My “boss” (actually my client since I'm self employed) is a very abusive, unreasonable person. Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in his presence knows this. I am currently looking for another job but not having much luck.
He's the only one here who can make financial decisions. We do construction, I do the bidding and he gives me the pricing to put on it. He has an extremely nasty habit of telling me to charge for something, or not charge for something, and then later not remembering that he said that and blaming me for it. Most recently was a job I bid on back in like September, October sometime. We were trying to bring the price down so he told me, “dont charge for the precast” so next to precast, I wrote “do not charge for this, per “boss” with the date next to it. Yesterday we're discussing the job and ordering materials, and he said something about hoping I had enough to cover the precast in my bid. I reminded him that he said not to charge for it, and he instantly exploded “I never said that! Have you ever heard me tell you not to charge for something?! You're just costing me money!”
I told him I wrote it down and dated it, and offered to send him a picture. I did, and he said that since it wasnt in his handwriting, I must have just wrote it on it to cover my ass and avoid getting yelled at and I must have forgot to add it. I freely admit I forget a lot of stuff, but I'm not just gonna boldface lie about it and write that he told me something when he didnt. I'm not stupid, and I'm not a liar. But this has me concerned. I would make him sign everything we discuss, but he's only here in the office 2-3 days a month. The rest of the time we communicate by phone, text, and email. 9 times out of 10, when we discuss a bid like this, it's over the phone. What are some ways I can handle this so that it covers my ass and proves to him that he told me to do it, so I dont get blamed for it when he forgets? I'm so sick of the abuse and constantly being blamed for everything that goes wrong here.