I have a coworker who complains that he's not "profitable".

[Playaa]

Right, so I work for a small software company...we have 3 programmers and 13 total employees. One of the programmers (who is a nice, but slightly annoying guy) actually complains to the OWNER if he doesn't feel he has enough work to do. Like, he complains when he is not being "profitable" and he will actually take 2 hours vacation time during a day (even though he's still in the office the whole time) just to "maintain profitability".

Mostly I'm just venting...but how in the world do you work with a guy like that? You'd think it would be a managers dream...but even the owner of the company gets annoyed by him and has actually told him he wasn't allowed to talk during a staff meeting once (which cut the meeting from it's usual 1 hour, to a healthy 25 minutes...seriously). He's actually gone out of his way to tell the owner that his manager didn't give him enough work to do.

 

bleh.

[Wentz]

give him your work and play CSS, tell him he's faster than you and giving him your work would make the company more profitable

Edited December 14, 2007 by Wentz

[Clueless]

Or just tell him that the company would be more profitable if the staff didnt have to stop doing their work to entertain his constant blubbering. And inform him that there are other companies out there that can surely keep him busier if he isnt satisfied...I hear the lunch rush at McDonalds can be quite hectic.

[Laz.e.rus]

Buy him a copy of Office Space...and a stapler

[stutters]

dude i'd fully delegate my work to him. i'd have no problem eating into the profitability if it gets someone like mo that to shut up for a few.

[Shazz]

.I hear the lunch rush at McDonalds can be quite hectic.

 

ROFL

[EbilDustBunny]

Interesting... Make a general list of things to do if someone "has nothing to do"... pick something that would take a while to do and no-one likes to do... and pin it up somewhere. I'm sure you can come up something grueling to do. MUHAHAHAHHA