I have worked for the same company for 3 years and love my job except for one thing - a certain work colleague.
Bit of background…..
She has worked there the same length of time as me. She is a grade higher and she does HR. She doesn’t have a good reputation around the place for a few reasons. She is often late and takes longer for lunch than she should. Her work quality is poor, she misses deadlines often. A number of colleagues that work alongside her, have had to speak to her about these issues as it has created more work for them or resulted in team deadlines not being met. Unfortunately, she doesn’t take this well and has responded by taking it very personally and has even fallen out with one colleague.
About 1 year ago I asked my boss if I could do some work that would broaden my skill set and he agreed. What I didn’t realise is that this was one of her jobs and involved staffing (my job is nothing to do with HR) but I was asked to do it as she wasn’t managing it very well. I said I was concerned about this as I felt that she should be given help to manage it but I was assured it would be good for me. I know now this was a very foolish thing to accept and I made a mistake but I just thought it would be good for me to learn a new skill.
I have a deadline every day to complete this work and it is important it is right or it can cost the company extra money. My colleague completes the first part of the job and then I pick it up afterwards and do my bit. My colleague is very aware of the nature of the job and we have had meetings in the past so that we understand the deadlines and how the job works.
I have had many incidents where her work hasn’t been done on time or at all, meaning I can’t follow on from this. It creates more work for me and the job is taking me longer to complete. If she has done the work on time, it’s often inaccurate. This is important HR information about staffing.
I have spoken to my boss several times and I have spoken to my colleague to explain how this is affecting my work. I have been patient and extremely professional.
She will go for a few weeks and it’s all okay and then it will start again.
She did work in our office but she has been moved permanently to sit with a group of managers and I thought things may improve but this week it has been terrible.
She has input the wrong data for staff even through she had the correct information, she hasn’t completed her work which made my work incorrect. This has caused me extra work and the job has taken me twice as long so I emailed her to ask her if she would correct these issues.
The reply I got was very defensive and rude. She gave me every reason under the sun why she couldn’t or didn’t do the work correctly. All of which were excuses. She advised that it was none of my concern why certain things were not done. She made me feel like I was picking on her. She just made me feel like it was a ‘me ‘ problem and that there was a valid reason for not doing her work. She copied one of the top bosses into her reply. This all made me feel very vulnerable and I started to question if I was being harsh and if I would be facing the wrath on Monday !
So, I don’t know what to do. It seems my boss has done nothing about the issues I have encountered with her as nothing has really changed. I have kept a written log of factual information detailing all the meetings I have had and all the errors I have had to correct.
I am thinking that I either call a meeting with my boss again and ask for the job to go back to her (it isn’t listed on my job description and she is a grade higher than me) or I asked to speak to my bosses supervisor.
Any advice welcome