I can’t believe someone here says that The current work force feels they are entitled to everything while doing nothing. My typical work day consists of doing the most important work first, then doing more work, then more work, followed by work that was probably supposed to be done by someone else but it wasn’t. I have about a triple workload every day.
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I would make sure that incompetent employee maintains responsibility for their rightful load. Don't get an ulcer by trying to cover for the unworthy.
My department took an incompetent employee from another similar group (grade 6) who couldn't learn his new job, so I had to do his job and mine . On top of that they gave me about 50% of a retiring person's work who was a grade level higher.
After a year of this (with no pay raises this year, of coarse) I left for greener pastures. There are way too many people who know they are untouchable for HR reasons.
For the record, I don't blame the incompetent employee. It truly isn't HIS fault he was hired for a job he did not have the skills to do. Who I blame are the people in management that force these hires on the FLMs then get to walk away bragging about what they've accomplished.
I remember there was some lady in RNB that would do nothing in the afternoon but hawk her Warriors season tickets loudly over the phone to the highest bidder.
get back to work
I put in about 6 hours of solid work every day
About two hours doing my work, two hours wasted on meetings and worthless make-work, two hours redoing someone else’s broken work, leaving two hours to do nothing because I’m completely blocked by others or by the incompetence of my project management.
Based on what I see around me, I could probably do a lot less without it really affecting my reviews or pay. So I would say yeah, there are some people effectively doing nothing.
You’re wasting your effort if you’re not compensated for that extra work.
I hope you have a competitive comp package to put up with that workload.