got misstreated on my work practice to the point where i am now ending it early

[Charlie_arts]

Before i go onto what happened i would want to say that for 3 weeks i have been at a workplace where i have had a very good time and got better in the field where i work. The work itself was kinda shit from time to time (working outdoors and some days it where more or less storming, others where minus 8 C during midnight shifts) but the guys im working with have all kept a good high spirit and we have laughed a bunch while working. If you can't have a good laugh in this work field it will not be bearable. We work some days (like this week) 12+ hours a day for 7 days, longer yesterday and today (15 hours)

But today i got to work with a guy that even the other workers disslike due to bad temper (to the point where he have broken equipment that did not work his way) So to start the morning of, i don't disslike him perce, heard what the others said about him but have not worked with him so could not tell.
We get out to the work place and before he and i can start work we have a 3rd guy driving the machine that does our pre-work. He is just standing around and waiting while i sit on the ground to not get tiered with my hands in my pockets due to the freezing temperature (-1 C with storming winds)
When the machine is done with its work we shall start to work, but i have never done this work before, hench no clue what to actually do in what order. So i stand idly by and watch him do the work at start so i can then do it after him on the next phase.
But instead of telling me what to do he just start shouting at me "Eighter are you learning what to do OR you can sit and wait in the car and go home if you are just going to sit around with your hands in your pockets"
This comes out of nowhere, i could have justified him if i had been **censor** around on my phone, but i was not, i was inspecting what he was doing and keeping warm, its god damn **censor** freezing outside.
So with no more to say then that i start to try and replicated his work and this goes well for a while untill the machines won't start. These machines works like lawnmowers where you have to pull a string to make it start. Where i pull like crazy to make it start i can tell he gets annoyed and get stressed due to not wanting to be unfairly shouted at again. Not kidding, pulling that string over 50 times untill the guy in the machine comes up and say "these 2 machines are fucky like hell, try the other one, this one have had trouble before" This guy is way nicer to me and have been over the last 3 weeks. Changing machine and voila, it works.
The guy shouting at me takes the other machine and makes it start in a few pulls, do mind he is WAY stronger then i am and that is some times needed with these machines. Untill he actually manages to snap the string in half on the machine and we are forced to wait 1 hour before we can even start work again. During this time on of the other nice guys comes and jokingly asks what we are **censor** up now. This guy i know is joking like the others and when i tell him what happened he goes of to say "He has to go to therapy, he has broken more then a few machines around here due to his temper" this though is not a joke. Everyone in the group have discussed this at some point and all agree on it, i had to experinece it first hand.
works goes on ok unitill lunch (not kidding, breakfast at 6am for aprox 10 minutes, lunch at 15 pm for 40 minutes) where afterwards about night time we get to the next place and rins and repeat, expected to know exactly what to do by this guy, even though i have been in this field for 3 months.
What ever i did i just felt like i was worthless at it and him being angry because i don't understand all the things he says at once. like when he told me to push the cart forward so he could continue welding, not a hard task, im not brain dead, but my gas cutters hoses have managed to get stuck under the wheel due to him pulling it by himself without looking where it was going. So before i can even unjank my hose from the cart he voilently pulls his gas cutter due to me being to slow which knocks the cart over and the propane and oxygen tanks fall to the ground. These things are explosive as hell and danguers to handle without care which seamed to not be importent at this point. And since the gas not working now, he furiously pulls out all the gas lines from the tubes and throwes them all up on the cart and walks of, not saying a word to me.
And that is about where i decide "**censor** this, i ain't putting up with this bullshit" and trying to tell the others in a nice way they say "you have to go with him for the last 2 days since we will be with a other team during these days" and i can understand that they can't have a practice worker around them these last 2 days due to the stress in this work field. but expalining this to them how he treats me (like they have experienced themselfs) they just tell me to "bite the bullet, he is like that, nothing we can do about it"
And there is the definite, **censor** no, not doing this hell of a day over again 2 times. Did i mention im not getting paid for this? Had been paid i would have gotten through with it, but at this point, no way.
Worst part is that i feel like shit, like i am a dissapointment to the others which i really liked during this whole practice since im dropping the last 2 days for this persons behaviour. I don't know my rights as a practice worker, is this ok? I feel like they somewhat pushing me over to him since they can't bare to work with him themselfs.

[Captain Degenerate]

That guy sounds like a walking safety hazard slamming propane tanks around.


What job is this?

[Trixsie Vixen]

This guy sounds like a total asshole!


If you have a supervisor I would report him, that business with the gas tanks is reason enough without the rest of his behaviour which is basically bullying.


Otherwise, since you don't have long left and if you are stuck with him, perhaps you could take advantage of your temporary nature and tell him a few home truths.  The problem is him, he is incompetent and tries to cover his own inadequacy with anger.  He can either teach you or ignore you but he can't have it both ways.  Something like "everyone said you were a jerk with an anger-management problem, they weren't exaggerating!'


