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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, curious how long you've been in the position? If you are new, is there a chance that you are the problem? I'm asking because this is currently happening to me. I have never had performance issues and consistently receive high ratings/cash awards, etc. Yet I have a new boss, and we don't mix well.

She talks too much, gives confusing guidance, and constantly moves the goalpost. It's only been two months, and I am looking elsewhere. If you are new, give it time, the employee likely dislikes you too and is looking to leap.[/quote]

I really appreciate this perspective and I am in fact relatively new, so I do want to be attuned to this possibility. The reason I am doubtful is that the previous branch chief (who had been there a long time) told me candidly that they did not think this person could do the job but it wasn't worth it to them to do anything about it. I also tried to be very mindful of not letting that bias me too much in my judgement, but I gave the problem-employee several assignments and virtually every single figure/table/number in each report was wrong. I gave her repeated feedback, and she was very apologetic, admitted fault, tried to fix it, and sent back another draft full of equally wrong information.

I feel bad for her because she is clearly not being malicious, willfully lazy, or unethical. She is just unable to do the job in any capacity anymore.

Some context, as I alluded to earlier, is that she is older and statistically speaking likely to retire soon so I imagine waiting her out for a natural retirement would only take a few years. [/quote]

You should be frustrated with the previous branch chief for identifying but not fixing the problem. Why can he keep his job when he admittedly didn't do it and knowingly gave bs stats from the reports she provided? Yet the employee should be fired even though she was inadequately managed? This is backward and hasty thinking, considering the employee is now having to unlearn the incorrect way that she was doing the reports. [/quote]

I don't think anyone ever accepted or turned in bad reports. I think the previous brach chief (also my old boss) saw she couldn't do the job, made a realistic judgement that she would not improved, assigned the work to someone else, shrugged, and didn't really have her do anything. Obviously he was not improving the situation, but now it's my job so I need to figure out what to do. It's not *completely* obvious to me that he did anything wrong. I frankly don't think she can learn to do better either, so it seems my options are start a long, stressful, time-consuming, lawsuit-risking process or put her in a corner and forget about it like my predecessor. Maybe the right thing is to just let her ride it out to retirement, but as others note, that doesn't seem fair to my other reports or to tax payers.[/quote]

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