UK. Our manager was very pressured by this Lead dev a year ago and hand in his resignation which was declined by the CEO and convinced him to stay. The reason

UK. Our manager was very pressured by this Lead dev a year ago and hand in his resignation which was declined by the CEO and convinced him to stay. The reason for this was due to that lead dev being an impossible person to work with and he was 1 year late on building a website, 3 months at start took another extension for 3 months then another and then a final one. Thing is they couldn't easily fire him as he had been with the company for more than 5 years and they didn't keep track, they had to implement a proper timetable as to what he does and when etc and it would take 2-3 warnings to fire him... very hard in the UK. And making him redundant was also not possible due to him being in that field for more than 20 years he would be getting a huge sum from the company. At the end another guy in the team that was also co-lead had to quit he couldn't stand working with that dev as I can't either. Now a year later the company + the manager has forgot what they went through with this guy and give him the ok to run everything.