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Somehow, I suspect that while you might be upset with him, and even let him go, that junior dev will be better off learning what he can and then jumping ship then staying and working diligently in subservience. This advice is not how to make your managers happy by advancing their careers, it is how to make yourself happy by advancing your career.

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Perhaps I should have said: focus on your work.

My comments are not about advancing anyone's career. When you are a junior member of a software development team your primary objective should be to help the team deliver the project. There's a reason you have 'jr' in your job title.

There are some interestingly ironic comments about how the team lead is labeled as 'entitled' and 'advancing my career' when the OP is essentially advocating those same concepts from a different perspective.

I get the sense from the tone of comments that there are a lot more jr programmers on this thread than sr programmers.

I suspect some of the adverse reactions are because of the focus on the 'jr'.

Shouldn't all members of a software development team have a primary (work) objective of delivering the project?

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