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Poor management suffers from the problem on not fixing things if they do not seem broke. They will get Rick to overwork himself into burnout if it helps them.

When Rick feels betrayed and is belligerent because they are taking basically everything he is away from him (at this point this is his work).

So what could they have done? easy! They could have stopped rick from getting this far by actually managing him, having people actually look at his work and make sure he was actually collaborating with others. Rick would likely be a better and less stressed worker.