Should my boss be doing more or is he handling this appropriately
Hay, so im wondering if i can get others perspective on this situation as i dont know if my boss is handleing it correctly or if he is just trying to avoid having to deal with things Sorry this is quite long but thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
So a while ago my co worker was hired, a couple months into the season (this is a seasonal job) Everything was fine up to a point, Things seem to have in my opinion gotten out of hand and hounestly i dont think this guy should even be working anymore.
Im going to go a bit into back story first so that my most recent one makes a bit of sense So a while ago he refused to work with me on a session where i was help if he needed and there to get photos as there were a few autistic kids and adhd kids in this group, it was also his sign off to run this particular thing too so the boss was going to be there for the brifes then leave, His responce when he was told i would be there was do you really think that is required and then the boss went outside with him and he said that he didnt think it was appropriate and that i had annoyed him the other day by saying something and he didnt like how i talked to him ect. (I was unaware) the boss told me and later that evening i apologized to him saying i didnt know i had done something and i was sorry for whatever i did do and if he could let me know so i wouldn't repeat it in the future, the responce i got from my co worker was that we were all fine he just wanted to run the session on his own since it was a sign off and we had no issues As you can see this is very diffrent to what he told the boss vs what im was told, I did show the boss this too who said i didnt have to apologise in the first place and iv mabye done it too soon and he wont admitted theres an issue,
We also do live together and the boss is also the landlord and there has been house issue which i wont go into but anytime i try and talk to him about house stuff he always just saying lets keep it at work chat i dont have time to get into that i have other things to do.
This coworker will also not listen to us and ignore us if we suggest a way to do things or tell him what needs done (in a general this needs done and this needs done im going to do this) and he then dose things in his way and it results in us having to fix it a good exsample is some signs i made i had mesured and cut a few boards and spray glued a couple lamintated signs down all he had to do was follow and continue useing what i had already done as the exsample and put the sings up instead he done it his way and cut boards that were too small and celotaped the signs to them screwed through the lamaintaed sheets causeing them to need replaced as the water got in and all the posts he put up for these signs had to be replaced aswell as he used old scrap wood instead of proper posts and his excuse was its not permanent so whats it matter,
This has also lead to him on a session almost injuring a guest as we were unloading a canoe trailer i suggested using the group in a certain way to unload the trailer and his responce was well that persons not here so we are not doing it that way, he proceeded to get 2 guest to unload canoes and they went to unload a high up one before i was able to say anything to stop them they had already pulled it off the trailer and it was above their heads and one of the guys started falling sideways with it and fell ocer and the canoe landed just infront of his cheast luckly not hitting him, i checked on him twice he was okay and the co worker who was incharge of the session just put his head up and said its all just part of the fun, he later has then lied to the boss saying nobody fell over on his session there were 2 of us who saw it happen as another co worker was droping people off in the other van but this person is refusing that it happened and thats were its been left as the boss dosnt want to say we have repoted it,
Iv also been reported to the boss by him for somehouse things like complaing about the other housemates girlfriend being here when she was visting which is soo far from the truth all because i asked him if i knew how much longer she was here for, while he was complaing about them laughing in his room and wanting to tell them to shut up and if it annoyed me ect. (House issue stuff) Also he invites people round to stay and gives us no notice or warning in the house we all rent from work that he is doing so. I dont mind people round but its nice to know when you might be kept up a bit late from noise or when theres suddenly 3 extra people ect..
He also recently go our recption person in to trouble which was cleared up but he was messageing the boss and said that she hadnt shown up for work and that he hadnt seen her. .so the boss texted her asking where she was and called her, she cleared it up because she was in the office and later ask this co worker why he told the boss she wasnt in when he had seen her and she talked to us earlier that day and her car was there his responce was that he forgot that she had talked to him and was in and laughed it off,
And lastly the other week amd i found out today the reason, i was meant to be on session with this co worker, the boss asked for the two of us to work together (coworker isnt signed off to run this session) and a freelancer would be working on his own so i went and told the coworker that me and him were working together ect.. Once we started the session i heard the freelancer say to his he could go with him if he wanted to but i was too busy getting kids kitted up to really be paying attention to what they were talking about, once at the gorge i eneded up working solo with a challangeing group while the cowaorker went with the freelancer with an easier group (i had a non verbal autistic kid in my group that was having to get pulled up things as we were gorge walking and he couldnt process the instructions) today i found out the freelancer has told the boss that this coworker said that we refuse to work with eachother which is why the freelancer offered him to go with him. The part i dont understand is that this coworker hasnt went to the boss and told him that he refuses to work with me and the last chat iv had with him recently was that we are all good there are no issues, everything is fine
The boss says he dosnt know why and we are a managers nightmare and iv told him i have no issues with working with him and at this point in the house im just staying out his way and in work time im just doing whats needed and being polite to him, (iv even been going out my way to say thank you for helping me, i appreciate it ect..) But the boss isnt trying to fix the issue there instead he is just leaving it and making sure we dont really work together on session Theres no talking to him about what the issue is ect and its to the point the coworker is going behind backs to make sure he dosnt work with me. Without saying anything directly to anyone
So what can be done at this point, we know the boss isnt going to fire him which he probaly should off a good while ago and even admits that he is struggling with his behaviour but wont apporach him about certain things like above to find out whats really going on, So what do you do when a boss wont take action and would rather just act like everythings fine and just keep you apart I know keeping us apart and not working together is a responce to it but its not solveling whats really going on.
Im constantly watching my back and have had to defend myself a few time as false Things have been said about me like the girlfriend thing ect...