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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, before you do anything you need to loop in your higher ups about why he has not yet been fired. I work with someone who’s had performance issues for 20 years. It’s awful, but there is no institutional appetite to fire them so we all just have to muddle through and work around it, and the cascading effects (bad) on everyone else on the team. Since you are new, please figure those dynamics - why are things the way they are?[/quote]

Great advice.

If they hired you to be the bad guy who is there to clean up, get explicit sign-off from senior management. Talk with seniors and HR about how to address the issue - i.e., "If X, Y, and Z is not fixed by December 31, you will be terminated."

Then again, management typically prefers terminations to be pretty sudden in order to prevent willful destruction of work product, theft of organization work product, or working with a lawyer to bring a workplace discrimination/harassment allegation.

If this person is in their 50s, their career likely will not recover from this setback. [/quote]

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