im so annoyed with my lazy co-woker......

I'm not good in confronting other people. Especially if I'm not close on that person. But what I'll just do if I were in that kind of situation is just to control my anger over that person for me to avoid saying bad things at the back of my head to that person. :)

Of course, you should confront your office mate regarding that laziness of her for all of you will suffer. But I think there is nothing wrong also with that situation because, you have been affected with that reprimand of your boss where in fact only that lazy office mate of yours should be reprimanded.

That is very frustrating. I'm not the type to know how to say anything, but I hope you can find a way to show your boss what is going on because you shouldn't be blamed if another person is being lazy.

If you worked in a team, there should be a team leader responsible for the task. Are you the team leader? If you are not, your boss should have been mad at the team leader.

Everywhere, anywhere we can find someone like them. A heart to heart talk may help. If not I guess counseling is already needed. I also met someone like her years ago, it was settled but passed a series of conversations by her and an older co-worker.

I learned from my experience that there's a reason for everything. It's unfortunate that one of your colleagues is lazy and it's pissing off the rest of you, well who wouldn't? I'f i'm in your shoes I would probably feel the same way. But there's a reason behind that, it could be that your colleague may have a personal problem he/she is going through, or maybe just bored, or just plain old lazy and doesn't have a clear direction in career or life. The thing is, the other way to look at this instead of getting pissed off is that your colleague is someone who needs help. Now, as with the other responses in this discussion that best way to address this is that someone should talk to your colleague. You can try to talk to your co-worker, which is a good idea especially if you'd known each other for a while. If not, it's better to have your direct supervisor do it. Give a feedback to your supervisor that your colleague may need some help and needs to be coach. Remember that when you give feedback to your supervisor about your colleague our goal should not be so we can have him/her reprimanded but instead so we can have someone talk to him/her and find out what's going on for us to be able to help. We certainly would want it that way when we find ourselves in your colleague's shoes.

Since you are all mature people, it's best to confront about this to her. Let them know how you feel and what you think about her indolence and what it is causing you all. Some people need to be reminded. She may take it the wrong way at first, but hopefully she will understand your position.

It seems that every workplace has this kind of employee. And it could really be so frustrating to work with one. Worse is if that person's indolent nature affects our work. In this case, I personally would confront my colleague about it. I mean, if that person wants to get fired fast, it's his choice. But if his inaction would put the whole team in a bad situation, then that's crossing the line already.

In every workplace, there would always be one who is lazy. If we confront that lazy co-worker, chances are we might be wronged by that person. It would be much better if let that person know her mistake. She's old enough to know what to do and what not to do. If you're working in a team, Try to talk to your other work mates on what would be the necessary action.

Well,it is always happened to me in the office.My co worker who just next to me always act that way too.He consume much of his time surfing the net like Facebook before doing his jobs that always lead to my work to be delay.I confront him about it and tell him to correct his work but he take it to personal.Then he is trying to tell to other that I'm acting and feeling like a boss,well I'm just doing my job so do yours to avoid delay in my part.

I would definitely talk to my officemate if that would be the case. Of course, I will not make a scene in front of my other officemates as that would make matters worst. I will wait till I can find a time to talk to her privately, perhaps during lunch time or during a coffee break. I'll her what I feel, that I am upset on a specific task where he was not able to do his part of the work. I will tell her that I don't have time to do her work in addition to mine and that if she can not perform her, she should approach our boss so they can think of any back up plan for that. Not to threaten her, but I will also her that if this indolence continues, I will be cascading this to our boss. I think it all boils down to communication. Perhaps she has so many things in mind - family problems, etc. Surely, this can be worked out if both of you are open to any forms of conversation.

Many eons ago, when I was an assistant manager in a store, there was a male employee that didn't like to listen to me or any of the other female managers. He was insolent and childish, and when he did not respond to us talking to him, I just resorted to asking him to do something three times, if by the third time he did not do it, I clocked him out, sent him home, and left a note for the manager. There is really only so much you can do in these situations. Talking is always the best course of action, but sometimes people don't always listen. I'm sorry your day was so stressful though.

I also do not like working with lazy people because I feel like they will hinder my productivity and the productivity of the whole group. I do have some lazy co workers but I do not like confrontations because it might create more tension than there is at the moment. So what I usually do is double my effort and I will just hope that the person will notice that she/he is not doing anything valuable to the group and start to work also.

Oh my god, I know how you feel. Even though I'm not old enough to have a job, I kind of understand your situation when I have group projects or classwork or something. Seriously, I'm the one who does ALL the work or pays attention. It makes me wanna choke everyone in my group for being so stupidly lazy. And if they're not the lazy one, then they're the one who does everything wrong and makes me do even more work on fixing their mistakes and redoing it. And if they're not that, then they're the one who demands to do all the stuff. I'm fine with that, but usually they do all the stuff WRONG and gets an F for me and everyone. What annoys me even more is that they would get away with it and get an A for doing nothing at all. And even when people say "Oh, they'll get what they deserve in the future when people realize how lazy they are." No. Just NO. They might change and be hardworking in the future and not get what they deserve. I'm okay with them becoming hardworking, but I want everyone to get what they deserve. UGH. I hate lazy people. They should only be lazy by themselves, not with others.