I sense serious incongruity between the author's aspersions and the "jerk's" performance and accomplishments. Before firing a brilliant team member with what t

I sense serious incongruity between the author's aspersions and the "jerk's" performance and accomplishments. Before firing a brilliant team member with what the author perceives as an incorrigibly caustic attitude, he'd better be very sure there are not genuine issues in the organization that really ought to be resolved first.