Currently feeling so disillusioned with work that it has been weighing heavily on my mind for the past two days. How do you explain a colleague with absolutely ZERO contributions for the past nine months is on almost the same compensation/reward scale as everybody else?? The fact that the difference between appraisal grades is a mere 0.5 months' worth of bonus means that our entire contributions in the past year as compared to his are worth at most one month's salary. How is that even fair? This is a sentiment shared by the team, especially so for the supervisory team, because he is considered management grade and probably draws a higher salary than them for doing absolutely nothing. I finally understand what it means to be underappreciated, especially when you pit yourself in comparison with someone who gets paid for doing nothing every day, and comes in late daily as well. The only thing keeping me going now is that I just got to clock the 2 years of experience and probably search for greener pastures in the meantime.