  Seniority runs deep. As the saying goes for some conventions or institutions
in some societies, seniority exhibits and engulfs into almost all nooks and
corners of their organisations. This paper presents an analysis of the conflict
between two groups in the run-up to seniority in these institutions. We
overview the inspirations and practice of each group, and their conflict in the
run-up to organisational seniority, and analyse the conflict using a simple
model of a "Deviants' Dilemma" game played in a single population. Within the
game's framework, we analyse the conditions for the evolutionary stable state
and the stability of the proportions of each group, given a strategy resulting
from learning based on rewards. We also provide a short discussion on the role
of noise in the system and we conclude with some discussions on the generality
and possible applications of the model.
