It's entirely possible that he is just killing his eight hours because he 'knows' whatever doesn't get done by him will get done somehow.
A few nights ago, he filled a U-boat( large flat cart) with all kinds of crap; pillows, quilts, etc., and left it in the center aisle. It sat there the full hour we crossed shifts and he left, leaving it there. I pushed it to the stockroom; I have my own duties and limited time to do them and wasn't about to cover his ass.
At 10:30, just as we were ready to leave work, a page comes over that I have to come to the stockroom and pick up my returns
I went to the manager that paged me(same idiot that told me to go to the registers after I'd already been there 10 minutes) and showed him my return cart I'd been working on and said ' this is mine,that's not mine, it's Eddie's'. He responded that, if I had left at 5pm, someone would have to finish whatever I left behind, to which I replied, "Uh, no, because I FINISH what I start before I go home.'
I did grab a few things off it to put them on shelves(I really had no idea if they were returns, but they were at that point) and was the last to leave.
The closing manager was surprised-she'd gone back to the other and said I should not be responsible for that and thought he'd stopped me. Of course he didn't.
It's been an ongoing thing with this kid, to leave things undone, half done or done so poorly they have to be done over. Everyone knows this and I've been overly vocal over it. It's as if they feel they can't undo the promotion or something or just expect him to get better. When I started the job, I wasn't shown much more than how to fold towels. I wandered the departments trying to memorize where things are, what things are, etc., but I figured it all out. I just don't get why people don't put any effort into anything including things they don't like to do.
A co-worker and I decided to do a little 'test' to see how much others work when we aren't there. A customer had left a can of coke sitting on a shelf, unseen from the main aisle. We cleaned up well, but left the coke can. We both had off the next three days, came back and the coke can hadn't moved.
