Better yet, what can I get away with?
Here’s the issue. I have a co-worker who was given a team leader position. I was on her team, and she was a great team leader. Then there were some promotions that happened at a higher level, and a person she was formerly good friends with, got a manager position. She was not qualified for the position, and didn’t even apply for it, but was still mad.
Fast forward a year later, and she’s lost her team leader position, and missed out on a promotion that she was qualified for due to attitude. Also, come to find out, as a team leader, she was supposed to tell all of us on her team that changes would be taking place, but she didn’t, and set us up to be angry in a big meeting. I’ve smoothed over my part in this with the manager of the department, so all is good here.
Now, this person sits in her office with the door shut, and when I go to discuss business with her, she starts in on how everyone is out to get her, and she just knows we’ve been told not to talk to her. I still have to work closely with this person as our jobs overlap.
She’s created all of this in her head, and there is no greater plot against her as she is saying, but she’s making me, and everyone else around her miserable and trying to set us up for failure.
How would you handle this situation?