Who is the laziest person you know?

[movingforward]

I have a co-worker who is THE laziest person I have ever come in contact with.  Her office is steps away from the front door and she refuses to get up and answer it when the front desk person is not there.  There have been several times I have heard her yell "come in" when someone knocks on the front door.  Hmmm... that's really professional.  Of course, most of the time they never hear her anyway and she will yell it 3 more times before I finally get up from my office in the back and go answer the door.  Just now someone knocked (bringing her lunch, I might add) and she yelled at the temp to go answer the door.  The temp is actually downstairs doing something I asked her to do and I refused to answer the door in order to make her lazy ass get up.  She started yelling come in and after the 3rd time I hear her start grumbling about having to get up.  It is HER food being delivered    The kitchen is downstairs and she won't walk down the stairs to get anything and always waits until our front desk person "happens" to be heading down and she will ask her to bring up such and such for her.  It is utterly ridiculous!  Okay, rant is over for me... who is the laziest person you know? 

FYI - our office is very small with only 4 offices and the reception area so I can pretty much hear everything that goes on around here whether I want to or not. 

[thyme4change]

My ex-boyfriend was lazy - physically and mentally.  He never finished college. He never completed any of his goals.  He never did much of anything.  He was quite heavy, but I saw a picture of him a few years ago, and he wasn't as obese as I expected.  As it turns out, he got a tradesman position - so I suspect that keeps him from ballooning up to "Biggest Loser" status.  

[Deleted]

If given a choice I choose slothiness. So, me! 

[Deleted]

Do teenagers count?

[movingforward]

Apr 24, 2013 13:03:05 GMT -5 @justaposter said:

Do teenagers count?

No, they are all lazy

[Deleted]

How about 9 year olds?

[doxieluvr]

I am fairly lazy. Given the option I choose doing nothing, over something every chance I can.

[kittensaver]

The laziest person I know is the husband of an old friend. I'll call him Bob. We've known Friend and Bob for 30+ years. When Friend first married Bob, she supported him while he "finished school." He ended up changing his major twice after they married. He finally got a divinity degree that he never used. Then he spent a year working as the administrator of a tiny Christian elementary school and got fired at the end of the year. By then they had two pre-school aged kids and the Friend had finished her master's degree. She went back to work and he became a SAHP. When the kids went off to school, so did he (again), this time to earn an MFT license. It took him about 10 years to do it (should have been 2 + supervised licensing hours. And he didn't pass the exam until the 4th try).

Bob only took a job in County social services because Friend threatened him with divorce and to stick him with his very expense 2nd private university graduate school bill. He worked that County job (that of course he HATED) for 2 or 3 years until he had a major medical incident and spent some time on disability. He never fully recovered from his medical problem, but recovered enough to function in his life, travel, etc, and find a part-time job as a staff therapist working for a non-profit that served people with the same disability he has. He got laid off from that job when the economy tanked in 2008, and used up all of his regular and extended UI benefits without ever intending to go back to work (he played the game of pretending to look for work, filling out applications etc). When UI was up he filed for permanent disability. He could work again if he wanted to (he's got a professional license), but says he never will. He spends all his time on a couch watching TV and listening to music. All the years he had part-time jobs he spent his non-work time on the couch doing nothing. All we ever did to socialize with them was go to movies and go out to dinner. They never wanted to do anything active or different. They got old way before their time. These days the best thing in their world is the early-bird special at some of their local eateries.

Bob is a nice guy, but incredibly lazy and really happy to make do with very little. He has absolutely zero drive or ambition. He passively found ways to get his wife (Friend) to support him for his entire adult life. He was the only child of blue-collar parents who fawned all over him (according to Friend, she knew them). He thinks the world revolves around him - not in a nasty way, he's very kind and pleasant - but still "entitled" somewhere in his head. He openly admits his favorite story is Peter Pan (the boy who never grew up). He openly admits to relating to Peter's character.

[souldoubt]

To me being truly lazy involves having little or no drive in life.  My GF's sister is an absolute bum who has had 2 kids and thinks the world owes her.  She has no desire to work, to better her lot in life or even try to provide for her kids.  On top of that when people do things for her kids she doesn't appreciate it and actually berates her family members for not buying her BS and giving her things or "helping her out."  Luckily everyone knows her schtick now but she's in her late 30's and it's beyond pathetic.  She should have her tubes tied and be sent off to to some desolate island where she fends for herself with others like her but instead she will get to sit around, pop out more kids if she wants and live off the taxpayers.   

