Ok. This is going to one of those completed A and B deals. I’ve chopped as much as I can in the hope someone will read it but will elaborate if needed - dh hadn’t a clue and he knows aaaalll the details so I’ll probably drive you crazy.
My work is project based. I don’t work on anything where my outcome is reliant on someone else’s work entirely - been burned before. I can make these choices and boss knows why. I am on a project now where there are 2 mirrored teams working to 1 goal. So team members > team leader (me) > line manager > boss (who is the boss of the 2 line managers). Scene set.
My mirror team leader is terrible. They run around in panic all the time and call their line manager before and after every decision. Fine, not my problem.
We have just had an intense few days where a lot of my time was spent unfucking their actions. They gave my team orders to be in line with their team, I don’t run my team where they have to ask me every time they want a pee, if they don’t know when to pee then they can complete and online tutorial. Literally had to call a meeting to say “stop asking me if you can pee/go for lunch/swap shifts, when did we ever work like that?!”
Then because they calls her team leader 50 times a day she had all the updates and feedback. I am a fool and it took me a beat to realise they were panicking and prioritising at random. So had to call my line manager and say “we are going to have to speak more often because I can’t trust what they says so 2 calls a day where 1 bloody email a week would do”
Final point, due to nature of work site and client we have to be off Friday. My team are bang up to date and will enjoy the day enjoying peeing when they want. Their team have put in hours of over time as they work and they works again ad Infinitum. So they have masses of time off due, and 1/2 complete work. Fine not my issue. But they casually dropped into conversation that they’ll pop in before the line managers meeting on Friday “to bring them up to date (i have sent a detailed update) and then wait till after the seniors meeting at 2 in case of questions” for no pay.
I’m fuming. They do not represent me and I do not when them babbling shite. I’m newer, they are respected cause of all the hours. I was going to call my line manager and say that my report will be factually different and I want it considered separately, but that makes it a huge deal. Then I wanted to say that I wanted to offer feedback to my line manager and just blurt all this out.
Both options would be unreasonable wouldn’t they? Is there a third option? I don’t know if I can just muddle on, my whole job is preventing the muddling on! I resent not being independently wealthy and being able to hand my notice in.
Sorry for late night rambling and typos. And boring stories.