What to do about slack boss?

[Anonemployee]

I've changed names for obvious reasons.

Our team leader is lovely but is a bit 'slack' for lack of better word.

We only know the rota one month in advance and occasionally he changes it within a week without telling you.

We work for example one weekend in six but if two people swap he gets confused as he has not done the rota for long enough and the person who swapped to do an earlier weekend does the next weekend sooner (if that makes sense).

I am fairly new but it's obvious that he's not organised (I'm rather organised so find this frustrating)

When I started he asked me to work slower as he didn't want to plan anything more for me to do.

Is there anything I or any of the other employees should/could do?

Do you have team meetings with him or supervision sessions where you could raise some of this informally? Is there anyone senior to him that you might be able to approach?

If there are serious concerns then you could raise a grievance but this could damage your relationship so you should tread carefully. Ideally you should try to resolve it informally, discuss any ideas you have for making the systems better or more efficient etc.

Is he new as well? It may be that he's just taking time to find his feet and there will be a period of adjustment while you all get used to working together. In the meantime you should keep a note of any poor management such as changing rotas at the last minute so that you can give specific examples if it does need to be raised formally at a later date.