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Help! Constantly put in the middle - Need advice for a bad situation

Posted by: MJS
Date: 3/28/2006 9:28:25 PM

I am the marketing manager, reporting to the VP of sales and marketing, who lives 2,000 miles away from the corp. office. This VP is constantly traveling, rarely ever comes to the corp office. The President and the CEO give me "tasks" that my VP says are not part of my responsibilities. He tells me I should not do them and to ignore the President and the CEO. The President (nor the CEO) do not follow the chain of command, they circumvent my VP. I get caught in the middle. I tell my VP to discuss this with them - he does not. So the President and the CEO feel that I am not cooperative. Just the opposite. Some of the tasks take up to 1/2 a day and create undo pressures. Can't complain to personnel, she reports to the President. Have to work with my VP, too. By the way, with this company only 6 months. Have been told my predecessor had the same problem. What to do?

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