Working with someone who isn't a team player...

shortcrust

Take control. He’s not your boss and you’re not attached at the hip. Sideline him and concentrate on building links with other people. Tell your manager you want to develop some written process guidelines and do them as you do new tasks. Get Mark to sign off on them ‘in case you’ve missed something’ and make sure he knows they’re ‘team’ documents. Find out how Mark knew out about the conference and make sure you’re in the loop next time, bypassing him. Etc etc.

Brynsam

SteveVx wrote: »

Last week I got rather annoyed as he messaged me saying he was at a conference! I asked him why wasn't I told? I mean we are both at the same level...he goes "don't worry it's boring your not missing much" but the point is I should of at least been asked if I wanted to go regardless if he is finding it boring.

Why should you have been asked? Maybe your employer didn't want two employees out of the office at the same time, or felt it was overkill to send two to the same conference.

Obviously having a grasp of how your new employer does things would help. Why don't you set up a procedures manual to document what you are being told? Sell that to your manager as a learning aid for future new recruits and you'll almost certainly get his blessing. Get Mark to sign off on any procedure that he's supposed to have been teaching you, and it will highlight any missing info, hopefully without putting his back up.

Having read your post, from the way you have phrased things you do seem to be quite rigid in some of your thinking, especially how you expect others to behave. Maybe a bit more flexibility would help, if only in terms of keeping your own sanity?

Dennis800

Going forward, I think you should tell him what he needs to know, although he won’t tell you everything you need to know. And do your best at the job. If there’s a problem and it gets to the manager, in your defense you didn’t know what you needed to know, a situation the manager is aware of.

If the ‘extra’ support he’s promising is not coming in due time, perhaps you’ll have to be looking for work elsewhere to improve your career.

getmore4less

Why are these essential business documents not part of the process and procedures stored centrally and version controlled?


If there is no system in place might be a good time to introduce them.

CanadianDream

I agree with getmore4less, I work in IT and we have a knowledge base and everyone is trained so more than one person knows how to do something.


I'm surprised your manager asked you to call Mark when he was on annual leave, why didn't the manager know?