Some guys aren't good at the work but are great moral support on the job. Some suck at the work and they don't improve the vibe, they gotta go.
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From a Professor of analytical chemistry I had for 3 years to someone who failed the class and had to do an extra exam and failed it as well
"Mit dem was du nicht weißt, können drei andere durchfallen"
Which roughly translates to
"With what you don't know, three others can fail as well"
My favourite is Fritz Zwicky's "spherical bastard" - someone who's a bastard whichever way you look at them
Oh damn. I might integrate this into my lexicon.
Chris Hadfield, astronaut, says in his book that in space everyone is either a +1, a 0 or a -1.
Everyone should strive to be a +1, but mostly being a 0 is fine. Being a -1 is pretty terrible, a whole other person is needed just to get back to a stable state. Which is basically what the message above is getting at.
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Context: I was Head of Department and one of the young officers aboard ship was not quite the brightest and unfortunately did not quite realize this. The young gentleman was attempting to supervise a working party of sailors under the eye of my Chief of Department and was making a royal mess of things. Before I could step in, the Chief took him aside and whispered a few things to him. The young gentleman left soon after.
I asked the chief what he said and the response was, "The young Sir makes excellent coffee. I told him that he should go enjoy a mug in the wardroom."
Ever since then, when describing young officers that do not quite measure up, it's always been "they make excellent coffee".
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This is one that you might hear early in a career, get good out of spite, and drop on an incompetent newbie of your own shortly before retiring. An insult handed down through generations of reformed shitty tradespeople.
Some of my favourites, might've been mentioned here:
Wisdom has been chasing you, but you've always been faster.
You have a unique way of contributing to the discussion without adding anything.
And yet they keep Terry around anyway.
～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
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