You Make the Call III

Totally hypothetical, of course. This is not based on anything that actually happened, or something that practically made laser beams shoot out of my eyes in white-hot rage. And any relation to actual events that transpired recently is purely coincidental. Obviously.

PART 1

If you had a problem or concern with the way a coworker manages their time, say, the way they multitask between working on their normal duties (for the sake of argument and clarity let's call it "your publication") and a company-wide, once a year project (again for argument and clarity, "the video project"), would you:

a.) Talk to said coworker about it, expressing your concerns and perhaps offering suggestions on ways to manage time better,

b.) Talk to the coworker's manager about it, again expressing concerns and offering suggestions for better performance, or

c.) Go behind both the coworker's and coworker's manager's back and over their heads (quite the contortionist!) to speak to the CFO and head of department allowing for a whisper-down-the-lane effect to take place and the word to trickle back to the coworker that you think they are a shitty employee and unable to handle their workload.

Now before you answer please factor in the following:

1) During the past year's "video project," at no time did the coworker miss a deadline on "the publication."

2) The "video project" is about, oh, 9 MONTHS AWAY, making this, in effect, a pointless issue to bring up right here and now.

3) Your own work lately has been found lacking, making the fact that you're butting your nose into coworker's work terribly ironic.

So what would you do?

PART 2

Let's pretend, just for fun, that the event above actually did happen with answer "C" in place. Of course it didn't but let's just pretend that it did, and that you're the coworker that was spoken about in such a matter. Would you:

a) Confront the coworker, calling them out on it, making for an even more tense working relationship than you already have,

b) Speak to your managers about the issue, who then in turn speak about it to the CFO defending you and your work ethic, but the coworker basically continues in his pointless passive aggressive micro-managing of you,

c) Move up you career counseling appointment at the graduate school you're currently attending and buy the Sunday Papers scouting for possibilities of new employment,

d) Both b and c, or

e) All of the above.

These questions are purely for sociological and statistical research of course. So please, be honest.