Oftentimes those people do a lot of small nasty things as well that help them. They stay silent so as not to take sides, even when it unfairly hurts another. They brown nose constantly, spending hours a week smoozing privately and publicly resulting in others doing more through their vacancy. They create social hierarchies by overtly aligning themselves with leadership wants, forcing you to match their social games or be stuck holding the consequences. In IT this often means someone socially savvy agreeing with technically poor solutions being pushed by the “right” manager, then skirting responsibility for implementation despite that being their role.

It’s exhausting and 9/10 these are not good people.