I have been covering for my line manager for the last 4 months as she has been off sick. This is not official and there has been no adjustment made to my own job, or extra payments, but the role has to be filled and I have stepped up accordingly as her 'deputy'. Our line manager gives me tasks to do that would otherwise have been given to her, but never really mentions the extra work I have had to take on, aside from one occasion when she briefly thanked me in an email.
An added complication is that when my line manager's current role came up (the one who is ill) we both went for it and obviously she got it. She was kind of next in line, but I had been hopeful and had been led to believe by management (including the woman I mentioned above) that I was more highly regarded and was in with a very good chance. Since then she has done very little and I have really had to support her in the role (before she went off ill). I know this sounds like sour grapes but it happens to be true and so many people within our organisation have told me I should have been promoted and she is not up to the job. She really isn't - she gives the impression of being both lazy and incompetent.
While she has been off I have made some changes to the way things are done - things I wanted to do had I been given the promotion when it came up. These changes have been very well received by the team I am now managing and I have been given nothing but positive feedback. Last week two team members went on a training activity with and came back saying how well prepared they were for forthcoming changes to our sector thanks to initiatives implemented by me. They even went to my line manager to tell her how well I am doing and how far ahead we are compared to other organisations. She cut them down and said sh didn't want to hear anything negative about the woman who is off sick - though they hadn't mentioned her at all. The team member told me it felt like she didn't really want to hear anything positive about me either.
AIBU to feel a bit use and to wonder why someone incompetent is protected and someone else is not valued or even thanked for making improvements for no money, time or even thanks?
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Can any managers tell me why my manager is behaving like this?
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woundedplacerias · 26/11/2016 23:15
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