Recently entered a reputable company alongside an SIT graduate on the same day. My first impression of him was great and we didn’t have any issues. As we were both fresh grads, we are mainly tasked to read up on information that are relevant to us. We were on different floors of the company and just within the first week, one of my colleagues had already caught him openly sleeping in the office, either face down on the table or lying back on the office chair comfortably in full view of everyone. Sometimes, there were even instances of him playing games during office hours. My colleague was nice enough to inform him to avoid doing this kind of things in the future during working hours, and even told others that he was only doing that because he was feeling unwell.
His superior happened to have caught wind of this and kindly informed him to not do it again, without any scolding/reprimanding. 正所谓 知错能改 善莫大焉. Despite these repeated gestures of goodwill, his recalcitrant behaviour only worsened. Though I am not sure if this is the case, he has been given more work to do in an attempt to see if he changes for the better. Alas, nothing came of it. He finished it without much care and didn’t bother doing any proper researching on the topic, before going back to what he did best.
Honestly, as a fellow colleague, I don’t really have anything negative to say about him besides his working attitude. What really surprised me was that these actions came from a university graduate, instead of a polytechnic intern. I had tried to drop subtle hints to him during our lunch break together, but he just doesn’t seem to get the bigger picture at hand. There have even been rumours that some of the superiors of our superiors have caught him in the act personally… I really don’t know how long he can last in any company having this kind of working attitude, but all I know is that I don’t want any part of it. As far as I know, no one has tattletaled on him and they all saw him doing it themselves. We will most likely just let the superiors decide the most appropriate course of action against him.
Just wanted to rant about this and I am curious if anyone else have encountered this kind of issue as well.””