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So. It’s been a while but I’m faced with a conundrum in that the relationship between me and a coworker has turned wretched and I’m not sure what to do. I realised things were bad when I was putting in extra hours before and after I ought to be there to make sure my ass was covered when things they said caught up with both of us. I imagine its going to hit me because I’ve been on the job a year longer and I could frankly do both our jobs if I had the time. Case A is where a few days ago I was trying to track down why we’re off forecast and hunt it down to an area of coworkers  (CW) responsibility. I poke about, figure it out put together some notes and send them to CW. This turns into a shitfest that takes a day to untangle – because CW doesn’t believe me. In basic principles of reservoir engineering, I argue the sky is blue for hours and get nowhere.

I can see how coming into a job where the person your supposed to be working with can do everything they’ve asked of you quicker and more accurately would be hard which is why I’m trying to stay the hell off CWs turf – except they’re not doing it. I need numbers they’re supposed to generate to do big combined things and today CW just said ‘don’t sweat it, the gauges are down’.

The gauges *were* down, but they’re fixed. I could see them fixed on the screen behind CW, I knew they were fixed myself. Which means my ass is entirely covered ‘I’m waiting on CW’ is all I have to say, I’m free and clear and they’re in the shit. I don’t want to do this – things are tough enough as is because they just stare daggers at me whenever they talk to me and have gone beyond brusque to rude. Its such a fucking drag dealing with them and just standing back and blaming them will hardly improve that.
To do it myself I’d have to covertly do two weeks of work and hide it to get what I needed. I’ve already got too much to do. I want to turn around and tell them ‘do your fucking job!’ but that would just poison things further. At the moment we’re at strained civil. Even at fucking lunch the two of us have started doing the two-step to avoid sitting near each other. I have a better relationship with my most feared bosses.

All the time I’m trying not to react, not to fall into daft psychological traps, keep it adult, keep it reasonable, but I’m at this stage getting afraid to deal with anyone else in their team in case CW goes schiz.

The worst of this is, I don’t need to fix it. I could completely sideline them and just get on with things, but thats hardly a clever way forward, nor conducive to mental peace.

*sigh*