This isn't a drastic and terrible situation. It's just bugging me a bit and I feel like a need some impartial advice! For obvious reasons, I don't want to bring it up with anyone at work, and I also don't think my friends and family are best placed to be impartial, as they'll probably take my "side"!
My line manager - relatively new line manager, since I've just transferred to another department in the same organisation - doesn't like me very much, which is fine. They don't have to like me - but I very much am treading on eggshells around them, which gets wearing. In my previous position I had a lot more autonomy, but this line manager prefers me to check with them before doing anything - which can be a bit wearing.
Line manager has been kind of off sick but kind of working from home this week. There have been a lot of issues in the organisation and it's a busy period, so there's a lot of extra stuff that needs doing. I've offered to pick some of this up so that problems don't escalate, but they've declined, even though it is very basic stuff (i.e. sending holding emails) which I am able to do.
The issue is that, because they've been off, a lot of stuff just isn't getting done. This will ultimately create issues for me as well, since we'll be going into next week with a huge backlog. I'd feel much better about it if I had been able to attend to some of the stuff yesterday, but line manager had expressly told me not to.
I don't know how long this situation is going to continue and I feel like it is going to cause a lot of problems in work. But I don't know what I can actually do about it! That's my AIBU, I guess. AIBU to be worrying about this or AIBU if I just do nothing and say "not my concern"?
For context, my position is relatively senior, well-paid and I (should) have autonomy to make decisions as appropriate to the demands of the role.