I am in a senior leadership role in the public sector. Frankly, where I work is toxic and fucked by weak leadership. In SLT our roles are not really clear and the two most senior figures hate delegating, which means nothing ever gets done.
There was a minor task that needed doing which logically would fall under my remit but the person above me got in first and started it. Fine. Except they didn't complete it so it was left half-done. This didn't become apparent until yesterday so I thought I would sort it this morning. This involved speaking to a few people to get some info. I had no desire whatsoever to shame anybody, just to get the task done. I did not mention the senior person's name when collecting the info, but one of the people I had to speak to was one of her pals. She has clearly told the senior person what I'm doing so when I got back to my desk there was an email from the senior person saying I had never provided her with the info she had requested when first addressing this task. This was not the case so I reforwarded my original email and said I was completing the task as there had been a few changes since she began it unconnected to either of us - this is true but I was also trying to be tactful.
She then asked me for some follow-up info but I did not see that email as I was away from my desk and she has since completed the task and sent it out to everyone, with my info she had asked for missing.
This all looks so petty and pathetic written down but I am so upset. I've had an awful time over the last year and half as a result of spurious grievances made against me by others (not connected to the people above, but senior does know about it) and all I'm trying to do is a good job and get myself back on top of things and I just feel this has pushed me back down.
There is another, much bigger task, that I have taken on which would require me to work on it over the weekend, which I was all set to do, but now I just feel so demotivated and deflated. I am looking for other jobs but there's nothing around at the moment. Just venting anyway...