I hate hate hate these people. I have so many of them in my life and they are so stressful to be around. Always talking about how hard they work and bitching that no one works as hard as they do, always making you feel lazy for wanting to have a goddamn life. I swear this type of bootlicking coworker is one of the biggest roadblocks to better working conditions. I know, I know, worker solidarity and all that but damn it's hard not to want to scream at them to fuck off sometimes.

Also requesting a /c/vent for when people need to yell at the void

  • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    "Lazy" has two uses:

    1. A bludgeon to beat workers into shittier pay/conditions: "Oh us poor small business tyrants are suffering because people just don't want to work anymore," or some asshat claiming they work 100 hours every week.
    2. The justifiable frustration workers themselves have when one of their coworkers isn't pulling their weight.

    The first one is bullshit, but the second is legitimate, and you don't have to be some striving overachiever to experience it. It sucks when you're closing up a restaurant late, you're tired, and you want to get the hell out of there, but someone is taking forever to finish up. That person's either keeping you on the clock when you no longer want to be, or forcing you to pick up their slack, or otherwise creating some problem you don't want to deal with. Most people don't want to work with the striving overachiever type, but they don't want to work with lazy people, either.

      • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        But I don’t even think I would call that laziness because chances are they’ve got other shit going on in their lives, are already tired from working hard, etc.

        This is certainly the case in some situations, but come on, sometimes people just take advantage of the fact that if they don't put in the work, someone else will have to do it for them. I don't know what else to call that but lazy.

          • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            I think there's an easy explanation for this behavior that doesn't require any significant issues, or any truly malicious behavior: a lot of parts of any job suck, and people don't like to do things that suck. If there's a choice between doing something that sucks or dragging one's feet and getting someone else to do it, plenty of people are going to pick the latter. Avoiding things that suck (especially avoidance via inaction) is a pretty common human characteristic.