One thing I do miss about LIB is that pretty much all of us would pitch in, collaborate, and do what we can. One thing I do not miss with SIB is that when I take the night shift, even though there are technically 2 of us, is that my colleague won't pick up a goddamn thing if it's more than the very basics. So that meant that tonight I did 12 requests, 3 of which were pretty involved and required a lot of back & forth. He took...one simple request. I also checked to see if he had done more with his region, or logged other requests. Nope.

One request over 5 hours. I'm trying not to have a giant fuck-you reaction, but over the year and a half I've watched this happen, where I'm killing myself to try and keep up and he does exactly nothing, I may have to raise this as an issue. It's...a sensitive topic and I may get my butt fired by doing so. He's fun and I like him, but if you see 14 requests pile up in the box while I'm already working on 3, help maybe? It's not a giant idea to look at that and in the meantime my work suffers because I'm trying to work on the 3 most complicated and I can't pay attention the way I should when working with multiple databases and multiple screens at the same time. I literally have no more bandwidth and am already screwing up what I'm doing from being over-extended so help would be appreciated.

I also am now apparently in charge of London's bouncebacks which I do not begrudge them. They work as hard as I do. But things sit in the box all day and are left to 5pm+ at night (US time) so I do them or they wait 18+ hours. Really guys, you came in at 9 am or before, no one bothered to pick these up?

All I can think is either participating in the mess or trying to ask about it. Participating would preserve my job. My instinct is to try and fix. I need to figure out where I can land.