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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.

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. 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]

You are describing nearly the same treatment teachers get when they have a physically aggressive student.  It doesn't matter that the kid has been hurting you for months....you have to be the one to try and fix the issue.  It's baloney [/quote]

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