Why does my coworkers lack of work ethic make me so mad?
We work the same job (often share responsibilities), make the same wage and she takes one day off a week. It is never pre planned and always “an emergency” Every week for the last 4 months. My numbers are 3x hers, and I get handed more side tasks (which is good but also not good). When I mentioned to management that when she is away I take on some of her work, my manager says “she has it hard. You have easier clients to deal with than she does” like it all has to do with clients and not how we make the sale or build those relationships. She continually shows up to meetings unprepared, and never learns. Every report is the same and it’s painful to watch. Sometimes her reports take a full hour because she just rambles about nonesense and doesn’t actually report on what she is supposed to. My boss told me when I mentioned she is never prepared that “hers take longer because she has tricky situations” like no! She just shit talks clients. I take 10 minutes to give my monthly report and she takes a full hour because she makes excuses up for every single one why they didn’t work out. They can’t all be that bad. When I take an hour off at the end of the day for an appointment, I get told to make up my hours. When I come unprepared, I get called out. If she doesn’t want to have to talk in a meeting, she just has one on ones with the boss immediately after and he has to tell all of us the details about what she is working on. She takes her days off specifically on big meeting days, and when she does show she doesn’t speak a single word, then asks the boss later if she can take other people’s tasks that were assigned. Me? I get called out and tagged all day long on teams group chats.
A coworker has never made me so irked by their presence. Maybe I’m just mad someone like that gets paid the same as me.
Do I keep my head down and just keep working hard and taking all the heat, or leave and find a team where I can be more focused on myself and not dragged down by this energy. This girl and I share a lot of responsibilities and I think that’s not working.
I’m open to being analyzed psychologically I guess, someone therapy me if you sense underlying shit.
I’ve cried everyday for the last week at work not because of her, but I’m so burnt out. I feel like I’m carrying the weight and also the tension she is projecting about me talking to the boss. I go home and hide from my son so he doesn’t see how tired I am.