Thanks for your reply.

I appreciate your point of view but my supervisor has made it increasingly difficult for everyone in the lab. He is now blaming me for other people's mistakes. One lab member gave up two days worth of experiments because the stimulator was not plugged in because I had unplugged it for one of my experiments. Accoring to Nick this is my fault and I should apologise. However if my supervisor had trained this student properly he would have known to check that the stimulator was simply plugged in. Or he could have phoned me (he has my number) or asked one of the three other people in the lab. This is a second year student, surely he should be able to use more initiative. But no, it's my fault.
This is how unreasonable my supervisor has become. I simply told him that it wasn't my fault and explained why, now I'm in for a massive telling off tomorrow morning. How can I deal with such an unreasonable man?!?

So I'm in the final year of my PhD and although my supervisor and I have had minor clashes before we've gotten over them and continued with our work. However recently working with him is just becoming unbearable! A could of weeks ago I texted him on a Monday morning asked if I could work from home that week as I had no experiments to do in the lab and I would be more productive analysing my data on my laptop at home (and I was VERY productive). He told me that I could not work from home and that he wanted to see me at 10:30am that day. Long story short I didn't go in and I apologised fr not doing what he said but I knew that I would be more productive at home. I know I should have given him more notice but was unabvle to due to the nature of my experiments.
Anyway I asked a lab mate of mine to do a very small pice of lab work for me to prepare my cels for the following week but my supervisor forbade them to do it. So then I had another week of no experiments!
No he seems determined to be in pain in my ass and I'm sure he's trying to make my life difficult. He refuses to have meeting with me after another fall out we had which was a simple misunderstanding. Now when I ask him if he wants to have a meeting I get a smarmy response from him like 'it's not for my benefit' which makes me not want to meet with him at all.

He's is seriously making me want to pakc my PhD in altgether, I just cannot stand him. What can I do??? I know people are going to tell me to hang in there but I'm going to need help in my write up, what if he refuses to proof read my thesis or does a half arsed job?? I don't know what to do =(

Jo