Ah.. vacation time and I need to vent about work. In my career, I've had several situations where I was working with someone who seemed disinterested with the job given to them. This someone would be opposite of me. This someone would wait to have something handed to them instead of taking initiative. This someone when given a problem to solve would not ask questions, talk to people who had knowledge or a stake in the solution, and would just give answers that showed they really didn't try to understand the problem.

I try to show patience and be an example of how to approach problems. I'm not perfect but I document in one for or another everything I was thinking when approaching a solution. If after a reasonable amount of time, the person still continues to approach problem solution in an undisciplined way, it makes me want to scream. I'm passionate about doing my job right and have a disdain for people who are paid to share the workload of my team and instead put more burden on me.

I feel I'm in that situation now and there's nothing I can do about it. One piece of advice I've been given that I sometimes find hard to follow is that without saying a word, people know. People know when someone does consistently good work and when someone is not cutting it. Since it is not my job to call out someone, I should be shutting my mouth and focusing on my own work.

Sometimes I get in a situation where someone elses mistakes fall on me to fix. Although I already have my handsful, I am asked to clean up some elses mess. My blood boils over when it comes to this and I start to lose control. It's around the time that New Years resolutions are being conceived. I need to resolve to not let these things bother me and to focus that energy on things I could do better in my work.