Is it just me or does anyone else have colleagues who constantly rush around brow beaten and complaining they are snowed under and unable to take on any more work when they are actually doing sweet FA.
Example, colleague constantly teetering in the edge of a nervous breakdown typical day involves “working from home” but never getting the workload down —or logging on— “popping in” to see her parents for two hours, phoning up to see is anyone needs anything from the shops on the way back and returning an hour later, regularly popping off for an hour or so to feed pets, gets to work and spends 1/2 hour on a personal call, then finds we are out of tea bags as after all that needs a cup of tea and disappears for 45 minutes to buy some but whenever questioned about whether she has done x,y,z gets very stroppy and almost tearful so everyone shuts up.
This is a manager who is very popular and gentle, works hard apparently. Feels like the emprorers new clothes to me. If you tell everyone how busy you are enough they believe you are busy.
Is this normal as there are several people at work like this, and several people who do quietly work their arses off.