I’m starting to resent dysfunctional introverted coworkers.

I’m middle of the road, I guess it’s called an ambivert. I need alone time to recharge and generally like doing things alone. But I also like doing things with people and going into high energy situations sometimes. I like the variety.

For context, I work in software on a design team. I work with painfully dysfunctional introverted people, and I’m starting to hate it. They are damn near useless. They don’t speak up in meetings to add anything of value, they don’t do anything to learn or better their craft, they’re not proactive about anything and just wait around to be told to do something. I swear if no one made them do anything, they’d decompose waiting for someone to tell them what to do next instead of reaching out and figuring stuff out with other people. They’re just skating by while the rest of us are taking on heavy loads of work because it needs to get done.

But then I’m the one expected to reshape meetings to accommodate for them to be able to contribute, I’m the one that’s supposed to call on them to get a comment from them like we’re in grade school.

And then one of them complains they’re not getting promoted at work. Like no shit Sherlock, you don’t do anything except hide in meetings and do the most minimal work you can. Get your head out of your ass and stop posting about bullshit astrology on Facebook during work hours.

And I feel bad for feeling this way. We’re very friendly, they are good, kind people. But they fuckin suck at what they do and blame it on being introverted. I think it’s an excuse.