The Conflict Between Academic Goals and Methods

I feel for this listener, I think my experience being someone who worked in academia but did not have an advanced degree, I definitely felt disrespected all the time. So that it's essentially acceptable to talk about how much you're smarter or better or more successful than other people and that's just not acceptable. If they really want to give it one last go, one idea I had was if you could ask for a 360 review. And then if this person wants to have a conversation with their manager and the leader of the organization about their contribution, that's totally fair. You can't demand respect, unfortunately, you can only earn it.