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One idea is to give him a special feature to build that you make up, that's neither critical to operations nor interfering much with everything else that you gu
by d--b 1y ago
One idea is to give him a special feature to build that you make up, that's neither critical to operations nor interfering much with everything else that you guys are doing.
Make it something big. Something where he might get a team of his own, eventually maybe. He'll feel important and will go and work on that thing for months that noone actually gives a shit about, and let everyone else in peace.
Like for instance, if your main product is a website, convince your manager that you need to develop the same website but as a native app, and that this guy should be doing it. Hopefully that never makes it to production.
- d--b 1y agoAlternatively, you can give him critical hyper risky tasks, that he will necessarily fail at with catastrophic consequences, and get him fired for that. I realize that these sound like scheming, but this kind of shit actually works. The other alternative is to go to your manager's manager. A risky move, but I have done it and survived to tell the tale.