Hyprocrisy At Work

I witness hypocrisy at work sometimes, when another employee bad mouths another employee for something that they have done.  There is a particular instance that comes to mind, when ask if I have witnessed hypocrisy. I was working at Berry College, with the company that which I am still currently employed. My fellow coworkers and I were remolding a three story dorm room complex called Dana Hall. This was a fairly big project; it took a little over a year to finish it. When we started this project, there were about ten employees from the company that I work for, assigned to this job. Most of the guys on the job had a pretty good attitude and worked hard, but there was one employee in particular that just griped and complained every single day, day in and day out. This was a guy who tried to get by, by doing as little as possible. He would stand around and gripe constantly about “so and so” not doing anything and about how lazy they are. He would actually work harder trying to get out of work, than if he would have actually just worked. He would come into a room where I would be working, just griping about someone standing around or about how long someone was taking to do a task, and I would sit there and think to myself, “man you are really one to be talking”. His behavior stayed the same throughout the course of this construction project, making him almost intolerable to the rest of the employees. I also see hypocrisy in another way at work. This is something that almost everyone is guilty of, griping about not putting things back where they belong. I hear this almost every day at work and I am also guilty of this myself. All too often when looking for something at work such as tools, parts, or other things that are supposed to be returned to the shop, are not able to be found because someone did not bring the item back or they did not put it in the right place. When an employee goes to the shop to look for something and they cannot find what they are looking for, they automatically start blaming someone, knowing they are just as guilty for the same thing.