Dear boss,
There are seven of us in this bunch you call a team. Five of us usually approach our work with a "do it once, and do it right" attitude, and generally do what we can to keep the client happy. But two of the group sit on their lazy arses all day long, never bothering to pay attention to any instruction or information, refusing to learn anything new, and expend more effort dodging work than they'd expend doing the work they so assiduously avoid.

So the rest of us have complained. We've pointed out the discrepancy between our work and theirs, and their evident inability or unwillingness to do the job they're paid to do, but have you done anything about it?

Have you, fuck. Instead, you'd rather piss and moan at the five of us about our poor attitude, preferring to keep a pair of workshy scroungers on the books than do something remotely resembling actual management.

There's only one thing the five of us would like to know: just what blackmail material have the other two got on you, that you'd go to great lengths to keep them in clover instead of disciplining and sacking them?

Cunt.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:30, 4 replies)

i feel your pain
We had a 'tech' in a place I worked a while ago.

'Glassback' they called him, he would take the months of May to Sept off every year due to back related illness and then take his 6 weeks holiday between then and Christmas then repeat it all again next year.

He could barely spell, didn't know how to switch on his own PC and when asked to do any work he replied "fuck off, i'm busy"

We complained several times to the manager who would say we had a bad attitude and that he was a good guy and just needed help. He had been working there as long as I had been alive, that's 30 years.....30 years of work dodging.

Every time they tried to discipline him or even think of getting rid of him he would call the union in. In the end they restructured the whole department, an re-interviewed everyone for their own jobs just to get rid of the guy.
( Bamboo Steamer, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 12:01, closed)

If this decription is anything to go by,
we are quite possibly working in the same office.
(augsav forgot about B3ta, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 12:02, closed)

Very similar tale...
Worked with a guy who would be off sick monday, tuesday and wednesday and come in on a thursday and friday, but because he was so far behind, he would come in on a Sturday and sunday to catch up (double time?).
On the monday he would phone in sick saying he had come back to work too early and and would be off again until the thursday and then repeat the cycle.

This pissed off every other person in the department.

I arranged a get well soon card, that had a picture of a donkey and the message "Get off your fat ass and get well soon".
Everyone in the office signed it... but did I send it to him?
No I didn't. I sent him a photocopy of it every week until normal (by our standards) attendance was resumed.
(bof, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 13:20, closed)

It's harder to sack people than you might think
Or at least, not without paying out £moolah.

The worst thing is how they make YOU feel like a sap for actually doing your job, since you'd evidently get paid even if you didn't.

Maybe they should redefine slacking off as gross misconduct. That'd sort the problem. Plus, it would make work into a hellish and terrifying ordeal. Double win.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 15:19, closed)