Wow! I'm a nice, easy going guy, but if drama proves anything in the work place; even the nice guys have to be dicks to maintain balance of a problem.

The Work:
I've worked as a quality tester for product that's used to lift shit a year and 3/4's. So, round slings, twin paths, shackles, nylon slings, they've all gone through me if the customer -- be it PCL, Syncrude, Keiwit or Schlumberger -- before they're sent to their respective job sites. Working there I've seen shit happen with orders: One guy accidentally prints anothers orders certificates of proof, another has nothing to do so he does the paper work for another(hopefully asking first) -- at least for the last 3/4's. I handled all the testing myself for 1 year, working for 2 people at times in that first year if I couldn't get help from a fellow co-worker that needed work.

You just learn how to handle the job... You get the days schedule, find out what the filler is if its slow, then you think about how you can fill the day with all that's on the plate for the day. I will never say I'm lazy... just that some days require stretching an order out a little longer so as to keep busy. This is normal for any job I would think.

The Co-worker:
He's been there 5 months, he's got his small memory issues and still needs help, but I remember what I was like in school having the same condition of his(ADHD), and just help him out the best I can, he's learned the basics well enough so he passes as a good worker even if I have to remind him about a thing or two here and there. Recently, he found a place with a co-worker who's his friend, and who used to work with me and 2 other female friends and he asks me if I can switch my shift(8:30 am start) with his(8:00 am start) because he wanted to be in a car pool with his friend that also works at the same place instead of taking a bus that apparently is annoying to navigate. I of course, a fellow bus rider...

Wow! I'm a nice, easy going guy, but if drama proves anything in the work place; even the nice guys have to be dicks to maintain balance of a problem.

The Work:
I've worked as a quality tester for product that's used to lift shit a year and 3/4's. So, round slings, twin paths, shackles, nylon slings, they've all gone through me if the customer -- be it PCL, Syncrude, Keiwit or Schlumberger -- before they're sent to their respective job sites. Working there I've seen shit happen with orders: One guy accidentally prints anothers orders certificates of proof, another has nothing to do so he does the paper work for another(hopefully asking first) -- at least for the last 3/4's. I handled all the testing myself for 1 year, working for 2 people at times in that first year if I couldn't get help from a fellow co-worker that needed work.

You just learn how to handle the job... You get the days schedule, find out what the filler is if its slow, then you think about how you can fill the day with all that's on the plate for the day. I will never say I'm lazy... just that some days require stretching an order out a little longer so as to keep busy. This is normal for any job I would think.

The Co-worker:
He's been there 5 months, he's got his small memory issues and still needs help, but I remember what I was like in school having the same condition of his(ADHD), and just help him out the best I can, he's learned the basics well enough so he passes as a good worker even if I have to remind him about a thing or two here and there. Recently, he found a place with a co-worker who's his friend, and who used to work with me and 2 other female friends and he asks me if I can switch my shift(8:30 am start) with his(8:00 am start) because he wanted to be in a car pool with his friend that also works at the same place instead of taking a bus that apparently is annoying to navigate. I of course, a fellow bus rider and hard ass when it comes to the rule of "adaptation" say "no" because that extra half hour helps, it's the sleep schedule I've been adapted to since I started, and, well, moving in with girls is an excuse since I also ride a bus like he would have to. This causes the rift along with him being mad at me for a sluggish morning on my part while he was moving fast on a larger order than me.

The Issue:
This co-worker after my sluggish morning at the beginning of the week then proceeds to move slow everyday up until the end of this week. Asking for help from the third, and last, worker in my department on a product called a Corky Sling -- which I, just a week before, pushed three out in an hour working alone -- on a last minute order; when mine was larger and in more need of assistance to get it out in good time for sure. He also asked for assistance from this third co-worker on a small order of round slings that went to a small 46,000 lbs, the order taking him a whole hour when under normal circumstance it was would only take half an hour to finish. The slow co-worker also has amped up his need for completing his own work orders(and carrying this philosophy over to all orders), getting mad when both me and the third co-worker had done the large amount of certificates for the order he was working hard on at the beginning of the week not understanding it had to be ready for the morning. And acting equally as extreme when another orders certificates were done taht he was working on when the third coworker had nothing to do and upon my order to make sure everything got done for the fairly large order. He later tried proving a point to me printing all certificates for a large order I was working on and not signing them. But then throwing out certificates in an accidental printing of a small order that went to someone else in the end. Now after 3 days of that act comes friday(17th), and it's deader than the tree that hung Judas... I give him the one order of the day and the rest of the filler while I help the mobile tester with his order. He tests 3 things, then turns to putting the company's tags on the items he chooses (shackles by majority), third coworker tests the remaining shackles and it takes him 20 min., The problematic coworker has yet to finish tagging all the shackles at the end of the day. He goes from slow to sloth... Co-worker number 3 even tells me that as he walks to go do as much work as everyone in the shop wishes to do(we were all slow, it being warm) all he saw him doing is standing and talking to his friend.

The shadow over dicksville:
We all have our lazy days and moments. One sluggish morning from the more experienced guy can never warrant the lazyness and sloth of friday and the 3 days before it. Yes, I'm not a perfect worker, but I get all the orders done at the end of the day (or at least try.) Coworker number 3 takes extra time on his first coffee break but works as hard and is as easy going about things as I am. Hell, he feels like the "middle child between 2 family members fighting again." But I don't let this problem that, to him, warrants him actually saying to my face "I haven't seen you all day, it's kind of nice" and my own subsequent thought being "ya, cause there's nobody to ask what you're doing and go work on something", bother me, even if I like to have fun with this grudge against me by putting the sloth's boots in the rafters that he leaves in the shop office rather than on the shoe rack with an applied note of where to put them, or laugh off his pokes at our work philosophy differences. Both Co-worker number 3 and I have agreed that if he has another week like this past one we will just stop helping him if he asks for it(unless it's actually needed, of course.) While talking to the supervisor is more advised; I think passive aggressive techniques should be used before ratting out the co-worker, the problem has a chance to fix itself after all, right?

P.S. The boots in the rafters will happen again until he smartens up. Wittier notes applied every time of course!