I have written about this in the past but wanted to give a summing up of the situation as it is now and see what other people think is really going on here. It's quite a saga but I'll try to be brief. Thanks in advance to those who bear with me.
I started a job last year in which I inherited a toxic (but temporary) employee A. A was truly awful off the bat, especially after I uncovered her timesheet fraud which, despite the glaring evidence, upper management ended up paying out until her contract ended after an alleged investigation I wasn't privy to indicated as such. No explanation to me as to why.
I also work with employee B who started not long before I did. B and I hit it off from the outset (or so I thought), even though we shared different views of our mutual boss C. This difference of opinion rapidly became a point of contention for her and she became increasingly combative towards him (others also but mostly him, and publicly). I kept it professional and continued on in my work. However, her contempt spread to target other employees, and even included bullying employees from other sections to the point of tears. She also became more and more secretive about her work and whereabouts, and stopped attending meetings. She effectively isolated herself from the entire team and we've all been baffled as to how it had come to this. Any time she was actually in the office the entire atmosphere changed.
Somewhere along the line A and B joined forces in an effort to topple a common enemy - C. I have become collateral damage in this as I have no choice but to try to work with B given the nature of my job. I don't want to go into detail but my team is supposed to provide a service to hers. But she has isolated herself from me, and made huge mistakes (either deliberately or incompetence) which has caused huge repercussions for our organisation - both operationally, and externally as in how we are perceived. Not to mention the toll it is taking on staff morale. This obviously shines a spotlight on me not doing a very good job, even though I have not been given a chance.
C knows all this has gone on. The entire team does. Yet, no one is stopping her from her increasingly vicious attacks on me every time I try to mitigate the risks she is creating for us, which is my job. She has been shown to be colluding with B to cause problems and accusing me of all kinds of things. She has slandered C in the most terrible ways also and I feel bad for him, but I'm also wondering at what point is someone going to step in and stop her from her attacks on me? A group of us have lodged statements about B's behaviour. Everyone knows she needs to go and I and other staff know we will need to leave if she isn't fired because it's like she WANTS to blow the place up. There is no future with her there. I keep getting told upper management is aware of everything and all our statements are being processed and investigated, yet there is no timeline on this and I am continually bearing the brunt of her attacks and feel extremely unsupported. And given employee A was shown to have committed serious fraud and got off scott free I'm seriously wondering whether anything will be done about B.
I should also mention that the only person B talks to now is C's deputy (D) who has taken over temporarily as her line manager as she refuses to work for C. However, D behaves very differently when C is not at work. Besides ordering me to sweep A's fraudulent timesheets under the rug, he also defends B who is known to be the problem here. To the point where he has become incredibly rude to me and I've had to seriously push back. So I feel like I'm being attacked by both, yet no one is standing up for me. This clearly gives her more fuel to ramp up the attacks and continue to drag my name through the mud.
AIBU to say WTAF? What is actually going on here? I have asked both my boss and hers to intervene but remain the whipping boy.