re: #15 Kragar

I don’t know what is worse, not having enough people to do a job right in the allotted time or being given a known fuck up as help, then having to explain why you didn’t give him anything to do.

The latter. There are some folks who not only don’t accomplish anything themselves, they actually reduce the productivity of others. There was a postdoc I worked with who not only didn’t do dick in his year in our lab, but also was so obnoxious that other folks in the group would avoid the lab when he was there.