Hello everyone it’s been a while ! Where i am right now is 01:25 am. I am unable to sleep! Thousand thought in my mind.
Straight to the point , I work for a very big NGO , the pay is good and I love what I do. The challenge is the work environment is toxic! Toxic co workers . I work at a new branch made up of 4 employees me and three others , away from the main branch. I’m supposed to be the supervisor of this place, although it was not clearly communicated to my co workers because they don’t want to hire a “supervisor” at the moment due to pay issues. The reason I say I’m the supervisor is because I’m the most senior here, higher pay grade, I’m responsible for most of the decision making and in case anything goes wrong I’m the one who gets questioned and reprimanded even if I’m not the one responsible. ( they say a good leader is responsible for the mistakes of people who work with him).
Now the challenge I’m facing is the people I work with sabotage me,try to discredit me any chance they get, they tell on me, they blow things out of proportion. They don’t offer me the help I need even when I ask for it, So instead of doing what I was actually hired to do I find myself putting off fires, explaining myself to management etc, doing their jobs because if it’s not done guess who gets blamed , ME!
They are not perfect themselves, they come late, one come to work drunk , some leave work earlier but I don’t call management to report each and everything because I feel like it’s not the work I was brought to do. And I believe as a leader I should be able to solve problems myself than involving management on trivial matters.
In conclusion I would really like if you can advice me on what I should do, I want to do my job well, but how do I handle these toxic co workers ? How do I rise above? How do I save my credibility and reputation? .