How to deal with a colleague who’s a slackerQuestionThis one person (new joiner) in my team is very unmotivated and negative at work. He doesn’t do much because whatever he does is not very helpful. He comes to work at 12pm, takes 2 hour lunch and leaves at 6pm.

During work meetings, he asks a lot of insignificant questions (asking if the client is a scammer or complains how the client was rude in an email).

He never does the actual work but pretends like he “knows” things. I used to entertain his questions before but now I don’t have the patience.

I think some of my other colleagues noticed this but I don’t think my boss knows. Should I inform my boss about it? Whatever he’s not doing is picked up by other people including me.

Netizens’ comments

Yes. Collate some evidence first (don’t just go to the boss empty handed, will turn into a he-said-she-said) and show to your boss. Let your boss settle it. It’s not your problem to get him to do his work correctly.

How does he come into work at 12pm and not get scolded by the boss for coming in so late? Because my boss doesn’t keep track of what the employees are doing as long as the work is done

Why pick up his work? The last time someone tried that on me I arranged enough work for myself so the other party had to do the work independently (which of course imploded). Then afterwards the blame game started but it’s clear who screwed up to everyone