I started a corporate job a month ago. I am a receptionist. I don't need to go above and beyond my duties, but since “maintaining clean space” is one of them, I asked for a few supplies to start to tidy up the kitchen area and the breakroom, etc. The woman (F60-something) who is supposed to be equal in terms of work heirarchy and will now be named Turdburglar, told me to tell our boss (going forward to be mentioned as Big Boss) for approval. Big Boss is like “yea go for it. tell Turdburglar to find similar items through u-line, instead of Office Depot or Staples or whatever the fuck we use” and I go, “Hi Turdburglar! I made it easy for you BY YOUR REQUEST, by giving you links to all the substitute items. The ones that I REALLY need are the acrylic signs and the fan!” I also ask the guy who is directly below Big Boss–I guess you can call him a supervisor? (We'll call him Mr Sir for now)– if it was okay for me to get the acrylic signs and the fan. He's reading all of these insane amount of emails over like, 3 acrylic signs and a fucking “vornado room fan” and he looks at me and goes, “I don't see why you shouldn't be able to order these. These signs look like shit. And the fan is not a huge deal??? You're asking for very reasonable things.” (My BRB signs are essentially made of a piece of copypaper and a plastic sleeve, clipped onto a bookend. It doesn't feel evident that I work at a really huge corporation.)
Mr. Sir also informs me that Turdburglar asked HIM about the crap I asked for and we agree that this is very stupid and definitely some sort of powerplay/control over me (new person.) I asked Turdburglar again today, she denies seeing the email AND THEN says that Tomar has to approve it, but when I asked another employee about ordering supplies (in general) today (who I didn't think would know about this???), she ALSO asked about my stupid u-line supplies?! I don't feel like dying on this hill anymore I can't believe i wasted like even a day and a half and this post…..(but i will still poast it)
TLDR; The clown who orders supplies won't let me order anything, because she's a BITCH towards me.