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If you don't have the direct power to hire and fire, then yeah, you have to walk. Find another gig. It never gets better.

Put another way, some bad situations are not accidental. If you try to fix them, you become the problem in the eyes of those maintaining it.

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That's more or less the answer I've seen to similar questions in the past. I think this is sadly, the correct approach the vast majority of the time.

But I am eager to hear if anyone has been in a situation where an issue like this was resolved as basic logic would expect. That is, the individual taking advantage of their seniority to do as little as possible was eventually talked with by a manager and the behavior corrected.

This is a rather good way to explain the phenomenon!

Add a simple criteria how to detect whether a situation is not accidental, and teach it to your young.

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