It's all my fault. As usual.

Let me introduce you to a couple of my colleagues:

The project manager's name is A. (Well it isn't, of course, but let's just call him A for the sake of it.) A has been working at the company for about three months now, but has been in the buissness for about 20 years.

I will call the general manager K. K has been working at the company for a good 10 years, and is my boss, but not A's, as A works for a different department.

I'm a project coordinator, which means I work directly side by side with A, but get orders from K. However, A is the one who decides about the current project. Generally K feels I work on my own and don't need any help or assistance, nor does A. The problem here is that A expects me to do half his work load, and K tells me not to do it. A tends to get frustrated, and so does K.

Confused? Not as much as I am.

About a month ago we had a meeting.

I asked A to get me some information for the project. I pointed out I needed this information asap to continue my work. K immediately butted in and told A to sort it out before the week ended (for which I was grateful).

About a week later I reminded A. Where was the information I needed, I asked nicely.
Oh, you and your demands, he laughed and walked off.

Last week I emailed A. Told him I needed the information desperately as I was now running two weeks behind as I hadn't recieved the necessary information to continue my job. There was no response.

I went into his office and asked if he hadn't read my email.
Your emails?! he said. I never open your emails as I know they always contain work and complaints.

Today I requested a meeting with A. Sat down and told him what I needed, WHY I needed it about 3 weeks ago and how him not doing his job makes me not being able to do mine.

we decided not to go along with this line on a meeting that you didn't attend, he told me.

I responded that I'd read the protocol from the meeting, and that nothing was mentioned about a new direction, and asked him to phone the others who were at the meeting. Using the speaker phone. He did reluctantly. They said that no other decision had been discussed, and that I was in the right. (Needless to say A wasn't - ISN'T - happy at all with me!)

Later this afternoon I bumped into K. He asked me why I was delayed with my work. I told him the whole episode.

Oh well, said K, misunderstandings happens so easily. Perhaps A didn't understand what he was supposed to do. You should've explained to A what he was meant to do.

Misunderstanding, my arse.

I just wonder if this is normal for a work place?