Anyway, that might not be the best way to go, but it does turn your temp unpaid status to your advantage!  I have found personally a few workplace bullies will backoff and even warm to you once you "tell them their fortune".


The main thing is to remember: YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!


You haven't let anyone down, done the wrong thing or had a bad attitude.  Whatever this guy thinks has no value and doesn't represent the views of your other co-workers.  So whether you stay or go, don't think you have failed in anyway.  The guy is a dick, and it is the employer's responsibility to ensure a safe workplace.

[Rob_Silvermyst]

I can empathize. I work in the security business and used to work as casino security. It's bad enough when you have to deal with patrons who are **censored**, but it's ten times worse when you have to work with someone who's idea of 'work' is to tuck away into a bathroom every thirty minutes  or hide away in the quieter places instead of being where they are supposed to be. One 'gem' I had to work with, everytime I called over the radio that I needed her to do something (reset an alarm, go relieve someone on the cash box supervision team, etc.), she's say she's 'on a fill' ( running chip fills up to the table games dealers), and several times other officers have caught her saying this when she wasn't on a fill as she claimed. Then she'd go on tantrums of how 'she's always getting called, you have all these other people blahblahblah'. I straight-up told her that, for one, other people are on other tasks at the moment, and two, she's been caught slacking off multiple times, and as long as she slacks off, I'm going to call on her more. Add to that the fact that she blew up at a patron and began to rant at him, it was little surprise she ended up getting fired.

Definitely report him. His actions have caused property damage, which is a nasty cost to the company, and it is endangering lives. People who act like they are above others, they are the real problem and they are the ones who cause the most strife and trouble.

[Charlie_arts]

That guy sounds like a walking safety hazard slamming propane tanks around.


What job is this?

I work as a railroad welder

Sorry for late response, lots of things have happened home with my family

Post Merge: December 12, 2016, 01:56:02 PM

This guy sounds like a total asshole!


If you have a supervisor I would report him, that business with the gas tanks is reason enough without the rest of his behaviour which is basically bullying.


Otherwise, since you don't have long left and if you are stuck with him, perhaps you could take advantage of your temporary nature and tell him a few home truths.  The problem is him, he is incompetent and tries to cover his own inadequacy with anger.  He can either teach you or ignore you but he can't have it both ways.  Something like "everyone said you were a jerk with an anger-management problem, they weren't exaggerating!'


Anyway, that might not be the best way to go, but it does turn your temp unpaid status to your advantage!  I have found personally a few workplace bullies will backoff and even warm to you once you "tell them their fortune".


The main thing is to remember: YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!


You haven't let anyone down, done the wrong thing or had a bad attitude.  Whatever this guy thinks has no value and doesn't represent the views of your other co-workers.  So whether you stay or go, don't think you have failed in anyway.  The guy is a dick, and it is the employer's responsibility to ensure a safe workplace.

Thanks Trixsie Read your response when it came up and it really helped with making me feel better when i hear people are on my side of this whole story

Post Merge: December 12, 2016, 01:58:23 PM

I can empathize. I work in the security business and used to work as casino security. It's bad enough when you have to deal with patrons who are **censored**, but it's ten times worse when you have to work with someone who's idea of 'work' is to tuck away into a bathroom every thirty minutes  or hide away in the quieter places instead of being where they are supposed to be. One 'gem' I had to work with, everytime I called over the radio that I needed her to do something (reset an alarm, go relieve someone on the cash box supervision team, etc.), she's say she's 'on a fill' ( running chip fills up to the table games dealers), and several times other officers have caught her saying this when she wasn't on a fill as she claimed. Then she'd go on tantrums of how 'she's always getting called, you have all these other people blahblahblah'. I straight-up told her that, for one, other people are on other tasks at the moment, and two, she's been caught slacking off multiple times, and as long as she slacks off, I'm going to call on her more. Add to that the fact that she blew up at a patron and began to rant at him, it was little surprise she ended up getting fired.

Definitely report him. His actions have caused property damage, which is a nasty cost to the company, and it is endangering lives. People who act like they are above others, they are the real problem and they are the ones who cause the most strife and trouble.

Called my boss the day after and explained it all to him, he said he would talk to him since more have had the same problem with the guy. Never stayed around to find out if they did so or not though

[Brigand]

Man, I'm a welder and being new to this job sucks. Especially that you were on a practice without getting paid for this crap. Anyway, it should be painfully obvious to everyone that someone who's on a practice isn't a god of welding. Even experienced welders will screw up every now and then.

People like this asswipe are just a pain in the ass for everyone around. It wasn't your fault that he has issues with anger management.  Talking with your boss about the whole situation was the best solution. Confronting people like that and openly telling them what you think isn't necessarily the best idea, at least from my experience. They can behave more decently or at least try not to be a complete douche, or you'll increase your chance for starting a fight from 50% to 200%.

If he doesn't give a crap about highly explosive gas tanks then, well... natural selection will do its thing sooner or later. I bet he'll have a blast.