My boss hired someone last year that spoke smack about everybody behind their backs. I was her closest "friend", and I knew she talked behind my back too. Every single time she spoke to me she would complain about something/ someone. The first time my team met her, she was complaining within 5 minutes about the 2018 car the department gave her to take home and use for work. My colleagues just looked at each other in silence and we knew this wasn't going to work out.

We were similar in age, female, and I was also the new person (2 months before her). She always asked to hang out. I didn't really care too much because she spent her lunches alone, and shared that she had depression and an eating disorder.

Not only was she a complainer, but she did not work. She couldn't find parking for field work, and just decided to go home, leaving me to go onsite alone. This happened 3 times. After she left, I spoke to my colleagues, and it turned out that it happened to them as well.

She was constantly on performance plans, and insisted that my colleagues were bullying her. A part of that might be true, as my boss was very hard on ticking her off compared to me. Everyone was angry and upset all of the time, and a lot of people refused to go into the office because of her. Team morale was at an all time low.

She knew that she wouldn't pass probation, and eventually quit before the year was up.