[crispyambulance]

While I admire the sentiment, I've NEVER seen an asshole fired for belittling juniors/co-workers.

Harsh, withering treatment is quite common not just with developers but in all technical fields. I wish things were different, but that's the reality as I've seen it.

[alyandon]

At more than one place where I've worked with at least semi-functional management, people with attitudes like that tend to get moved to special "one person" teams and then are given a long stream of crap work (or at least work they feel is beneath them) until they get bored and quit.

[southphillyman]

I've seen it once, but the guy cursed and laughed at the team architect when we had a meeting instructing us to start writing tests and adhering to a certain level of code coverage. Seeing the guy literally begging for his job after witnessing him demean and belittle people for months was kind of eye opening to me.