like crap?
They sound like hypocrites, don't they? They want you to be nice to people because you never know if those connections will help you later in life. But they don't really care about connections they have and constantly make fun of people or turn down requests for help because the people asking them are not "important enough."
I see this with people who are only obsessed with meeting those who are managers, supervisors, or in any leadership position. When it comes to classmates, neighbors, and coworkers, they treat them so terribly that I wonder if this whole burning your bridges thing actually affects anything in anyone's life.
I guess I could wait for karma to catch up to them.