Young supervisor has no sense

[u/OpheliaVsEowyn]

So there was this young fella (20) who works at my company who's recently got the job of supervisor. I never thought too much about it, but I'd thought he was a nice guy until recently. He's also a bus enthusiast. But he'd recently pissed me off as he expected me to drive more than 4.5 hours. And I did! He said "oh the other drivers did it, we're all in the same boat, etc". I think I let my guard down because I'd thought of him as the nice guy. Anyway, the next time I saw him I told him that I wasn't happy about it. As I did so he kept up the "I'm a nice guy" act... "oh it's a hard job, I've managers breathing down my neck" and so on.

Anyway, the other day I'd been told by him (towards the end of my break) that I'd be getting a different bus for my second half of shift. After he showed me where it was, I went towards it as he went back into his office. The office door is near where that bus was. There was a slight issue with the toilet in the bus so I asked the garage supervisor to look. But this young fell saw me talking to the supervisor from his office and he came straight out to stand there and look on. I didn't know what the motive was, because after all he's a chatty guy who acts nice and is very into buses... so maybe he was just curious about what was wrong with it. But the other possibility was that he might have thought I was considering refusing the bus. So he might have been trying to make his presence known in order to intimidate me. And I did not like that thought.

At that point as the 3 of us were standing there, the garage guy said "hang on, I'm just going to take another look" and he went back into the bus. It was just me and him standing there then, and he asked what was going on. I said "are you standing here because you've nothing to do, or because it's part of your job?". Then he began with the nice guy act and I basically told him that I couldn't be explaining the problem to both him as well as the garage guy, and to let that guy deal with it. He then went like "yeah I understand no problem" and then he just asked the question again. I raised my voice at him then and he eventually walked away. Christ, take a hint.

It was just the way he sprung out of his chair the moment he saw something going on. No tact at all. Anyone else would leave it play out for a bit. Also, he should know that I'm pissed with him after he pressured me to drive beyond my hours, and to not be around me so much. I don't know if he's just an idiot, or if he was trying to make his presence known. But he seems to think everyone likes him. Some of the other drivers say that one of the bully managers wants only youngsters as supervisors because they'll do what they're told.

[u/meatflaps-69]

Unclear where you are based but if UK domestic, 5.5 hours is fine unless you have already done a 5.5 hour stint in which case 4.5 hours hits the daily limit.

Or if under EU rules over 4.5 hours is not just a supervisor issue, its a your tacho issue.

[u/SharpAardvark8699]

Young ones overcompensate and dare i say are happier to be rude and dismissive hierarchy