Help. Should I stay or should I go?

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In job for 15+ years. Like it & very good at it.
Have issue with 1 member of staff who winds everyone up. Doesn't do job always getting things wrong & being assessed for inability to do the job. The job has become more complicated over the years & they can no longer keep up. This person is late 50's has done this job since left school .
I have grown tired & frustrated at her inability & she just pushes my buttons .
I have been offered a new job for 1 year temporary contract within same company.v
But must give up this permanent post.
This person may retire early in the next 3 months but management cannot discuss with me, which I get. If she left I would stay however for my sanity I need to get away from her. I have an inability to keep my mouth shut but feel she is playing the " poor me, everyone picks on me card" . Yet when she is aware she is being monitored can do job to a reasonable standard.
Do I give up this chance to escape or hope she leaves.
I'm afraid I might just lose it one day & get sacked for what I might say.
All views welcome.
I have to decide by tomorrow.

Oh that's a difficult one.

Is this temporary contract a job you want to do? Is it a promotion? What is the chance of you staying on after a year?

Can they really switch you from a permanent contract to a temporary one in the same company?

Sorry, meant to say, can you take a sabbatical for a year and do the temp job, then come back?

Yes, where I work you’d be offered it as a secondment with your permanent job to go back to

Temporary for 1 year possibly 2.
I like anything new so it interests me but would be happy to stay where I am.
I'm looking for a solution to this feeling of frustration at work so is my choice to apply for this post, but as initially 1 year my manager will not allow a secondment & keep my job open for me to return to.

Should add the manager would love her to go as it takes so much work to constantly monitor her to keep her standards up.
But if she improves they cannot get rid.
It causes so much grief in the team.

As someone who recently quit her job she'd been in for years to start another one.. and is about to be terminated on Monday.... ride it out. Don't leave a permanent role because of some annoying colleague.

Oh dear . Nonotmenori so sorry to hear that.
I do hope you find something soon.

You've put up with her for 15 years - what's another few months?
As opposed to possibly jeopardising your future job security by moving to a time-limited post.

Can you not stick it out?

Only been an issue last 2 years & she has been trained & retrained several times.
It's not a definite that she will leave. If i knew for sure she was going i could hold it back till then. A light at the end of the tunnel.
It is however becoming too much. I am beginning to crumble.
& with no guarantee I'm worried I lose it.

I'm more shocked I think that I I'm allowing one person to have this effect on me

Ah thank you. I'm sure I will. But please don't give up you job over her. She's not worth it!

Errrm do we work together? This sounds very similar to what iv been dealing with at work, however the woman I work with is a massive gobshite and is always appalling at her job, I’m currently on mat leave and I do love my job but the thought of that situation just makes me want to find something else. Not fair in the slightest when you work hard and these people get so much support or modi-codling (she has worked there a lot longer then me) 🙄🙄

Sorry that wasn’t much advise but I as hard as it is if you enjoy your job then ride it out perhaps and when she does leave and you still have itchy feet then you know it’s time to move on

Zombiemum123 feel free to vent as I know how you feel. Enjoy your mat leave as time passes so quickly when they are tiny.

After a sleepless night I'm still undecided.
But need to decide today as email arrived asking if still interested even though no secondment.
All advice seems to be stay . Partner, friends & you lovely mumsnetters too.
Thanks everyone for your views.