I'll start at the beginning. I had a 6 month contract at on my role and I have just been given another 4 months covering someone who is going on sabaticle.
The woman I am covering has been my mentor and has helped a lot. However, as the date for her to leave draws closer she has become so rude. She snaps at me constantly, me and others around me feel like we're walking on eggshells and she's creating at atmosphere. She's incredibly argumentative and on Wednesday she was so nasty to me that another team on our floor had words with her about it.
I've been trying my best not to wind her up and I am doing literally everything. Both my jobs and hers so she won't snap at me.
I love my job and I have tried to remain professional all the way through this. I haven't snapped back. I've taken what she's said to me on the chin and I haven't risen to the arguments that she keeps trying to create with me. I didn't want to cause a fuss and I just wanted to get on with it.
Yesterday, she had snapped at 4 people already. I had done all my jobs and more and I was sat helping on reception. Our supervisor comes down and says to her that she looks ill and does she want to go home. I said that she looked pretty miserable all day because she was poorly and I'd cover her. She snapped in front of our supervisor. Told me to fuck off (in front of clients) and called me lazy, kept shouting at me then stormed off. He followed after her. I sat in a shock and when our supervisor came out I said I wanted a word.
I started crying and said I was sick of her speaking to me like she had been and belittling me in front of staff and clients when I just wanted to do my job. He then went onto say it was my fault for saying that to her and didn't I realise what stress she was under. When I'd never meant to cause offence and she says worse to me everyday. He told me to stop being childish and get over it and started telling me all the stuff I needed to improve for my new role (so she had told him I was shit and unprepared) when as a matter of fact I do everything to the best of my ability and I know for a fact I am good at my job.
Later on she rung me and apologised and I accepted so I'm okay with her right now. I then texted my supervisor and told him I was sorry for the drama. He hasn't replied.
I'm so upset over this but am I just being stupid? I feel an enormous sense of injustice when all my collegues would have backed me up and told him how nasty she was to me. I feel like I've been made out the bad guy and her the victim. When I don't think I've done anything wrong. Am I wrong?
Sorry for long post