[Anonymous]

Not sure if any folks have good experience in this. But I have two audit teams – one of which doesn’t respect the staffing of the other. In sum, they repeatedly try to poach me for non-budgeted/staffed work. In the backdrop, my responsibilities to the team are 6 weeks ahead of schedule.

While booked on my small client, exclusively, I’m told by this larger client without thought to the current booking to join hour long calls, open up certain tests, obtain deliverables from the client in areas I am not responsible for, directly familiar with, or will be working on in any capacity. Their reasoning is to stay/get further ahead.

Meanwhile, the small client has less personnel, less time, and is struggling. Not just in its workload, but also in this added level of just keeping its promised staff – to itself. I can’t help but find the situation grotesquely unfair to its senior and manager. To a degree, my other team is acting offensive. And I’ve felt offended and ashamed of them in seeing it.

It came to a headwind when I told a manager on my large client – that my small client senior was reaching out to them to say they were busy and could not have me on loan. The managers reply was “let’s see if I respond.” I can’t help but somewhat stand in judgement of that behavior. Especially in light of circumstance, need, principles, and frankly – humility.

I’ve been off this larger client for a month.

Advice?