Hey everyone! I'm new to this forum, and figured this would be a good place for advice regarding my current situation.
I started a job at a small medical office early last year. It consists of 4 doctors and 5 support staff. As soon as I started working there, my one coworker immediately befriended me. She is 9 years younger, but I figured hey, it's nice to have a friend when you are new. We went out for drinks a few times, and that's when I saw the red flags. She gossiped about everyone, and told me to watch out for two coworkers in particular, as they were backstabers.
This right there made me uncomfortable because if she is gossiping about everyone, chances are she is doing this to me as well. The last time we hung out was when she informed me that she cheated on her live in and long time boyfriend with a married coworker (I was hired to fill in this guy's position). I haven't hung out with her after this because her morals do not align with mine.
So she's a crappy person, but I have not had any problems with her at work until recently. Over the past year I have discovered she has a thing for my doctor/boss. He's my age, married with kids. She makes excuses to talk to him in his office alone, sticking me with all the patients. She cries to him if she is displined at work by the manager because she didn't do her job (which is quite frequently). She tells him that all of us females are jealous of her and makes up stories. She's befriended his wife in the past few months and took her out for drinks.
My problem is that since we were friendly, she will tell me all the big mistakes she's made at work and asks me not to tell anyone. This makes me uncomfortable. Everything went downhill two days ago when she left me alone at the end of the day with a bunch of patients to talk and flirt with the doctor. I told my manger about it who reprimanded her the next day. She had a HUGE attitude towards me the next day, so I confronted her about it. She blew up at me and said that I shouldn't have told the manager and I only did it to make her look bad. After this, I knew she gossiped about me to the doctors trying to make me look bad.
How do I deal with this? This girl is very manipulative, has problems with all of us females coworkers, but flirts and plays the victim to the male doctors. She's even literally cried to them. She lies a lot too.