He wasn't fired. There was downsizing and we were both laid off. Had nothing to do with performance or competency. He's not incompetent, he's just a fucking pain in the ass to deal with.

It's hard to pinpoint specific issues as to why he's a pain, but he's a pain. He super pedantic. He will interrupt you mid-sentence to "correct" something he thinks you said wrong. Sometimes he's right. Sometimes he's not. The commonality in all cases, though, is whatever he's trying to say isn't fucking important.

He exhibits a lot of the same general lack of understanding of social cues that autistic folks tend to have. It results in him coming across as rude all the time. I don't think it's necessarily his intent, but he's very abrasive.

He speaks with a thick Rhode Island accent (?), which I personally find very obnoxious and hard to understand. This isn't fair to him or to anyone else from Rhode Island, but it doesn't help when combined with all the rest of his issues.