First off let me start off saying I LOVE my job. I work at a doggy daycare and boarding facility so basically I am playing with dogs all day. Work consist of supervising play time, feeding, giving meds, and breaking up the occasional fight. Normally work is very fun and relaxed, but there is one employee that is driving me, and everyone else there, up the wall.
She is an older lady (but my older I mean low 50's I think...) but she acts like she is 70. Living on her own and walks to work.
When I first started there in December of 06 she decided that I was after her job... when there were only 3 employees there at the time and my boss hired me and one other girl as Christmas help and to possibly keep us on after that. He needed more employees it was that simple.
So its just slowly gotten worse. And she constantly HAS to have a problem with someone that works there and most of the time there is no reason for her to have that problem.
Lately its been that I'm bossy because anytime I try to say something about a dog which is normally something like "this dogs paws are sore they dont need to be outside on the rocks" or "Keep a close eye on this dog she eats rocks" she decides that I'm just fussing at her. So I decided that I would just quit telling her stuff because honestly I got tired of being called bossy. And then she comes to me and says I never tell her anything and she just wants to be included. So the next day I tell her these 2 dogs dont get a long they dont need to be together and her response was "well I always check with Cory (our boss) about stuff like that anyways" said very snappy.
And now she will not listen to me at all when our boss isnt there even though I am in charge when he is gone.
And also she constantly complains about how tired she is. Which I would feel sorry for her, but she gets to work at 3 AM when our shifts start at 7 to get stuff done and then doesnt leave until almost 3 PM some days when the shift ends at noon. She has also decided to answer phones and talk to customers and has said very rude / very wrong things to the customers on a few different occasions.
She also complained before about how she couldnt afford all this stuff and can barely eat and she was the only one making it on her own. But now she has decided that since almost all of our employees are living on their own now that its because she is the only one without a room mate. And she told a fellow employee that "it must be nice having all that money from her new 2nd job. And she makes it all on her own with only what she gets paid from Camp and that if it werent for people giving her money that she wouldnt be here." Which really offended the other employee because the 2nd job she is working is only 2 days a week (her two days off from camp) and the entire paycheck goes straight to the bank to pay off the car that she totaled and is still making payments on.
It just seems like this older lady is constantly complaining about something. She isnt good with the dogs, and terrified of the big dogs, and just all around frustrating and stressful. But our boss wont really fire her or do anything because she constantly says how she can barely make it and stuff. And he feels really bad for her.
But does anyone have any clues what to do? I am out of ideas and really dread going to work because of her. Anyone have any advise? Please?
She is an older lady (but my older I mean low 50's I think...) but she acts like she is 70. Living on her own and walks to work.
When I first started there in December of 06 she decided that I was after her job... when there were only 3 employees there at the time and my boss hired me and one other girl as Christmas help and to possibly keep us on after that. He needed more employees it was that simple.
So its just slowly gotten worse. And she constantly HAS to have a problem with someone that works there and most of the time there is no reason for her to have that problem.
Lately its been that I'm bossy because anytime I try to say something about a dog which is normally something like "this dogs paws are sore they dont need to be outside on the rocks" or "Keep a close eye on this dog she eats rocks" she decides that I'm just fussing at her. So I decided that I would just quit telling her stuff because honestly I got tired of being called bossy. And then she comes to me and says I never tell her anything and she just wants to be included. So the next day I tell her these 2 dogs dont get a long they dont need to be together and her response was "well I always check with Cory (our boss) about stuff like that anyways" said very snappy.
And now she will not listen to me at all when our boss isnt there even though I am in charge when he is gone.
And also she constantly complains about how tired she is. Which I would feel sorry for her, but she gets to work at 3 AM when our shifts start at 7 to get stuff done and then doesnt leave until almost 3 PM some days when the shift ends at noon. She has also decided to answer phones and talk to customers and has said very rude / very wrong things to the customers on a few different occasions.
She also complained before about how she couldnt afford all this stuff and can barely eat and she was the only one making it on her own. But now she has decided that since almost all of our employees are living on their own now that its because she is the only one without a room mate. And she told a fellow employee that "it must be nice having all that money from her new 2nd job. And she makes it all on her own with only what she gets paid from Camp and that if it werent for people giving her money that she wouldnt be here." Which really offended the other employee because the 2nd job she is working is only 2 days a week (her two days off from camp) and the entire paycheck goes straight to the bank to pay off the car that she totaled and is still making payments on.
It just seems like this older lady is constantly complaining about something. She isnt good with the dogs, and terrified of the big dogs, and just all around frustrating and stressful. But our boss wont really fire her or do anything because she constantly says how she can barely make it and stuff. And he feels really bad for her.
But does anyone have any clues what to do? I am out of ideas and really dread going to work because of her. Anyone have any advise? Please?