I have recently gone back to work follwing maternity leave and as much as I love my job I really would rather be a SAHM; though this time around (2nd DC) its been a little easier as the person who acted up in my job is also now on mat leave so I haveny had to deal with her as last time she made things very difficult for me in the sense that I had to fight for my position in the dept as she had gotten very big headed about where her position was after doing my job.
I do get on very well with this person socially but she tends to let me down time and time again and whilst I am her superior at work she plays on our friendship & as a result (my fault as i am soft) she tends to get away with doing the bare minimum and look like shes doing a cracking job as I am carrying her, added to this she has pratically said to me many times that she competes with me!
long and short of it is I dont want to work with her when she comes back at all made worse by the fact that I want to stay with my children.
I need to get tough but I dont know if I have the fight in me as I feel my job is just a job now as DC's and DH are my priority now not my career, though I need to work I cant be arsed with it all but at the same time dont want to lay down and let her walk all over me I really need to feel positive about it as its going to be at the back of my mind all christmas, how can I stop being manipulated by this person? Please give me some words of wisdom, or a kick up the arse which ever!!