Insurance should be based on apriori probabilities.
If both of us pay the same auto rate, and there is no way to know beforehand one of us is more likely to get in an accident, then I am not subsidizing you even if you do get into an accident and I don't.
However, if it can be foreseen that you are accident prone, but I am still forced to pay the same premium as you, then it is clearly an unfair subsidy.
Be professional, courteous, truthful, and non-emotional.
In my experience, drama queens, people who over-react to minor problems, tend to get pushed out of well-managed organizations. Or else more mature colleague will discourage this sort of behaviour.
If, on the other hand, such drama queens manage to dominate the politics of the organization, you will never be happy there and you need to consider leaving.
The OP's doesn't sound like a well managed operation.
If you want your puzzle this time to be a bit more challenging, ask instead what sized cubic container would be needed to hold the equivalent amount of sand in the original answer.
After four hours and about six pages of equation reductions [to get, I might add, the only REAL mathematical function definition that solved your f(f(x)) = -x criteria] spent on the last puzzle, I felt strangely unfulfilled.
Not going to bother this time.
This problem is not worth your time.
I am not sure why you have an objection about the previous problem. Your solution was correct and I congratukated you on it.
BTW, the VP is not your department VP, right? Talk to your manager. Maybe he would want o take it up with your department VP that this other big kahuna is trying to interfere in his bailiwick.