Problem that's beyond office politics and involve performance issues?

[RogerHoustonETP]

I would appreciate sincere answers.

My department supplies services to other divisions in the same company.

There are multiple projects coming from another department . Each project are roughly the same amount of work. Myself and a co-worker are working on these projects.

I am able to complete said projects about three hours faster than my co-worker (they each take about a day). I then use these extra hours on the next incoming project.

Our internal clients love that I can get a lot of work done in a day. But it raises questions about my co-worker. Said co-worker is doing fine work and what he's assigned. He's doing nothing wrong.

I'M doing nothing wrong. If anything, I'm saving the larger company a bit more money in getting more done.

My supervisor, however, is asking me to intentionally slow down.

Do I accept my supervisor's request and smoothing over the issue of work load between me and the co-worker?

Or do I stand my ground on the principle of doing good by the internal client and the company-at-large?

Thanks for reading all this. If you've run across this, I'd love to hear how you've dealt with this.

Thank you

 

[TehManuel]

In the short-term, I wonder if can you offer you supervisor to work as fast as you do, and then help your co-worker?

Over the long-term, I'd ride out the recession and look for another job once hiring picks up.

Like it or not, being perceived as a team player is just as important these days as being productive.

In my opinion...