My maternity cover was kept on after I returned from maternity leave last year and reduced my hours to 3 days a week. We don't job share but she managed my clients when I was on leave and will do again when I go on maternity leave again in April.
She is very loud and quite pushy and I find her very difficult to work with. While I wouldn't describe her behaviour as bullying I feel very stressed by it and am hoping for some advice on how to deal with it as she will be managing my clients when I'm on leave again.
She has sworn in front of clients, and 4 of them have commented on her being pushy and loud. She phoned me frequently when I was on maternity leave and still phones me now on the 2 days I don't work (all for non urgent matters). She has visited my clients even though I'm back and taken orders from them thereby cutting me out. She has started allocating work to me even though she is not my superior. She has made comments about me going on maternity leave and how she as a taxpayer is funding it. Basically just being very irritating and overstepping the mark.
Our boss isn't keen to do anything about it as I will be on maternity leave in 3 months and she will still be there. It sounds so petty but it's just the constant way she pushes herself into things that undermines me. I suspect that the company would be happy to replace me with her as she does promote herself (although her results are no better than mine).
My husband says to say something as if I complain later then my employer will ask why I didn't say something sooner but tbh it's a small company and they are quite resentful of my two leaves and have even behaved illegally in certain respects about this. Therefore I'm worried about rocking the boat even further, especially before my leave.
Does anyone have any advice? Should I just suck it up? Thanks