[busymom]

 One of the "management team" at a former employer was the laziest woman I've ever met.  Her office was directly across from the office copier, yet she'd yell at the receptionist to get any copies she made, & the poor receptionist had to deliver them to her office.  And yes, she was very overweight.  Probably by at least 100 pounds. 

[sheilaincali]

My brother is the laziest person I know.  He would spend 2 hours arguing and complaining to get out of 2 minutes worth of work.  He has his kids 50% of the time.  When he picks them up from daycare/school on his weekends he drives them straight to my parents house and sits there until my parents feed them all and bathe the kids.  Once the kids are in their Pjs he'll drive them back home to go to bed.  First thing Saturday mornings he is back at my parents house to leave his kids there all damn day (rinse and repeat for Sunday too). 

He doesn't ever cook for his kids.  They eat nearly every single meal out.  He leaves his weeds grow until his neighbors call the cops.  Then he'll whine to my mom and have her hire the weed spray people to come and spray his weeds.  He has 2 (used to be 3) very large lab mixes in his fenced in backyard.  He has lived in the house for 6 years now and hasn't once picked up the dog poop.  On the rare times he mows he just drives over it and it shoots out from under the lawn mower and hits the house.  Gross!!!!!

He went through a brief "depression" (really he is just a lazy asshat) and handed my mom 4 months worth of his mail and said "deal with it".  So now she balances his checkbook and pays all of his bills for him.  She does all the hosting of his kids' birthday parties, buys them all of their Christmas presents (even the ones that are supposedly from my brother).  She wraps all of the presents too and will drive them over to his house.

When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them.  So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one.  When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes. 

When we have dinner at my folks house we try to get him to do little things to help clean up after dinner.  We'll ask him a dozen times to bring his plate to the sink (he refuses).  If we ask him to vacuum or sweep (his 3 year old throws food everywhere) he will offer to drive to his house and get his dog instead so the dog can eat the crumbs. 

When his kids are being brats (which is the bulk of the time) he does nothing to discipline them.  On Sunday the 3 year old was beating the crap out of his 6 year old sister who was on the floor screaming and DBro did nothing.  He was like 10 feet away.  The most he did was say 'Stop kicking her".  So she got up, tackled her brother and started to beat the crap out of him.  DBro's reponse "He shouldn't have kicked her first.  It's fine" 

I really don't like my brother.  I hate going to my parents house if he is there because he treats them like shit.  If I go to stop by their house and see his car in the driveway I'll turn around and go back home without stopping. 

[thyme4change]

Apr 24, 2013 13:34:08 GMT -5 kittensaver said:

The laziest person I know is the husband of an old friend. I'll call him Bob. We've known Friend and Bob for 30+ years. When Friend first married Bob, she supported him while he "finished school." He ended up changing his major twice after they married. He finally got a divinity degree that he never used. Then he spent a year working as the administrator of a tiny Christian elementary school and got fired at the end of the year. By then they had two pre-school aged kids and the Friend had finished her master's degree. She went back to work and he became a SAHP. When the kids went off to school, so did he (again), this time to earn an MFT license. It took him about 10 years to do it (should have been 2 + supervised licensing hours. And he didn't pass the exam until the 4th try).

Bob only took a job in County social services because Friend threatened him with divorce and to stick him with his very expense 2nd private university graduate school bill. He worked that County job (that of course he HATED) for 2 or 3 years until he had a major medical incident and spent some time on disability. He never fully recovered from his medical problem, but recovered enough to function in his life, travel, etc, and find a part-time job as a staff therapist working for a non-profit that served people with the same disability he has. He got laid off from that job when the economy tanked in 2008, and used up all of his regular and extended UI benefits without ever intending to go back to work (he played the game of pretending to look for work, filling out applications etc). When UI was up he filed for permanent disability. He could work again if he wanted to (he's got a professional license), but says he never will. He spends all his time on a couch watching TV and listening to music. All the years he had part-time jobs he spent his non-work time on the couch doing nothing. All we ever did to socialize with them was go to movies and go out to dinner. They never wanted to do anything active or different. They got old way before their time. These days the best thing in their world is the early-bird special at some of their local eateries.

Bob is a nice guy, but incredibly lazy and really happy to make do with very little. He has absolutely zero drive or ambition. He passively found ways to get his wife (Friend) to support him for his entire adult life. He was the only child of blue-collar parents who fawned all over him (according to Friend, she knew them). He thinks the world revolves around him - not in a nasty way, he's very kind and pleasant - but still "entitled" somewhere in his head. He openly admits his favorite story is Peter Pan (the boy who never grew up). He openly admits to relating to Peter's character.

