Sean Bossinger’s Doings

I am working through some issues I am having with an employee in the workgroup that I supervise.  The issues are the following:

1. Every time I implement a directive, I am questioned as to the rationale behind the directive; or,
2. Am ignored until I issue a specific request to this individual; or,
3. I am questioned in front of my entire group of employees as to how I came to the conclusion that I wish things to be done a certain way.  And if I state that the organization wishes us to perform these tasks a certain way, I am asked who in the organization is making these requests.  And if I don’t come forward with the answer, this employee keeps pressing.

Further, this employee has had verbal altercations with me – in front of my entire team, in which this employee has used profanity.

The last time this employee used profanity with me, per their request I advised the company’s HR team.  At which time, I was called down and told that because I have used this language in the past (not directed at anyone, mind you), that I will need to go through supervisor training.  Further, I was told that this employee has advised HR that I have been uncommunicative with him in the past, for example, when a machine he had been working on became compromised, and I revoked his access to the machine to get it cleaned – and subsequently decided to take it out of production (it was a web server) because of the risk this posed to the team.

I’m the one that’s being held over the fire here.