Hello everyone,
I work as a quality manager, I have a small team of 3 staff, I find this difficult but I thought I was managing them, but recently one of them has been making lots of mistakes and refuses to do the work I give her. So I had a 1 to 1 meeting to chat about it. She over reacted and started to shout at me and dominate the conversation. I became very anxious and could barely continue the meeting, as I was shutting down.
I was told by HR this morning that she has made a grievance against me. Even though I’m shocked and worried I have been told not to be. That everything will be okay. But the HR manager suggested that one of the outcomes might be that I should inform my team that I am autistic. So far, only the management team know and tend to ignore it which means I am still heavily masking at work. I think it might lead to more problems, as I already have what has been described as ‘a difficult team’. Also non of them have English as a first language so they might not understand the implications.
Previously my therapist suggested that maybe I should tell everyone at work, as it would help prevent misunderstandings from all sides. I would prefer not to have a team and for them to report to another manager, they seem to listen to and like the operations manager because he flatters them.
Does anyone have any advice? Have you been in a similar situation?
