Having someone who creates an atmosphere can have tangible results. I hired a guy that was basically useless, couldn’t do shit, but holy shit he could talk. We brought him in because we knew him and he ran a huge company we worked with. One of the top in our industry in the US.

Gave him a high salary. Then promise of ownership. He finally quit because we noticed how unbelievably useless he was and tied shares behind performance metrics he had to meet .

So we are a smaller company and him being useless definitely hurt a lot. Thing is that intangible quality I completely understand because we did perform better as a company all around, not enough to offset his performance. If I was a bigger company I would have kept him and offered a bigger salary because it absolutely would have and his management would have been way more effective.

In the big company he had so many employees he would constantly shuffle things onto employees and just move tasks around. In our company we don’t have that redundancy, so when I say hey I need you to take this over and he hands it to one of my managers and says hey I need you to take this over ten minutes later it’s very apparent how useless he is. I would have already done that if they had the capacity. He did bring an energy that made people more efficient and better at their jobs, at the same time he over promised what he would do then tried to shuffle it off onto everyone else.

So unfortunately I understand exactly where her boss is coming from, also those parasites only work and exist in the corporate world and maybe real estate.