I'm currently training as a warehouse logistics specialist in a smaller company (approx. 170 employees). I enjoy my work and I often hear that other employees are very satisfied with my work. So far so good.
Then there is my “supervisor”. In the beginning, we got along well and things went very well. Communication worked etc. But since a while this has changed. Information is no longer passed on to me by my “supervisor”, which naturally leads to mistakes that could have been avoided.
Many, if not all, employees are aware that my supervisor spends his entire workday in his office. Supposedly, he checks transport invoices and releases them. This is not true. Most of the time my “supervisor” prefers to spend on TikTok or ordering private stuff for himself and his wife. At the latest at 16:30 clock he goes home. Partly without informing me that he is leaving or what is still pending. And so it comes to, as already mentioned above, mistakes. For example, I lend material to a new customer without him paying for it and without leaving any personal data.
The saying, apprenticeship years are not master years, I have often heard in my first training. However, my “supervisor” often takes the cake. As mentioned above, I enjoy my job. However, it's no fun to hear almost every day that his “stupid trainee” can't do anything or does everything wrong. Funny. Most employees would rather come to the trainee in the 1st year of apprenticeship than to the trained specialist.
A few days ago he asked me if I wanted to stay in the company after my apprenticeship. I asked him where this question would come from. His answer was that he would not want me to stay, because otherwise he would have competitive pressure?
A mid-40 year old is afraid of competitive pressure from a 25 year old trainee? Yo, what?
Very well. I have been sick a lot in my training so far. Through depression and a cold apartment that I can not really heat. I know that the IHK can exclude me from the intermediate products by too many days of absence. However, my school grades are currently very good.
Do you have any tips? How best to deal with such a supervisor?
I know that I do a good job. It's just that the constant comments really get to me in the long run. Especially since it was no different in my first apprenticeship. I was put down for every question I asked my instructor. With sayings like: “How do you not know XY? Why do you go to school at all?” or “If you already have to ask about YZ, you should think about whether training is for you.”
Of course, I completed my first training. But I only did it so that I would “have something” and so that I could piss off my instructor at the time.