Our collection of teams has one guy who has been a consistent dickhead to everyone, for years, while not being a performer or even particularly good at his job, but for a variety of reasons (mostly because he has a few disabilities and was good friends with an old manager who has since left the company) has managed to stick around for years.
You just described one of my coworkers who is the most incompetent clown. He's been at my company for over 12 years and also has a disease which I think prevented him from being fired.
Your reply just screamed at me
This fucking guy is lazy, incompetent and never does a full week's work.
His kid is sick, he doesn't feel good, his girlfriend is sick so he has to take care of her. He has to go to the dentist. He has to pick up his kid at school. He just had an MRI and has to go because he feels bad...
I've had 6 MRIs during my 2018 cancer thing and it does NOTHING to you.
I've expressed my opinion to a couple of my bosses but the answer I got was "Well we need to accumulate proof and bla bla bla".
They're just scared of being sued and this idiot takes the place of someone who would kill to be in his place.