I work in a team of three.
One of the team, ‘Janet’ is getting married next year. She seems to spend all day on t’internet looking at wedding related web sites.
Her role is pivotal and if she fails then our whole project goes tits up and us other two lose our roles. (We may get transferred to another team but possibly not on the same hours or pay. )
We are so far behind targets I am getting seriously worried. We are almost at the end of the first quarter and Janet hasn’t even come close to where she should be. She should get 10 ‘items’ per month and she hasn’t got one. Not one this quarter. She should have almost 30.
She keeps going to meetings but we suspect they are phantom meetings. Today she had a meeting scheduled for 10 am and was supposed to go there first but came into the office to say the meeting was rescheduled for 12. At about 3 she emailed to say the meeting was cancelled last week because of the snow. (This meeting was in the same town where her fiancé works.) And there is hardly any snow!
So the meeting was delayed this morning but postponed last week? This sounds like a load of bull.
We are managed by someone from a different department but pretty much left to ourselves to get on with it. We think Janet is either going for job interviews or just sloping off.
Should I report our concerns? How should I word it?
I just hate being put in this position of being a tattle tale but the alternative could be that our project fails and we all lose our jobs. I’m so stressed, I am not sleeping; my other colleague is getting very concerned and he is trying to see can he do any of her work to get things moving.
We keep making suggestions but she just gives reasons why they won’t work and changes the subject to weddings.
Sorry this is so long, but I think just writing it all down has helped me clarify what I need to do. I have to speak to management, don’t I?