New colleague joined our small, scattered team a while back. Very poor CV, has moved from job to job in our very niche market, and has gone down grades over the years. Has wound up every member of the team since joining - e.g. trying to delegate work with arbitary deadlines in bold, with no mandate. Very charming and attractive though.
Boss has taken a major shine to them. New colleague has obviously decided that they won't get anywhere with the team and has taken to flirting with the boss (it can only be described as flirting). Boss is lapping it up, is ignoring errors they've made, is backing them up, and is allocating the 'good' tasks to them.
None of us know what to make of it. We don't want to challenge it because it will be denied (and it's nothing major, iykwim) but it's not something that's ever happened to any of us before. It's getting everyone's backs up - as one colleague said "I feel as though I should leave the room".
Anyone have any experience of this, and what did you do?