If this is not the subreddit, please point me to the correct one, but I thought I'd try here.
So, Im getting really fed up with my job because of multiple different reasons, but this one coworker is making my job more difficult because he is trying to save money for the company.
This coworker is the Maintenance Manager for the grad school that I work for. Our school is very small (roughly 2k students).
I work in the library department at my job, and the library only has 1 printer for all 2000 students. I go though a lot of paper and toner. This new manager who started roughly 3 months ago argued with admin to take away my purchasing privileges because he wants to know how much paper and toner is being used. Maintenance has to maintain the printer.
Admin obliged. Now, I have to email him to ask him to order it, and Im ALWAYS met with “are you sure you need that much?” “How much do students really use it?” “We will wait until you have no toner before we order more.” This is making my job extremely more difficult.
I get students complaining to me NONSTOP, and I have to take time out of my day to go and literally steal toner from other printers on campus (only 1 is compatible with mine) to ensure that printing can continue. And when I say that I need X this or X amount of that. He will get me less because “If we need more, we can order it.”
That is just one issue.
The other issue is that the library is getting really hot. Like Im sweating in my hands and armpits during the day. And since we are a small library, its me and one other person, so I cannot just leave the desk. When I told the maintenance manager, he came to the library and said “I feel fine.” and when I argued that that is not relevant, he took out a thermometer and measured the different corners of the room and says “My thermometer is reading 67 degrees, and that is pretty cool.”
OKAY?!? But its way hotter than that, to which he says “it may be because of the sun coming in the windows, or there is leakage through the windows and it wasnt sealed properly.” I then say “can you check the windows?” and he says that his department has more important things to do.
Im uncomfortable at work, and I am fighting tooth and nail with someone who isnt even my boss to let me do my job, and Im always questioned. Is there anything I can do? Or is going to HR a childish thing because I just need to get over it?
Edit: I would like to add that I am a manager in the library, so although he is older, we are equal in job title. So he is not above me on the totem pole