Posted on 11/25/2005 by Walk the Planks
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So we had to work a half a day today, on Black Friday. We were to be dismissed at 12:30 p.m.
I told my lazy coworker that I had heard of who was going to be dismissing us, and she said, "Oh, yeah, I'll believe that when I see it." The only thing was that she didn't know that the man was standing in the next room, hearing everything she had to say.
So this lazy coworker, who does just about anything to get out of doing work, decided that at 12:05 p.m. she was done. Another senior employee that she's buds with had just left, and she felt as though she should also be entitled to leave at that time. I just sat there and did my job. My lazy coworker made some kind of a remark as she was leaving that she didn't care if I told (insert names here) that she left early. I told her, "Go ahead. You're your own boss. I'm not your keeper." I mean if she wants to set herself up to get canned, that's on her.
At 12:15 p.m., I was personally informed by the most senior employee on today that we were getting ready to leave, which meant that I could shut my computer down and that we were being dismissed on the early side of 12:30 p.m., anyway.
As I'm leaving to go out of the door, there sits the lazy coworker that left the department at 12:05 p.m., talking to the receptionist downstairs in the front of the office. I guess she really was too scared to just leave that early, after all. She was all talk.
She looked right at me like what are you doing leaving so early? Obviously, she wasn't upstairs, so she didn't get the good news that it was okay to leave. It probably never made it down to her ears, sitting in the front of the building, gabbing and avoiding work like she was.
I just waved and said, "Have a good weekend" and left, with her having this puzzled look on her face.
Sometimes it really does pay to just do the right thing! :)
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