Hello I'm 22 (M) and I'm working at this warehouse. I recently got that job and I really do enjoy it the work it's chill and I'm able to work in the same job space as my Fianće. I have a really cool co-worker who's also my lead (unofficial but he still has that responsibility).
Here's the Problem I see that my warehouse Manager really shows favoritism towards the other workers. I work in Shipping and he shows alot of favoritism towards the other workers who are predominantly Female. We have some male workers and he gets slightly along with them but it's more noticable to my female co workers. He has such a rude attitude to us, and he is constantly trying to find something to complain about. Any small thing he could find is just blown out of proportion. And mind you that all he does is sit on his ass all day and delegates his work to someone else. He really and I'm not exaggerating does the most minimal amount of work, and on top of that he has been caught sleeping on the job ever since he got the manager position.
My coworker and I talk while we work but it's like work talk like regular work talk that everyone in the warehouse does as well. Like “Hey what are you doing tonight or hey whats your favorite movie”. All while doing our work packaging and shipping out our orders on time. Everyone in the warehouse does it even he the manager does it to the female workers. But when it comes to us he's so disrespectful.
When I came into this job our shipping department really wasn't set up well so I took the liberty to ask and set up our workstations to be more efficient at work and I ended up doing it and it was a hit. We started getting more work done and we were able to clean up our area alot more because of it. But to get at that point was very difficult in order to get stuff I had to ask my manger and he is a huge procrastinater and he really just blows us off when we ask for stuff so getting a new printer for FedEx and UPS was super hard and setting it up was even harder (FYI my manger is also the IT guy).
So I manually had to do alot of it myself. It took a month and a half to get my area set up. While I've seen this guy help the female workers in a blink of an eye. It's so frustrating to the point that he moved my whole work station a desk over and it's a hassle because he had like 5-6 power strips connected with eachother and it's such a hassard I dont want to touch it. He's moving me because he doesn't want me talking with my coworker even though he's a desk away all the label machines are with him so I'm still going to see him anyway like it's just such a petty thing to do. He gets such a hard on when he “acts like a manager” but when you go against or even disagree he gets all “friendly”.
He's just such a major asshole and I know he's targeting me and my co-worker because he doesn't like us. I know it's a long post but it's so frustrating. Why do managers have to make it so hard for people who just want to work without problems. I just wanted to rant thanks for reading.
Any advice I want to stay and work there until I'm done with school and I have like half a year to a year to go. Any advice to protect myself and any advice from anyone who has gone through similar I'm not leaving without a fight.