I have the laziest coworker of you all I work as a hearing aid audiologist. We got a small shop in a rather big city. Four people are working here.  My Boss had lost about 40-50kg (80-100lbs) in the past few months. Which is good for her. She really keeps her diet up! My other coworker is a former diet/nutrition consultant. She is really tiny and petite person. I have to admit she is pretty hot.  But then. There is my third coworker. She is a 23 y/o ham. She began working at a other shop in a city 70km from here. Where she had difficulties with her former boss (who could have guessed?) so my boss told her she could finish her traineeship in our store. This is probably the biggest mistake we have ever made. She works only 1/2 the week. She's always sick for some reason. In our job is it important to show up to work every damn day because you have customer appointments to work on. She casually just texts our region manager, that she will be sick today. No word to one of my coworkers or me.  You get paid pretty little as a job trainee in our country. So there are authorities where you can get a little financial help from the goverment. But she is basically to lazy to fill out all the needed forms. Two weeks ago we got a letter from a distraint company that they want to distraint her sallary (don't know if these are the correct words. Sorry I'm a german).  The day after we received this letter she got a appointment with my boss and our region manager. They found out that basically her entire life is mess. She lives together with a roommate in a small flat and she let's her food rott in the fridge, she didn't pay rent the last few months and didn't show up to work because she couldnt afford the train tickets. Now we knew why she was always sick. The appointment she had with my bosses was a warning letter for her to do her work properly (which she by the way also doesn't) and show up every day.  But you know what. She didn't learn from this. She still don't show up to work half the week and she still does her work half assed. The problem is. You can't fire a job trainee in our country that easily. They have to steal, or sexually harasse you, so you could fire them.  I always thought the stereotype that fats are lazy is not true. But it definitly is! TL;DR: ham coworker doesn't show up half the week. Had a warning appointment with my bosses, buuuut is still lazy af. [Edit: I'm one year older than she is and I've finished my traineeship 2012 and am now studying to get a masters degree for my job and lead a own shop. Let that sink in. She basically disables all her future chances with her freaking lazyness]