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If you have an expert as an employee, you give them their tools that they need and get the elephant out of their way.
B is not a manager, but a potential risk in the analysis of what could go wrong with the project, and hence, needs to be eliminated. Quickly, publicly and with a lot of fanfare. Anybody not contributing is baggage, and this is negative baggage. The value of the company increases when that person leaves.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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unfortunately the only time the new guy is able to defenestrate sunshines no matter how deserving is when hired as a senior manager. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Marc Clifton wrote: Given my psychological makeup, I am loyal to A
I would think that any sane person would rather work for A than B.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I have left places rather than work for an a**hole - life is too short and I love what I do - I refuse to work for someone that sucks the joy out of it.
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Makes you wonder why B is the way he is... Low self-esteem? Overcompensating? Traumatized? Complete lack of people AND management skills?
It also makes you wonder why he is still employed in the company... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Makes you wonder why B is the way he is...
Most likely he is acting within his fixed mindset.
While most developers (because of the nature of our work) are of a growth mindset.
The clash occurs.
I'm reading this book now and I find many managers from the past described as the book talks about fixed mindset people. This is the best book I've read in the past 5 years. Check it out.
Mindset: The Pyschology of Success by Carol Dweck[^]
The title really doesn't explain it well though.
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raddevus wrote: While most developers (because of the nature of our work) are of a growth mindset.
Really? I know a lot of developers who freak out about anything they don't know.
I've clashes with those people more than once as I rarely conform to the(ir) rules 
I'll check out the book 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I know a lot of developers who freak out about anything they don't know.
Yeah, that is true isn't it. It's too bad they haven't learned to move into the growth mindset.
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The reason "B" treats everyone like that because he's projecting on to you and everyone else his own poor work ethic and untrustworthiness.
This is the type of "manager" you have to manage.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz< wrote: he's projecting on to you and everyone else his own poor work ethic and untrustworthiness
I agree 100% that this is most likely the case. This is the case of a person operating from a fixed mindset.
Meanwhile, most developers (because of the nature of our work) are of a growth mindset.
This book I'm reading right now really explains this and it has opened my eyes to behaviors I've seen like this over my 25 years in IT. The book is amazing. Check it out.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck. @ Amazon.com.[^]
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Marc Clifton wrote: dropping my badge on his desk with a "put it where the sun doesn't shine" statement.
Don't forget the "fold it until it's all sharp corners" part. That's important for any proper exit strategy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Descriptive name. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
But otherwise pretty good.
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I kept waiting for a screaming ghost to leap out of the screen.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nice, they remind me of... Some band I used to know?
I can't seem to remember 
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Nope, Eldritch is really not my cup of tea.
And they sound nothing like the previous song 
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Alternative band - Ironclad (6)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Ok a wild guess (and completely wrong): ORRING?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I suspect you had the real answer too OG, but I've never set one before, so here goes.
FRINGE - alternative
RING - band
FE - iron, clad ring with it.
Regards, Stewart
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Decidedly better than Griff's version, what with being correct and everything 
Well done, sir.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Oh very good - I do believe that might be it!
And no, I didn't have it... 
So in all probability, you get another first: posting tomorrows CCC!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ironclad -> Ferric
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Mickeysoft is trying to confound us and bring us to our knees.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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