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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve never been in this situation, but I’m curious how things would go if you leveled with her and told her much her laziness is causing your work to suffer.

Like, “Hey, I know this job sucks and you’re planning to leave, but I’m having to take on a lot more than I thought I would. Can you please do XYZ.”

Anyone have experience on how requests like these end up going? [/quote]
I was in a somewhat similar situation over a decade ago.  Colleague P. told me in November that he wasn't going to help at all with Big Spring Project.  I thanked him for letting me know and said that gave me time to bring other folks in to do it.  He told me that he wasn't going to tell anyone that he wouldn't do it, so I wouldn't be able to get anyone else to come in--he [i]wanted [/i]to sabotage the project.

Rather than quoting his exact words to management (I felt a bizarre sense of loyalty to him, plus who would believe me?), I went to a number of different folks in authority (several managers were and had been missing from the org chart for several months and we were basically supervising ourselves) and said that we needed to have contingency plans in case P wasn't able to do the work.  No one offered a contingency plan, but then there was a management turnover that included him being fired.  So, not super useful for OP's predicament, but one account.

In my case, I wound up in the predicament I was in because there was no one above me who cared about the project the way that I did, even though it brought in several million a year.  I think they would have cared if it hadn't gotten done, though.  [/quote]

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