Agreed. Title worship isn't helpful. Perhaps a qualifier would have avoided this whole issue, eg "my more senior teammate" or "my mentor". Then again, this se

Agreed. Title worship isn't helpful. Perhaps a qualifier would have avoided this whole issue, eg "my more senior teammate" or "my mentor". Then again, this seems like a reader issue, not an author issue. The salient point was never that Chet had status X and therefore could teach skills Y, it just was that Chet taught skills Y.