(don't) respect your elders

When i take a break from work/study time to blog it means something has gotten on my nerves, or i realized something very important that cannot wait to be published. In this case it's the former.

How do you tell someone who works with you and is literally three times your age that they're a useless waste of office space? That their desk and computer are better suited for charity or even recycling? How do you tell someone that without hurting them? Some are efficient at work, some are less efficient, and some just can't do shit. These are the type of people you ask to do something and they come back to you with

1. "i cannot do this. would you do it?" -- if i wanted to or could do it in the first place i would have done so

2. "this can't be done" -- yes it can, watch me, or watch someone else not so helpless

3. "what is it you wanted me to do exactly?" -- this one usually comes two days or so after the asked task had been detailed

4. "this is not in my job description, but i will help you with it" -- your effing job description is to do what i ask you to do

Now when it is someone your own age or a few years within it, replies are no problem. most of the time negative replies don't even sound rude. But when it's someone so much older, and with so many more years of experience under their belt, it can be frustrating to tell them off. Or in this case, holding off telling them off and just doing the job myself or finding a more competent aide. but time after time after time it becomes aggravating.

being old is not an excuse for avoiding work or slacking off or just choosing not to do some bothersome task. and "old" in the workplace is really, anyone over fifty, right? which isn't even that old. And the tasks being requested are not rocket science, nor are they any kind of science for that matter. Therefore, the question still stands: what DO you do when an older person isn't doing what they are supposed to, and should be able to, do? What is rude in this case? I believe "rude" isn't applicable to work, if you take your job seriously. You do what needs to be done, and your counterpart accepts it, f they take their own job seriously, not matter how old or young they are.

Anyway these were my thoughts of the moment, more when i get them.