How do you cope with incompetent team members?
Kirby: You're doing nobody any favors by being passive-aggressive.  The employee needs to know, management needs to know.Talk to his manager behind closed doors.  Be reasonable.  Provide data.  Metrics can be misleading, but if you have them, now is the time.  (I recall one coworker at a job, when we looked, had done 12 CVS checkins during a given period where the average was close to 100 and the next lowest was in the 30s, or something like that.  Illustrative!)I have seen people improve if someone lights a fire under them!  That's his manager's job.  More often this doesn't happen, but it's not uncommon for the chastised person to start job-hunting and solve the issue fairly quickly anyway.I wouldn't confront him directly unless you are his manager.  If you are, talk to him ASAP.  Set up a plan with measurable deliverables, and make it clear that he'll either make the goals or be asked to leave.Little is as bad for morale as the crappy employee that drags everyone down and isn't fired.  Good managers understand this.If the company doesn't care, it's just a matter of time before more bad employees sneak in, and like a cancer the good employees start slacking off more (because why not? The idiots are never fired!) and you don't have a fulfilling job anymore.  So, that's when you dust off the resume yourself.Good luck!