'I dare you!': Slacking coworker distracts cleaner from job, cleaner dumps water on him

No one really cares about an unmotivated coworker who slacks off until they start to disrupt and affect your own work. 

If people want to mentally check out during work hours and save all their responsibilities to the last minute, that is their choice and their risk to take. But having been in a situation where I worked closely with someone like this, I can say that it becomes infuriating the minute that their lack of motivation starts to get in the way of your own process. For instance, if I needed my former coworker to sign off on an email so I could begin compiling information in a time-sensitive situation, this dude simply would not care and would continue to stall for as long as he wanted. Could it have been a total lack of self-awareness? Could it have been a power play? It could have been all of those things, but it didn't take long for his behavior to bite him on the behind. A few months later, he was gone. 

A similar result could occur for this Redditor's troublesome coworker. OP shared their side of the story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, and let's just say that the coworker had a bit of a wet afternoon. Keep scrolling below for the full play-by-play. For more, check out this post about dramatic quitters.

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