This is long but will try to condense, just need to vent.
End of April colleague and I both start together. We do the same job but it is job share. We had a two week training period, failry intensive as we were both new and would need to know everything before the other lady left.
It is a reception role with some basic admin.
The other lady had been away from work for 3.5 years bringing up her daughter and I have been on mat leave.
I appreciate that when you have been out for a period of time your skills will be a little rusty. But after our two weeks training I was left to train her as she had picked up nothing - and I mean nothing. I wont go into all the examples but she actually asked me if I knew you had to press the button to turn on the computer. Surely you dont forget how to turn on a computer.
Anyway, it has been an up hill struggle and we gave her two tasks which was basically taking data from one source to another and once she was 100 percent happy we would move on to the next thing. She didnt manage these. She constantly told me about her 15 years experience and how she had been out for 3.5 years. All of the time.
Back to the argument. We are only in the office for 1 hour at the same time for handover. It had been said to us that once we got to grips with the role each of us could come in a little later, leave a little earlier.
Occasionally I am 10-15 mins late when I take my DC to toddler group, but for the most part am on time or thereabouts.
Without fail she leave between 12.50 - 13.10 every single day. I cannot actually remember a day she was here till 13.30. But that is fine as handover does not take that long. The problem I have is that on a few occasions she has actually said I have to go I have an appointment at 13.30. now if 13.30 is your finish time (leaving early is not a guarentee) then why have you booked an appointment for that time. I have let it slide and not said anything as she finally realised this job was not for her and handed in her notice. This is her last week.
Today we are one person down in our team. I came in and she went off to complete one of these tasks and said she would do what she could in half an hour, so i asked why only half an hour, and she said she had an appointment, and I cant understand why if you have an appointment you dont let people know before hand. I have an appointment on Thurs but have told everyone well in advance that I may be late.
Then she comes up to me and says she didnt understand my problem so I (calmly) explained that it was the fact that she only mentioned it then. She then tells me it isnt an appointment but she can do it anytime and can stay till 1.30 and comments that I have been 10-15 mins late a few times.
I retaliate (calmy) with the fact that she leaves early every day normally by 12.50 to which she takes huge offence and her voice is very loud anyway and she then starts shouting at me, it quikcly becomes a no i dont, you do type argument which i explain i dont want to have and that this (reception) is not the time or place. She goes on and on when eventually I just ask her to hurry up and leave if she is leaving as i dont want to discuss it anymore. SHe refuses and tells me that she can take it further at which point i leave the reception and tell her that she is welcome to report it.
Now most people here are aware that i do all of the work as she is not able to do so and I now have to work with her till Firday and have managed to be pleasant to her up until now, but I really cannot keep up the pretence any longer.
I am not sure what I am asking interms of AIBU, but I am just needed to vent. Any advice how we get thru to friday with out any more confrontations.
I was actually shaking with anger when she left.