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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hey all.

I was wondering if any of you could give me some words of wisdom, tell me if I am being bullshitted if I am paranoid lol.

Basically I started at my job just over a year ago and I started on the same hours as the other girl in my department (there are only the 2 of us), let’s jusy say she doesn’t do the image of girls from Essex any favours, she is completely dense and one of the jobs (apparently) of our new manager last December was to ‘get rid of her’ (she completely over spent last year on the budget, hence one of the reasons we got a new manager, she’s rude to people if they don’t ‘fit’ with her, never follows anything on the planner and can’t do anything for herself. I was accused last year of it being a personality clash as I like things done there and then but the person soon apologised to me when she saw the full exstent of how little this girl does).

I got more hours than her and is now the senior of us too and do pretty much everything which I am happy to do as I love my job and never really switch off, it’s not the kind of work you can. But after 6 months of being promised change nothing has happened, I don’t want this girl to lose her job because with the right people she’s brilliant and has some good ideas but is rubbish at organising anything (main part of our job lol), she needs guidance and better training and being told firmly she needs to step her game up but when I’ve been in our monthly supervisor meetings with her the boss isn’t saying any of this and I’m really frustrated as I think the boss is a ‘yes’ person to everyone and not a get on and do.

I’m still being told things are happening but I’ve kind of reach the end of the line as I want to do my work to the best of my ability and have a brilliant little department but it’s constantly being let down by this girl and it falls on me, yet I’ve never been told I have any authority over her, just been told I’m the lead but never really told what it means.

Do you think I’m being told what I want to hear and things won’t change, I know without the full facts it’s hsrd but i’d be here all day! The girl is a nice person but lacks common sense or training and I think she had potential to do great work but because management doesn’t really help her she jusy carries on, I see everyone every day and she sees barely anyone and allowed to get away with it (we do activities in a care home). My manager says things are happening that I don’t know about and head office must see her performance to mine as everything is recorded on computer but I feel that I’ve been like this for far too long, the girl isn’t the kind you can say much too either she shouted at me the other day because I asked her not to open post addressed to me, she is a person that instead of owning up to anything she will bullshit her way through and just this morning she tried telling me that an entertainer that I organised last week was rubbish and for the first time I actually responded back with ‘who said that’ (she wasn’t there on the day and I didn’t rota her in that day because she was negative about it from the moment I booked it) and she said ‘some of the residents’ and I explained the lady was upstairs and this is our floor for people living with dementia and all the ones that were awake were singing and dancing and laughing in their chairs, the only one person who doesn’t live with dementia that I took up there said she loved it. She did seem a bit like ‘oh shit’ when I responded back.

Thanks for listening.

Geeky x

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

It's a tricky one and I can understand why you are frustrated.

Looking at it with my managers head on it could well be that this person is being performance managed behind the scenes so to speak and you (rightly) aren't privy to.

I would say get on with your own job to the best of your ability . If her performance is directly affecting yours then bring it up with your line manager certainly but otherwise I'd keep your head down and if she really is as incompetent as you say then she will hang herself sooner or later.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

Yes I was just about to say perhaps the manager has spoken to your colleague in private to.

Could you ask ypur manager subtly if this is the case?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It's a tricky one and I can understand why you are frustrated.

Looking at it with my managers head on it could well be that this person is being performance managed behind the scenes so to speak and you (rightly) aren't privy to.

This is pretty much what had been said to me. I know there is protocol in this type of thing but it’s just annoying as hell that we still don’t seem any closer to her improving herself or her leaving (for the record if she gets the boot because of me, i’d be devastated as I don’t want her to lose her job jusy get better at it).

Thanks for your comment x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Yes I was just about to say perhaps the manager has spoken to your colleague in private to.

Could you ask ypur manager subtly if this is the case? "

I have done, like I say I have been there during the supervisor meetings where her performance is discussed and nothing is ever mentioned about her not doing things on the planners etc.

I started a new spread sheet the other week so we can see which area over a week we are lacking and which residents we aren’t seeing regularly and my boss said it was a really useful thing. I just feel like it’s been going on so long and can’t see and end in sight. I want to trust my boss and the admin lady who is in charge of loads of things did also back the boss up things are going on, just frustrating xx

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