Someone close to me has consistently copied my career decisions. We both worked in the same profession, I decided to move into a particular field within the profession. She followed. Twice. I didn’t complain, it’s a large profession with plenty of job opportunities, we rarely worked together in the 10 years I was in that profession.
More recently I decided to change careers altogether - again she decided to do the same. Long story short we both applied for the same job - I was ok with this as it was a large recruitment round so there were about 15 vacancies for the same role. My interview was first and she asked me to tell her the questions - she’s someone I’m very close to, she had been applying for jobs for some time and had not even got an interview until then - so I told her the questions. We both got the job, ever since then she has been unbearable. Regularly talking about how she scored 100% in the interview- well yes, because she had the questions in advance and hired a coach to give her the answers.
The organisation we applied for is huge (think thousands of employees) with many departments, I never expected they would place us in the same team, unfortunately they have. On my first day she was incredibly rude to me, she had a differing opinion to mine and decided to talk over me to tell me about an error our team had made - she was unwilling to let it go and it was really awkward trying to end the conversation. She apologised by text afterwards but it’s really blighted my first week in the job, to the point I am really considering finding another job. We haven’t really spoken since, but have to see each other 4-5 times a day on teams meetings - it’s becoming really stressful. She’s also super keen, and quite frankly I’m getting tired of her know it all behaviour. I know it’s unreasonable to leave a job after 1 week, I just feel so upset that I’ve let this ruin my experience.