I work in a team of 6 within a larger organisation. All of us should have more or less the same duties over the week. One of my colleagues consistently doesn't pull his weight within the team - when tasks are divvied up he always gets the less demanding jobs and even when we are all doing the same task he doesn't do it properly so that his mistakes end up being given to someone else in the team to put right. He spends a lot of his time going to other departments chatting to staff there. Many of my clients comment on how they always see him walking round the building or chatting in other people's offices and my clients who have had to have dealings with him have described him as a "waster"; "someone who hasn't got a clue" and "what the f* is his job?"
He is on a higher pay grade to other members of the team and he should carry extra responsibility for that but doesn't. A more senior member of staff confided to me that when she started she was told not to give him any higher level jobs because he wouldn't be able to do them properly, which means that when tasks or clients requiring a high level of responsibility need completing they are given to other members of the team, meaning we end up carrying more of the responsibility.
I've been annoyed about him for a long time but now I am starting to feel very resentful. I challenged my manager about him today - she has told me in the past about how incompetent he is and how she has to "protect" him in the organisation. I asked her why he was allowed to get away with basically doing sod all when the rest of us are up to our eyeballs in work, but she was full of excuses - "he's always very flexible" and " I'm trying to find jobs for him to do but there's not much to do at the moment." So why can't he be doing some of the stuff that the rest of us are doing? I know one of my colleagues in particular is doing a very pressurised and stressful task at the moment and another is doing something long and detailed which is making her feel stressed.
My manager said "he's been busy doing xyz this morning (a very undemanding job) so I replied "No, A did that, he was there but he spent the time chatting to everyone who went past" - cleaners, kitchen staff ......everyone else in the building basically so A did the work. Fortunately I had a to go and see a client at that point otherwise I think I would have got into a big argument with her.
So, AIBU and what can I do about it? What rankles even more is that he is the only male member of the team and is on a higher pay grade even though he is doing less. So, would I also BU to challenge my salary on grounds of pay equality?
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anna231a · 22/06/2017 22:42
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