, but also that you do the whole thing in biro of exactly the right shade of lime green. These people are some form of pond scum with delusions of godliness. Or maybe that's a little harsh?