Remote software engineer job, I am Eastern time zone and the teammate is Pacific time zone. He may actually be a hero in the eyes of the antiwork group because he usually goes AFK before I do when his work hours start and end three hours after mine. He'll sometimes be gone for an hour and a half to walk the neighbor's dog or 4 hours at the DMV or 3 hours to drop off his wife at the airport. His work almost always runs past deadline.
I am not his boss, but we are on the same team. He will sometimes ask me for help and I will give him a pretty clear path of “Do #1, then #2, then #3, then #4.” Then a few days later he will ask for some help with #1 because some vague reason like “I had some trouble with that.” I sometimes want to ask, “Have you tried literally anything?”
So if management wants to fire him or not, that's up to them. My interpretation of the spirit of antiwork is doing the minimum to not get fired, but I don't think he's even doing minimum, and I don't want to do this guy's job for him in addition to my own. I'm thinking about just telling him I'm swamped from here on out. Any opinions? I'm bracing myself for some brutal comments.