To expect communication at work?

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Job situation deteriorating due to poor communication. I hear of tasks via 3rd party. I have raised it but that made it worse. I am being ghosted by my boss. Help.

Have you raised it with your boss? X

Yes I have raised it with boss but it didn't help at all. Has any one else experienced it and did it ever improve?

Yes and no. No amount of feedback and requests and questions during meetings ever made them more communicative. I left.

Sounds like my boss. Incompetence personified.
Despite lots of discussion, and someone raising a grievance, there’s been no change/improvement.
I’m sadly seeking another job.

How big is your company?
Is there HR?
Are you in the same work space?
Do you know why it's happening?
Can you work independently or is your boss in total control of the inflows and outflows?

My boss didn't utter a word to me for three weeks (I took note of it on my calendar). He had form for the silent treatment as punishment.

I finally cracked and confronted him. My crime? I didn't greet him one morning as he walked in. I didn't remember this but I did ask if it was possible I'd been on the phone at the time. It was. Bellend.

I ended up walking out one lunchtime and getting signed off. I never went back.

@SolasAnla

Largish company
Yes HR but last resort
Same workspace.
I don't know why it is happening. Although I seem to experience it more than others. Possibly personal but I haven’t had communication of that either!!

@Cuntness yes silent treatment as punishment sounds right. Boss won't tell me why though.

Can you cope in a strictly cold but professional environment where you and the boss only speak about work?
If you can try to formalize a schedule meeting at regular periods.
Have an other(?) meeting and agree;
schedule of current work with its degree of completeness and finalisation times/dates.
How work is added (as in the 3rd party is told go to your boss, boss instructs you before it's done).
Schedule a 1 min to 5 min update meetings am/pm, daily, as needed.
You are managing your manager through the schedule which would take a lot of mental 'robustness' to be professionally friendly while rigidly insistent that the meetings happen.
The schedule is time consuming and once started can be used against you by manager who will actively engage in bullying. You know your manager so make a judgement call on how that would work out for you.

If you can't cope with only being instructed or you
have had a face to face and nothing was resolved you have an option to ask for an meeting with your bosses line manager or a member of HR.
You can't continue to work under a LM who is not doing their job (managing you) and who is effectively engaged in harassing you out of your role.
As this appears to be a change in behaviour you can raise it an informal concern that the manager is having personal issues but you will be forced to take steps if they don't manage their employee.