New hire destroying team culture and i can't do anything about it.
Typing on phone, not English native.
This kid, fresh out of college joined just over a year ago about 6 months after i was promoted into management, and let me tell you he's a nightmare to work with. Everyone and i really do mean everyone in the team hates him, like actual hate, he's rude, arrogant and just generally unpleasant to work with, and worst of all, he completely ignores and shits all over policy, doesn't follow dress code and will show up in clothes looking like he was out clubbing and came in to work without going home (which does actually happen from time to time), half the week he'll just log in from home and work from there despite RTO policy having started around the time he got hired and the other half when he actually comes into the office he's late every time, he'll skip meetings or worse, be playing games on his phone during meetings that he attends.
And the main problem about all of this, is that he is by far the best performer on the team, this kid is a genius, like actual genius, we have senior staff asking him for help and reviews, he's by far the best engineer on the team, so he sort of became untouchable, upper management doesn't care as long as he delivers and despite his attitude the team is better with him than without him, even with everyone's individual performance being worse with him around, his deliverables alone make the team perform better with than without him.
It's infuriating because it feels like company policy only applies to us simpletons and geniuses like him can trample all over us without consequence.
Now my boss overruled me to give this kid a promotion i was going to give to my best direct report, this guy has been working his ass off for this promotion and he knew it was coming, but now i have to explain to him that "actually the new kid you hate got it over you despite being here for 1/3 of your time and shitting all over company policy and team culture"
sorry for the rant