Even now, I'm debating not posting this, but I really need to vent somewhere good, and anonymous.
I work at a home improvement store on the overnight freight team. A few months ago, we got a transfer from day crew. She is one of the most willingly ineffective employees I've ever met. The other day we all were supposed to start at midnight. She came in around 12:15,(I can understand being late from time to time, but this is frequent, and she's normally as much as two hours late.) and took a small cart of screws and nails to put away. It should have taken no more than an hour. Two hours later, the boss calls break time. I happen to pass by the nail and screw aisle to see my coworker has already left, and has only put out about twelve boxes of freight. This is an inexcusable level of slowness.
After our first break, she's nowhere to be seen in the store. I see her walk in the front door about an hour and a half later, and head straight to the back of the store. (There's no freight to work on back there at the time.) I didn't see her again until 5 am, when she took the easiest job in the store, and began to sweep.
I feel terrible that I'm getting this upset, and normally keep a strict policy of minding my own business, but this is cutting into my own productivity and screwing over everyone else who has to cover for her. We're all picking up her considerable slack, and it's not fair. To make things worse, there's an older man that also works with me. He had been planning on leaving early due to shoulder pain, but couldn't because she left us with so much extra work. This is not the first time something similar has happened.
So, should I talk to my boss, or mind my own business, even though it's hurting the whole store? (I guess I sort of answered my own question there...) I've never reported anyone before, and really don't want to now, as my lazy coworker is a single mother. I don't want her kids to suffer if she were to be fired.
What to do, what to do...?
EDIT: Just for some perspective, she did about thirty minutes of work in a six hour shift.
I work at a home improvement store on the overnight freight team. A few months ago, we got a transfer from day crew. She is one of the most willingly ineffective employees I've ever met. The other day we all were supposed to start at midnight. She came in around 12:15,(I can understand being late from time to time, but this is frequent, and she's normally as much as two hours late.) and took a small cart of screws and nails to put away. It should have taken no more than an hour. Two hours later, the boss calls break time. I happen to pass by the nail and screw aisle to see my coworker has already left, and has only put out about twelve boxes of freight. This is an inexcusable level of slowness.
After our first break, she's nowhere to be seen in the store. I see her walk in the front door about an hour and a half later, and head straight to the back of the store. (There's no freight to work on back there at the time.) I didn't see her again until 5 am, when she took the easiest job in the store, and began to sweep.
I feel terrible that I'm getting this upset, and normally keep a strict policy of minding my own business, but this is cutting into my own productivity and screwing over everyone else who has to cover for her. We're all picking up her considerable slack, and it's not fair. To make things worse, there's an older man that also works with me. He had been planning on leaving early due to shoulder pain, but couldn't because she left us with so much extra work. This is not the first time something similar has happened.
So, should I talk to my boss, or mind my own business, even though it's hurting the whole store? (I guess I sort of answered my own question there...) I've never reported anyone before, and really don't want to now, as my lazy coworker is a single mother. I don't want her kids to suffer if she were to be fired.
What to do, what to do...?
EDIT: Just for some perspective, she did about thirty minutes of work in a six hour shift.
