TL's or Team Leads do have Favorites, and the protect them, then they seem to go out of their way to find fault with team mates they have neutral feelings about, when it get's slow, the TL's goof off, and at team meetings, they are always focused on what will happen if you do X, cause then you will get fired. Again, the worst thing TL's do is make it known who the Favorites are, and they help them stay off the phones and don't hold them to the same Standards