Well if *I* got promoted to a higher position and there was no one available to train me and my colleagues were whispering behind my back about me not being qualified for the job so I felt like I had to prove them wrong somehow, and I got an assistant who had worked there longer than me and very clearly had zero clue about the job he was supposed to do, then I too would’ve despised him. How was Jon supposed to come off as a responsible archivist if one of his assistants refused to read the statements because they “spooked him”. I’d have felt like I was being sabotaged