Lazy coworker brags about having free time at work on social media, hardworking coworker tattles to management: 'We never have a slow MOMENT at work, let alone a slow day'

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Aug 8, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

We've all had one of those coworkers who doesn't do what they're supposed to do. If you're on the same level as someone, it's easy to notice that one or two people are carrying the bulk of the work, while another employee is twiddling their thumbs and getting the same pay/credit for doing much less. If you have good management, they will notice this inequitable distribution of the workload, but most workplaces don't have great management. It's more common for the mediocre employee to fly under the radar, not detected by their boss until their laziness gets so out of control, it's impossible to miss. Meanwhile, the delinquent employee's coworkers become increasingly resentful of their misbehavior, as they constantly have to pick up the slack.

It can be draining enough having to do the work of one employee. When you have to grind for someone who is not doing their job, but is also clueless about how they're making their coworkers' lives miserable, it's easy to get a little bitter. 

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  • The employee in this story never has an easy day on the job. His coworker has a ton of easy days and always seems to brag about it on social media. They're constantly posting about how they're doing watercolors while working from home, and haven't been reprimanded adequately for this lazy and stupid display. 

  • Coworker brags about free time?

    I have a coworker that posts Tik Toks about how much free time they have at work, or how they have had a "slow day at work" accompanied with their arts and craft projects they are doing with their work time instead.
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  • Normally I wouldn't give a f what someone post about. But we have never had a slow MOMENT at work, let alone a slow day. This person consistently is lazy in their role and doesn't do things properly, when they do things at all.
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  • Our team is fully remote and our manager is too busy/disconnected from the team to care.
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  • My petty revenge is anonymously sending screen shots and links to the company compliance department. No outcome yet.
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  • The rules of snitching don't apply on-the-job, when I'm busting my a and you're water coloring all day.
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  • JerryNotTom Keep sending those screenshots and links. Send them up your chain of command, send them to HR, send them to the CEO. You'll eventually find someone who cares enough to put this person on a performance improvement or can them altogether.
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  • chalavet Fully agree. If they're posting that crop publicly while you're drowning in work, they deserve whatever's coming. No guilt needed. The real ah le move would be letting them keep getting paid to paint while you do all the heavy lifting.
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  • Pissedtuna "Everybody Gets a Screenshot!"
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  • Hash_Swag_have_none Nah, they'll make them upper management instead...
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  • SweetMaam It isn't snitching. It is called whistle blowing.
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  • BigAssumption8216 Full agree here. In essence that coworker is stealing from the boss by doing no work related things. Keep sending it, and do please keep us updated. Love to hear where this eventually goes.
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  • monkeybuttsauce I'm all for stealing from the boss, but I'm not for having coworkers pick up your slack
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  • DependentBuy9915 OP And that makes it ethical/not snitching?
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  • [deleted] Since when is it not ethical? Listen, if you owned a business and someone stole money out of you till, and someone caught them and told you about it would that be unethical? This employee is being paid to do a job. They are not, but still receiving compensation for that job. Informing the people whose money they took without receiving the agreed to service is the ethical thing to do.
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  • Less_Author9432 A snitch is a person that willingly participates in the crime and/or is happy to receive the benefits of said activity but throws everyone else under the bus to protect themselves when the heat is on.
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  • You see someone else's activity that you do not participate in and said activity does not benefit you. Therefore you're a whistleblower, not a snitch.
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  • Timothy_Jor This is happening to me right now and I hate it. We have people in the office who come at work at 12pm ( we have flexible working hours but everyone is expected to be here at least by 10am), roam around the halls drinking coffee and laughing and watching youtube videos in their office, while asking others if it's
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  • a slow period for them too. Like when tf is there a slow period? We are always filled with anxiety and have a ton of things to do everyday with barely any time for breaks. I guess being a programmer gives them that privilege? They claim they have 2 weeks of "a lot of work" and then 4 months of scratching their balls with a rake. Makes me so angry.
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  • Flux_My_Capacitor Send them to clients and customers. This is how you escalate your revenge when the boss won't listen. Plus, like that are why so many people got called back into the office.
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  • AgentOfCUI Send them to clients and customers. This is how you escalate your revenge when the boss won't listen. That is such a good way to get fired. Making the company (even rightfully) look bad to clients because your boss isn't listening to your (even rightful) complaints is like an instant firing.
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  • OP can escalate this through appropriate channels without doing stuff that will get them terminated for cause without UI.
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  • EmergencyAthlete9687 You have a contract with your employer. Stick to it. I really don't see what business it is of yours what other workers get up to. You don't say that you are having to do their work in addition to your own so what has it got to do with you how another worker spends their time at work? If it creates extra work for you you have a right to complain to the boss about that but otherwise you are just being a snitch
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  • SheWhoLovesToDraw Tell that the employee who ISN'T following their contract. Pretty sure there isn't a single employee contract out there that permits you to work on hobbies and post to social media while you're on the clock and being paid to do specific tasks.
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