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Originally Posted by kermitology
My only advice is to be direct with this. Include your boss and your co-worker.
I just hate it when people don't have the balls to bring something up so that everyone knows what's going on.
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Originally Posted by FireFly
If for every hour you work, you have to spend 10 minutes freaking out on this guy in order to get 10 minutes of work out of him, it's not worth it. You're wasting your time, and he's wasting the companies. If i were you I would tell him that you plan on telling the boss how many man hours he's actually put in and to pay you accordingly. If he wants to waste his entire day for two hours of pay, he's free to do it. If he doesn't want to waste his time, he shouldnt' waste the company's either. So he can either put in a full day, or just leave.
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Originally Posted by Shazam
Don't worry about him. He's got you wrapped around your little finger, and he knows it. He knows that you get upset whenever he starts to goof around, and he says things to you that annoy you.
His lack of work ethic will catch up to him eventually. Currently, your boss feels that with the tight labour market, he can't afford to lose anybody no matter how much of a loser he thinks they are. But once the market loosens up, he'll be the first to go. That's why he gets the bigger cheques - your boss thinks that once he's let go, he'll have a hard time finding a new job. Strange but true; this is how managers think.
Stop worrying about him. Stop reacting to him. All it does is make you look bad. If you feel you somehow have to make him productive, don't bother. Don't give him any tasks. Just let him mope around - if that's what he truly wants to do, then very well.
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For me Eddie, these sum it up pretty good for the most part. Shazam has it quite good; it sounds like this guy is doing it, because, well he can.
But I would suggest that you be direct, open and honest. So tell him next time that you don't think his work is upto snuff, he needs to pick it up, and if he doesn't you will set a meeting up with him, you and your boss.
And if he doesn't do it and keeps slacking off, do what you said you would. Set a meeting up with the 3 of you. Be sure to have anything ot back up your case. But come off classy...trust me, you will get much farther that way, especially by the sounds of what your boss is like.
After that, there is not much you can do. It is up to your boss. I don't agree with you firing him, as to be honest you really aren't the boss - he only puts you charge when he is gone. So its not your responsibility to fire someone or send them home, unfortunately. That is your boss's job.
Other than that, just ignore him. He likely can tell that he is getting some sort of rise out of you, and likely thinks that that is fun somehow. The sooner you ignore him, the sooner you take his fun away, the sooner the chance of him stopping acting like a buffoon being over.
