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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
I learned a very tough lesson that sticking your neck out in the hopes of removing someone from your company that is not your direct report (and that you have the authority over) can be an incredibly risky move. Your passion to do good work can be twisted into toxicity, and when you go that far, it's basically a lock that one of you won't end up continuing.
It kind of depends on a lot of other factors. Personally, under the circumstances you describe, I would hate working there and if stuck with that guy, I would have quit as soon as I could. So trying to get the guy ousted under those circumstances is low risk. Either it works and you get to keep the job, or it doesn't and you quit. But you'd have quit anyway, if you hadn't said anything, because of the guy you had to work with.
I've experienced at least of those guys at nearly every job I've worked at, eventually. Either get me out of working with this guy, or I'll quit sooner rather than later. Sometimes they're incompetent, sometimes they're just really unpleasant. I worked with a guy once who was a very competent engineer but so hard to work with. He wanted to win every argument and his main tactic was that he was willing to argue about stuff longer than anyone else, so he usually won by attrition. Ironically he really liked me and when I left the company he sent me many emails trying to get me to come back, and lobbied the company to contact me and offer me more money, etc.
(I was underpaid at that job, and after I quit they offered me a very large raise, which actually offended me a lot. Anyone who manages people who reads this: consider... if you would be willing to pay someone more if they threatened to quit, maybe just consider paying them that now)