Timeline for How to deal with an intellectually disabled co-worker who gets nothing done?
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| Sep 1, 2021 at 15:26 | vote | accept | Lucas F. | ||
| Feb 15, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | Kilisi | @Michael you make no sense sorry, feel free to downvote | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | Michael | @Kilisi In which case, OP doesn't even work with this person at all. So what use is "be nice to him" if they've never met? | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 15:14 | comment | added | Kilisi | @Michael I'm unsure what you mean, the OP isn't the manager, just a colleague. If it was the manager my answer would be different. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Michael | @RichardSaysReinstateMonica Feel free to read my answer to see my actual thoughts, rather than just jumping to the conclusion that I think this person is human garbage that it is acceptable to hate, which I never said anything even remotely close to. And sorry, but good managers may occasionally be unprepared for certain situations. No one is infallible. A good manager is not one who already knows how to manage everyone, it's one that cares enough to learn how | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 14:04 | comment | added | Old_Lamplighter | @Michael a good manager wouldn't be struggling. People with handicaps are not garbage to be tossed at will, or to resent because of inconvenience. Is being kind so radical of a notion to you? People with handicaps have limits that others don't. you have someone in a wheelchair running things upstairs, you won't have a blind person working with video, and you won't have a deaf person taking dictation on a steno pad. You also don't give someone who has a mental handicap tasks too complex for them to follow. A good manager utilizes people based on what they can do, and deals with the rest | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 13:31 | comment | added | Michael | @Kilisi. That's rubbish. You could say the same to literally every struggling manager. The problem is not the expectations, which sound like they are already quite low, it is that they don't know how to manage this person. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 23:50 | comment | added | Kilisi | @Michael what problem? There isn't one. Just too high expectations, lower the expectations, problem dissappears. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 20:28 | comment | added | Michael | This doesn't really contain any practical advice at all. "Be nice, patient, ... eventually he'll settle" Tolerance is great, but you're effectively saying to wait for the problem to solve itself. Well, what if it doesn't? | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:52 | comment | added | Kilisi | Yes, he's been dumped there for your people to look after. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:43 | comment | added | Lucas F. | @JoeStrazzere The general tone is "Figure it out". You have to understand in government work, just because somebody has a responsibility on paper does not mean that they actually feel responsible for it. Quite many people are just there to collect a paycheck at the end of the month without performing any actual work. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 12:28 | comment | added | Lucas F. | @JoeStrazzere Officially the supervisor, but generally the co-workers distribute the tasks among themselves. Whoever has time or is on route somewhere anyways. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:51 | history | edited | Kilisi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:46 | comment | added | Lucas F. | Thank you, I guess that's really the only way to go about it. I'll leave the question open for a while, just in case others want to add their two cents. Otherwise I'll mark this as accepted. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:45 | comment | added | Kilisi | @LucasF. sure, make him as useful as possible, just don't expect him to do anything unsupervised, however simple. So obviously don't send him for paper again. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:43 | comment | added | Lucas F. | While I generally understand what you are trying to say, I don't really see what kind of behavior to recommend to my family member. Should they keep giving him tasks? Or should they not? | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 11:41 | history | answered | Kilisi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |