I've found the "competent but nice" crowd is actually usually: 1. Too mentally ill to do ANY job. ( 99.9% of the time it is just untreated anxiety or ADHD they

I've found the "competent but nice" crowd is actually usually: 1. Too mentally ill to do ANY job. ( 99.9% of the time it is just untreated anxiety or ADHD they have avoided treatment for ) 2. Not doing any work and deflecting when people start to smell their stink. Either way: this "nice but incompetent" person stresses out, nay, TORTURES the rest of the team trying to wipe their ass and keep them afloat. "They're nice but..." No they aren't nice. They are emotional vampires sucking the blood from the rest of the team. Put them on a PIP, and if they don't improve fire them. I've seen enough ruined dreams and burned out engineers to no longer feel pity for the "nice but..." people. I cannot be atlas carrying the burden of everyone else's problems. And it is unfair for someone to ask that of me.