To tell my new manager my concerns?

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Has anyone had to deal with a new manager making your life difficult- either sneakily or without realising? How do you deal with it?

I've had a new manager for about a month, when the organisation created a new tier between me and my CEO. This person was well hyped for their specific talent which we need but unfortunately it's all been a bit of a mess. Not only am I struggling to see how they got the job, but they don't seem to know how to manage people.

Over the last week or so I've been caught out multiple times because they've not replied to emails, not told me when I'm expected on calls/in meetings, 'forgotten' to tell me I need to present a paper at an away day so I didn't know till I turned up. It's either a big mess or deliberately setting me up to fail.

Now, I've found out that they've organised regular sub-team meetings with my direct reports about an area of work that isn't mine, but needs most of my team so I feel that I should have been told. Not least because I have deliberately organized the team so that we don't have silo'd meetings and everyone works together.

They're also advertising for a new junior role that according to the org chart should report to me, but will now go round me and report to the manager.

I know this all sounds petulant but it's adding up to make me rally resentful at work as I don't feel like I know what's going on or why. Plus my team constantly ask me what's going on and if I know why decisions are being made but I'm just in the dark.

I've asked manager if we can have a chat this morning, but I don't know how to deal with it without it coming across badly? And I'm not sure that they're not just trying to get rid of me?

AIBU?

I'm pretty sure that's your managers job - can you just start casual and ask to book in a Monday morning catch up each week?

We have bi-weekly catch-ups but aren't due one for a while as the next one clashed with another meeting of mine so I declined, but they haven't responded to the email and it's still in their diary.

Are they trying to replace you op? How many other people report to your manager?

I don't know Bluntness but I worry so. There should be three reporting to the manager - me, my colleague who left last week and a post which hasn't been filled since our restructure a year ago . They are now recruiting for both those roles but I worry that they want rid of me to have a clean sweep. I then have 5 below be, which are matrix managed by the three roles on my level but as I'm the only one in post I'm currently managing all of them. But now they are adding a role in below me on that level, which will go round me to new manager.

So basically they are only managing you? Even with the replacements, eight or nine is not necessarily a poor span of control. It could be they wish your manager to manage your team and th other three being recruited.

I'd simply ask, where they see both you and the position going.