My remote coworker has not done any work for nearly two years. Every day, seemingly either through obfuscation or exaggeration, they find a reason to get nothing done.<p>Sometimes the dog is sick, sometimes it's a contractor doing work on their home, sometimes it's insane Rube Goldberg machines like "it's raining and my wife has astigmatism so I have to drive her around town so she can do her errands"<p>Now, I know commits are a terrible proxy for programmer productivity, but... we're talking about 8 commits over the course of ~650 days, 7 of which are README updates from this person. Sounds hyperbolic, but it's the truth.<p>Normally I wouldn't care about a bum coworker. There's a lot of them out there, unavoidable. They're usually harmless. But this person is above me in pay and title and has recently come to the helm of the project that I am working on. This person's apathy and laziness is really starting to affect my ability to do good work. The rest of my team under this individual feels similarly.<p>What's a person to do? This is not some mega-corp where do-nothing types can fly under the radar. It's glaringly obvious to boots-on-the-ground engineers that this person is a net negative. I think even our manager is at least acutely aware that this person is a bit of a bum, but they seem to take on a cognitive dissonance towards it, pretending to be aloof about the situation, to the point of allowing this person to run projects and lead teams.<p>I've spoken with this person individually and let them know how they're affecting the rest of the team, but they took it as a personal attack of character, so that just lead to this person seeing me as a threat.<p>I really love everything about my current gig and would hate to have to move teams or even find an entirely new job, but I feel I am running out of more civil options. Any suggestions from folks who've dealt with a similar situation?