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I worked with a guy who just started doing less and less work gradually. He was in his 50s, he was hoping they'd just give him redundancy (rather than getting fired outright) so he would get a lot of his income tax back from the government and just put it into his IRA and live off welfare.
His boss was starting to give bad feedback and was about to put him on a PIP. But then his boss just quit, and never bothered to actually go through the process. The new boss was a bit of a cuck who hadn't got the heart to let the guy go (he was also 36 and new to management).
So fast forward 6 months of slacking more and more. The guy misses the standup meeting regularly, shows up at the office at 2.30pm (saying he was 'working from home' in the morning - when he didn't even bother logging in). He answers his emails once a day at 6pm before he heads home with short answers like: 'let's discuss that tomorrow' (he barely reads them). Project managers and team members have just adapted to his schedule. Several times during a meeting he simply stated: 'I don't need to be here' and casually walked out/hung up.
Eventually I left but he still works there years later. Guys working there say he now leaves at 5 and spends most of his time in the office on reddit and youtube. Apparently he'll make some token gesture that he worked like leaving a comment on code reviews or the wiki, he doesn't even code anymore. His boss never announces his holidays to him because any time he does, he doesn't show up to work at all, logs in just to answer emails and then logs out.
I worked with a guy who just started doing less and less work gradually. He was in his 50s, he was hoping they'd just give him redundancy (rather than getting fired outright) so he would get a lot of his income tax back from the government and just put it into his IRA and live off welfare.
His boss was starting to give bad feedback and was about to put him on a PIP. But then his boss just quit, and never bothered to actually go through the process. The new boss was a bit of a cuck who hadn't got the heart to let the guy go (he was also 36 and new to management).
So fast forward 6 months of slacking more and more. The guy misses the standup meeting regularly, shows up at the office at 2.30pm (saying he was 'working from home' in the morning - when he didn't even bother logging in). He answers his emails once a day at 6pm before he heads home with short answers like: 'let's discuss that tomorrow' (he barely reads them). Project managers and team members have just adapted to his schedule. Several times during a meeting he simply stated: 'I don't need to be here' and casually walked out/hung up.
Eventually I left but he still works there years later. Guys working there say he now leaves at 5 and spends most of his time in the office on reddit and youtube. Apparently he'll make some token gesture that he worked like leaving a comment on code reviews or the wiki, he doesn't even code anymore. His boss never announces his holidays to him because any time he does, he doesn't show up to work at all, logs in just to answer emails and then logs out.
