Dashboard combining data from two data tables and linking pivots

Good afternoon -

I am working on building a dashboard to display data for my team's metrics. I have one data table of names and hours of work completed, the other is a names and quality defects. I have a dashboard that I can click on a name inside of a slicer from a pivot and show all of the hours data in a chart, then using a poor mans pivot I use a bunch of SUMIF functions to pull in the quality data to all be represented on one dashboard. Is it possible to connect that slicer to the second pivot table so I don't need to use two. I have tried to establish a relationship but since the names of the employees are duplicates within the columns as the data is given overtime I cannot make that relationship. I have even gone as far as a VBA script to send a new value to the filter field of the second pivot but unless I click in the updated cell the second pivot doesn't update.

Ideally I could create a data model to connect the tables but as I mentioned I want to pivot off of the name of the employee, but since it is months worth of data the columns contain duplicates and i cannot make that relationship.