There's always one
February 1st 2012 12:17
Every workplace has one: the lazy, life-sucking, shortcutter who seems to need a pat on the back for everything they do right while other people continue to do the right thing as a standard part of their everyday work. The LLSS gets reprimanded for poor effort on some occasions and follows this up with feigned sickness followed by feigned renewed enthusiasm on their return. Their work is performed at an absolute minimum standard, just scraping into the acceptable range, so that when they do lift their game, they get that pat on the back of encouragement. They are the first to comment on other people's mistakes, yet they never notice their own. They make more demands for perks than any other employee, and take liberties well beyond what is acceptable. LLSS also takes pleasure in jokes at other people's expense.
I work with an amazing and dedicated team of people, except for my LLSS. In the period after bad management left the building and before LLSS came along, work was great -- everyone just got on with things, helped each other out and didn't complain. In came LLSS and suddenly a team of happy people found themselves grumpy and venting by the water-cooler, and complaining to management who always seemed to have bigger things to deal with. Everybody was stressed, and I became angrier everyday and started stooping to the levels of LLSS, talking behind their back and venting to my team, and they would vent to me. The poison spread and everyone started to let their performance slip just a little.
Management has finally started to address the issue but it's all a little too late. Why reprimand someone the tenth time they've done something wrong when they haven't been reprimanded the other nine times for the same thing? I'm thinking that this outbreak of toxic behaviour could have been prevented if management had just addressed things in the first instance. Management can now only do so much after all the lead-up.
So, as a fellow employee, what to do now?
Stop being toxic. The toxic LLSS who hates their work enough to disrespect it this much will soon move on (I hope), but there's no point in taking their place.
I work with an amazing and dedicated team of people, except for my LLSS. In the period after bad management left the building and before LLSS came along, work was great -- everyone just got on with things, helped each other out and didn't complain. In came LLSS and suddenly a team of happy people found themselves grumpy and venting by the water-cooler, and complaining to management who always seemed to have bigger things to deal with. Everybody was stressed, and I became angrier everyday and started stooping to the levels of LLSS, talking behind their back and venting to my team, and they would vent to me. The poison spread and everyone started to let their performance slip just a little.
Management has finally started to address the issue but it's all a little too late. Why reprimand someone the tenth time they've done something wrong when they haven't been reprimanded the other nine times for the same thing? I'm thinking that this outbreak of toxic behaviour could have been prevented if management had just addressed things in the first instance. Management can now only do so much after all the lead-up.
So, as a fellow employee, what to do now?
Stop being toxic. The toxic LLSS who hates their work enough to disrespect it this much will soon move on (I hope), but there's no point in taking their place.
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