GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrThere are a precious few things bugging me these days. I've recently admitted to myself that I've made a few mistakes in the last year and have started about resolving those things. So in that regard, my head is starting to get into a good place. I've been working hard and so have most of the other guys and girl on my shift. There is one person though that has to do their best to ruin that flow and this is my gripe about him.
I'll save the name so identifiers are not put out there. Last night we were pretty busy on the job. There was a lot going on and not all of us were available to help out when it got really busy. This individual and one of the rookies were free as an special project unit. The understanding is that if you're on that detail and it gets busy, you're obliged to help out and take a call. Well in his world that doesn't apply to him.
Problem is when he first got on the job he knew a lot of people in our station already so he became very comfortable too quickly. He doesn't pull too much stuff with guys that have been on for a while and have more experience than he does. Problem is of late that he's been partnered up with someone with less experience than he does. Mind you he's barely over probation himself but he's acting like he's got way more experience than he does.
What he did last night was completely un-professional and set a bad example for the new guy. While he was no good at doing any work what so ever, the only thing he was successful in accomplishing last night was pissing off everyone else he works with. There were literally emergency situations happening with only one person going to deal with it yet he sat idly by not jumping on the situation and offering to help. The new guys were even commenting that it seemed odd that he wasn't offering lend a hand and it was more than noticed by the rest of us...
Now we have to find a way to deal with him... Grumble Grumble Grumble...
3 comments:
My usual comment on this type of thing is don't worry, your higher ups are noticing, even if they don't seem like it. But if it's emergency situatuions being messed up by virtue of his laziness, that runs a whole heck of a lot deeper...
Dude sounds a bit insecure... if you can look beyond his limp attitude and get him enthused without confronting him and making him defensive you'll be a leader and you'll gain a friend... but if that seems too unreal, i'd drop him from your mind, and someone who's supoosed to'll take him to task...
If this were a made for TV movie, he would wind up in a situation that was too big for him to handle and the rest of your unit would sweep in and save him and he would be so relieved and appreciative that he would have a moment where he realizes that the individual parts are only as strong as the whole (or something like that) and then Enya would play as the credits role.
Hey...you're a cop...that's just fodder for a made for TV movie - Trouble at Central Station...or something like that.
The problem is that this is not a made for tv movie...and you are also in a union - yes?...so firing him is really really really difficult and you pretty much need to show gross negligence. So I think that all you can do is try and not let it interfere with your job. And if things get really bad...maybe try and get transferred away from him.
I'm sorry, dude...I know exactly how it feels to have someone just poison the work environment.
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