My coworker has excuses for not getting her work done and is offline and away a lot. Im working crazy hours to get things done. Should I tell my boss?

[Jendcheuebc]

Just today, she was away for like half an hour and we had several emails come in that she didn’t address, her folder in her email hasn’t been working and she hasn’t fixed it, one of her systems freezes a lot, she never escalates any questions she has when I explain how to do something, then when it’s busy she has tons of questions and doesn’t know how to do it. On another project she is still having a lot of “systems errors” and that’s why there’s no progress, she claimed I didn’t send an attachment with access list to her back in June but I definitely did, and my boss gave me a hard time about it even tho I sent. I spent several hours past few weeks on different days trying to help her out and then I had to push my actual work I was assigned to the evening and work late into the night to complete it. Should I talk to my boss about this?

[Fa1con]

While it may be worth taking it to your boss you should be absolutely sure you have her behavior well documented to prove your case. Some people may suggest you talk to her about her faults and failures first but that may backfire if she goes to HR or talks to your boss prior and claims you have it in for her.
Simply put, document everything and make sure you can prove what she is doing wrong. If you dont have any evidence, wait and collect some for a while.

[Jendcheuebc]

I do. I think my boss also can tell she’s not pulling her weight enough at times. She even asked me once “how is she doing?” In a really concerned way. So I don’t think I’m the only one.

[Fa1con]

It is very good that you already have the boss on your side. Now how you handle things is entirely up to you.

[Jendcheuebc]

m going to do that. I highly dislike working with this girl. She has no determination. It’s not about not being able to pick things up at a certain speed that stresses me out but that she doesn’t really seem to care much for the work. Everytime I ask how her projects are going she says there’s like no progress.

[HelloImGoodThanks]

This is tough on one hand I feel you should try and talk to her and on the other hand I do feel you need to talk to your boss as it is affecting you and and your ability to be able to get your own work done

[Jendcheuebc]

I’m going to do that. I highly dislike working with this girl. She has no determination. It’s not about not being able to pick things up at a certain speed that stresses me out but that she doesn’t really seem to care much for the work. Everytime I ask how her projects are going she says there’s like no progress.