Colleague who hates this job

I know I sound contradicting about my take on my job, and it seems like I am schizophrenically adoring and detesting my job minute to minute.

To speak the truth, I cannot apprehend it either. I hate it how I have to work beyond my working hours, which eats menacingly into my personal time; but at the same time I treasure the job satisfaction I get from this career.

While I grumble non stop about working at home, sometimes I have to admit that I work better away from work, in the comfort of my house. I tend to come up with better ideas and concepts, and then bloat with pride.

I've got a colleague whom is in the IT dept, and by calling it dept, I think I am misleading you. He is the only person in this dept because hallo~ how many IT man you need in one small company?

Because all of us are quite tech-savvy to begin with, we dont really need his help most of the time. Hence he dont have much work to do, and never have to do ot like the rest of us do.

And remember I mentioned before that my company policy is "do what you want, just get your work done"? He took it upon himself to test the system, coming in later and later, as though he is trying to see at which point will the boss explode a grenade in his face.

It shouldnt involve me, but because he sits just a couple of rows away from me, and with his back towards me, I can see that he is surfing net every single day. I am working my ass off, trying to clear my pile of work, while he would be mindlessly surfing friendster and youtube.

The sense of unfairness really bugs me. I am this busy but he is getting to paid to surf net? What the hell?

Recently he began to complain to us that he wants to quit. His explanation is that he is too bored here and he wanted a more challenging job. But seeing him doing his job so tiredly makes me wonder whether is it because he hates this job, or he hates work on a general whole.

I secretly think it is the latter. He seems like one of those who has no ambition in life, with his only goal to be earning big money, but not knowing how to go about building his monetary empire.

It affects me adversely, seeing how much he hates this company. I dont like this place lots either, but seeing how he loath this company, and him being too vocal about it, makes me feel irritated.

Once a friend told me that she has a colleague who does the same jobscope as herself, and this colleague never put in effort at work. He would do the bare minimum, and refused to go one single step further for his job. He reaches work late, but leaves promptly at 6, and let whatever that cannot be completed hang in the air until the next day when he have the mood to do, or until my friends couldnt stand it anymore and did it overnight, whichever comes first.

This friend holds a similar working attitude to me, believing that working this ridiculously hard is not only for the company, but mainly for ourselves. We will eventually leave this place, and what we want is to join another place with a glowing testimonial.

She confessed to me that seeing this colleague taking work so nonchalantly made herself felt insulted. This colleague is treating a job that she loves like dirt, and this made my friend thoroughly pissed.

I am not that extreme. I dont feel insulted by this IT person, but I certainly feel pissed as well at his blatant display of despise for this company, and us who are working hard for the company.

Sigh, if he really hate this place, then he should leave.

Go ahead and slack at home, who gives a damn?