Your level of commitment to your work and the company you work in affect how you do your tasks and responsibilities. Whereas the hireling only aims to deliver average work, you intend to produce an output that reflects your credibility and accountability.
When you are in the unfortunate situation of being teamed up with the hirelings, they may sap all the energy out of you, especially when you are responsible for them. You end up polishing their mediocre work to not mess up your record of delivering exceptional output every time.
But to what extent can you keep this habit of taking up their load?
In fact, you deserve a better team.
But for now, you need to take in all the inconveniences the hirelings cause not because you should but because you can. Eventually, when it’s time to retrench, hirelings are always the first to go.
As for you, you are indispensable.