Posted this in chat but might be better here:
I work in a fairly small company; 30-40 people, the structure is the owner, who is obviously in overall charge then there are two main departments, say department A and B. There is one manager in charge of all Type A staff and one manager in charge of Type B staff, under these are various informal layers.
Type B manager is obviously fairly senior, is friendly/influential with the owner (his boss) and is involved with the business decisions of our company. I work for Type A manager and would place myself in the 'middle management' category, I have three members of staff who I am responsible for on a day to day basis
The problem I have is with Type B manager and a junior Type A colleague who works under me. They have a friendly/I would say flirty relationship and I think that he's telling her information before anyone else. This happened once before with some changes that were being made, my manager (Type A manager) told me, I told junior colleague and she let slip that she'd known for a while as Type B manager had told her.
Am now pretty sure it's happened again - three members of Type B staff are being made redundant and I think she knew about this before anyone else including before the 3 people themselves were told and before Type A manager.
I was a bit annoyed with her when I found out she knew last time and hadn't told me so this time she is denying that she knew about it but am pretty sure she did.
I think it's really unprofessional and inappropriate that probably the most junior person in the office (which she is) knows this information before anyone else. Do I have any sort of grounds to complain about this? I don’t like to think that she may be told things that impact me and my manager before we are.