Comments on: Help! I Work with Lazy Coworkers and My Boss Doesn’t Notice https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/ Local Goodwills are nonprofits that help people overcome challenges to build skills, find jobs and grow their careers. #PowerOfWork Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: MARIA https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-964 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:32:12 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-964 In reply to Ryan Gee.

Yes! slackers will be slackers and have too many excuses from their assigned tasks. I been here in USA for 8 years and from my first job until my last job slackers stays behind me and the management has nothing to do with this kind of people.

I did everything which doesn’t my assignment tasks to avoid staying until midnight, but the slackers just nothing happened and not worried about their work. All I have to do now is do my work and if I have extra time I help them , but I don’t want to finish their work as soon as I did before.

]]> By: Adam https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-961 Sun, 22 May 2016 21:13:29 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-961 In reply to Barbie.

I agree slackers will be slackers. I worked for a company in past that did nothing I talked to person and went to management a few times. I even asked for transfers wouldn’t move me.What it comes down to poor management.

]]> By: Ryan Gee https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-957 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:17:14 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-957 I’ve worked with a slacker for 2.5yrs now and although everyone is well aware of how slack he is, everyone just accepts it, which I think is crazy. I just get on with my work because its not my job to worry about who’s slack and who isn’t.

I will say this though: aside from leaving early every single day, this slacker has minimum 1 smoke break every 45 mins (its no secret).

Over a month and a half or so, it’s the equivalent of me having 1 full paid day off. That’s why its unfair!

And if you’re wondering, no, I don’t smoke! Smoke breaks should be taken during the break time when everyone has a break.

]]> By: lainey https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-956 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 23:37:43 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-956 What if it was the boss that’s not doing his job and leaving it for others to do? That’s how it is at my job.

]]> By: Mike https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-955 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:10:50 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-955 I used to work in a warehouse. No one had specific assigned tasks, there were just things that had to get done, we were expected to do them. I like to stay busy so I did. There were others who could apparently spend the whole day standing around chatting about trivialities. One day a co worker (who also stayed busy) asked me what we should do about
three guys were who were doing nothing.
I replied that my agreement when I was hired was that I would work a certain number of hours/day at a certain rate of pay. The agreement did not address whether any coworkers did any work or not. I put in my eight hours, made sure all critical tasks were completed and then I went home. It didn’t matter to me if anybody else ever hit another lick of work in their lives. I kept my part of the bargain. He looked at me as if I was crazy and asked why I would work harder so they could slack off? I told him I wasn’t working any harder. I just did my 8hrs and went home. What difference does it make to me if they get paid for doing nothing? I wasn’t the one paying them.

]]> By: Damon B. https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-954 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:40:01 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-954 In reply to williams.

If something happens to you, take it to court at that point. You have records. Prove it if needed. It sucks, but maybe find another job and unemotionally explain the situation.

]]> By: Damon B. https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-953 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:38:49 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-953 The article is actually spot on — you have a job to do. That is your first responsibility. Take records. Talk to them first (have the balls to bring it to them first instead of simple tattling). Then if they don’t adjust, you let your management know. Don’t know why people disagree so much with it. Slackers can change. Sometimes they just need a reason (threat).

]]> By: shar https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-952 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:22:14 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-952 In reply to Barbie.

I work with a 20 year old who knows everything and is the bosses pet and a true slacker. this also comes from his home life as he has never had responsibilities drilled into him. you know – one of those spoiled rotten kids who has everything given to him. now I have to work with him. my own sons are older than him and i do not need attitude from a co-worker – he is disrespectful and thinks the world owes him. he is making as much as i am and i have 25 years experience in the industry – something is wrong with this picture. have spoken with my manager on several occassions and he says he will speak with him – but this doesnt happen. They have to much in common and always just appear to be buddies. i am not going to loose my seniority or my job over him. just want to kick his ass and smash his cell phone – those kinds of threats worked with my own boys but i know i cant do it. all my coworkers support me 100% just wish my boss had the ba**s to warn him that his job could be terminated.

]]> By: Barbie https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-951 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:29:54 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-951 I totally agree that is article is a bunch of crap. I agree with JLondon, slackers are slackers and thats all there is to it. they dont care who picks up the work as long as the work gets done. If your not a slacker and your doing your work plus the slackers work, there is no guarantee that your boss will notice because they have their favorites and sometimes those pets are the slackers.

]]> By: williams https://www.goodwill.org/blog/career-and-financial-advice/help-i-work-with-lazy-coworkers-and-my-boss-doesnt-notice/#comment-950 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:55:07 +0000 https://www.goodwill.org/?p=18369#comment-950 I followed steps, confronted co-worker, went to management and reported this. Steps were promised and they are going to watch the slacker more carefully. But now co-workers are gossiping about me complaining to management and also getting the cold shoulder. The slacker is working harder but is no longer talking to me as before. Hard but had to be done. Why should I suffer year in and year out.

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