Well.....my supervisor is going into a technical role. This will mean that his supervisor role will be getting advertised.
My "competitor" in the team has tried co-opting my training role a bit. She is like a virus - hard to contain. The problem is she had already been interviewed for a higher duties tech role and according to her well placed to get it but if she doesn't get it my supervisor's role will come up and she WILL apply and the two best placed to get it will be her and me.
This means if she does not get this role away then she will become my supervisor.
if you are wondering if I know how she would get it above me, I will not be applying. Fuck being a supervisor. Fuck all pay increase and heaps more responsibility and stress. Since my heart attack I keep work stress to a minimum.
The problem is that she WILL be a good supervisor if she gets it BUT her attitude is fucked and I have butted heads really hard with her and will have to a few times again and it will make things awkward. Not great for the team. It is hard to show yourself to be a reliable, friendly and approachable, if you are getting aggro with a senior member and having one on ones with the manager and being angry.
It is not the image I cultivate at work. It is not my framework. I am the easy-going, humorous, aloof guy that everyone gets on but no one really knows and I don't therefore know anyone else. This interaction even if necessary is stressful and pretty fucked all around.
Any way to avoid the head-butting, maybe by going "Gray Rock" on her?
No, not really. I will hope she gets the job.
One of the newer guys there (Been there 2 months - we have blown out from 4 to 12 in 6 months) said when she was away on holidays "When will (she) be back?"
I asked "Why mate, you missing her?"
He recoiled "HELL NO!!!"
I laughed my arse off. I downplayed it and said she was a but difficult but that she had some good ideas and was knowledgeable and such"
He said she made him feel like an idiot when he went to her for help. The truth is that is her all over. She is all about her. I am not that guy.
We deal with two products I am really good at one and so is she and to the same level. She is pretty good at the other and I am completely retarded at the other, even after 18 months of exposure. She is also one of these people who makes a song and dance of every slight variation of policy, process, procedure or practice makes everything a drama. She has to be everyone's business and across all things and be noticed. I am COMPLETELY not that guy.
No we WILL butt heads for a time and eventually it will settle down. I will not get any pushback from anyone for it but it is awkward and I hate awkward.