How do you deal with one of these?
I have worked in my finance role for 2+ years, have similar work experience and a relevant degree. I’m 24 and have never been out of work.
My colleague has been in the same role for 5 months, prior to that took 5+ years off work to raise her kids as a single mum, and used to work in a bar. She’s 30. She is still learning the role and is inexperienced, but I really get the impression she thinks she’s better than me as she’s older than me.
She treats me awfully, ie has confronted me about “mistakes” in my work by approaching my desk and loudly/patronisingly asking me why I did something regardless of what I’m doing. She’s interrupted my meetings with colleagues both in person and over the phone like this. Turns out I didn’t make any mistakes, she just hasn’t read the guidance properly and jumped to conclusions.
She isn’t resilient, she always mentions her bar experience means she knows how to handle difficult situations but this isn’t the case. If she can’t handle something, she will be in a bad mood all day and loudly talk about people in earshot of them. Ie she will say to a member of the public “weird that Wednesday hasn’t done X, I’m so sorry for her incompetence” whilst I’m sat behind them. I didn’t need to do “X” and it’s unprofessional to say things like that to the public.