Does anyone here have lazy colleagues?

[SummersBreeze]

I am a carer. The boss is gone and she scheduled me to be the main person on duty where I have to be a live in for 3 weeks. There are respite workers scheduled to come and go to relieve me of some hours.

I'm having some issues with one of them. She's a nice lady but theres something appalling happening.

She was scheduled to come in at 6pm last Saturday. She texted me and said she will be there at 6 and then a while after 6 she texted me again and said she was running late and she will be there for 6.30. It was 7pm by the time she came. The was scheduled to finish for 1pm on the Sunday. I was scheduled to be there from then until Monday was going to be my next break. She took over an hour off on Sunday morning to cook herself a breakfast and take a nice long shower and had me filling in for her during that time.

There was a few more times during the week where she was dead late too.

When I am up from 5-6 o clock in the morning, and it's hitting 3/4/5 o clock in the day often there's not even 5 or 10 minutes for myself during these hours and I need her to be on time.

She was supposed to come to me at 3 o clock on Friday. I was up since 5 o clock in the morning. I really needed some time off for myself at that stage. I was hungry and I was tired and my head was sore from a headache. It was 3.30 by the time she came to me.

Currently she's due to knock off at 10am. She took her time to get up this morning. She then told me and 8.45 that she was going to brush her teeth. That wasn't an issue for me only it's clear to me now that she decided to go for a shower too. I was hoping on going for a wash myself because I need it now but she's still stuck in the bathroom and she will fuck off out the door bang on 10am leaving me there for the rest of the day and night into tomorrow. She has been scheduled to provide relief for me. Not to treat the place like a spa or holiday camp.

i wouldnt overthink op we are all lazy at times

Does she do it when the boss is there? If her contract stipulates specific hours, then she does those specific hours, not turn up when she feels like it.

Everyone has lazy colleagues, but this one is a) taking the piss b) putting you, and arguably more importantly, vulnerable people, at risk.

Have a word with the boss.

@bruce43mydog

i wouldnt overthink op we are all lazy at times

Yes there's "lazy" and there's blatently skiving , not fulfiling your contract hours and passing the buck .

This is the latter .

I work with a few lazy shirkers .
I will point out in person, (not in an accusatory tone) more a "Oh that needs done" type
Or report direct to their line manager .
I get paid the same as them, I'm not picking up their slack , thanks.

Summer as your place of work is a residence do you have a signing in system?
Either phoning in to say that you;'ve arrived an log the time , or paper signing in book .

I'd say its vital for Fire Safety , they would need to know exactly who is there / who has left in the event of a fire .
Then she would have to 'clock in' and account for the lost time ?