He also make the assumption that secretly terrible people don't exist in other fields. In my experience there is a small set of people in every discipline that

He also make the assumption that secretly terrible people don't exist in other fields. In my experience there is a small set of people in every discipline that are just leeches who contribute almost nothing but somehow stay employed. There are plenty of crappy lawyers still practicing, for example. I see little value value in being purposefully hostile, but I also see little value in this hand-holding, spoon-feed me approach he seems to want. We should encourage people and mentor junior team members, but I am not interested in extending "love" to some person I just met.