Lazy colleague dumping work - advice needed?

Question

One of my colleagues is very lazy and is dumping work on me, whilst spending most of the day on his phone making personal calls and messing about on football websites.

The boss is very hands off with him so never asks him about his workload but is giving me loads of work to do.

Any advice would be appreciated - I have been in the team for 10 weeks and don't want to be someone else's work so they can mess around.

Garyt Goss · Accepted Answer

Either go to your manager an tell him your not prepared as you've only been there a short time to be dumped on, an your go to the people above him  or HR an sort it out with them if he won't.

? · Answer

This is not rocket science, you simply tell your boss about how lazy your colleague is and how he keeps on dumping work on you instead of doing it himself. Make sure you tell your boss when he (the lazy colleague) is not around the office.

Blessed · Answer

when your boss gives you more work to do just tell your boss that if he/she expects you to get done with this work to give me an assistant to help as you are only one person and can only do so much.

Anonymous · Answer

usually, you will meet your colleague in private.let him know how his poor performance is impacting your own work.you can also try to help him by subtly changing his motivation and behavior.

? · Answer

So what?

 why do you do it?

They only dump it on you cos you let them and you do it.

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Lazy colleague dumping work - advice needed?

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