Ok, so I'm still in school (I'm 22) and have a PT job working in a small office doing a lot of the admin stuff and if I'm lucky someone blows up their PC so I can work on that. Anyways, about 3 or so months ago we hired someone new, as a person I'm sure she's really nice but I just can't stand her!
First off, she can barely turn on her computer, doesn't know Microsoft Office AT ALL (said she had a basic understanding/knowledge of it on her resume) and likes to try to "put me down" so to speak in front of the boss. Examples:
Example 1:
She doesn't get the concept of the "save as", I probably spent 2 hours trying to explain this nifty lil feature. Fast forward a day, and we're both working, boss walks by and she calls out to him saying she has a question. So she asks she doesn't know how to save this document, he looks over at me and asks me why I didn't teach her how to do that. I quickly reply that her and I went over that yesterday. She then says some BS that starts with "Yes but lets all get on the same page...." so basically I look like the incompentant employee.
Example 2:
Just happened this morning, we use something called Goldmine, not sure if everyone is familar with it or not, basically it's just a data base program that we just use for contacts and to keep everything organized. Like when you call someone or email them you can document it in Goldmine and it's in the contact's history. Well, she hasn't been using this nifty little feature even after the Office Manager went through it all the very first day she was hired. What it came down to was that I gave her a duplicate of something and she already had it, BUT she didn't document it. Basically the same thing happened, she called boss over, etc, etc, etc.
Example 3:
This is just an annoyance of mine about her. I spent a good day or two creating excel spreadsheets, multi workbooks/sheets/formulas linking them all together an etc. So I give her just a basic one that she can just email me her stats at the end of the week. I mean basic basic stuff here, IE..Monday put in your Monday #'s. Anyways, she can't figure out how to use them on her computer so prints them out and they come out in two sheets. She doesn't even ask me, but calls down the boss to ask him how she can print it but with only one sheet. Again, she says the same crap about everything being uniform etc etc etc (which I agree upon everyone being on the same page, she's the only one that is causing issues), so again I look like the incompentant employee.
So tell me here, WTF do I do about this person? Or do I keep on taking it and putting a smile on my face? It's getting to the point where I tell her things 5-6 times, then she calls the boss over and I look like the asshat, but she smiles and tells me to "Calm down I'm not trying to make you upset" while he's standing next to her.
It's driving me insane.
First off, she can barely turn on her computer, doesn't know Microsoft Office AT ALL (said she had a basic understanding/knowledge of it on her resume) and likes to try to "put me down" so to speak in front of the boss. Examples:
Example 1:
She doesn't get the concept of the "save as", I probably spent 2 hours trying to explain this nifty lil feature. Fast forward a day, and we're both working, boss walks by and she calls out to him saying she has a question. So she asks she doesn't know how to save this document, he looks over at me and asks me why I didn't teach her how to do that. I quickly reply that her and I went over that yesterday. She then says some BS that starts with "Yes but lets all get on the same page...." so basically I look like the incompentant employee.
Example 2:
Just happened this morning, we use something called Goldmine, not sure if everyone is familar with it or not, basically it's just a data base program that we just use for contacts and to keep everything organized. Like when you call someone or email them you can document it in Goldmine and it's in the contact's history. Well, she hasn't been using this nifty little feature even after the Office Manager went through it all the very first day she was hired. What it came down to was that I gave her a duplicate of something and she already had it, BUT she didn't document it. Basically the same thing happened, she called boss over, etc, etc, etc.
Example 3:
This is just an annoyance of mine about her. I spent a good day or two creating excel spreadsheets, multi workbooks/sheets/formulas linking them all together an etc. So I give her just a basic one that she can just email me her stats at the end of the week. I mean basic basic stuff here, IE..Monday put in your Monday #'s. Anyways, she can't figure out how to use them on her computer so prints them out and they come out in two sheets. She doesn't even ask me, but calls down the boss to ask him how she can print it but with only one sheet. Again, she says the same crap about everything being uniform etc etc etc (which I agree upon everyone being on the same page, she's the only one that is causing issues), so again I look like the incompentant employee.
So tell me here, WTF do I do about this person? Or do I keep on taking it and putting a smile on my face? It's getting to the point where I tell her things 5-6 times, then she calls the boss over and I look like the asshat, but she smiles and tells me to "Calm down I'm not trying to make you upset" while he's standing next to her.
It's driving me insane.
) and go to the Boss. Talk to him and explain to him what you have told us. You DO NOT WANT TO LOOK bad because the other person is not as competent AS THE REST OF THE WORK FORCE. I am correct in assuming that no one else in the department is having as much problem as her right? The boss should be able to deduce that she is just not very competent.
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