Try and understand why he behaves like a **** , what drives and what motivates him, if this enables you to build a better relationship with him then that’s good. If not then the bloke really is a ****, but sure enough his boss will be watching him.
And they will if push comes to shove, they’ll drop you like a stone!
What is he actually doing? Is he incompetent, crap at communication, crap at managing not just you or others, has he breached your organisations workplace policies or even the law??? Have any issues been raised with him infomally or formally as he may not be aware and do you have a union rep? Different issues may require different approaches or remedies.
Yep, it happened to me a few years ago. I asked him if he had a problem with me, and he said not. Turned out that he'd been having marital issues and I just got in his way wrong place wrong time, he apologised.
Yeah I’ve met plenty who say all sorts in private but remain silent when the real opportunity comes. Wankers
do we work at the same place?! i have the worst manager in the country and its a battle between us everyday. Since he arrived 16 months ago 11 good lads have left which given we have a workforce of about 20 is pretty impressive. He has had 4 grievances against him that the directors found in his favour. However yesterday he got his comeuppance, i received an email from a director who had had a complaint from a customer with regards an underweight drum, we supply drums with a nett weight of 220 kgs yet the customer alleged the drum only weighed half this amount and given the product we make costs about £900 a drum they were not happy. They enclosed a copy of the drums date of manufacture and the weight. I did a little investigation and went to visit the director who had sent the email. On my way to see the directors the manager starts a long diatribe about how disgusting and embarrassing it was having to deal with the customer and how i needed to improve to avoid making my mistake again, this was in full earshot and vision of all the directors and office staff. Normally i would not of accepted this but in this instance i let him give it me both barrels, when he finished i just asked him to check the date of manufacture and he confirmed the 4th of may. I then reminded him that it was in fact him who had manufactured the batch that day and he himself that had made the error as i was on holiday and thus could not of been responsible. The look on his face was brilliant but more importantly the smile i got from the office girls as i left was an absolute joy!
