The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/spgtAlts on 2024-10-12 15:42:26.
So I'm a little new to my job, I work as overnight maintenance (basically a janitor) at a grocery store. The other day my coach told me I needed to sweep a specific area. Half-way through a co-worker told me that I didn't need to sweep part of the area, and being a bit new and being kinda unsure of it myself, I went with it. Turns out I did need to sweep the area, my coach got upset at me for not sweeping there, and I explained that my coworker told me not to.
Apparently my coworker got mad at that, and thinks he didn't say not to sweep there, now he's refusing to talk to me at all. This usually wouldn't be an issue, but we don't have a team lead right now, and we need to divvy up the work somehow (deciding who sweeps what, who does the bathrooms etc etc), plus its team job, and severing communication just makes things a lot harder. There’s also nights where it’s just me and him, so that makes it very difficult as well.
I would apologize, but I don’t wanna be a pushover here (as bad as that says, but especially in this job where doing so can get you the short end of the stick), and I vividly remember the conversation of him telling me to. Plus he was quite rude to me after, basically saying he’d be happy to see me go and that he’s going to file harassment on me for getting upset over him giving me the silent treatment.
I mean, whoever's right about that specific conversation, it’s not like either of us would have gotten in big trouble for it anyway. I feel like he’s being immature, he doesn’t have to like me, but he can’t just make the job harder for both of us right?
(side note cause someone will probably ask, but I did talk to my manager about it, minorly helpful, but not really much I can use. Also yeah I probably shouldn’t have just trusted my coworker on it)