Hi all. I need ideas for good ways to deal with stupid old duffers that have become part of the furniture, get paid about 5 times as much as they should, and don't pull their weight. The old duffer in question works for a client organisation by the way.
I'm sure you've come across these sorts of people in the past. You know - the old timers who have been at the company since the 80s and who do next to no work (other than attending "meetings" during which they don't even contribute anything useful) yet who somehow manage to cling onto the firm's payroll because of what I can only best describe as market inefficiencies.
Any ideas? Normally other people's pay and work is their business, not mine, but as you can imagine there are often situations where their lack of contribution results in the rest of us having to unreasonably shoulder additional load. All this whilst they get paid about 3 times more than the rest of us and continue building up their gold-plated final salary pension, not to mention the years and years of redundancy entitlement they will inevitably get when they are 'made redundant' 6 months before they would have retired anyway. It really peeves me to see people getting away with this kind of thing whilst the rest of us minions work hard. Any ideas?
