GREETINGS

Dear Swamiji, I work in America for an IT company. I am with this company for more than 4 years. I have very good track of completing my work on time and helping my colleagues if they need anything very urgent, or need knowledge transfer. My lead is an American and she somehow trust one of my colleague (also American) for attending all the meeting on behalf of the lead, only because she can talk better than anyone (including lead and Boss) in the office. But this lady won’t finish her work and complains that the lead is sending her for all the meeting; even if she can finish she will wait for the last minute and dump the work to others. She had done that couple of times. I think, now everyone in the office has a feeling that only this lady can manage other vendors and coordinate meetings. But they never gave opportunity to others. Each person is different so their roles. Recently this lady and my lead wanted me to work on a project after the 4 months of development cycle. My lead wanted me to help her 20% to finish her task. But the turnaround was, I was doing the 70% of work so my projects were delaying. I told my lead that I was not able to help her since she missed so may many things and the business logic is new to me so this takes long time if I need to finish. I also told both of them that since my colleague already knew the business logic it will be easier for her to fix the bugs than me. After that incident, my colleague is not talking to me and showing the entire anger attitude towards me. It is very difficult to work in such an environment where your team mates are taking advantage and without any co-operation. All these years, I was going for meetings for all my projects and was able to finish up tasks on time without bothering others. I told my leads that if you want me to work on anything please assign me in the beginning. I can’t work on something after her mess up everything in the last minute. My lead agrees to that. I am trying to cope with everything but there is a limit for what you can do on a daily basis. I have a family and a daughter. So I cannot spend more time than the office regular hours. This lady is single and spending more time in office so the Lead and Boss, everyone likes her because she is always available. I can’t work more than 9 hrs. A day. I need to change my job but my husband doesn’t want me to change because we would like to buy a house here. I agree with him. I don’t know what to do now. How will I get the mental strength to ignore all others attitude and concentrate on my task and my family. Thank You