I've been a project management in government in an area responsible for customer service related projects. I began my role as a manager with one resource which was a supervisory project leader who led activities. We worked together for a number of years where I had to be hands on because I had no resources. We sometimes had an administrative assistant. There are many departments in our organization they refer to our structure as a matrix. Departments have dedicated staff. Some 20 some a few staff. But myself despite my seniority (more than other managers) am relegated to one resource. After I onboard them they are also taken away and reassigned to other projects.
Recently, I've been told that my one resource I was sharing already would be assigned a department and that I would need to rely on sharing resources for projects that require several staff. The issue is that managers who are assigned these staff are two faced. They agree in front of their superiors but as soon as you meet with them one on one they put up so many blocks and undermine my work in very clever ways. I'm borrowing resources currently form four managers and when one pulls away a resource it has a ripple affect and I need to update the other three managers the project is delayed. They then want me to get authorization to get additional time using those resources which is time consuming.
Does anyone work in a similar environment? There is aside of me that thinks I'm getting taken advantage of.
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