This one's about as dumb as a post but thinks he's smart.
Fear and intimidation are effective management techniques for his type, cause he sure ain't trainable.
The only thing I have found that works with him is instilling a deep fear of the consequences of doing it wrong.
I prefer to train through problems, but you can't train through attitude problems
Sounds like my teenaged son and the appraoch I had to take. He's coming out of it fortunately. I was getting worried there for a while.