How do you deal with a colleague (not same position but works synergistically with your role) making a huge error and then blaming everything on you saying you told them to do what they did. There is no proof I told them that (I didn’t anyways) and our exec believes me, but the colleague is now talking to our associates about the incident trying to turn them on me. They’re also 40 years my senior (in age not role as mentioned before we work together).

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I’m assuming you’ve already tried to talk to them civilly about it. I would call them out on their bad behavior to their face. If that didn’t stop them spreading misinformation, I would go to their boss if I couldn’t work it out with them. Age doesn’t allow for bad behavior.

I didn’t have enough room to mention but this is a common occurrence but finally happened in an instance where it actually affected operations so they’re fully diving in now. Also the cfo (our direct higher up) knows this but can’t fire the person due to the usual can’t fire situations which I won’t get into but they’re unfireable. I’m just trying to see how to get our team to not see me in a bad light. Nothing will change with this person or the higher ups

If the higher ups believe you and are on your side, then the most important thing is to avoid acting defensive. Let this person frantically try to shift the blame while you calmly refuse to accept this person’s lie. If you’re defensive then by implication you have something to be defensive about - at least that’s how it would likely be perceived.

You can also lean on the fact that you are not “unfireable” like this person and already would be out the door if you actually made the mistake.

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