My problem with this is that it assumes there's only a single isolated asshole in the company and he exists in a social vacuum. It's much more common for multip

My problem with this is that it assumes there's only a single isolated asshole in the company and he exists in a social vacuum. It's much more common for multiple assholes of varying degrees to exist somewhere, and being assholes there's a very good chance they are not working together and instead are engaged with each other in GoT-tier power struggles. If a firable asshole is suppressing a worse unfirable asshole, do you still try to get rid of the former?