would you raise this or does this sound petty

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I work as part of a 2 person team. colleague and I do identical work. over the last year, she did less and less. I am a workhorse and just cracked on with stuff that needed sorting and felt I do much more but wasn't too bothered. Anyhow, last week I decided to pull the figures from the system and I do about 4 times as much as she does (it's easily quantified, no idea why I didn't raise it before and why manager never raised it. I guess since the work gets done, nobody is checking). colleague is senior to me and earning much more which irks ms hugely given the backseat she has been taken all year
. Would you raise this and if you are a manager, what would you make of it. I worry I look anal an petty.

she just claims she is busy, then she is doing 1-2 emails extra for one day and then defaults back. also, I am not her manager and she gets quite snappy whenever I ask her to help out. She just isn't a good colleague in that sense. I have never worked alone with someone like that. Usually people support each other but just not the case.

but she has done for years before now?

we were a much bigger team. I don't know exactly how much she did. She probably didn't overwork herself but as a lot more people were involved, it wasn't obvious (to me). It's only this year that we are a 2 person team it became an issue.

Because a lot of people, like myself or the OP, want to do their job well. They want to help. So when there is an urgent request, they step up. Which also what the OP is supposed to do btw.

The really big issue is that there has been a shift from sending urgent request to her and her colleague to mainly her.
Because there is no structure in their ‘department’ and no one is responsible fir answering A p&B when the other answers requests from C&D.
The issue is management and the lack of structure.
Not the OP doing her job.

What she has done before doesn’t matter though.
She might be struggling more now than she was in previous years.

What matters in what is happening now, the disparity in workload etc….

but there is no “workload”!

the issue is that fundamentally this team needs to have targets and they must be monitored.

At the moment the OP is doing more than her colleague but neither knows what they are actually meant to be delivering! and it would seem that what the colleague is doing is what the business wants considering she is paid more then the Op!

would i be correct Op that you’re not revenue-making? and that this is back office and no one is being impacted by how much is being produced by you and your colleague?

I don't understand why you can't attempt to resolve this with the colleague yourself?

She's not the manager. They have a person getting paid to manage.
Of course you need to raise it.

It shoudl be really easy conversation with your manager, you have facts and numbers.
Hey manager, I am noticing I'm getting an increasing number of chasers, so I checked and my performance is the same. But it seems colleague is doing a quarter of what she used to do. Could you take a look and if there's a reason colleague only works 25%, we need to discuss staffing levels.

would i be correct Op that you’re not revenue-making? and that this is back office and no one is being impacted by how much is being produced by you and your colleague?

we are back office. however, if work isn't completed, it will affect business and revenue.

but this blue chip company doesn’t set any target, doesn’t measure and seems utterly unfazed by how much you and your colleague produce or don’t produce?

Don’t slow down, don’t take a back seat. Don’t change yourself to match her??

Don't do that.

Yes I would bring it your manager by saying that you want to draw it to their attention. And leave it with them.

You could also say to colleague ‘ I have noticed that I’m doing 4 times the amount of work as you, is there a reason for that?’

before showing anything to management. It sounds like she is heading out the door on maternity leave anyway and doesn’t give a sugar.

Don’t change yourself.

line manager is going on mat leave. not colleague.

I would ask for my title and salary to reflect our relative contributions to the company.

Some weird responses on here. Posters seem determined to pick holes.

I work in a very similar set up in the public sector. I'm part time and pick up more than one of my very lazy full time colleagues.

Take it to your manager. Show them the data. Explain that you are feeling under pressure and concerned that the onus appears to be on you to complete the majority of the tasks, despite being on a lower salary. Ask the manager how they intend to resolve the issue. It shouldn't be on you to find a solution for your colleague's laziness.

'I am a workhouse' seems like code for martyr

Absolutely this 👆

Does she have other duties your not aware of. My delivery work is the same as the people in the team but my senior role requires me to do a lot more work in the background that the team may not be aware of.

if work doesn't get done it's an issue. Target is that the inbox is cleared daily but it's not specified who does what.

no, for the umpteenth time, we do exactly the same role.

It's not a Victorian factory. They manage their own workload. If someone came to me to raise an issue that they haven't tried to resolve first with very very basic soft skills, my main concern would be finding out why they felt unable to make a first attempt.

You're managing two people, one if whom is unhappy that the other does a quarter of the work for more money...and you expect her to fuck it herself with soft skills? .

So you expect her to do half her colleagues work AND your job for you too? You're a terrible manager!