I guess I'll be the first to say it - does the author of the article strike anyone as a bit of a pretentious asshole? Downvote away if you have to, but I just thought someone needed to say that.
- Bringing over and over again that "he was an official of the US army"
- the "you didnt reject me, I reject you" spiel, although this part was hilarious to be fair,for being so childish.
- The part when "he bit his tongue" before answering to the kid. What does he think he had to answer?
- The "one person Christian company" thing
And I got bored, he sounds like a "Prima-Donna" too. The post is an exquisite example of projecting in action.
He did make an unnecessarily-specific statement about being a lt. colonel at one point, but I don't know that it's a hard rank to get to. I though it was more the point at which career officers got stuck.
I would imagine that there are potential communication obstacles to overcome for anyone choosing to work with him.
This is probably the most important line of the post for context. The latter 70% is a copy/paste of an email response he sent to a job applicant who said he wanted to do design, not verification. Presumably this copy/paste is almost the entirety of his response because the post ends the way you would expect an email to end, with a signature.
I don't know the full situation, but I'm imagining the candidate said "not quite what I'm looking for" and got this guys life story in response, along with insinuations that he's a Prima Donna, and judgments like "If you are a design engineer who can’t humble himself enough to verify a broken design that’s been given to you, then I foresee that you will also be difficult to manage."
He might be a nice guy, I don't know. But from what I see of this interaction, he was acting like an asshole.