Looks like I got here late. I'm sure everything has been said from 'fire her' to give her 3 strikes.
I learned a hard lesson running a business. Firing people sucks. But it has to be done sometimes.
If you don't deal with it immediately, you'll lose the respect of the rest of your staff. Take her into the office and be stern. Don't be a nice guy and plead for her to "join the team". Tell her that her attitude has been a distraction to you and that if she doesn't evolve with the company, you're prepared to jettison the dead weight.
And you can't soften the blow by acting like it's other people that are complaining to you. If you insinuate at all that you're addressing other employees' concerns, she'll torpedo the office, AND she'll think she's outsmarted you.
Let her know that YOU are extremely disappointed and that she's on her only warning.
Chances are you'll have to fire her in the next 2 months. Sounds like you should, anyway. People like that are of no use to an entrepreneur. You need people that welcome change and new challenges. As long as your idea of a new challenge isn't doing twice the work in half the time.
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