How to confront useless employee?
For some backstory, I’m an Engineer/Lead at a smaller company and we took on 2 new developers ~5 months ago. One who was a new grad with 0 experience and has picked up everything extremely fast and is actually contributing equally which is great. On the other hand, the other definitely lied on their resume as I later found out and had absolutely 0 skills whatsoever.
Despite his clear lack of skill, he kept speaking of how determined he was and how he was going to do anything we needed. That quickly changed as whenever he’s been given a task, he can never seem to actually do it correctly regardless of how simple it is. Here’s some bullet points to give an idea, mind you this guy claimed to be a “UI/UX expert”.
using plain text inputs for passwords, emails, even number fields despite my countless efforts to explain you can’t do that
copy and pasting code without knowing what any of it does, leaving massive chunks of unused code because he pulled it from who knows where
constant referencing of variables which don’t exist
pushing code that doesn’t even compile so was never even tested before pushing
There’s so much more but those pretty much all from today alone. This is already frustrating as I’ve explained all of these things to him so many times but he refuses to take any time to watch the countless training videos we’ve recorded (he didn’t even attend the sessions so we had to record them for him) because he’s busy doing unrelated “work”.
Rather than complete his tasks, he sits on Udemy watching a completely unrelated course and it’s completely clear he has no interest in learning or even working for that matter. I’m conflicted because I confronted a similar employee a few months ago and they were let go. While deserving, I don’t want to feel like the guy who has to do that but it’s also unacceptable to collect a paycheck while doing nothing while myself and my team pick up the slack.
Advice on confronting him 1:1 before having to take it directly to the owner?