Another work realted one...
lol!!
Grrrr. My job is somewhat of a stepping stone between "team peon" and supervisor. My supervisor and I have a good working relationship and trust each other, and can easily discuss problems we see with our team in a true objective manner.
The problem is that there's a "problem peon". Almost everything that comes out of her mouth is either a tall tale or a flat out lie... and she lies about everything from her work to things she's done in her personal life to what people in the office have said or done. She's a real... problem... and since she came to us from a really lax supervisor who didn't require attention to detail (and we do), she's now mad as hell at our supervisor and thinks she's getting picked on when we just ask her to do the work correctly. AND, she's combative when you try to point out a problem.
The other day my sup had just about enough and went to personnel to discuss either reprimanding her or dismissal. Although she technically shouldn't have, she told me before she went because she trusts me. But this morning she came in my office, asking me if I told, said there's more "stuff" going on regarding this employee... that's all she said, and left.
My supervisor spent a great deal of the day in conference with the higher-ups about her... and my guess is after a team meeting we had just the other day where we were giving reminders on a few issues we've seen pop up in people's work a lot recently (she was giving the supervisor the evil eye the whole time), the girl got angry and probably filed a grievance with personnel herself, against the supervisor. I don't know, but I'm nearly willing to bet that's what it is.
A little bit after she came in my office this morning, I went in her office and briefly closed the door, and said "what's going on?"... she said she didn't want to talk about it so I said "Okay" and left. I'm concerned that she didn't believe me when I said I hadn't told anyone about her trip to personnel, and since she doesn't want to discuss what's going on I can't get perspective to why she would think that. The only person I told was my husband, during the daily "whatcha do today" chat!
I would just go in her office and tell her that I'm concerned she didn't believe me, but I'm afraid of looking overly anxious about it which would make me look guilty. Should I wait until all is out in the open, or confront her now?
Grrrr. My job is somewhat of a stepping stone between "team peon" and supervisor. My supervisor and I have a good working relationship and trust each other, and can easily discuss problems we see with our team in a true objective manner.
The problem is that there's a "problem peon". Almost everything that comes out of her mouth is either a tall tale or a flat out lie... and she lies about everything from her work to things she's done in her personal life to what people in the office have said or done. She's a real... problem... and since she came to us from a really lax supervisor who didn't require attention to detail (and we do), she's now mad as hell at our supervisor and thinks she's getting picked on when we just ask her to do the work correctly. AND, she's combative when you try to point out a problem.
The other day my sup had just about enough and went to personnel to discuss either reprimanding her or dismissal. Although she technically shouldn't have, she told me before she went because she trusts me. But this morning she came in my office, asking me if I told, said there's more "stuff" going on regarding this employee... that's all she said, and left.
My supervisor spent a great deal of the day in conference with the higher-ups about her... and my guess is after a team meeting we had just the other day where we were giving reminders on a few issues we've seen pop up in people's work a lot recently (she was giving the supervisor the evil eye the whole time), the girl got angry and probably filed a grievance with personnel herself, against the supervisor. I don't know, but I'm nearly willing to bet that's what it is.
A little bit after she came in my office this morning, I went in her office and briefly closed the door, and said "what's going on?"... she said she didn't want to talk about it so I said "Okay" and left. I'm concerned that she didn't believe me when I said I hadn't told anyone about her trip to personnel, and since she doesn't want to discuss what's going on I can't get perspective to why she would think that. The only person I told was my husband, during the daily "whatcha do today" chat!
I would just go in her office and tell her that I'm concerned she didn't believe me, but I'm afraid of looking overly anxious about it which would make me look guilty. Should I wait until all is out in the open, or confront her now?