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When a team collectively avoids acknowledging a bad hire

We hired someone for our small team who interviews brilliantly but consistently misses deadlines and over-promises to clients, and we're all working extra hours to cover for them. Everyone knows what's happening but no one wants to be the person who says we made a hiring mistake, including me as the manager.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You all cover for a bad hire because no one, including you, wants to admit the hire was a mistake.

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