Does Anyone Else Work With Someone Who Makes Everything Difficult on Purpose?
I recently started managing a project at Amazon as an adhoc leadership ask because of my business knowledge. I already have my own KRAs and projects, but I still invested extra hours to support launch and execution. The biggest challenge is not the workload. It is one senior leader from another team. She constantly wants to schedule unnecessary calls, interrupts during syncs, questions decisions in front of stakeholders and other senior leadership, and turns simple issues into big ones. Instead of focusing on solutions, she focuses on proving herself right and controlling every conversation. She would rarely lets me speak. Initially I was okay with it. I gave her that space. However, now it is simply annoying. Even if I communicate the update, she repeats the exact same point again just to show her visibility. All the write ups turn into endless review cycles. Despite implementing all feedback, at last she will change the direction completely.
I genuinely feel she does not want me to PM this project or she hates me for some reason. Probably she is jealous but why? She is a senior leader, way more experienced, way more paid! The difficult part is that I cannot escalate easily. My own leadership had advised me not to take on this additional responsibility, but I still stepped in to help. Now I feel stuck between supporting the project and protecting my mental peace. I literally suffer with acute anxiety because of her. I also noticed this pattern is not new. Earlier she targeted another team until they involved leadership. Now I seem to be the next person in line as I do not have a backup.
What frustrates me most is how invisible she makes me feel despite putting in significant effort to drive alignment and execution and manage it all. How one person can completely derail the morale!
I am not sure if this is the culture now at Amazon or how to handle this situation. I am honestly exhausted.