Team Player?

In the middle of my third week of the new job, I now have a better understanding of my colleagues behaviours. For better, or for worst (but mostly for the better). Everyone is great and it is a pleasure to work with them...except for one person. There is supposed to be a team of three, but to me there is a twosome -- and the 'other guy'.

The 'other guy' is a nice person, knows his stuff, but he seems to be distancing himself. We -- the twosome -- assume this is due to the "other guy's" perception that he is above us in the hierarchy of the company. This information has not been confirmed but, in the meantime, the twosome are doing all of the work while the 'other guy' works on a project of insignificance for days at a time. This didn't bother me until today when I asked why he was still working on that particular project. His response was, "there is nothing else to do, so this helps me kill time and keeps me out of trouble."

This response infuriated me because the twosome were deploying hundreds of VOIP phones, taking inventory of all the equipment, and setting up policies and precedures. But I said nothing, excused myself, and continued my work. The twosome has established a good repoire and see eye to eye on this issue. So when ask what was done when our supervisor returns we denote all of work we (the twosome) completed. We will not bash the other guy in anyway but just show the difference in workload.

The job before this, I worked alone. I was soley responsible for tasks that were not completed in a timely manner. But now, working with others in professional setting, should you really give credit to someone who doesn't deserve it?