I have been in my current role for 6 months and have always had open, honest, two way mutually respective relationships with my line manager.
My current role is slightly different in that I have a line manager but a lot of my time is to support another manager, higher up.
My line manager is very new and has had no real dealings with the systems/process's side of things, and I feel that I have been really supportive in sharing information and knowledge , some of which has been taken forward by LM. From some of the things the manager I work for has said, I get the feeling that some of the conversations I have had with my LM have been shared with the manager I work for. Recently I was asked for my thoughts on something and my comments then became the subject of a corridor conversation for which I was in earshot in another office. In a meeting where a finance process was being discussed and I outlined what this was but was told that because this wasn't the way a previous manager had worked it was ok to go rogue and not follow this and my LM agreed. It seems that my LM and Manager have developed a clique, whilst I understand the need for good working relationships I find the bitchy point scoring element really hard to deal with and feel that as a relatively quiet person I am now even more reluctant to make suggestions/comments on things as I don't feel supported on any platform. How can I make this better?