I would keep the one that is best for the company. It may be that the prickly one is an ass, or it may be that he/she is implementing change and the dead wood don't like it.
I have seen that before!! The "dead wood" may be the lazy ones, and sometimes the prickly ones tear it up and make the dead woods look bad. So obviously, Mr. Prickly has a big target on his a$$. Ask me how I know...![Smiley :)](https://www.autos.ca/forum/Smileys/CarTalk/smiley.gif)
LOL, same here.
"Hey, we've got a good thing going on here. Don't make us look bad and wreck it for all of us" Hear that one, Bob? ![:rofl2:](https://www.autos.ca/forum/Smileys/CarTalk/rofl.gif)
It's funny, I worked in a factory for a few weeks in the Summer once, sorting coat hangers of all things. These giant boxes would come from retail stores full of tangled up coat hangers, they would be emptied onto a really wide conveyor belt, and we would have to lean over and untangle them as they went past, sort them into different types, and hanging them up and re-boxing them neatly to go back to the store. It was back breaking work. Me and a few other kids just messed around all night whilst working, and we still did more than DOUBLE the number of boxes the regular staff managed in the same time! We were temps, and the regular team leaders were not happy with us for showing them up.
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I also got into a bit of bother a few years ago for ignoring office politics and telling the VP of UK Credit Operations he was an incompetent swerver. Oh well, I was right.
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And I still
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hate tangled coat hangers...
![Grin ;D](https://www.autos.ca/forum/Smileys/CarTalk/grin.gif)