I’ve been at my current company for a year now. It’s a small business with less than 20 people there in total. My team consists of 3 of us, 2 managers and a Head of Department.
The other manager in the team has been there for about 2 years and from the get go has given off a vibe that she just hasn’t taken to me. I’ve never given her a reason to dislike me. I joined and have been super friendly to everyone, get on well with everyone in the company.
We have different working styles and she spends an inordinate amount of time nitpicking at my work, changing goal posts when we’ve only had verbal conversations so no email trail, finding ways to add to my to-do list (despite not being my line manager). Just this week she sent me quite a curt email reminding me to do something so I replied to say I’d already shared what she needed with her last week. Instead of replying to say she must have missed it, she just chose not to reply at all. The next email I had from her the same day was her saying she’d spent some time reviewing a channel I’m responsible for and she noticed some out of date info and that I need to update it. That’s totally fine but she’s constantly saying how much work she has to do but finds time to sit and find errors in my area?!
I don’t feel I can talk to the head of the team about it as she and him are very close and he worships the ground she walks on. So much so that the praise he lapped on her when she simply printed something that he needed but hadn’t yet asked her to do so made my eyes almost roll to the back of my head.
I don’t know what the solution is here. It’s such a small team that raising something will make the whole organisation atmosphere weird as everyone knows everyone’s business. If you’ve made it this far I thank you!