So, I really can't stand one of my co-workers.
This guy is lazy and can never get anything done. That's fine and dandy except it ends up making me look bad. Since he's directly above me in the management hierarchy, he is supposed to give me a lot of his information so that I can do my work. He doesn't.
We'll just call this guy "Bob".
Last week, I had to send up my marketing/client report to the company's Board of Directors. Bob needed to give me his figures and numbers from his projects in order for me to complete my marketing report. I told him a week before that I would need this information and gave him a specific date for when I would need his numbers. The day that it was due, I went into his office to ask him where it was. He told me that he hadn't looked at it yet.
It's really easy for him to write down his figures/numbers. All he has to do is look them up on a spreadsheet he has and just write them down on a piece of paper. It takes 5 minutes...tops. About an hour later, I went into his office again. He still hadn't looked at it. By now, I had one of the top managers calling me to find out where it was. Now the Board of Directors think that I am being lazy. I marched into Bob's office and said, "Look, I need this within the next 5 minutes or else
I'm going to be the one who gets in trouble." He groaned. It took him less than 2 minutes to finally get me what I needed.
I would give him more slack if he had a lot of things to do but he doesn't. He works on his kid's Boy Scouting stuff (he's the troop leader) all day. We know this because we'll have all this Boy Scout info being printed out on one of our office printers. Jeez...if you're not doing any real work at least try to be slick about it.
He really pissed off another co-worker last week. There's a project we're working on and Bob charged all his time to this project. By the end of the week, there was no money left in the budget for this project. He had
nothing completed. Lucky me, as the marketer, I got to go to the client and ask for more money since we had none left for the project. Yeah, their goes our good relations. Now my other co-worker has to work on his portion of the project at home since there's no money in the budget for him to get paid for it.
We have a proposal due on Friday that we have known about for over a month. I can't do my part until Bob gets his part done. I'm at a standstill. Bob claims that he can't do his part until this guy in our Vermont office, Chris, does his part. On Friday, Bob calls out sick. How convenient. Chris calls me and tells me that the only way he can work on his part is if Bob gave him some necessary information. Bob never bothered. I was scrambling around the office trying to find Chris the information but no such luck. I left Bob a note that said to call Chris immediately on Monday morning. Has he done this yet? Of course not. He's busy talking to one of his kids on the phone right now. He just left his house an hour ago!
So, this proposal is due on Friday and I have nothing for ir. I have had to go into work on the weekends because of this guy getting me things at last minute. I do NOT want to be at work on a holiday weekend.
My boss knows what's going on but does not want to fire Bob because he feels bad....Bob is the only person working in his family (his wife is a stay-at-home mom). You would think this would make Bob work harder since he's the only income provider but he is lazy, lazy, lazy.
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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