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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't end up like me, OP. I've been working on a team with someone like this for 6 years. This person cannot even complete simple tasks on her own. My team leader prefers to avoid confrontation so makes us cover for her. It adds so much work to our own plates, but team leader believes it will reflect poorly on our team if we don't cover for this person.

What makes it worse is that team leader will be retiring in a few years and I will be expected to fill her shoes. That puts me in a bad position because I won't stand for enabling co-worker but it will become clear that I've helped cover it up for years but I haven't been in a position to "out" her. It will appear like we didn't do a good job of training her, even though she actually has more years in the field than I do so it will reflect worse on me than it does on her.

You need to start documenting and stop covering it up. [/quote]

This happens a lot when people are promoted from within. Chances are everyone already knows and they are also enabling her. When you are her supervisor, you can take appropriate steps to put her on a PIP, terminate her, whatever your organization does.

I was in the same situation and I did it. I didn't do it the first year because I didn't fully realize how awful she was -- what I and others had been enabling was only the tip of the iceberg. Turned out in addition to terrible work, she did almost no work at all. It took me a while to realize that and even longer to confirm it. She was very good at lying or having sudden computer issues. I eventually put it all together. Started the termination process early in the third year I was her supervisor, and that prompted her to resign. I am SO much happier now that I am doing my own work and not doing/redoing hers, plus we hired a replacement who actually works and that eases the load on everyone else.[/quote]

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