This logic has a nice way of being used against you. I think the employees you feel are useless would sack you if they could. Focusing on productivity is of co

This logic has a nice way of being used against you. I think the employees you feel are useless would sack you if they could. Focusing on productivity is of course the right metric, but the metric that gets used in practice is “Which of you helped advance your manager’s career?” After all, your manager is the one who decides who goes, and there’s no incentive to keep someone that does nothing for them over someone who helps them look good to the VP — which is who decides whether your manager goes. Same rule applies recursively.