Employee discovers that they're doing the majority of the work for their team, boss refuses to intervene and distribute the workload: 'Started tracking my workload out of curiosity. Turns out I’m handling roughly 70% of what our team produces.'

Being so efficient that you mask the deficiencies of the rest of your team is a double-edged sword, because as long as your team and manager are meeting their performance metrics and the work is getting done, no one will be asking questions. They're not going to care how or why it's happening either, enabling the lowest producers to collect a paycheck without coming close to pulling their weight. If you're like the original poster of this thread and are the person on your team who is keeping everything together, the chances are you probably know it already. 

Still, even if you're a high performer, it's not unusual for your manager to complain about a drop in productivity, even if you're still producing at twice the rate of the next worker. Furthermore, the problem also arises from the fact that as we move along, quality seems to matter less in everything in the name of greater and cheaper production. Consequently, the quality of the work no longer matters, as long as it yields results.

This worker discovered that they were doing no less than 70% of the work on the team, and when they brought it up to their boss, their boss's only response was that they didn't want to "mess with a good thing." This frustrated the worker further and made them consider letting the team's productivity fall on its face, prompting them to share their story with this online workplace community.

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