IT pilot fish is asked to take over a small project that hasn’t made any progress in two years in the hands of a guy who just can’t seem to find time for it.

“Fred is sort of the office blowhard, and while I do believe he is competent within his skill set, he never seems to be very busy — he always has time to run errands and take long lunch breaks,” fish says.

“But when asked about his weekly status, he whines about his workload and how unstructured the overall company is.”

The project is fairly straightforward — a simple installation of a vendor’s product and writing of a user manual — and Fred has supposedly already made progress on the manual.

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