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by FuckButtons 215 days ago
"Maybe because they have so much free time to do office politics because they’re not doing much work.”

I mean, isn’t that always the way? Honestly, I feel like you could do a lot worse than just firing most of the people who demonstrate above average social skills. Sure, some would be fired unnecessarily, but I can’t think of any engineers that have seemed almost pathologically shy that also didn’t want to work hard.