I'm with the other poster who expressed incredulity at being "dragged
down." If anything, I fear the opposite -- being paled in comparison to
an overachiever.
Ask HN: What to do about underperforming coworker
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#12Get your manager involved, get a new job for yourself, or learn to live with it. Maybe start sending job posts to this other person and see if you can help get them a new job?
It’s very unlikely that you’ll be able to help this other person “improve” (and it might cause new problems for you if you try).
You might also need to realize that the other person isn’t underperforming and that you don’t have full information about the situation.
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#13You can easily get a raise/promotion when working with "underperformers", so what are you waiting for?
But probably your college is not an underperformer.
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#14I see a number of recommendations to involve the manager. That the manager isn’t aware that an individual is underperforming is the actual problem.
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#15How is a coworker dragging you down? You just do your own work? Leave it to the manager to deal with it. Now if you're the manager, then I'd say you should question yourself if you really should be one if you can't deal with such a common situation.
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#16Sometimes it could be you dragging them down by making them feel bad about themselves.
Are they uncomfortable in a group setting, going through health issues?
Let’s define underperforming fairly. Are they new? Just because they don’t match the team, maybe they’re learning still. It’s good to reflect.
Also, talk to them, be a friend. It’s a team not a competition.
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#17I quietly cleaned up his messes anytime his files got dumped on me for some reason, then quietly and more happily cleaned them up for another six months after he was finally fired.