Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet
I think I'm gonna get fired. The subordinate (aide) I've posted about in "Dear So and So" has gotten out of control. I did talk to one of the owners of the clinic. The two owners and the aide had already planned a meeting about ME for next week. Owner #1 warned me that owner #2 and aide are "tight" (though aide bad mouths him behind his back so much that I had no idea). Owner #1 didn't want me to take it personally that there is going to be a meeting about me. I'm now invited to the meeting.

I get it. Aide complains about me obsessively to the staff (and makes comments to my patients). Aide is disrupting the function of the clinic with her obsession to the point that a therapist begs me to do something about her. So there will be a meeting about ME.

My fan club (mom, DPITA, etc) is telling me to start looking for another job, that even if I don't get fired or something at this meeting, that it's just not worth staying in that kind of environment.

I love where I work and the patients I work with. I like the staff, and even like the aide when she's not being a freak.

I think I need another margarita.
I agree with Nanci---somehow, bring the fact that you have discussed this with a lawyer into the conversation. Sounds like this person is creating a hostile work environment for you. You have plenty of witnesses, too.

"Hell is other people." I've experienced similar things at work---people who are threatened by you for some reason or other and then have to trash you or do things to annoy you/try to bring you down to their level. I guess the best strategy is to do nothing to give her ammunition against you. Be polite and professional, but aloof. I found that pretending that the person doesn't exist is the best strategy. Other people notice what the person is doing and her trashing you makes her look bad. You can always take her aside and politely ask her why she seems to dislike you so much. Most of these folks are passive-aggressive cowards.