Nepotism? I work for a small marketing startup company and this situation has been stressing everyone out for the longest time…. Everyone in the team thinks the younger brother is incompetent, lazy, and untrustworthy. All he does is be late to or skip meetings constantly, complain to his brother (ie team manager) about people he doesn’t like (which has had some people transferred to another team), take other people’s credits, mess up things that we set up, exhaust out budget on stupid stuff etc etc… but the big brother is always protective of him and justify his actions to a baffling degree. He even gave him a raise recently for ‘his hard work’ wtf
Some of us have thought about raising this to our HR but since this small company is founded by a handful of people who came from the same company including the big brother, our CEO and the head of HR, we think it might backfire hard even though everyone in the team know how easy everything is going to be without the younger brother.
Quite often I’m beyond frustrated and determined to work to rule but it’s hard to see other teammates bearing extra work because of him. We just want him gone from our team at least but not sure if there’s anything we can do about it at all. Anonymously complain to HR using a team email address or plan an intervention for the brothers.. or just stay quiet and do a bare minimum as a team so they face the consequences?