"We paid him a good salary for his resume and work, but he has somehow convinced himself that he can make double somewhere else and still work 32 hours a week w

"We paid him a good salary for his resume and work, but he has somehow convinced himself that he can make double somewhere else and still work 32 hours a week with an extremely relaxed working environment." You sound like a reasonable human but the quoted is a huge red flag for me. Whenever someone said 'we pay him a good salary' it was far from the truth.