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You found a 1× engineer; the worst engineer that can keep the job.

>>db48x+(OP)
Over time we actually found him to be more of a -2x engineer, but thats another story

edit: reminded me of the old joke

A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer returns home with 12 gallons of milk and says, “They had eggs.”

>>steveB+S
The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk

>>steveB+S
Ah, the "and" ruins that joke for me by signifying a separate clause. I think the original is:

> A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”

>>steveB+S
> more of a -2x engineer

You just needed to find another one like him, and bam, +4×.

(It is actually conceivable that two bad engineers could mostly cancel each other out, if they can occupy each other enough, but it’s not the most likely outcome.)

>>steveB+S
'Antiwork' - every hour they work uses up more than an hour of other engineers' time in questions, meetings, and later fixes.

>>glxxyz+n11
Correct - they do bad work quickly which requires 2x the time on repairs