WWYD? Someone at work shagging boss

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I've name changed for this.

A girl at work who is junior to me has started a relationship with junior partner.

It's pretty grim as he is in a LTR and I assume his partner is unware but they are fairly blatant at work and everyone is gossping about it.

So far so no of my business.

However, she has now got the partner to change her role. This is undermining her manager, me and a fair few other people. She's basically been promoted and is now involved in lots of areas of the business that she really shouldn't be. Including my areas where I neither want nor need her involvement.

The Senior Partner doesn't know yet. I've got a feeling he might sort it out when he does find out as he wants this girl out of the business anyway, but he's out of the country.

I really don't want to work with her on projects and if she wasn't shagging one of the partners I would be senior enough to just tell her to jog on. But she is which makes it tricky.

He's making a total fool of himself which is up to him, but it's affecting the business and it's going to affect my role.

How would you handle this? I'm thinking of sending an e-mail saying 'it's all in hand thank you. If I need some support I will approach your manager who would deal with that." I probably will do that as it's pretty absurd. But beyond that, WWYD?

Downton - the OP has had three complaints about this employee from clients.

And it's the junior partner she has hooked up with.

The Senior partner is on holiday

No advice but lots of sympathy. Years ago I worked with/just underneath a bloke who was a serial offender of this kind: the rest of us were forever having to pick up after various girlfriends of his who were brought in as 'freelancers' to do work that was simply out of their skill-sets. Some of them were self-aware enough to duck out of it (and dump the bloke), some of them were egotistical little twats who made life hell for the rest of us (who basically had to re-do their work for no extra money)...

Are you the hr?

I'm not strictly HR but it's one of the departments I'm in charge of.

She is shagging the JP. It's not gossip it's confirmed. By her at least.

I'm going to 'thanks but no thanks unless you want to file all these contracts' her today and then try and ride it out till the SP gets back.

I hope it works out well for you OP, which it should. These kinds of relationships, while rife in the working environment, can be detrimental to people like the JP. He will likely lose a lot of respect from the workforce due to the situation. Her bragging about it won't help either of them.

Let us know how it goes.

Wait for her to slip up... even maybe make some ways in which she can if you dislike her this much. first 2 years of working you can fire someone for any reason apart from sex/race stuff.

She's less to blame than the junior partner, though. He promoted her beyond her capabilities out of favouritism - he's the root cause of the disruption. Yes, she could perhaps have said no to the promotion, but if she's enthusiastic and ambitious - and young - it's understandable that she went for it even if it is beyond her at present.

Client complaints forward onto your complaints manager. I did this in old job but my boss was too nice and didn't Fire my colleague as he should've done.

I would play them at their own game and give her work that she is incapable of, leave her to mess it up and make sure others know she messed it up. If any of the other partners were of a mind to ignore the relationship, they'll quickly change their minds when it starts costing them money.

Why is this all her fault? The jp sounds like a sleazebag to me. Blame the woman and sack her..... is it the 19th century or something?

They are both as bad as each other. This will look extremely bad for him too but it is much harder to get rid of a jp. In these circumstances it's always the junior who loses their job nd unfortunately it is often the woman who is junior (although I have seen it the other way around!). His reputation will be in tatters.

I worked in a place where this was far too rife and I'm sorry to say the attitude of some of the woman was that they should use teir sexuality to get ahead. I had one tell me I didn't dress sexily enough for work so I'd never get ahead. Se was a horrendous flirt but only with people who could help her career path. Funnily enough, rather like this woman, her ambition exceeded her ability and because she had been pretty unpleasant to people on her way up they weren't inclined to do her work for her as she expected.

I'm all for supporting other women in the work place because that's the only way it will change but unfortunately there are women who are only out for themselves (and men but that's a different thread!!)

They are both as bad as each other. But at the end of the day if it all goes tits up, they won't get rid of him - just her.

He is rather unworldly and I actually think she's taking advantage of him (even though she's junior to him so normally you'd think it the other way around) as she's clearly trying to further her career and finances. She's also openly gloating about her pay rise and promotion and ability to get anything she wants from him, which is rather unpleasant.

I sent the "Thanks but no thanks e-mail". I didn't get a response. I'm now just trying to keep my head down and hoping it will blow over eventually.

ugh grim, I would keep quiet though, even to senior partner, let someone else tell him and keep yourself out of the whole sordid affair.