We recently had an employee join in October and since then he hasn’t been able to produce at pace. He takes weeks and weeks to produce something that would take me one week therefore I’m left doing majority of the work while he struggles and takes his sweet time and he has 3 years of experience on me! We’re a small design team at a startup. How can I bring this to my leads and managements attention without coming off as rancorous and complaining?

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Hmm it's weird that your leads have not noticed his pace by now, considering it's a small startup. If they really haven't, you may have to be politely rancorous and complaining so you could let your managers know.

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My lead is aware of his pace but she keeps making excuses for it. I called her out on it again Friday. At first I thought it may be because he was new, had to as adapt, learn the design system etc etc so I cut him a break but it’s only gotten worse. I suspect he doesn’t actually do anything at all and abuses company time and wfh. I’m having the lead and manager check his figma activity in the logs. Apparently admins can check because there is no way he’s taking the time he does on what he’s asked to produce compared to us two other designers on the team.

Could you ask for a transfer? If asked why, you may be able to bring this up.

We’re a small design team at an Airbnb type startup. 4 designers including the lead which doesn’t do any design work. There is no other team to be transferred to.

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