Article: Don't fall into a trap of matching laziness with laziness.  Instead, always do your work effectively and efficiently, challenging yourself to do your very best.  You'll set an example for your coworkers, your boss, and your job consistently well may have long-term payoffs, such as a promotion. You may be tempted to give your boss a taste of their own medicine and be equally lazy.  This is rarely productive, as your boss is likely unaware that you are mirroring their behavior, instead seeing you as independently lazy. Your boss may have reasons for their behavior that you're not aware of, or they might have personal issues impacting their work performance.  Before you complain to HR, try to understand your boss, what makes them tick, what they care about, and what frustrates them. Just as you have an entire life outside of the workplace, so does your boss.  You may not know that they have another full time job, or that they’re ill, or that they’re taking care of a colicky newborn. Getting to know your boss establishes a rapport and allows you to understand their position a bit better. Get to know the layout of the company and learn the chain of command.  While it is not the first or second best option, it is good to know who your boss's boss is, in case you need to escalate the issue. This step is for primarily for your information, because you want to try different approaches first.  It is good information to have on hand if all else fails, though. It might be that your boss is not lazy, but does not fully understand your work description, theirs, or your coworkers’.  Similarly, work tends to trickle downward, and that’s especially true with a lazy boss.  Read through all relevant job descriptions and if you find that you’re doing more than what you were hired to do, have a conversation with your boss about assigning tasks to the appropriate employee, which may be them.  Often on-the-job responsibilities change much faster than job descriptions are updated. There is also sometimes a murky overlap among positions, leaving room for confusion about who is responsible for what.

What is a summary?
Focus on yourself. Get to know your boss. Learn the company structure. Read job descriptions.