Work, what else.
The project I'm managing has turned into me having to do all the work instead of the assigned resources. The Operations person who is meant to perform specific preliminary tasks is the most useless individual I have ever met and will literally not action anything until a week later when we have our weekly call. That's when this person starts actioning things in front of me through a screen-share. This person is more senior than I am. I don't need to sit there to watch her action things she could have actioned autonomously when the request was first sent.
Anyways, I asked my supporting resources to perform certain tasks in the system after the person above did her bit. After several chasers and sweat, they managed to get it all done ... until we realized there was a technical issue in the system that my managers should have known about and never warned me (I'm rather new to the system and they've already gone through a similar project before, so they should have known!). This means all the work done by the supporting resources has gone down the drain and we need to create certain items from scratch. This re-do should be done by the Operations person I mentioned above, but this person so useless that my manager suggested I do it myself instead (not my job, but we're running out of time). I then reached out to the Operations person to warn them I'm going to action XYZ due to the urgency and asked for their green light as it's against process. This person said: "Please ensure everything is correct when you perform XYZ" - LOL, this person delayed so much stuff and never actioned anything on time and they're worried about me inputting incorrect information. I'm actually doing them a favor by absorbing their task to save us time and they're switching the tables bossing me around.
I went from project manager to performing every person's task on my own (the work of my resources, the work of the supporting Operations counterpart). I started my career in project management and this is not project management at all. I went from sending instructions to doing the work myself. I don't mind jumping in, but now I'm absorbing everyone's work because of a piece of information that was never disclosed to me and I was given incorrect instructions. I'm losing my mind because of course, it's always easier to do things yourself, but that's not how you run a project. It defeats the purpose altogether. Mind-blowing, truly.
(Sorry, I'm long winded - I don't have a partner to listen to me, so typing my thoughts is very cathartic these days!)