I work for a very small company in a managerial position. For clarity, I run all facilities, manage facilities maintenance, hire and manage contractors we bring in for specialized roles on a fairly regular basis, or at least that's what my job is SUPPOSED to be.
Due to being a nonprofit and running on pretty minimal funds, I often end up being expected to personally do the work that I really should be bringing in trained professionals for.
It's embarrassing the number of times I'm being unjustly counted on the carry out a task that I am simply not qualified to be doing and end up doing poorly. I've voiced my concerns on many occasions. For example, I'm not an electrician or a lighting technician. I can plug in and turn on lights, but it's certainly not going to live up to professional expectations.
My manager, one of only two people in our organization who is above me in the hierarchy, is constantly setting me up for failure and then throwing me under the bus for it.
I love my job and I love my company. It's an organization and a facility that I genuinely care about, but other than voicing my feelings on the matter to our OM and HR, I don't know how to stop this other manager from constantly scapegoating me.
And yet it always feels like my fault at the end of the day. Why haven't I learned audio tech? Why haven't I educated myself in lighting tech or electricals? Why have I not made every effort to educate myself in absolutely every area that our facility covers? Honestly, I feel bad about myself all the time for not making time to learn more and be better, but I work such long hours there simply hasn't been time.
I'm young and kind of green in my field, but I know that in my position, the average company would not expect me to take on so many advanced specialties.
TLDR: MY manager has a great, positive, “we can do it” attitude all the time but then doesn't hesitate to ask me to do things that are far beyond my skill set and blames me when it doesn't live up to her standards. How do I even deal with this?