Here’s a thought:
If a certain colleague spent even just half as much time visiting other people throughout the day, going from one cubicle to the next, chatting about godknowswhat, maybe… just maybe… that colleague could, oh I don’t know… do his or her own job instead of trying to pawn it off on our newest employee?
As a bonus, it would also virtually ELIMINATE any “despair” over how swamped said colleague is. The solution to staying caught up is to actually DO YOUR WORK!
Hey, no fair blogging about me slacking off when I’m not even *at* work today! Oh, wait, maybe that’s my problem…
Come on, Wade, we all know that it’s ME she’s talking about. You’d think after being gone for TWO years that she’d finally let it go, but I guess some people really carry grudges.