OMG - this could have been my life if I had stayed with that ex-boyfriend.  This is what would have happened.  And I still would have done all the housework, too.  I really feel like I dodged a bullet.

[imawino]

Apr 24, 2013 14:17:39 GMT -5 sheilaincali said:

My brother is the laziest person I know.  He would spend 2 hours arguing and complaining to get out of 2 minutes worth of work.  He has his kids 50% of the time.  When he picks them up from daycare/school on his weekends he drives them straight to my parents house and sits there until my parents feed them all and bathe the kids.  Once the kids are in their Pjs he'll drive them back home to go to bed.  First thing Saturday mornings he is back at my parents house to leave his kids there all damn day (rinse and repeat for Sunday too). 

He doesn't ever cook for his kids.  They eat nearly every single meal out.  He leaves his weeds grow until his neighbors call the cops.  Then he'll whine to my mom and have her hire the weed spray people to come and spray his weeds.  He has 2 (used to be 3) very large lab mixes in his fenced in backyard.  He has lived in the house for 6 years now and hasn't once picked up the dog poop.  On the rare times he mows he just drives over it and it shoots out from under the lawn mower and hits the house.  Gross!!!!!

He went through a brief "depression" (really he is just a lazy asshat) and handed my mom 4 months worth of his mail and said "deal with it".  So now she balances his checkbook and pays all of his bills for him.  She does all the hosting of his kids' birthday parties, buys them all of their Christmas presents (even the ones that are supposedly from my brother).  She wraps all of the presents too and will drive them over to his house.

When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them.  So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one.  When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes. 

When we have dinner at my folks house we try to get him to do little things to help clean up after dinner.  We'll ask him a dozen times to bring his plate to the sink (he refuses).  If we ask him to vacuum or sweep (his 3 year old throws food everywhere) he will offer to drive to his house and get his dog instead so the dog can eat the crumbs. 

When his kids are being brats (which is the bulk of the time) he does nothing to discipline them.  On Sunday the 3 year old was beating the crap out of his 6 year old sister who was on the floor screaming and DBro did nothing.  He was like 10 feet away.  The most he did was say 'Stop kicking her".  So she got up, tackled her brother and started to beat the crap out of him.  DBro's reponse "He shouldn't have kicked her first.  It's fine" 

I really don't like my brother.  I hate going to my parents house if he is there because he treats them like shit.  If I go to stop by their house and see his car in the driveway I'll turn around and go back home without stopping. 

Holy shit.  I don't like your brother either!!! 

[gs11rmb]

"When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them. So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one. When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes. "

Your brother might just be some sort of evil genius - that's the best idea I've ever heard .

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do dogs count?

[thyme4change]

Apr 24, 2013 14:17:39 GMT -5 sheilaincali said:

When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them.  So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one.  When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes. 

I've seen this as a "feature" on HGTV, and I flip back and forth between "I wish I had that" and "It really doesn't take that long to empty a dishwasher."  

[swamp]

Apr 24, 2013 14:28:06 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Apr 24, 2013 14:17:39 GMT -5 sheilaincali said:

When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them.  So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one.  When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes. 

I've seen this as a "feature" on HGTV, and I flip back and forth between "I wish I had that" and "It really doesn't take that long to empty a dishwasher."  

My sister has that "feature." I don't get the point, it's not that big of a deal to empty a dishwasher.

[NastyWoman]

When they had the house built he installed two dishwashers so he would never have to unload them. So they take dishes to eat on out of the one with the clean dishes in it and fill up the other one. When that's full he'll run it and start using the dishes in there and fill up the other one with dirty dishes.


I don't like your brother either but THIS is ingeneous!

[thyme4change]

There are some days when I wish I didn't have to empty it.  Maybe because I'm the second laziest person I know.  

Actually, I just thought of someone who is pretty lazy.  We have friends, married, and he is a SAHD.  He is great with the kids, but seems to be getting worse.  He worked for a while and they had a nanny, but then he left his job - not really sure what happened there because we didn't know them at that point.  He says something like "There was so much political bullshit" - which probably translates to "I got fired" but, whatever.  So, he always says that he is going work for his brother, etc. but he never gets paid.  Now, his brother has moved in with them because his business dried up and he used up all of his savings.  So, if there is no work, how is the guy working for his brother??  I have nothing against SAH-parents, but their house is atrocious!  Not messy - but dirty.  Weeds, no lawn, dirt, dirty cars, no clean laundry, dirty dishes.  Plus, a lot of stuff - broken furniture he is going to fix, etc.  They own multiple cars that don't run.  So, I'm not sure how he spends his time.  I won't completely write it off as laziness.  I think there might be some real mental health problems there.  Last time, I got the "hoarding" warning bell.  

