I have a coworker who is constantly sick, and very often merely "sick." As a person who hasn't taken a sick day in over a year, I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who doesn't take care of themselves, which she doesn't. I could live with just that, though, but she is also a lazy whiner. If I ask her to do something - something that is her JOB - the response is usually a heavy sigh and rolling eyeballs and tales of all the other stuff she has to do.
We are all swamped here lately, and personally I'm thankful for it in this economy. She doesn't really want the job though, which brings me to the other problem. It's a family-owned company, and she is a friend of the family who initially needed the job, but now just stays on as a favor to my parents. Her attitude sucks, she does as little as she can and leaves early constantly and I have a complete lack of respect for her. She is a waste of space who contributes nothing useful to the world, including her whiny, spoiled daughter (married with 3 kids) and a live-at-home 36 year old son who doesn't pay rent.
I stay out of loyalty, and because I enjoy my job, but I'm not gonna make it much longer with her. Lack of respect makes it nearly impossible for me to be civil to her (I have my own temper problems that I acknowledge and am working on). She is overweight and has recently had bariatric surgery, which she is convinced that this will solve all of her problems, and she comes back soon. I have to be able to work with her and not tell her what I really think and not respond to her irksome behavior, and I'm very concerned that I won't be able to do this.
Any serious advice is welcome.
Signed,
Aaarggh!
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." Catherine Aird
