and yet he's actually worse than than all of them.
there's a quadrant for types of people in a workplace. smart and hardworking, smart and lazy, dumb and hardworking, dumb and lazy. a standard exercise in junior level management/leadership is to have the new manager/leader pick which one of the types of people he should avoid/get rid of. Most pick dumb and lazy, but that is the wrong answer. The worst type of employee is dumb and hardworking because while dumb and lazy doesnt get you anywhere, dumb and lazy is also too lazy to actively F things up royally. Dumb and hardworking will absolutely destroy an organization - too dumb to realize what they are doing is BAD, too hardworking to stop before they've pushed everyone off the cliff.
chump was a dumb but hardworking guy, mac was a dumb but lazy guy. which category do you think tater falls in?