I am a senior manager with a lead area of eg Finance, in a matrix organisational structure, which means I report to my line manager for basic admin but another area of the business for my deliverables/day to day finance job. This has a host of issues such as me and my team not being informed about things at the right time. My manager is completely not involved.
In February, I found out about a business change by chance. At the time, I informed the finance team that this was the first I am hearing about this, keep me updated etc and also queried why I wasn’t informed as it led to a bunch of work needing to be redone.
Fast forward to today, and I was invited to a Teams meeting with 20 other leaders across the business. I joined the meeting and immediately it was being recorded, I wasn’t asked if I consented to this. Immediately in the meeting I was put on the spot, and the entire meeting was me answering the 20 other attendees’s questions about this business change and then wanting ongoing work from me ASAP.
It was awkward as I have not been involved in this business change and a lot of the information they had put to me was the first time I was hearing about it. It wasn’t the same topic as the previous incident either, completely unrelated.
I agreed to come back to them and give them more information once I had discussed this with my team but aibu to think this put me in a difficult position? I can’t stop thinking about how awkward that recoding must be and am wondering if I can ask for it to be deleted.