Incompetent work colleague on higher salary than me

ZeroThreat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122274267#Comment_122274267

Well I'm glad they gave you some sort of reasonable raise at least. They don't seem to be quite the Mr. Burns dinosaur monolithic management types like some offering opinions here ….

'If you came to me with that attitude I'd tell you that it was none of your business and if you did not like your salary there's the door…. and your next move would be????'😉

Wanderer2010

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122273508#Comment_122273508

This post should be automatically stickied and pop up anytime someone has an issue in the workplace that is causing them distress. I'm absolutely gobsmacked by the enormous amount of posters on Boards who act as if your job should be your entire life and that you should be loyal, committed, willing to work unpaid hours and turn into a slave just to have a different title and perhaps a few more thousand euros. Never mind that you are just a number in every single job on the planet. Easily replaceable and forgotten in mere days. Not to mention that the entire corporate game is rigged in their favour: work long hours, clean up after everyone else with the dangling carrot of a future promotion. Get the promotion: even longer hours, zero time with your family or to recharge the batteries, with the same carrot of another future promotion!

But so many people here just don't get it. It's frightening how many posters resort to the whole oh no wonder companies won't invest in Ireland, oh you need to come in early to show commitment, serve your great leader and such platitudes. There are a huge number of people in this country who would happily cut all employment laws and unions just so they could "get more out of" workers. Happily let people work 14 hour days, give them 5 minutes breaks etc. These people are all over this forum. They live as if we are in 19th century industries. Sad and pitiful people. A job is just money so you can live your life outside of the job and pay the bills. Just a number as I said. And for anyone who thinks you are oh so important and the company couldn't do without you...head to your nearest graveyard and see all those "irreplaceable " workers!!!

lukin

I am going back to this thread again because I got hold of the guy's CV and it is very impressive; he has a lot of experience, much more than me so I can now see why he asked for the salary he is getting. His level of experience warrants it you could say. But his level of ability certainly does not. I got my raise and I am grateful and happy though.

If I had seen his CV at the same time as I saw what he was earning I would not have posted this thread. I might not even have asked my boss for a raise. He showed himself to be so incompetent while I was training him that I said to myself "There's no way he could be more experienced than me". I assumed he had less experience and that's why I was so p####d he was getting more than me. But it turns out he is more experienced than me. Looking at his CV it is amazing to me that he knows so little about the skills required for this job.

I don't want to give too much away because I don't know who is reading this but some of the things I had to show him how to do I was almost embarrassed to because it was basic baby-infants stuff. I trained him to do one particular task and I explained it to him in great detail and gave him an example of it for when he had to do it himself. A few weeks later he had to do it himself and I found out that he went to a colleague of mine and more or less got him to do it for him.

He didn't tell his manager this (who is also my manager) and took credit for it himself. I could have grassed him up to my manager because I was a bit annoyed that I went to so much trouble to explain it to him and then he couldn't do it himself.

I'd say he just didn't understand how to do it even when it was explained to him. I was able to learn the same task by myself when I started. He is also ducking other tasks that I think he has no clue how to do either.

Look, I am not bitter, just surprised that someone with such a bulky CV can be so clueless. Maybe some of his CV is made up, I dunno.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122650943#Comment_122650943

Just report your original post and ask for the thread to be deleted.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122650943#Comment_122650943

Look, I am not bitter, just surprised that someone with such a bulky CV can be so clueless. Maybe some of his CV is made up, I dunno.

It certainly comes across that you are bitter, but less so since his salary resulted in you getting your 10% raise, so you should be thankful.

I completely understand your frustrations though. I also have a work colleague who works on my team and who is known to be incompetent by practically the whole office and he earns more than me by about 10% even though he can only do about 10% of what I do…and that is not an exaggeration. Basic stuff I still have to show him and we do have to check his work most times because often it's not done properly, or at all.

It bothered me for a while, but then I reminded myself that his salary is his and mine is mine. No point getting angry about management decisions on salaries that don't impact on me negatively. If anything, it's an opening to get a bigger raise, knowing the floor is more open.