If someone cant take any comment about their work then they and not the person passing comment ought to be on soft skill training. I have worked with someone who believed that they had strong sql skills yet didn't understand what a null was or know what a "group by" was, yeah go figure! Worked with passive aggressive people who have caused more harm to the companies profit than someone who is passionate and can only think in straight lines. Yet, some management only do want yes-men and to be condoned by silence.

Maybe there ought to be a survey on how many IT staff are blessed/cursed with:

ADD - attention deficit disorder

Aspersers/HFA - High functioning autistic

OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder

etc.

President Lincoln said:

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.