Having a wobble about speaking out against lazy colleagues

[LennyBalls]

Hi all, have name changed.

I work in an administrative roll with 8 other admin staff in our team.
A project we are doing at the moment is very very tedious and repetitive.
6 out of the 8 colleagues are pulling their weight and working hard. Two have done nothing. And I mean nothing at all. Even outside of this project they do nothing. The rest of us carry the workload.

I have been quietly bubbling about this for the past few months but yesterday I couldn't hold my tongue and told one of them in a passive aggressive way (yes I know ) talking about the other one but hinting that it was this colleague too how lazy they are and how I am sick of working hard on this mundane project when two people do nothing.

Im sure this colleague knew I was talking about her and now she is not talking to me. She is a very scary person normally and I am now worried that she is going to make trouble because she's just not a nice person.

Management know about these two being lazy and are doing absolutely nothing.

I have serious remorse about speaking out.

Well of management aren't managing you need to leave if it's bothering you.

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto well that's easier said than done isn't it.

This isn't your problem, it's managements.

Being passive aggressive and complaining isn't helping anyone. It's not a grown up way to solve problems.

Don't take on extra work for colleagues. Consider moving if it's bothering you that much. If management are so slack, why don't you get paid for nothing? And if you decide to stay and solve the problems, maybe go to management to flag that it is an issue for you and it's making you consider leaving.

It sounds crap, but by being a martyr nothing is going to change

It is and we suffer with this at work too. I've essentially given up worrying about it but it does rule some other colleagues.

My BF was in a similar situation, ended up taking anti-anxiety meds and decided to start to look for another job. Got all of the ones she applied for and is now so much happier.

This is called collective punishment in schools - where the well-behaved kids are supposed to put pressure on the badly behaved kids to improve - it's lazy management either way - I'd be looking for a new job because the management is shit - aspire to work somewhere better and do it.