I work at a newish pharma company which is generally well run with a really nice company culture. I've never had a problem with anyone except one colleague I work with who has been called a bully, annoying, incompetent and so on by multiple people including myself. Working with him was such a nightmare that my manager hired a supervisor to manage us both under her. The supervisor really hit it off with him and quite honestly they're both widely seen as annoying and incompetent so they kind of stick together and leave me out. Which is honestly ok with me.
We work in lab based roles and those two never actually enter the lab except to keep tabs on me. I do almost the entirety of our work and lately I've been working late as a result. The supervisor occasionally says backhanded comments to me implying that she doesn't believe I'm working (lol).
I got sick of this and snitched to the manager. Now I'm doing the supervisors job for her and writing our teams objectives for the next phase of our development because in 6 months she literally still doesn't have a clue.
There has been an ungodly amount of lab work lately. I've been covering all of it almost until today. My colleague pulls reagents out of the freezer and leaves them on his bench for around 5 hours. He works a slightly earlier shift than me so I offered a couple of times to do them instead while I'm working on similar experiments anyway. My supervisor told me not to because my colleague will do them.
We get to an hour before the guy has to leave and he still hasn't touched them so I started them. He comes down stairs, asks if I'm doing the work and I say yes, because you didn't bother, and we have triple our regular daily workload arriving on Monday. I'm not going to let you create a backlog.
He grabs the supervisor. She attempts to order me to stop what I'm doing and let him do the work. I explain that no matter how quickly he works, he cannot finish these before Monday so I will bcause I will leave later. For reference, I leave 1hr 45 later and him, and today I also did 30 min of overtime as a result of this. Unless he was planning on doing 2 hours overtime I don't see a reasonable alternative.
She told me to calm down and not stress because it will all be fine. I said I disagree and continued. She said there's only so many hours in the day. I responded with “and maybe if you used some of those to do labwork we won't have this problem”.
Perhaps I could've put it more delicately but I'm glad it was said. I'm at the point where I don't mind if I lose this job as I've had recruiters offer me plenty of similar ones. And aside from doing all the work on a 3 person team, I started another team/committee in this company that I manage so good fucking luck replacing me. The pair of them are widely disliked and bad at their jobs.
I know shit will hit the fan on Monday but it's alright. I'm no longer scared of being terminated because they make the job miserable and I know that I'll be fine and able to find employment elsewhere.
If you're wondering why I'm so keen to do their jobs for them, I'm not. But they're doing their jobs so badly it's easier for me to put in the extra work than to let the situation fall apart. If we allow a backlog to form we will potentially not get back on top of it for months, and none of us can afford our other responsibilities to be affected by this.