They’re Gonna Get You

So my friend was telling me about this guy he works with. So here’s the deal. Whenever the boss is out or basically not looking, my buddy says this guy just surfs the ‘net looking at online comics and posting comments on forums. The other day the boss was out for the day in meetings. My friend says that his co-worker only worked a total of 40 minutes out of 8 hours or 480 minutes. That’s a work effectiveness ratio of 8.3%. 10 minutes talking with someone in the office and assigning him some work, the other 30 minutes …

Well, let’s just say the boss called the office to check in at 3:30 PM and asked about some stuff that he was supposed to be working on. Apparently, according to my friend, he totally lied on the phone, telling his boss that he had been working on some presentation and evaluating some documents. So after he got off the phone with his boss, he worked for half and hour and left the office an hour earlier than he was supposed to. I guess he planned on working on at home since the boss probably was expecting some deliverable the next morning.

My friend can’t believe this is going on. He says the office he works in is an open area office and this guy has the gall to surf the web in front of everybody. Everybody is working away. I guess the other support personnel can feel irritated when this guy assigns work at the last minute because the boss is coming back and so this guy piles on the work for the support personnel at the end of the week just so he can look good and meet his deadlines.

Anyways, if I were working with someone like this, I certainly would have no respect for a person with such a lack of integrity.

He should get one of these for his work area so that when anybody is looking at his monitor…

“Lies, lies, lies, yeah”

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