[sheilaincali]

imawino-  I never get to get away from him either.  He "works" for my dad at one of the other companies so I have to see him at work too.  He literally spends all day either "checking his email" or shooting the shit with the guys working in production.  They will ask him "hey can you go google xyz" for us just to get him to leave them alone for a few minutes.  Once he got his smart phone they can't even do that anymore. 


He may be an evil genius with the two dishwasher idea but I still think that just makes him twice as lazy when it comes to the dishes.  Of course since the eat the bulk of their meals out or at my parent's house they don't really go through too many dishes anyway.

[NastyWoman]

Apr 24, 2013 14:17:39 GMT -5 sheilaincali said:

 Double post

[ontrack]

Apr 24, 2013 14:30:26 GMT -5 swamp said:

Apr 24, 2013 14:28:06 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I've seen this as a "feature" on HGTV, and I flip back and forth between "I wish I had that" and "It really doesn't take that long to empty a dishwasher."  

My sister has that "feature." I don't get the point, it's not that big of a deal to empty a dishwasher.

I thought the double dishwasher etc. thing was for kosher kitchens.

[sheilaincali]

Ontrack-  that may be as well.  I know my brother isn't trying to keep kosher.  I doubt he could even spell kosher. He will flat out tell you it's so he never has to unload a dishwasher.  I asked why he wasted all that money on kitchen cabinets if they never housed any dishes and he just changed the subject.

[kittensaver]

Apr 24, 2013 14:52:12 GMT -5 ontrack said:

Apr 24, 2013 14:30:26 GMT -5 swamp said:

My sister has that "feature." I don't get the point, it's not that big of a deal to empty a dishwasher.

I thought the double dishwasher etc. thing was for kosher kitchens.

Many kosher homes DO have two dishwashers - to keep dishes separate. But I don't think that's the reason why sheila's brother has them . . . .

ETA - I see she beat me to it

[ontrack]

Yeah, I was mostly commenting on the larger trend of two dishwashers, etc, not sheila's brother's specific situation.  He is just lazy.    

I saw an HGTV show (property brothers I think) where they kept strict kosher and needed a kitchen large enough for 2 of everything: fridge, stove, sink, and dishwasher.

[imawino]

Apr 24, 2013 15:45:21 GMT -5 ontrack said:

Yeah, I was mostly commenting on the larger trend of two dishwashers, etc, not sheila's brother's specific situation.  He is just lazy.    

I saw an HGTV show (property brothers I think) where they kept strict kosher and needed a kitchen large enough for 2 of everything: fridge, stove, sink, and dishwasher.

Ugh, that sounds like a lot of work.  Clearly I am too lazy to keep kosher!

[Peace Of Mind]

Wow!  I guess I'm not that lazy after all after reading this.  I'm just a bit work-challenged.    

[Lizard Queen]

The absolute laziest is an ex-boyfriend, but he is ancient history.  Currently, the laziest person I know is my MIL.  She desparately needs $$, but turned down a full time job that was offered to her.  She had a couple part-time retail gigs that lasted a month or 2, one Christmas season, then the next.  The lastest one had her, literally, working 2-3 hours per week, and she was fired right before Black Friday!  Oh, and she'd come home from her couple of hours of work complaining how tired she was from working!  She lived with us for a couple of months, and despite the fact that my husband and I both work full time (with a 2 yo at the time, and me very pregnant), my husband was the one who made dinner all but one or 2 nights out of the 60 or so she was with us.  I only remember one night that she made dinner, but am giving her the benefit of the doubt and saying there might have been a second.  The dinner was only made after I started making a big stink about her sitting around our house all day while we went to work and then came home to do all the housework too.  

[toomuchreality]

I am the laziest person I live with.   But then I live alone. 

[Nazgul Girl]

    This sounds funny, but I literally don't know anyone as lazy as the people described here !   I can't stand people like that.   I run away from anyone that lazy.   My ex-boyfriend was kind of lazy when he got high all of the time and lost his college scholarship for not keeping up his grades, but he wasn't that bad.   He always worked once he dropped out of school.   I had dumped him for being high all of the time instead of tending to his business ( after he was getting high before tests, and lost all of his summer earnings buying a motorcycle with no title = stolen ), but other than Loser BF, I really don't know anyone that lazy.   I think lazy people are scumbags.

    I think I'm lazy sometimes, but I guess I'm not, LOL.