I feel like I am being bullied at work please someone help me around this
I am 21M and I work with another guy who is 35M. I have been here for a year and a half and I will admit I have made my fair share of mistakes which made this guy upset over time, but now I barely make mistakes and I work very hard.
For example, he will tell me I cannot leave until 3pm, yet he leaves before 3pm everyday. We both start at 7 and I am expected to be working at 7 but he won’t do anything untill atleast 7:20.
Over the year or so I noticed he has a very short temper, I am self aware enough to admit that it must be frustrating working with a dumb kid who makes mistakes. Totally get it, but today he crossed the line.
I usually work with earphones in, as does he, but only in one ear so we can still hear. He asked me to do something today, bear in mind this is a very noisy work environment AND he was playing music on a speaker. When I asked him to repeat himself, he completely yelled at me and lost it. I have always kept myself composed but today I stood up for myself. We didn’t speak the rest of the day as I was too angry and idk maybe he was angry, maybe he just left me alone. But this “do as I say not as I do” attitude is pissing me off and he’s losing his temper at someone who tries their best to work hard and never complains, and even does the brunt of the work while he smokes cigarettes. I want to speak to my boss but at the same time I don’t want to rock the boat. For over a year I have kept my mouth shut, stayed professional and basically at times let him bully me but that stopped today, so just dealing with it is no longer an option. Does anyone have advice?