I am in a team where we all do the same job for a different area of a large company, so for example we all manage the finances of a different area of the business, we all have the same job title and are paid the same.
One of my colleagues has a susbtantially smaller workload. She never does a full 9-5 day, she’s never in the office, she’s always on holiday and we believe she’s going away and some of the days not booking the time off officially as no one’s tracking where she is and she’s commented before about never working in the afternoons.
Management do know that she takes the piss to some extent and we have all mentioned it to our manager, but mostly about issues with how she communicates and deals with some work tasks and broadly that the workloads are uneven.
They are addressing the uneven workload by providing support for myself and a couple of others who are very busy, but this will just give me time to now work on the bigger projects I have and to ignore, so I will still be vastly busier than her.
My main frustration is that someone is being paid to do nothing and enjoy her paid work days enjoying life without having to book holiday! While I’m working 9-5 every day to get everything done,
I am now at the point where I’m so frustrated i want to say something. My manager is nice but I don’t think she will do anything so I am thinking of mentioning it to the big boss who I get on well with.
But mentioning it won’t change anything for me, my workload will stay the same, so I don’t know what to do.
Has anyone been in this situation before?