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No need to worry. "Pretty good worker" is the most important thing. And if you are the second best of ten workers, but not as good as the best, your job is safe. Especially if the best worker doesn't …

Since your manager hasn't complained about your performance, there are three possibilites: Either he or she thinks your performance is fine. … If nobody else says "your performance is bad", then you should definitely not start bringing it up. It's not something that would ever benefit you. …

I had a wise boss once who said "A good software developer can double his rating according to any performance rating, without any increase in productivity". Google for "Microsoft lost years". …

performance drop, and whether there are things that you could do and that he could do to improve the performance. … If his dropped performance isn't good enough in your opinion for you to keep him employed and to pay his salary, then you should mention that as well. …

In many places, more senior employees are on a "bonus scheme", which means their base salary is lower, but an annual or quarterly bonus is expected, which will increase their salary to a "normal" leve …

The customer (here: the client) is always right. As long as the customer pays. So as long as the customer pays for every hour you work, it doesn’t matter if their team is lazy and incompetent. If your …

If course you can quit. If the company makes millions, how much will you get? Nothing. If the company goes bankrupt, how much will you pay? Nothing. It’s your bosses responsibility. Not yours. Find …

You are a contractor. You are supposed to deliver good work for good money. You need to figure out two things: If this fellow doesn't produce good work for his money, does that affect your reputation? …

This is pure and simple a management problem. It's one of the tasks of management to set goals in such a way that by achieving their goals and getting praise and recognition, employees will also ben …

I can only go by what you are saying. It seemed that on the occasion described, your boss was stressed out and put the blame on you in an unfair way. If your boss had posted here what to do, correct a …

You may be on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Psychologically, individuals who are truly incompetent are too incompetent to notice this and are totally convinced that everything they do …

There is no need to respond to this at all. Definitely not at this point. In every company there will be people that you like, there will be people that you don't like, there are people that you don …

Where I live, you are supposed to work about 230 days a year, around 8 hours a day. Simple maths shows that you need five employees to have someone present all the time, if they need to be present. …

Once you are hired, even with probation, you cost the company real money. Salary, taxes, health insurance, cost of putting you on all systems, etc etc etc. That’s not done lightly. The company expects …

Time for a one-to-one where you explain to X that his performance is far below standard, that A and B will not be helping him in the future (which is only fair because otherwise they will achieve officially … less than other team members), and ask him if he has any ideas how to get his performance up to scratch. …