Send them a zoom link on slack, saying you want their input on something. Clicking on the link is literally their job. Source: I'm often the recipient of those zoom links.
(And if you don't get a satisfactory response, get another job where there are helpful senior staff).
I'm not saying that you should care about the person (that's another discussion entirely). I'm saying they if they don't care (which they probably don't), or don't understand all the extras that you're throwing out (which they probably don't), then you're wasting your time.
I offer up a glass of kool aid if you believe this works. Employee A is just going to DM slack Employee B asking them to approve their 7000 like PR because they're going on vacation next week and Employee C has been slow reviewing.
Ask them flatout how they reward initiative and accomplishment. If they start fumbling, there's your answer. If they don't, ask them for a concrete example. If that's when they struggle, there's your answer.
I make it a habit, when I have an above-and-beyond customer experience, to reach out to superiors of whoever helped me to praise them.
This most often happens in hotels where a particular day-to-day employee is extremely helpful or thoughtful. Upon checking out, I will call the hotel and ask to speak to the GM. Ironically this is the hardest step, because most people who ask for the GM have something to complain about, and then I tell my story once on the line.
In the same vain, I think it should be pretty easy to reach out to somebody more senior than and in the same chain-of-command as this person - find out the name of their boss' boss on LinkedIn or something, then guess that person's email address (it probably has the same format as this employee), etc.
Talk to the colleague first not the manager if you do go down this route. But tbh you don’t know what they’re going through. And it’s also not your business, just do the work.
I had a colleague who would do little for months and didn’t mind it. In fact, because he would mind his own business I liked him more than my other colleagues.
I think you should mind your own business, unless for some reason this is your business, ie if you’re the manager.
talk with them? Explain with examples how their behavior impacts your ability to do your job and ask them what they recommend for working better together.
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