There are 2 types of people in the workplace. The productive ones, and the unproductive ones. You are working with these 2 types of workers, hopefully more of the former than the latter.Unproductive employees shuffle around the office looking for free candy.They have an excuse for everything Here are a few of the phrases they use to explain away the problem. Listen for them, then correct the action to get things back on track.
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2. Unproductive employees have an excuse
for everything Here are a few of the
phrases they use to explain away the
problem. Listen for them, then correct the
action to get things back on track.
4. Well, everybody complains about their
pay check at some point of time or
other. But Unproductive people have a
habit of using that as an excuse to not
do things. They keep feeling that they
are never paid enough and never taken
notice of, and always get the worse
appraisals, and that is reason enough to
avoid doing work at all.
6. Whenever there is something extra that
needs to be done, some extra effort that
is required or some extra time, anything
that might threaten to bring them out of
their comfort zone (or maybe we should
call it lazy zone) and it becomes
something that is not a part of their job
profile.
8. Some people who are whining may really
be overworked. However, how we view it
is what differentiates us from being
productive and unproductive. Some of us
see the heavy workload as a challenge in
carrying out the task, while the rest take it
negatively. They come up with excuses to
avoid doing the job.
10. Later in the day, later in the week, they
keep pushing it and then they end up
staying in office overnight and working like
a maniac to get things finished overnight.
Then they complain that people are not
being understanding and just with them.
They bide away time when they have it, and
then end up doing a shoddy job due to lack
of time.
12. Overly detail-oriented people use this
one. They wait until everything is
perfectly lined up before starting a task,
usually languishing in perpetuity because
things rarely do line up. And, ironically,
some of the employees in your company
who are wasting time mindlessly
browsing all day are the ones who think
they have to wait for the project pieces to
fall in place.
14. They will say they don’t know how to do it;
and what it means is that they don’t want to
even try doing it. And if they really don’t
know how to do it, they don’t want to learn,
they don’t want to ask for anybody’s help;
they would rather be a chair-potato and
spend the day thinking about football and
baseball and when it would be time when
they can leave and go to the pub.
16. Really? Is there an employee who won’t act
until he or she has all of the answers? That is a
sign of someone who will be waiting a long
time because no one ever has all of the
answers. The people who started Airbnb and
Uber didn’t wait for all of the regulatory issues
to be ironed out. And Google didn’t wait to
test driverless cars until every country allowed
them.
18. This is a very common excuse. Many
employees say they are overworked without
realizing that every single person is
overworked. The difference is that productive
people do not complain about having to work
while unproductive people will moan about it
to get out of work.
20. We are living in a world of narcissists who
take selfies every 30 minutes and post
about their inner feelings on Twitter. The
underlying problem? They’re slowing down
a project because they only care about their
own rewards. Productive people see the
greater reward of a successful company and
want to play a part in building something
cool. The selfies can wait until the weekend.
24. This is a phrase some workers use when
they care so much on the quality of their
work rather than submitting it on time.
They spend so much of their work time
on what they are doing which makes
them unproductive.
26. Unproductive employees can think of
using it as an excuse not to do things. They
will say that they are afraid they will not
be able to do the task to satisfactory
standards, and somebody would just have
to do it all over again. They will say that
they are not skilled and trained enough for
it and are bound to fail. Here, the fear of
failure is more of an excuse for failing on
purpose.
28. As school kids we would say that
when we forgot to do our homework
or forgot to bring a book to the class.
We did that because we were taught
to be honest, but when an
unproductive employee says that, he
is using it as an excuse to cover up for
the fact that he did not think that task
was important enough to command
his attention and action.
30. The unproductive employee has a family
emergency to deal with – a sick wife, a sick
mother-in-law, a funeral to attend, a home
repair to oversee, a doctor’s appointment to be
present at, etc. Sometimes you might even end
up being surprised at how creative they could
get with brewing up emergencies in your head;
so much so that, had they put even half of that
effort and creativity in their work, they would be
nominated for being ‘employee of the month’!
32. Feigning a headache, a stomach ache,
dizziness, nausea, fatigue, uneasiness,
indigestion, etc. are common excuses. Most
of these problems are not so hard to feign
and do not require immediate medical
attention or any serious prescriptions.
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