I am in what should be my dream job.
Except i do not know how we can handle the manager. We are public sector based in a small outpost office.
The manager does not seem to understand how to manage people. He sits in a corner with his headphones on. He has offloaded all the work onto staff members and repeatedly fails to provide us with the additional background information required to do the job.
we have been doing some of his work that urgently needs setting up. He hasn't bothered looking at it or progressing it. we highlighted it to other managers who were concerned, but when questioned he came up with some excuse why it hadnt been done.
He constantly scribbles odd comments, not hard for us to notice when he sits with his back to us wearing headphones. Comments such as 'dont like the chatty one', 'need more money' ' (name of person) trouble', 'need to get out'. He also seems to list what other people have, big car, big house etc. He also emails his wife an awful lot during the day, these emails also contain comments about us. He was told to get rid of his radio by his boss, so he started streaming it over the internet. He wastold to stop this so he now deliberately annoys everyone by having his phone oon speakerphone.
He also does not do the full hours, as soon as we have left the office he goes home. We know this from other people who work in the same location.
We have highlighted our concerns as a team for quite a while now. We have had meetings with his manager. We have been informed that we were all recruited for a reason, we are all strong women and we suspect that they hoped we would run the show and make up for his failings.
Yet we are not prepared to continue when he seems so hell bent on our project failing. At a recent public meeting he may as well not have been there, he made no contribution. His bosses manager was there and we have recently discovered that she was there to assess him. Other organisations connected with our work think he is a laughing stock and have no respect for him. We have asked them to put their complaints into writing as the project really could fail.
We have been highlighting our concerns for over 2 months yet nothing seems to be being done.
We are concerned that there may be a healt h issue. When we have meetings with him its really off-putting, he seems to be thrusting under the desk. We have said that we are concerned that we could send him over the edge. One of us is so fed that up that this individual now hopes that we do this.
A few days ago we again spoke with management and said we wanted HR called in. We were asked not to, but to go to a senior manager which we did. The manager admitted that they know he is a problem but they don't know what to do!
Help - we are a great team (without him), what can we do, what evidence should we be keeping. One of our team already has an interview elsewhere.
Sorry for the long post.