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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a government job that has union protections. I have a problem employee who is a vested government employee who can't be fired.

I am 34, I have been supervising a direct report on my team for over a year. She has had behavioral issues since August of 2023. She yelled at my supervisor and was disruptive during a team meeting. She received a written warning. Her behavior did not improve and worsened; in October she refused to complete her job tasks. She spent her work hours writing 7+ paragraph emails to me with complaints about her job and how she felt she could be my supervisor. She would write me 4+ page text messages on my cellphone at 10 PM despite being asked not to several times. She went under formal investigation for insubordination and received a formal reprimand for violating harassment policies that went into her work file. The next step in progressive discipline would be suspension without pay or a demotion.

[b]This employee filed an internal grievance about my direct supervisor I and requested a transfer to another supervisor. Her complaint was unfounded - according to the investigator, she could not provide any specifics about her complaints and just rambled on about my leadership style.[/b] After she was reprimanded and her investigation was unfounded, she continued to complain about me and my communication style. I am forced to undergo leadership coaching and have a 3-way conversation scheduled with a communication manager and her in two weeks.

According to the communication manager, I need to increase my support of this staff by "increasing psychological safety" and work on my relationship building with her. I am being asked to "write a paragraph on the kind of supervisory relationship I want with her." I'm being advised not to put requests in writing, but to call her directly as she "can't understand my tone in an email." I am now pandering to this woman's psychological needs when she is the one who harassed me for 6+ months and refused to do her job. My direct supervisor is livid about the whole thing, but our agency director ordered the counseling and I have to go through the motions.

This woman continues to make comments about my age. I am 34, she is 55. She reports that my age "is a problem" for her; because she feels she has 20+ years of experience over me and a master's degree. I've considered hiring an employment lawyer for a hostile work environment, but because I'm under 40 her comments about my age are not considered protected under discrimination laws. Even HR has shrugged their shoulders when I brought it up. She has received a written warning and formal reprimand about harassment - and yet I am the one who has to jump through all the hoops to "repair the supervisory relationship." It's ridiculous. I want to keep my job, but I don't even want to be in the same room as this woman. [/quote]

What are you trying to convey in the bolded? Is there a third person she is complaining about?[/quote]

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