martyp
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I have seen this as well. Not pretty. I have seen grown men brought to tears. Funny thing, the worst case was a guy that was a nice guy, performed well, just not the superstar they felt he could/should be. He was brilliant, but not driver/over achiever. Did not want to work past his 40 hours, travel, or take on new challenges to lead. They eventually drove him out with a series of poor reviews and butt woopin's I tried to save him, but had to get out of the way.
In my case I had my younger employees, at the same classification level, complaining that the older employee was not competent. They were tired of propping him up. I tried to work with the older employee but he had 35 yrs at the company and wasn't about to suddenly become a better programmer. Because it was a personnel matter I couldn't discuss it with the younger employees so they were pissed and thought I wasn't doing anything. Eventually, the whole group was downsized (for a bunch of other reasons) and I ER'd. Problem solved.