I work for a big organization but my team is comprised of 5 people, 2 being new hires – one which is me.
I was hired to do a role that has not been fully fleshed out in some aspects while other tasks are standard duties. I essentially replaced someone who moved on and was expected to do his old duties. But this woman I work with has detested me since she learned what my position was supposed to be: basically what the old employee was doing.
The kicker is that she hates when I try to do any of the tasks I’ve been assigned and does whatever she can to do everything that’s also my job on her own or just completely excludes me from equation.
I’m supposed to attend events and track reports (and eventually that will include managing all similar data for th entirety of the organization) but she does most everything herself before I can get to it.
Or when she does allow me to make reports, she provides next to know identifying data, making the probability of the data I track and report being incorrect. Which reflects poorly on me.
I’ve asked for updates to be made when they do the initial intake and document all necessary information so I can upload things accurately but she prefers to just remember it all but not document it.
Even if she fills out forms herself they’re still not accurate because she refuses to do it correctly (the way I asked). When I message her through our organizations internal messaging system about things (why she hasn’t arrived to an event at on the agreed time) and she’ll arrive and say she didn’t see my message even though it tells if someone has viewed your message or not. So I know that she was lying but just didn’t want to tell me her plan.
Whenever we’re at events she’s immediately different around me – cold, disinterested in my being there, refusing to work on things that are also my job because it’s “her thing”.
She even gets annoyed when I say good morning or to be safe on her way home. Usually being short or cold, if she responds at all.
Her actions have created a barrier for me where I can’t do any of my job, especially since she argues with our supervisor about how she doesn’t want to show me how to do certain things because she “owns” them. Even though my job description and position I took over from someone else included them doing all of those things. But she seemingly just hates that I was hired to do those tasks too, for seemingly no reason.
She’s been like this since the second day , when my supervisor told the other staff my job and duties. Since then it’s be a best a dismissal if any help I offer (even though she will allow another staffer to help) and at worst her adamantly saying she does not want me to do things because I’ll mess it up. But she refuses to teach me and even lies about certain things to justify why I shouldn’t be doing one of my assigned tasks.
She pretends to be cool in front of our boss, but I have overheard her several times questioning I should be allowed to do any of my duties because she’s already doing them. Yet she had no problem with the guy whose I took. It’s just against me.
Not sure what to do. Especially when she constantly speaks vaguely about how higher education gives you more education but doesn’t actually matter because it’s just “having some letters after your name” but you can’t do reall work and diplomas are basically worth.