Most of the time I like being self employed. But right now I'm having trouble with an employee and I'm starting to realize she may have a personality disorder.
A second employee was out on disability leave for a serious health crisis and has just been back to work for two days. She has some very minor short term memory issues as a result of her treatment that is expected to gradually resolve and is not causing any real job performance issues.

Employee one is NOT the supervisor of employee two but has had a problem since we hired her with monitoring employee two's work, even when we've told her not to.

Yesterday we even had a staff meeting with our HR person just to try to smooth the reentry (we are a small office with three employees but the company that does our payroll also offers great HR support. ) Employee one was sullen and at the end employee two even asked her if she had something to say. Later, at the end of the day, employee two tells us that as employee one was leaving she told employee two that she "just might not come back" after her upcoming elbow surgery.

We've been trying for the better part of a year to get employee one to stay in her lane. But the stunning lack of empathy for employee two's return (could she not give her a week back before b!tching?) finally hit me and my partner last night. Added up to other bits and pieces of weirdness and we think she actually has a personality disorder. Ugh. That would explain why we've made no progress getting her to lighten up. And now makes me very concerned about keeping her on.

And since she's going out on leave for surgery soon (related to a previous work comp case from before she worked for us ) we can't fire her right now without it looking like retaliation for her taking medical leave.

Managing employees is my least favorite part of being self employed but at least I CAN fire her and am not stuck in a big organization where I might not be able to get rid of her.

Last edited by job; 07/23/19 09:34 PM. Reason: edited a word