Do vicars get on with each other?

These thoughts are in response to a blog post about loneliness among clergy,
http://bernwodeblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/loneliness.html
and they address just one aspect of being a vicar - that of working relationships between incumbent status clergy.
Having worked in a number of dioceses, and being from a clergy family, this is a general analysis and does not relate to any individual living or dead, not to any particular deanery or diocese.

Rivalry, trust, vulnerability and collegiality.

The complexity of working relationships, friendship patterns, and the variable attendance rates of clergy can make discerning group dynamics among clergy difficult.
It is hard for assistant curates to understand the dynamics between vicars and priests in charge.

It is not unheard of for clergy to offer support to other deanery clergy, but it is by far the exception that proves the rule. Supporting colleagues from other dioceses, perhaps those met at college ot courses is more common, especially where both are members of alternative chapters, or fellowships. For clergy with sole cures a feeling of detachment from the diocese and from fellow clergy is commonplace. While chapter can be a positive experience

Clergy working relationships are complicated by a number of factors, and this list does not even begin to address differences in churchmanship, or views about ordination of women

1) lay relationships between parishioners from their parishes
2) deanery synod and its agenda as each parish seeks clergy leadership to promote their interests above those of other parishes, each represented by their clergy
3) working relationships with people such as funeral directors, visiting organists, and disaffected parishioners each of which might like to tell stories about other clergy, or get clergy from other parishes to meet their pastoral need eg hatch, match, despatch, especially as parish boundaries are often artificial
4) good or bad experiences of bishops and their staff skew working relationships if there is a mismatch of experiences between vicars
5) the need to report to the diocese - numbers, plans, progress, success,
6) the need to pay the quota / parish share / common fund allocation, and perceived inequalities between parishes
7) possible pastoral reorganisation, leading to insecurity, especially amongst those who are not the bishop's 'blue-eyed boys' (or perhaps 'girls' in these days where a headlong rush to appoint the first woman bishop is mulled over).
8) the perceived need to succeed, and not to fail, and seem weak or vulnerable whereas failure is the common experience of many clergy according to many measures in use
9) differences in work-loads or working patterns are very common, and it is rare for anyone to understand what other deanery clergy do, this can lead to jealousy and a feeling that the grass is greener in a different parish/benefice
10) Some clergy want preferment, or influence within a diocese, and they will participate in diocesan life in a way to draw positive attention to themselves.Others, perhaps those longer in the tooth, have no ambitions for preferment, or have frustrated ambitions and recognise that earlier dreams will never be fulfilled. The former are more likely to be outspoken of the keen ambitious clergy, the latter to question the motives of 'up and coming clergy' or to act out of jealousy.
11) Rural or area deans are in a difficult position and are caught in the middle between parochial clergy and bishops, if they are perceived as promoting the needs of the bishop over the needs of fellow clergy, or reporting back to him that could lead to mistrust.