Study: Bad team members make other team members worse

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Originally Posted by Funka Genocide

Team exercises are stupid. You just need an end goal and enough competent professionals to achieve it. So long as everyone espouses some very basic ideas of professionalism (often times enforced by corporate policy) the shit gets done, or people get fired.

You'd THINK this is how stuff works, but honestly, it's not. There are informal power structures all over the workplace that can mean a bad worker stays put for effectively forever. The higher-ups tend not to care who does the work so long as it gets done, so as long as everyone picks up the slack, a person can do essentially nothing. On top of that, if a person knows people, they can use it to stay put or even pass the blame off on other people who don't have that benefit. Basically, unless a person is directly a liability to the company or causes actual trouble that can't be ignored, they stay right where they are.