Firing people is hard and fraught with peril legally for a large company in the US. It was simply easier to marginalize them and get things done in spite of the

Firing people is hard and fraught with peril legally for a large company in the US. It was simply easier to marginalize them and get things done in spite of them. That was my strategy anyhow. My management discouraged me from making a further issue of it lest someone outside the org start asking questions about how we had people on the payroll doing exactly nothing for so long. Keep in mind that this was a team I was put in charge of, not a team I built from the ground up and groomed as my own. I inherited organizational mistakes/neglect and the organization was happy to not have them see the light of day that correcting the situation would bring.