How can I file an effective grievance against a super leach co-worker and my suppervisor with lack of skills?

Question

This co-worker simply does not work, falls asleep, milks the clock, extremely obnoxious, extremely social, extremely kiss ***, extremely bossy, etc, affecting my job performance in all aspects. (nothing personal at all) Now stating she felt threaten by my by approaching to her desk to tell her quietly to stop making comments eluding me and the rest of the co-workers. this is an 18 months ongoing situation, everybody does her job, while she is socializing with everybody, the little she makes is full of mistakes and we are in a health care field where patients are waiting for medical treatments. My supervisor covers her a lot, protects her a lot, lets her going her way a lot, and on the other way, she overload me with work, and she lacks of fundamental organizational, and supervisor skills. The general Manager is aware and wants me to make a written statement with examples and details. Please help me. I can not sleep, I have nausea and tremors, nervousness, sweats HELP

Answer 1

Do what your general manager told you to do -- make a statement and be as detailed as possible. Don't be critical in your statement, be FACTUAL. If you say she falls asleep during work, give dates and times and also indicate if anyone other than you saw it. Leave out the bits about being obnoxious and overly social unless it amounts to unprofessional conduct, and be specific as to how her conduct was unprofessional. Leave your opinions out of it as much as possible or else you'll look like a whiny-@$$ who thinks her co-worker is supervisor's pet, and that won't do you any good.

If you need to, pull files for the last 1-2 years and detail how many files you worked on as opposed to how many she worked on, and if you can indicate how many errors she made and how many times they had to go back for correction, especially if you were the one making the corrections. Also good if you can give an idea of how much extra time it takes to correct the file once she has made one or more of these mistakes.

If you think your supervisor is playing the favorite game, again, BE FACTUAL. List how many times you have complained about your co-worker's substandard work and what the responses were. Leave out anything having to do with her lack of organizational or supervisory skills -- again, that makes you look like a whiny-@$$.

Most importantly, if there is anyone else in the organization that can corroborate ANY of these allegations, make sure you talk to them. If they give you the thumbs-up, name them in your statement so the general manager can talk to them.

If your supervisor corners you and reads you the Riot Act about going over her head, remind her that you have talked to her repeatedly about your sub-par co-worker and she did nothing about it.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Its been going on 18 months and you've finally gotten fed up?
I'm not sure of grievance is the correct approach taking into account your description of her actions.
First thing: Start a file on her, write down start time and stop time of any behavior prohibited in your company's manual.
Do not get caught, don't talk about period. If anything comes up involving you and this 'well protected' princess then you'll have ammo.
Second thing: Look for a new job.

Answer 3

Do what your gen. manager tell you and commit your thoughts to writing. Be sure to keep your feeling out of it and stay to the facts and be truthful. If you are in a health care setting and you observe any unsafe of banned activities you should do an incident report and keep a copy incase it gets lost.

Answer 4

You must work at the same place that i work?
Whats so funny is that they support them.
Where i work i get everybody told that gets on my nerve, i do not play.
Your best thing that you can do is to be smarter then they are and to make them fear you.

Answer 5

go ahead a make that statement - if they try to fire you over some bogus reason afterwards then sue them!

evil continues because good people are afraid to face it

Answer 6

Write that statement and go to human resources.