Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The rotten apples

As most resources really struggle each day with the work volume, closely monitored to ensure there is no sclacking at the job there are some rotten apples who really enjoy their work as a resource. Mainly because these resources don't do anything all day. They do their best to avoid work and sadly some suceed.

Of course these rotten apples are carefully disguising their do-nothing routine, they appear always busy, always on the move so no one can really see what they are actually doing, always a bit annoyed as to show they are really as exhausted and overloaded as the usual resource is. They also tend to get involved in very visible projects but make sure they don't commit to doing any of the work, they just want to step up front and take as much credit as they can.

Every now and then a smarter supervisor or boss will notice the rotten apple and crop it back to work but it's never easy. These do-nothing rotten resources are always arguing, yelling, lying in the face that they're bringing precious value to the team and company.

Colleagues of such a rotten apple know best how hard is their life, browsing the net all day, checking fashion sites, planning their third holiday that year although it's just June. Because such resources have a single goal in life, to avoid work and spend everything they have partying. They are ocassionaly kicked in their asses by the bosses only to shake up and resume doing nothing. Even with their butts kicked on a regular basis is hard to make the rotten apple leave the job. They will hang to it as hard as they can threatining with legal action, shouting, making a mess. Until a brave or not-caring boss will finally throw them off the door with a big deserved foot up their asses.