Should you confront your manager about a colleague’s incompetence?

Send an email and CC your colleagues stating that all have same thoughts. Point out specific instances in the mail and showcase how it's affecting your bandwidth and morale. This way it's documented and inaction can be escalated.

What a sick fuck. Have a life

Do not get involved. Try to minimise your own additional work due to that colleague. In one-to-one meeting with manager, let the manager know. Use the words: I just wanted to bring your attention to one more matter. Then describe the challenges that you face. Not your team. Do not gang up, do not conspire or collaborate. Do not mention about how other colleagues feel the same way. If your manager takes a negative opinion of these activity, you'll be fucked, because such a thing would create a negative impression. If the manager is not inclined to go by your judgement of your colleague's competence, you'll lose face. But it's much easier to control the narrative and restore your manager's confidence in you in a one-on-one conversation, than when it's a group mutiny. No matter what others tell you, do not get encouraged. People often sound like they're with you, but they often are not. They won't back their statements, and you'll be alone holding the bag. And moreover, if you stay out of it, you'll be able to carry the high ground of being above the fray, out of politics, and being balanced. Don't do netagiri of this sort. Conserve it for initiatives for which getting consensus is harder. It might be possible that you're the only one feeling so strongly about it. Then you may be in need of a weekend, or someone to vent to, or even therapy. But get your hate in check.

If you're doing it. Do it with the whole team. And don't even dare sound like the ringleader. If everyone complains together, he'll be forced to give feedback to the truant coaster and next time he'll have a sharper eye on the dudes misgivings. If you complain alone, it won't have the same heft.

Don't clean up and babysit then

Just bring it up casually in your 1-1s

and why're you doing your manager's job for him?

First you have to talk with your colleague about what challenges they face to deliver the required work. Do not make it personal, try to understand the reasons and maybe help bring them up to speed so you won't have to babysit. You can also tell your manager the productivity hit you're taking while cleaning up the mess and request help in bringing the person up to speed. Focus should be on meeting team's goals and your own productivity not acting against a colleague

What you can do? Stop cleaning up the shit and babysitting. You can bring the same on 1on1 with manager. And try to present it like you don’t have the problem, overall its a problem. Passively put all the points, so you don’t seem like devils advocate. Never ever drop a mail or anything, don’t give the hint that you’re backed with others also. Manager should go and find out themselves.

This is so difficult situation to deal with. If you do it the odds are going to be against you. What’s the equation between your manager and this colleague? It plays an important factor before you even politely quote him, let alone going all-out with the criticism.

You can put this to your manger to insist on improving his contributions. Perhaps that doesn't seem like you're complaining. Highlight any areas where he/she lacks competency.

Let your manager and Performance Review take care of this. Who knows may be that employee is related or is in good terms with someone in the higher management in the company?

Just let what is alloted to him be undelivered and then call out that this was alloted to X, hey X, do you have updates on this? If this is not possible, setup weekly task sheet ( kind of like sprint planning) and then it just gets called out automatically

Initially try to share feedback with the co-worker, maybe even help them out as much as you can. However, if their incompetence is becoming a blocker/ denting the confidence of the team, it’s always better to speak to the manager and let them take a call.

Just talk to your manager and give him feedback and like real feedback which can help this guy to improve. This way the manager knows and will keep a watch. Then it is up to the manager. Maybe this colleague needs some feedback from the manager and will work towards improving it.

Not everybody in the team has same level of talent. A team is brotherhood and everybody needs to watch each other's back. Once you become a lead you will understand it's importance. If your team mate is incompetent then your manager knows it before you did. It's not your job to pinpoint somebody. If you complain to your manager, you will be seen as a backstabber and everybody will start to keep distance from you. So just do your job and relax.

Really it hurts when you find your coworker getting paid more than you though you are also putting the same effort. It is a total BIAS..mMy suggestion is... don't break your head too much...just look for another job... you cannot win in this situation, these are all office politics

Try finding the right source for information passing. Every company has those panchayati people who are connected to manager. Try to have a normal conversation with your peers then see the info will be passed automatically without your name tried and tested methos

Firstly, you more seem like a person who is jealous of that persons salary. So let’s be clear that you evaluate this person very objectively. Secondly if the work has impacted your deliverables or your teams deliverables, then your manager should be the one who needs to be pointing it out rather than you doing it. Thirdly, if your manager is dumb to not understand or see through it, then you can put across a matrix of how it has or it will impact your business.

Is the guy a new joiner? In that case maybe give him some to time to ramp up and talk to the person directly about how they're causing others to deliver at slower pace. If they're doing it even after feedbacks then that's a issue and you should talk to your manager.