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How teams adapt to accommodate poor culture fits

Our team hired someone six months ago who clearly isn't a culture fit but they're technically competent and we keep finding ways to work around their behavior instead of addressing it. Everyone has adapted their communication style to manage this person and I think we're all getting worse at our jobs because of it.

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The whole team is bending around one bad hire, and it's making everyone worse.

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