Blatant dismissal and disrespect
I (24F) manage a small milling department of 2 other guys (27M) (34M). I organize our jobs, make sure everyone knows what they’re doing, and help out my boss and the other guy in the office do computer work. There’s more to it but the 34 yo guy has worked there 2 months and my boss has explicitly said I’m in charge to both of them more than once. Anyway my boss is on vacation and the 34 yo has tried to undermine me in the group text that we use for our department to know what parts have been completed by saying I’m not “allowing” him to finish certain pieces. We have to balance between about 3 different jobs atm and my boss explaining before he left how he wanted them organized and I’ve been doing as he’s asked this whole time. 750
34yo guy keeps bringing up how he’s not the one that’s going to get blamed for stuff not getting done and all this kind of stuff and I simply don’t get it because duh if I thought we weren’t on track or my boss was nervous I’d hear about it.
I’ve tried to establish rapport with him and he’s talked about his divorce and I’ve talked about my folks getting divorced. As well I’ve explained why we do things a certain way with the mills so nothing gets damaged. He just… doesn’t listen and keeps making weird comments about how he’s not getting blamed for things or that he thinks some stuff should be done sooner than others to me and the other office guy. I just don’t get it.
The guy in the office has also tried to bring things up to him about some of the parts he’s put together and he just makes excuses to both of us so idk but I don’t think it’s a gender issue. Then he swears up and down a day later about how open to direct criticism he is.
*we are on track or ahead of time on 2/3 jobs the other job is just a trial run for a job that’s months away 750