Unfiltered Story #312542

I’ve never been much of a kiss ass, but after being made redundant twice in other companies, I make sure my work is good, on time and that I’m enough of a “team player ” that my name doesn’t spring to mind when cuts are made

One person who doesn’t share this mentality is my lazy coworker bill, he comes in late, disappears early. What work he does do is poor and often has mistakes.

I’ve given up trying to reason with him, for some reason his boss doesn’t even work in this location and can’t do anything. So I get on, do my work , and try not to let it annoy me.

We have missed yet another deadline thanks to some work packages not being complete on time, by unnamed people. Everyone knew it was bill and bill didn’t care.

He got paid either way and the union made it so difficult to get rid of people who had been here as long as he has, he knew he wasn’t going anywhere.

Out of the blue one of the managers asked me to review the work packages, to review and present progress. As I “had completed the most packages and was further ahead.”

Bill mocked me for this, “well done for doing so much work. Here’s some more. Idiot!”

Well I did just as I was asked, filled in the presentation with all the required charts.
Then i added some of my own, the company had a clear, no name – no blame policy, but departments weren’t people so we could use those.

I pulled every quarter’s results from the last five years, I discovered Bill was in the same department as a few others (so no use there) but he was the only person in the cost centre. So I used cost centres as a filter.

And what do you know, bill’s cost centre was consistently behind schedule for every single quarter. Some quarters nearly nothing was done. I was shocked, and I knew how little he did.

I sent it upwards and watched the fireworks.

A lot happened over the next few days, bill had several meetings in the office , the union was around a lot, and I guy (I later found out to be bills manager) turned up and had meetings with bill and some of the other managers here

We didn’t hear anything for weeks then heard bill was “promoted”.
We were all pretty passed off, until someone pointed out the lowest paid sales position is actual less than we make, plus you don’t get overtime, and screwing up is far more visible

Bill started working on other projects, which was great as him screwing up doesn’t affect us. He reported to a more senior manager, so was on best behaviour from then on