[9rx]

> All that wasted stress because one guy doesn't have a family or hobby.

It reads like the real problem was that the other developers fell into what developers seem to love more than anything: Pedantry. Instead of playing along with the false praise, they set out to prove the claim in the email wrong.

[pavel_lishin]

Regardless, there was a problem.

[9rx]

Yes, no doubt the person who sent the email ended up feeling a little silly when the pendants showed him.