Would this be petty to raise with a manager

[lastqueenofscotland]

I work in a tiny team (4 people) and one girl is ALWAYS late, (the managers start half an hour after us), is always taking an extra 5/10 minutes on her lunch and is forever calling in sick for everything and anything...
I feel like I’m picking up a lot of the slack for this and there are days like yesterday it really fucks me over because we don’t want to cancel client meetings so I have to do hers and get not much of my own work done.

I have my usual monthly meeting with my manager after lunch, would I be unreasonable to raise this with him? Or would it be petty

I hope you get it sorted and kinky you too. People like this who are taking a full wage and not doing what they're supposed to do are stealing from the rest of you if you're picking up their slack.

We have one of those. He waltzes in at 9.20 ish and leaves about 4.45 and feck knows where he is most of the day. Any time he's required to do some actual work, there's some sort of household emergency which means he can't come in, or has to work from home.

He's meant to be on a 9am call every day so one day this week he actually made it to his desk for 9.01 am which was a minor miracle. Except by the time he had wiped everything down with sanitiser ( he does this every day) rearranged his belongings and actually logged into the call it was 9.13am.

I discreetly checked with the manager to see if this person has some special arrangement ( they did for a while for a reason that has now gone) but he seemed as baffled as the rest of us as to this persons whereabouts.

It doesn't impact on me directly, but I've noticed a few other members of the team seem to be taking a lot of time off sick as well, and I have definitely lost a lot of respect for my manager who should be managing the situation.

There is always at least one of this type in every office/workplace as a previous poster said. I sometimes muse if any of them reading threads like this and other social media recognise or realise that they are the one and if they care.

Plus we only work in the same office one day per week, the rest of the time we are on our respective sites

I just wouldn't cover for her. By doing this you are enabling her.

Just get on with your own work and ignore hers. If her clients need attention give them the bosses direct line.

Some managers just won’t manage so long as their more conscientious managees (for entirely conscientious reasons) pick up the slack.
I had a colleague, Tom, who often WFH (and what a can of worms that is), would be out of the office on long international meetings etc, or taking TOIL to recover. Except that he often didn’t put where the fuck he was in his diary, or switch his phone to divert when WFH (we were supposed to all be taking calls that came in on the main line, let alone our own). Boss seemed reluctant to do anything as apart from anything else, Tom had apparently threatened to leave (with his massive expertise) if he didn’t get to basically do as he wanted.
I got fed up with answering Tom’s calls to give evasive answers about his whereabouts, and basically took to saying “Your guess is as good as mine.” And having realised that my manager CBA, I thought “join ‘em if you can’t beat ‘em”, and got several rounds of IVF in as “medical leave “ under the radar.

Kinky, if their number comes up when they phone you, so you know who it is, just don't answer.

Or answer and say 'You'll need to talk to X about that or send her an email.'

Or keep a note of how often it happens and the knock-on effect it has on your own work, and bring it up next time you have a chat with a manager.

Why on earth keep doing it if you're so pissed off?

People take the piss because people let them.

Make a list of the work, client queries and meetings you've had to do, that she is responsible for. Give the list to your Manager at your monthly meeting.

Can't you speak to your colleague directly? You don't have to look like the time-keeping police but a simple 'I've been picking up your phone etc a lot before you come in/before you get back from lunch and it's starting to have an effect on my work.' then go from there.

If that doesn't resolve anything then speak to your manager.

I wouldn’t advise speaking to the colleague - that’s the managers job - could leave OP open to being told that she is bullying.

I wouldn’t advise speaking to the colleague - that’s the managers job - could leave OP open to being told that she is bullying.

Yes, I agree. Speak direct to the manager with clear business reasons as to why you're bringing it up.

I worked with someone like that as well. He was always late, generally using the excuse that he was doing the school run - when I knew for a fact that his wife was because I knew her and often saw her on my way to work.

He never kept his diary up to date so we never knew where he was.

He would say that he was doing a site visit or meeting with clients, but the only clients he met and the only visits he did were to his "mates" (most of his clients were "mates"of his )

In team meetings he would deflect any criticism or questioning about his projects by having long, rants monologues about how the company is crap and how he could do whatever it was better

He left when he was put on performance management so jumped before being pushed. Interestingly the "mates" who he boasted as clients haven't followed him and have happily had myself or one of my colleagues take over their (mostly badly managed and delayed) projects.