FLU – You presented your latest post of this thread with the implied ethos that you are the opposite of your lazy, fat fvck ex-coworker. But, and forgive me for asking this, how did you know so much detail about how he spent his work days while you were supposed to be hard at work yourself? Isn't that like the stove calling the kettle black?
1. The way we were sitting in one room, it was like a classroom. I sat right behind him and could see exactly what he was doing, when he got in, when he left, when he was playing solitaire, when he was surfing, when he was blogging, when he waa actually working (which wasn’t that much). Ironically, the group leader sat right behind me and could see everyone as well. I was running a project, and unfortunately depended on him. Pretty soon, it was just more efficient not to include him in any discussions, because anything that came out of his mouth was just B.S. So as the project owner, I also know what he did (or I should say what little he did). Also, although I didn’t go that far, I’m sure the I.T. logs for his machines would show that most his time was spent not working. In fact most companies that I worked at have network logs that details exactly what each employee does/doesn’t do. No one really looks at them, unless you get into a legal issues, or want to fire someone with some reasons.
2. As far as myself
I get my sh!t done.
3. I'm pretty proactive about running projects
4. If I was in a position to, I would have fired that coworker. Unfortunately, I couldn't. But fortunately, others are looking at it now.
5. While I don't expect people to work like slaves, and everyone spends some time at work doing non-work stuff, folks like this coworker deserve to loose their jobs and struggle to get back to reality. He literally gets nothing done, and pretty much blames everyone but himself as to why. Epitome of a lot of lazy asses I've run across in my career. No work ethics frankly.
6. I no longer work for that company because I hate being surrounded by lazy people such as him. And my understanding is that those that are left at that company pretty much are useless elsewhere (except the ones on H1-B's which are there because they have to be there).
