I'm managing a project which is overseen by two “higher ups”, who form a committee, which I basically serve.
This project has suffered many delays, some due to covid, some due to the nature of the activities in the project. They have accused me of not doing enough.
The committee insists that they sign off on every document, email etc. before I do anything with it. The first guy is my direct manager and wants to see these things before I submit it to the committee officially. The second guy is actually quite chilled.
The problem is, my manager demands that I add a huge amount of detail and then once I do, I submit it and the second guy says its too much detail.
The process: generate document; send to manager; add the detail manager wants added; send to second guy; remove the detail manager wanted; perform a committee review during the monthly meeting.
This is happening so frequently its taking up all my time. So I'm forced to overshoot the target and backtrack every time. Then half the time during our monthly meetings is used to reach middle ground between the two.
And then they have the audacity to tell me I'm inefficient.