Runestar,

Really? Sorry. It is just that I wasn't the only one burned. If it was just me, it would have been easier to shrug off, but it wasn't. And to make it worse, I was the one that brought in those others.

On the bright side, it did teach me a lot about the academic bureaucratic mindset and I've been able to use that knowledge to good use when advising clients on how they should deal with universities.