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if you like doing your job and going home, how do you bear with coworkers who are lazier but more popular than you and get away with doing less?

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/1144192

you might be an introvert, passionate about your job, or simply old enough to disregard friendships at work because you already have enough friends and a family.

The coworkers I like the most are the ones that come to work, don’t like drama, do their job and go home. That’s what I try to do.

However, there are always some established cliques who know how to play the unit / supervisor and get away doing much less, even feeling entitled to order you around, even though they are not your supervisor.

To people who experience this. How do you tolerate it? Even after changing jobs, this can happen at your new workplace, maybe it happens in every workplace?

corsicanguppy ,

Suffer it.

Ideally, get to where you accept it.

Sorry to shortcut the process, but if you can’t fix it and especially if you’d risk your own employment trying, it’s better to keep your own job and the reduce the amount that this person lives rent-free in your feelings.

jbrains ,

Moreover, if you see other people around you doing less, then you’re under no obligation to do more than they do. Even if you prefer doing your job well, on those days where you’re not up for it, don’t feel bad about doing less. As long as that doesn’t affect how your immediate manager/supervisor/boss evaluates you, do what you need to.

And let them do what they do. And if they get away with it, that’s not up to you to remedy. Employment can be as simple as an agreement to do the minimun needed for them to keep paying you as little as they can get away with. And we’re not likely to fix that problem today. 😉

Best wishes and peace.

metaStatic ,

I have a base load where I simply couldn't do less if I tried or I'd die of boredom and simply envy anyone who can.

also any shitkicker who fancys themselves in charge will quickly get told to act their fucking wage.

MajorHavoc ,

However, there are always some established cliques who know how to play the unit / supervisor and get away doing much less, even feeling entitled to order you around, even though they are not your supervisor.

This frustrated me, until I discovered that many of those folks, who looked lazy to me, understood our business better than I did, and were focusing their efforts on what really mattered.

intensely_human ,

Just play the long game, which is focusing on getting good at your job to develop your own competency. In the long term, competency will help you get ahead.

Being popular at work is one of the competencies though, so you need to figure that one out too. Branch out and improve your social skills.

People are capable of rallying around someone who’s reliable. Reliability in work becomes a big part of likability, actually. And if that’s not the case, you can nudge the culture it in that direction by thanking people for delivering what they promised to you when they promised to do it.

Basically, when personal status and competency at the job are out of sync, that’s an unhealthy state for the workplace. You can (to a degree) fix your own problem and the workplace’s problem at the same time, by just using your own voice to acknowledge and appreciate when people do their jobs well.

It’s a good feeling to go after a team as a goal, and doing the job well is a co-op aspect of the workplace. It’s like bros at the gym: each person might be working on their own thing, but they share an interest in getting better. Even if the company doesn’t have any other inspiring direction, the direction you can share with your coworkers can be “doing this in an excellent way”.

So all of this boils down to a couple simple things, and the game works at many levels. It works immediately and long term, and for yourself and everyone else:

  1. Decide that your reason for doing the job well is primarily that it feels better than doing it poorly. Train yourself to do the job well for the pleasure of a job well done.
  2. Speak up and recognize others when they do their jobs well.
D61 ,

If they’re not making more work for you, its not something that needs to be worried about.

Any chance that you’re just doing to much work? Not a dig, I’m not a chatty person and prefer to do the work until its done or I’m at a stopping point and its time to go home. So my habit is to do do way more work than anybody expected me to. (Downside of being a person who tends to work moderately well with minimal supervision.)

SuiXi3D ,
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Seriously. Unless they’re making your life at work more difficult, it doesn’t matter. Anyone doing the bare minimum is just working according to whatever agreement they signed with the company when they got hired. Anyone going above and beyond is just doing extra work for free.

SuiXi3D ,
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The title sounds like this person is jealous that someone else found out they could do less work for the same money.

ByteOnBikes ,

Seriously this

deadcatbounce ,
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    ByteOnBikes ,

    Right? Op is treating work like it’s a competition.

    brygphilomena ,

    I don’t begrudge a coworker befriending a supervisor. Maybe they are genuinely friends.

    As much as you like people who come in a do their job and go home. Many others like it when they come in and a friend is there and they can chat, have a good time, and still get their responsibilities done.

    If they can’t get their work done, then it’s a supervisors issue. You don’t have to do their workload.

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