Side Jobs

No, this is not some weird thing that they do in Singapore.. but I am sure this happens everywhere... You come into work with a set agenda, I got this, this and this to get done today, but at about 9:30 you get a call from the boss that your priorities have changed and you now are expected to pick up the slack for X employee... This is a pain in the ass. I realize everyone has to deal with it, but why?? why does every company have this X employee... I leave 3 hours early every day, but I have yet to have anyone else "pick up the slack" for me. So how do these tragically overworked souls manage to get here and have everyone else do their work for them? For us, that Employee X is a certain somebody that is technically a part time employee, or in other words, she comes in 4 hours a day and then goes home to "raise her children." It isn't the amount of time that bothers me, or that she is part time... but the Bitch got a promotion recently. How does that happen.. a part time employee gets a promotion? It isn't like she was putting in the extra hours. The explanation I was given for this was that she cried for it, which I can believe, but also that her defense was that she "gets so much done in her limited schedule." She gets 8 hours of work done in 4 so they say... the reason for that is of course that I routinely have to come in and "wrap up" her work. To be totally nice about it, she puts in some effort, and ACTS really sympathetic for laying work on you... but there is nothing even remotely close to wrapping up going on.. if by wrapping up it means she starts it and gets about 10% into it and you do the other 90%, then yeah.. I wrap up her work. I like to call it doing her work for her though. So yeah, she gets 8 hours of work done magically, and she absolutely takes all the credit for it. Here is the thing though.. I get 8 hours of work done a day in 4 hours all the time.. AND they pay me for the full 8, so I guess I win... it just doesn't feel like it.