StartupAnon192

>You say you're willing to walk away. Do it.

Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive?

And given the context of the person in question, who was fired from the last startup for lack of productivity, I don't think this will do much to my reputation. My reputation is pretty good right now. Yes, I feel a little dirty about how this situation is going down, but it's not out of malice. It's out of wanting to work with excellent people and build an excellent product.

The founder is also extremely competent at software development, but I am leaving him off of the development team for the sake of this story. I've worked with plenty of competent people, this employee is just not one of them. I don't mean it to sound like I'm the only competent person on the team, but the team is merely 2 people, so I am literally the only competent person on the team.

He shouldn't be in the startup game if his circumstances means he can't perform his duties at the startup to make it successful. There are plenty of other software jobs more geared towards flexible schedules and a slower pace.

We're a small team and we're all responsible for the same end goal. If one of us isn't pulling the weight, it's the responsibility of the others to rectify that. I don't believe the solution is to ignore the situation and "worry about myself." Especially when the resources we're spending on this employee can be better spent on someone more productive.

Your situation doesn't sound like my coworker. I hate the idea of counting hours, but if I had to, the coworker does about 20 per week. He abuses our very lax schedule (we don't have an office) and vacation policy to spend as much time as he can doing other things. I know what he works on, and what he's dealing with since our team is very small. The facts are that he works as little as possible, and only has excuses to show when we try to confront him about what should have been done.