I could use some advice on this, I'm not sure how much more I can take.
So my situation is that I was promoted two years ago over two longstanding members of staff who I now have supervision of.
It became apparent that 1 of them in particular had performance issues and wasn't working to scale. I brought the problem to management attention, months of informal chats about issues were tried but the performance got worse. This person then started lying and for example when brought up that they didn't do the piece of work I had asked for, blatantly said I was lying and had never asked her to.
At this point I started to feel out of my depth dealing with this, but did everything right - kept managers informed, always made notes of everything that was happening, gave all instructions via email.
The performance got so bad that management asked me to go to HR and ask their advice which I did.
The result was that I had to put them on a development plan and manage the performance that way. Incidentally I also told management and HR that I would not hold discussions with this person on my own any longer as I was vary concerned about the lying aspect.
As you can imagine it went extremely badly, the person was very aggressive and denied every point even when faced with evidence.
Essentially these two have teamed up to make things as difficult as possible, every task given them is either refused, done badly or not finished, with them blaming the problem on myself as they never had any problems until "new supervision".
I'm beginning to dread going in as I know some new issue /blame throwing will happen. The situation is ony mind all the time, laying in bed at night stressing over it. I'm beginning to feel really low, and have actually just been to the doctor and been given antidepressants.
I just don't know if I can face much more of these daily battles. It's a real shame as I enjoy the work itself.
My question is - Im worried about letting management know the effect this is having on me, as in the past they have said its all part of being a supervisor, and I am worried it may count against me in the future.
Any advice most welcome