Team Player
The Sigma seldom plays well with others in the hierarchy
This episode shows how Sigmas stress the success of the mission, as they perceive it, over the priorities of the hierarchy and the social pressures of being perceived as a team player. While this is why they tend to be successful in the short term, and why they are usually popular with the women in the organization, it is also why the Alphas, Bravos, and Deltas tend to find them intolerable over time and eventually eject them from the organization.
'He's literally me.'
This comic will result in no less than 6 gammas receiving disciplinary actions for insubordination this week.
The key point here is "as they perceive it".
Like anyone else, Sigmas can make good calls or bad calls. In a reasonably healthy team folks will give a pass for the guy who Upsets the Apple cart, especially when he's right and "Iceberg Avoided". After all, Success has many Parents, but Failure is an Orphan.
But boy, pull the proverbial Rip Cord when you're wrong...you get the picture.
On top of that, How you drop the Sigma Bomb on your teammates has a good deal to do with it. Some folks take the opportunity as licence, which chaps more asses than strictly necessary.
Again, this is highly dependent on the Win / Loss record. Too many L's and you get a rep, deserved or not, ranging from "nervous Nellie / Chicken Little" to "bomb-thrower / gets off pissing in the punch bowl" and you get discounted.