To stop picking up the slack for colleagues

[Otta]

I work in an NHS community team and have been picking up the slack for some colleagues (mostly junior but some of the same banding) since I started a few years ago.

They openly say things such as ‘everyone knows I don’t do x’ and then just not do whatever it is they don’t want to. I have done all I can to address these issues from developing support documents/resources to raising the issues with managers. None of it makes a difference.

We’ve had to significantly change the way we work during COVID and there are currently multiple staff staging mini protests at being asked to do their same roles but in a different way (mostly from the safety of their homes, previously would have been face to face). I should add this is nothing to do with home schooling as none of them are.

I just can’t continue to do my own very demanding job (face to face) and other peoples. I’m exhausted. I hate conflict and don’t want the issues actually impacting patients but I’m very much done.

YANBU OP, and maybe look at it like this - you'll keel over if you carry on this way, and then your service users really will be impacted.

YANBU I work in a similar environment and there these attitudes a plenty. I never understand why people are not disciplined. Stop and let them take the flack (I know that this is easier said than done when a service is being impacted).