[TooCleverByHalf]

This implies that handling it well is aligned with keeping ones job. I don't agree with that mindset myself. I'd say they handled it poorly. But, then, both of us are at least half wrong regardless of which one is right.

[slver]

In the real world no one cares about the tiny battle you're setting yourself up for in order to prove yourself. You'd just lose your job, and have nothing to show up for it.