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[quote=Anonymous]I am a manager in a small division. There is one other manager who is my peer; we have the same job and manage separate portfolios, but there is collaboration required with our teams. We have a job that requires a lot of in person and virtual meetings. Site visits, conferences, meetings for our external partners. It is a job where you spend a lot of time collaborating with others on group assignments. The other manager and I have now worked together for three years. I am not sure if this is typical behavior, but her internal messenger status is always "do not disturb" or busy and her calendar is completely blocked off from before core work hours until the evening. I get blocking time to do work or so you have some meeting prep, but in our line of work, we don't have that luxury. We have a lot of meetings and we have to meet with people in different time zones and locations. We have to arrange travel and virtual conferences/webinars. Whenever ANYONE tries to schedule a meeting with this manager, she is unavailable. I brought it up to my old boss, as it was impeding our work. She said she could not tell someone how to manager their calendar. It is obvious to me that she just blocks her calendar off so that she can control her schedule. But it is problematic because then no one can use Teams or Outlook to schedule a meeting. I email her to give me three available dates and times and she will then say she is not available for weeks, for something time sensitive. I work with a lot of old school people and I was also socialized not to disturb someone if their messenger or Teams is on "red" or "do not disturb". My old boss did nothing.

What would you do? I cannot wait three weeks for a time sensitive project. My boss is not addressing. My team brings this up in their one on ones and performance assessments. I even sent my boss a time study, accounting for her chronic lack of availability. This other manager is also quite difficult and rigid personality wise. She has a problem with every internal partner in our agency and external partners constantly contact us with negative feedback about their interactions with her and inability to respond to emails, phone calls or meeting requests. Short of finding a new job, I am at my wits end. I love my job and I don't want to leave because of this person. But I'm unable to get my work done in a timely manner and I feel like she purposely does this so she will be given less work and assignments and responsibility.[/quote]

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