"small minded petty knee jerk reactions", of your reaction to the hire. Is the hire a risk? Yes. In reality most hires come with risks. You claim to be a positive person but, that really does not come through at all in your posts. More importantly, you say that people that are positive all the time are different and I agree with that. However, I would disagree that is necessarily indicative that "they don't care about anything at all in life or are too stupid to know what's going on around them...". Another possibility, no more or less likely than your assertion, is that they are smart enough to show a little patience and perceptive enough to realize constant, over the top negativity is not going to change the situation, might further damage the situation and, provides time for additional information to come to the surface that can validate and inform their opinion.