Reflect on how you dealt with a difficult person? How did you overcome? What was effective? What was futile? Please share your experiences.
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I feel the need to vent my RP friends and colleagues. I'm very very frustrated.
I have a coworker who was hired a year ago. She complains about everything. Everything that has happened to her (according to her) is because either the rest of my coworkers are racist, or they don't like her, or are intimidated by her. This person does not step up to the plate when additional help is needed. She has not bothered to learn our systems and makes up excuses not to attend training. She is a web designer and has not done any real design work until this week. (She's been here a year now) She got her performance evaluation and didn't get a great evaluation. She is of course pissed about that.
Because of her lack of pitching in and the higher ups not sure about her skills, she's not been granted full access. She is claiming she's being set up for failure and that it's harrassment and she's going to sue the agency. She knows how to play the system. She won't do anything unless you stop and show her how to do it but yet according to her she is knowledgeable in it.
Today she is pissed at me because I worked my agency's booth at a conference last week that everyone within the agency knows about and I didn't tell her about it. She's claiming I'm keeping job secrets from her and that I've betrayed her. The conference is well known to everyone in the agency. An email went out division-wide about it. I was asked to work the booth because as the agency designer, I have in-depth knowledge of our website and they wanted me there to field questions.
I'm beginning to think this is all a smoke screen to cover up her lack of skills. I have tried to friend her and work with her but today, I'm done. I spoke to my boss about her on Monday, and I started keeping a folder in my email of all emails from her. I'm also blind copying my boss on all correspondence with her.
Has anyone else encountered this? How did you handle it? If you haven't encountered anything like this before, lookout. I'm learning that there are some seriously crazy people in government.
I appreciate any and all feedback.
I have a coworker who was hired a year ago. She complains about everything. Everything that has happened to her (according to her) is because either the rest of my coworkers are racist, or they don't like her, or are intimidated by her. This person does not step up to the plate when additional help is needed. She has not bothered to learn our systems and makes up excuses not to attend training. She is a web designer and has not done any real design work until this week. (She's been here a year now) She got her performance evaluation and didn't get a great evaluation. She is of course pissed about that.
Because of her lack of pitching in and the higher ups not sure about her skills, she's not been granted full access. She is claiming she's being set up for failure and that it's harrassment and she's going to sue the agency. She knows how to play the system. She won't do anything unless you stop and show her how to do it but yet according to her she is knowledgeable in it.
Today she is pissed at me because I worked my agency's booth at a conference last week that everyone within the agency knows about and I didn't tell her about it. She's claiming I'm keeping job secrets from her and that I've betrayed her. The conference is well known to everyone in the agency. An email went out division-wide about it. I was asked to work the booth because as the agency designer, I have in-depth knowledge of our website and they wanted me there to field questions.
I'm beginning to think this is all a smoke screen to cover up her lack of skills. I have tried to friend her and work with her but today, I'm done. I spoke to my boss about her on Monday, and I started keeping a folder in my email of all emails from her. I'm also blind copying my boss on all correspondence with her.
Has anyone else encountered this? How did you handle it? If you haven't encountered anything like this before, lookout. I'm learning that there are some seriously crazy people in government.
I appreciate any and all feedback.
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