Do you know recognize people?
Working in a team has both its challenges and its successes. Working with people from different schools of thought, different upbringing and socialization makes it interesting to work together. Some are there because they were brought in by their boss as relatives, others were slipped into their jobs because their parents had money to bribe while others it’s because they here to make a difference in their lives by giving their best. The question is who are the majority in your organization according to the list below:
The One-minute bombs or Midnight oil burners or ninetieth hours or the busy as bees or the abandoners?
One-minute bombs:
These are the kind of people who don’t like thinking, are very quiet and look forward to meetings where they will destroy beautiful ideas others have spent days and weeks incubating. This guy’s only take one minute to bring you down and in a very nice way but will never come up with any idea. Looks familiar! They normally start with the phrase
They are good though, they make you feel as though you need to think harder.
Midnight oil burners:
These are the guys who toil day and night dreaming and coming up with beautiful ideas. They put them on nice presentations with well-researched information and facts.
They are good though, they make you feel that you are less educated than them.
Ninetieth hours:
These people are people who bring in reports and assignments late I mean the 90th hour. If you were their boss, you wouldn’t have time to look at the assignment to ask so many questions. They will always submit in their reports and disappear from the office.
They are bad, they will make you look stupid in the eyes of your seniors why because the report does not make sense and has so many grammatical errors. The back stops with you.
Busy as bees:
These guys are ever busy in the office. They seem to be doing something but ask them to show you. They have their phones in front of their computers and tapping the keypads of their computers yet on social media. Ask them to submit their assignments they have been typing one paragraph the whole day. These guys are normally very brilliant and heavy presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
They are good though, they enhance your supervisory skills, every other time they will make you have work plans and targets for everyone.
Abandoners:
They will pretend to know how to carry out every assignment. The know it all. When it gets tough on them, they rush to the expert, they slowly run to his/her desk and whisper in their ear ‘This assignment was yours, I thought it was the one I knew’
They are good though, they make you take responsibilities for your own actions.
My experience in working with these people has taught me that we are living in the ‘animal farm’. Where all animals are not equal. Some are more equal than others. For example, my recent experience with the one-minute bombs; I work in this NGO and I write a very good proposal, I call in a meeting to share what I have been able to do, then comes this colleague and begins dissecting my efforts. He/she does not offer an alternative or better still table his/her work. But wants to make your efforts look as fruitless as his/her inability to work.
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