I have watched for years where "oh he's a nice guy" meant more than performance when it came to evaluating performance within my organization. Walking around holding court talking all day soaking up the groups OT, using every sick day, nothing but excuses when it comes to getting the job done. These slugs are going to slip through the net because their LL6 was to cozy. Long story short some good employees are going be looking for work by the end of the week and these slugs will unfortunately retain their jobs.
Their needs to be a better way to weed out these back rubbers in positions of power so more of the slugs are identified.