“Lazy Coworkers Get Paid As Much As You”: People Share 30 Honest Answers To What Employment Has Taught Them

The only time it makes sense to go above and beyond is if you own your own business.

More work, more getting yelled at, first to get fired. It's the nepos, a*s kissers and credit hogs that get rewarded. I'm so happy to be retired out of office culture. The petty cr*p that goes on can rival any telanovela out there.

I've coined it through "Curse of Competency". It's my life story.

Being employed has taught me I wish I didn't need to be employed.

I always say this too ..

I have to take up smoking then 🙄

Sad how every employer tolerates smokers taking smoke breaks, most anytime they please, while non-smokers are compensated in no way what so ever. One place I worked, one manager would spend at least 1/2 of their 8 hour shift outside smoking. Store was already understaffed. Many customers when approaching the store would see how many cars were in the lot. If it was more than 2 they'd drive right on by because that meant there were already 2 waiting to be assisted.

It's not even a nepotism thing. I'm guilty of it myself as a former manager. My biggest gripe was that you can't just fire someone for cause, even at 'hire at will' jobs. If 'Joe' calls out 3 times this week, we have to reassign his tasks. If it's not calling out, it's someone not doing their job. And if it's a performance issue, nothing ever comes of write ups because corporate doesn't want to fire anybody. Managers don't always have the power you think. We can write someone up but HR has to approve most firings. And it's because they don't want anyone to collect unemployment pay-that's what it boils down to. I often asked a lot of my best worker because she was the only one I didn't have to babysit and could trust. She quit-rightfully- because she saw the benefit never came due to the inability of me to hold staff accountable. And she new I wasn't just 'letting stuff go'. You lose good workers because they're being abused and other get away with murder because of how the system is.

Or at my company, goes out getting drunk with the boss

I am making a good salary from home $6580-$7065/week , which is amazing under a year ago I was jobless in a horrible economy. I thank God every day I was blessed with these instructions and now its my duty to pay it forward and share it with Everyone, Here is I started__________ 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭.𝐜𝐨𝐦

we had a very different, and vulgar, way of saying that where I used to work... but 100% true at any rate

Don’t do that task, delegate to someone else…

All the time!

Toxic parents be like this too.

Or when you always arrive at work 15 minutes early, then a year later, you're 5 minutes late one day and your boss says "Nice of you to show up." He tried to fire me, but I won.

I was accused of stealing by the owner. Then I was expected to buy her a birthday gift,a week later. Nope

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?

Yeahhhh. I gotta say this one was a hard work lesson….

I work in a very toxic environment that is thanks to just one person. When they were reported by numerous employees was told by the boss that they're retiring soon and it's cheaper to just wait it out. 19 more weeks. I hope I make it.

I do not trust open-door policies. It's a way to trick employees to bring their guards down and spill too much info that can be used against you later. Plus, if your job has a policy against discussing wages, then it wouldn't make sense to have an open-door policy, too. That's what you have to watch out for.

Toxic environments -do- change. Usually by getting worse.

Truth!!!

Always, get it in Written form ! Even if you say you trust the higher up. They can deny that anything is said or done.

Even the littlest things! From PTO to "can I come in two hours late on Tuesday?" Email can be even better than physical approvals because it'll never get "accidentally" lost and is time-stamped!

True

And even then, its not a guaranteed thing.

That really isn't true. I've had a couple of bosses who were extremely thoughtful and considerate of me and my well-being - one to the extent of getting the company to pay for some counselling to help me understand why I got stressed in certain situations (which I now understand, and how to cope with them). Sadly, it's quite a low percentage of bosses, but I'd like to think as a manager that I took a significant interest in my staff as people.

My current job seems to care but they do look for patterns, such as common days being taken off close together often. I don't trust my supervisors really care. Went to work with a runny nose and a feeling a bit off but just able to work the whole day, with a mask on. One of my close team members told me not to come in if I'm feeling more sick tomorrow. This morning I felt tons worse so I did. A lot of people are away this week, leaving them heavily understaffed. Not my problem. I know one co-worker who works close to my area that came to work still unwell, but masked. Another lady has been walking around sneezing. Shouldn't come as a surprise to them.

If you die on the job, your placement will just step over your dead body.

I've said that there'll be someone new in your chair, before you're in the ground.

I read somewhere that a guy worked at an insurance place and they wouldn’t give him any time off for sick leave because he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He passed away and for days after he was getting phone calls and registered letters threatening his job if he didn’t come in to work, which he couldn’t because he was dead. His daughter answered a call and screamed at the CEO - “my dad can’t come to work because he’s dead”! There was utter silence on the other end then an audible click. They never even sent flowers or anything. Some work places you get lucky and you’re supported but other not so much.

And yet my mindless perfectionism wins again.

I wish I could find out what I like doing so that I can stop doing things I hate.

What if the lazy worker is the owner?

Yep, had a new hire who did NOTHING and he got paid the same as me, I had worked 12 years at that point. Did his college homework at work and myself and another employee did his job.

But they have less options to move around or get promoted..

This can be true. And the fact that I didn’t earn more for doing more didn’t bother me as much as how little they got away with. But I will tell you this, it doesn’t happen all the time, but I caught they eye of some very important people. And when 2 of my colleagues and myself were making below average for our field and people were leaving and making much more money, I was able to secure a $25k raise for all 3 of us in an afternoon from a conversation with the VIP of VIPs. If you are getting run over leave, but if you play it right it is possible to ultimately benefit quite well from doing more for less for a bit.

My malicious compliance was to make sure MY areas of responsibility were taken care of. When asked to pitch in to help the (less than enegetic) co-worker, I ALWAYS had another task to do. Nope,Nope,Nope