Should I say anything or just leave it?

[Tweet2tweet]

Just looking for some tips or advice. I am going to be off work until early next year, mat leave. Just before I finished up a lot of proposals I put forwarded were accepted and will be rolled out in my absence. That's great except for one thing. One of the developments is that I get a new direct report. My boss already has someone in mind, but in the last few weeks before I left that person showed themselves to be unreliable, bad at general workload management and quite a gossip. They know I have worked this out and were openly hostile to me before I left.

So should I give my boss a heads up or just leave to fate? Part of me just thinks see what happens when back but then part of me thinks if I can try for prevention, but my boss may think I'm just being a bit OTT and will go with what they want anyway.

So any words of wisdom, please!

[MsDeerheart]

I would say something - keep it factual eg x did this

[jkklpu]

Yes, give the specific examples of the behaviour. WIll the person have to interview for this job or is it just a reorganisation of reporting lines?

[Tweet2tweet]

Thanks for getting back to me. They will interview but they have been very clever in appearing very efficient tony boss. However it's mostly talk and little action!