How to deal with a difficult co-worker?

Question

I have been working at this place for about 6mos. now and my coworker about 3-4. Every day she doesn't hesitate to ask me what I'm doing or remind me that I need to do such and such. I trained HER for pete's sake. Our boss constantly tells her/us to handle situations at work one way. She feels that they aren't the right way or as productive and argues and does it her way. She's late 30 min every day. She will constantly ask me questions in the middle of a tedious task when someone is around. I told her I am busy and can she wait. She then, VERY LOUDLY so everyone can hear, says"YOU need to be able to Multi-task!" No, she needs to figure the asnwer out herself becasue I had to research and get answers on my own. I feel like I'm a babysitter. How would ya'll handle someone like that? I've talked to my boss who told me I was a grown adult and handle it myself. Okay. I am trying to kep it professional. How do you tell them your busy without looking like an *** and them trying to make you look like an ***. I've tried everything I can think of!!!

Answer 1

I dun know about you, but i am in a similar situation as you.

I tried to help whenever i can, up till now.

My colleague is a master degree calibre, worked in singapore 1 year+, and he got problems on even simple tasks.

Example, excel program -

Type a long sentense into box, he call me......

Bro, i have a problem, the words on long, cannot fit into the box, how?

I dun believe my ears, how can a master degree grad dun even know how to use the shrink to fit functions on the words.

But one thing for sure, if it (I call him IT) can't help itself, i just left it to rot!

Now, if it have problems, i either just show him, or tell him to figure it out itself.

Flankly speaking, i hope it fail its probation period. It is giving more troubles than helps.

Answer 2

Tell her that you're going to start a demerit system.  Every time she acts like an ***, she gets a demerit. When she gets 5 demerits, you're going to report to the boss that she's 30 minuts late each day.  You can have a board on your desk that tallies the demerits so that she can see where she stands.

Answer 3

If your boss told you that you're a grown adult and to handle it, I would have asked if that means you have the power to fire people.  I am a really quiet person, and it takes a lot to bring me to the boiling point where I'll strike back.  Then, you never know what will happen.  I would probably tell her that she needs to grow up and start acting like a responsible adult with a job.  I'm sure I'd have probably already reminded her very loudly that "I'm the one who trained you, so who do you think you are to tell me... ?"  I don't know.  That does sound like a difficult situation.  I hope whatever you decide to do really works out for you.  Good luck.

Answer 4

Okay...tomorrow she walks in, 30 minutes late, and you yell very loudly to her, "YOU'RE LATE"!!!!!!!

Answer 5

easy fight fire with gas in other words do her like she does u only do it more if she gets mad so what tell now that ur mad u know how i feel when u do it