There are 2 of us in my shop that show up @ 0600 every day. We have morning IT checks that need to get done and it's the same 2 of us EVERY morning. These check cover critical items such as equipment status, online storage utilization, compressing databases, fixing hardware and software that is in a maintenance status, etc. They have to get done to ensure mission integrity.

I've got one co-worker that varies his time in by up to an hour and a half throughout the week. When the two of us who always get there early pre-announce that we'll be late the next day we would expect that the morning checks would be complete by the time we do arrive. Nope. Not even started. It's at this point that I walk away and won't touch the checklist myself. I figure if the boss want's them done, then he can start acting like a boss and insisting that everyone step up to the plate and do the work. As just another employee, I've decided not to babysit these adults and pull their weight too. I find this difficult because of my dedication to the mission, but I've finally realized that it only drags me down to do their share of the work and my assigned tasks fall behind (which I hear about from the boss!).