Slowing Bob Down

[conned tractor]

Help, Bob's doing my melon in...

Have been working for current clientco for around 12 months so have feet nicely under the table. I'm reasonably quick at completing assigned tasks and normally hit timescales.

The working processes have just changed and everyone is taking longer than expected on their assigned tasks - Management do not have a problem with this as we are trialing the new process for them (it saves time further down the line) and have set arbitrary targets based on previous timescales. However Bob, sh!tting himself to fall behind, has taken it upon himself to work 2+ hours over each day and started coming in on the occasional weekend to get it finished without extra pay - making it look normally achievable.

Should I form a union? Or steal his bobble hat?

[amcdonald]

He'll make himself so unpopular, he won't last long with an attitude like that

Working weekends without pay, the other permies will lynch him

[moorfield]

Recommend him to all your pimp mates, along with a CV on the job boards with his name and the boss's extension number.

He'll be out of your hair in no time.

[d000hg]

There was a time English people weren't afraid of hard work either

Has anyone tried explaining to him that in this context, "success" means getting an accurate assessment of the new processes, not distorting the results by working extra time?

[KentPhilip]

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[AtW]

not distorting the results by working extra time?

He is doing what it takes to achieve what he clearly desires (permanent residency in UK most likely).

If you are so ****ing good then work smart and do in less hours what he does in more - then you can have a laugh, but not before.

[conned tractor]

It looks like we'll have to get the time and motion department onto this then.

[conned tractor]

It is a difference of work ethics.....he is used to delivering at any cost and I am used to costing the delivery.

[Zippy]

He is doing what it takes to achieve what he clearly desires (permanent residency in UK most likely).

If you are so ****ing good then work smart and do in less hours what he does in more - then you can have a laugh, but not before.

Surely the clever thing to do is to make sure everyone (i.e. da boss) knows that he's working much longer hours to achieve the same results?

[d000hg]

He is doing what it takes to achieve what he clearly desires (permanent residency in UK most likely).

If you are so ****ing good then work smart and do in less hours what he does in more - then you can have a laugh, but not before.

Would you hire ICT workers?