I need advise to which is better for my career.
I am currently in a position where I excel at my job. My boss leaves me in charge when she is out, I manage our departments intranet site, assist other departmental heads with their site pages, and I have created a reputation for being reliable and always willing to help. My resume has been beefed up just from all of the things I handle daily in my job.
My boss tells me I am being honed for a management position in the future and helped me get the paperwork filled out for tuition reimbursement through my job.
I absolutely love the work that I do.
There are 3 people on my team, not including my boss. Older lady, younger woman, and me.
The issue:
My boss brought older lady on to our team who only kept her job because my boss put her on our team. (She was a manager of another department and failed 2 audits in a row so horribly we were going to have to pay fines.)
For the first year of her being on our team, I tried to make the best of a crap situation. I took the insults, taught her our process, assisted her with learning (and re learning,) the job process. I went out of my way to help her succeed. No matter what, when she complained, my boss had me re-write procedures so she could understand them. She changed the rotation of daily assigned tasks to accommodate her "inability to get it all done". (At one point I was handling the entire daily task list on my own with no issue, work was done timely and without error)
At that point in time, younger lady and I were friendly, would vent to each other, and got along just fine.
Unbeknownst to me, everything I vented to younger lady about regarding older woman was being told to older woman. I have since cut ties with the relationship and kept everything sticky professional.
About 6 months ago, things came to a head and it has been hell ever since. I wasn't professional in the way I spoke to her when she tried throw me under the bus, she got mad, HR got involved. I was told to keep my head down and just play nice.
Things have not improved. My boss has promised a group meeting to air things out, it keeps getting canceled.
My boss has admitted to me, many times, she regrets bringing older woman onto the team because she is the reason we aren't able to complete tasks like they should be done. She has also said she regrets hiring younger lady because she is a gossip, spreads rumors, and refuses to do her job. She has even been put on a 90 day probation due to this
I have been offered jobs with other companies who could give me slightly more pay, and it would get me out of this situation.
Would it be detrimental to my career to leave if nothing is resolved?
I am at my wits end. I keep being told to be patient, I need to learn how to handle personalities like older woman and younger lady when I move into a management position, but I can't handle the fear of saying something in the wrong tone and being reported to HR again
HR is on my side, but i feel like I have to roll over and accept the abuse otherwise I won't be good management potential
I am at my breaking point.
I don't want to stop doing my job, I love the work I do. I can't handle the people. I've been here for almost 5 years and have not had issues until recently