[agumonkey]

I just suffered the same fate. There's a thick fog of absurdity in teams where people who lacks knowledge, drive and desire to do great work waste time on nothing, bragging about nothing, while slowing everything you try down (even when done with a wide care about the team operations in general) [0].

I lost the will to fight even though I think about it on a daily basis but now I just coast along. My issue is that time passes and I don't want to live my life like this so I keep dreaming of a way to sustain myself and then do better work for better purposes.

[0] it's a common pattern in groups, I've seen that in many different jobs.. it can be jealousy, old age fatigue making you sour, mob think, lack of communication but in the end, there's a natural tendency to create friction. It's the complete opposite of childhood playtime.. where everybody had one goal : maximize fun together in some game (Intrinsic motivation 100%). Adult life makes this very rare.