Graduated from Roadblock to ALPWAGC

[daisyslegs]

Which stands for "Arrogant Little Pric* With A God Complex". This is again about THAT guy at work. The good news is that the saying about "give someone enough rope they will hang themselves" just *might* be applying here.

He did another couple of doozies today. Threatened me twice, once with intent to get me in trouble with my boss and the other time to write me up.

OK, Tell me how you would react to this situation: An alarm goes of for about 2 seconds. OK, what was that? Ah, nothing - the building across the way has that happen about 3 times a week and it sounds like the same alarm. It goes off again about a minute later. You think to yourself, is that in this building? Naw. It's not the fire drill alarm, that one is louder and is continuous, not a 2 second burst a minute apart.

It happens again so you open your door and go down stairs. You see someone fiddling with the alarm control panel and hear the ALPWAGC in his office talking, you ask the person fiddling with the alarm if we are suppose to leave the building. You do not get an answer as they are busy doing what they are doing.

So you consider that they are just working on the alarm, decide it's not a waste of a trip if you grab your lunch while you are down here, it's almost time. Walk 5 feet away and open the fridge door, turn around and see the ALPWAGC glaring at you and saying in a very pissed off voice that he wants everyone still in this building written up.

Excuse me? What about all the people upstairs that think this is that alarm from across the way? What about all the people that know that our fire alarm goes on and on, not 3 separate 2 second blips? Hell, I even asked if I was suppose to leave! And excuse me!!! What about YOU? You, you foolish ALPWAGC, why were YOU still in here if we were suppose to evacuate?

That was the second incident today. The first one, I had had enough. This is an edited for name and parts copy of an email I sent my boss:

I know we have had this conversation in the past but I’d like to offer something constructive that *might* help.

I have a customer that sent us a sample of a new *BLANK*, very similar to the *BLANK BLANK*, but longer. The bolt holes looked almost perfect, but I was wanting to make sure. I was about to take the sample upstairs to see if I could get a better answer. *BIG BOSS/OWNER* looked up at me so I asked her if I could get an exact center to center on the bolt holes. I expected her to open her drawer an offer me the use of her calipers.

Instead she directed me to hand it to *ALPWAGC*. The utoh feeling popped up immediately. I know I am not suppose to go to him for questions or answers. I handed it to him and he set it down. I began to walk away when *BIG BOSS/OWNER* told him to just put the calipers on it.

*ALPWAGC* proceeded to quietly inform me (so that *BIG BOSS/OWNER* would not hear) that I was in trouble, that *BOSS* would be hearing about this”, etc.

I had no intention of asking him for anything and I certainly do NOT feel him acting and speaking as he did appropriate. Has was very angry at me.

As I have stated before, I have no idea what I have done to cause the behavior he continually shows me. I wish I did. I just don’t understand why he thinks it’s ok to have a 15 minute conversation with *COWORKER HAVING SIMILAR PROBLEMS* and I last Friday about the new *DELETED* process and the plans for introducing the *DELETED* and turnaround time, etc, and today be all pissed off and acting threateningly when I was unintentionally directed to him.

In the meantime, the constructive suggestion: Perhaps he might benefit from some classes in positive supervision, learn some of the people skills he seems to lack. I’m sure there are classes or courses available that would make life at *DELETED* a lot more comfortable for those of us that seem to get the brunt of his dislike or whatever it is that is causing these issues.

I enjoy my job and love this company, but being truthful, lately it has become mighty uncomfortable in certain ways that are unavoidable.

I received a reply back that included the owner about total agreement, "dominance and aggressive" issues, and acknowledgment that I was correct and the ALPWAGC HAS "threatened" me before in several situations which has nothing to do with his area of responsibility and that it must be discussed.

So, does this sound like he is getting enough rope?

[Just Jocko]

Quite frankly, IMHO, he just might be having some anger/aggression problems with the fiancee (or other members of the owner family) as well, which might be why your supervisor felt that the situation would resolve itself. IME, people who act this way at work cannot/do not just shut it off in their private life. It spills over into every aspect of their lives.

Continue to document everything and keep hard copies of all your coorespondence at home. I recommend a log book of every incident going back to when he first started acting like this toward you, remembering specifics as best you can -- dates, places, what was said and by whom. Your company is setting itself up for, at the very least, a lawsuit for creating a hostile work place. And at the very worst, a wrongful termination suit if this guy gets his way (hopefully not you, but even if it is, you've got some seriously good legal recourse).