I've taken a contract with a large regional organisation but am in a small team. My work is very niche but I've been plonked somewhere where no one really understands what it is i do specifically. That's not a problem as i can just crack on with most of it due to experience. There are a few things here and there though i do need to ask, but mostly admin related to how the organisation functions.
My manager is an inexperienced younger one and is behaving quite bizarrely with me. Not replying to key queries that are urgent but getting in touch about little irrelevant things all the time. They micromanage but in all the worst miniscule ways but without being in any way useful. With a side order of taking credit for my work. And little lies about things here and there. Its getting in the way of my work and I've got a lot of deliverables to get in.
I found out that they have been going through my email sent box which they access to, and i received an email about something related to that which i found really quite bizarre. Bizarre because i had copied them in anyway. This is just one in a series of issues in a short time of working there. I'm so cross about this invasion of trust its keeping me awake.
It feels emblematic of a culture there which is a perfectionist head girl culture but which doesn't actually recognise that I've been brought in to deliver something really specific which no one else can do there.
I have tried to raise things but to no avail. What to do? Its really starting to wear me out!