@kissane @Beggarmidas TBH, as an outside observer on this, I think that you're just taking the first thing that this midas character said and took that as being the entirety of what he said. I'm not brigading here, but I can understand his point/opinion.
Anyway, how I interpreted that first statement was to say that ~ "quitting the job as a point of principle is a bad choice." I don't agree with that, but maybe you two can hash things out better...