Another contractor is lying about me to my agency and the client.

Another contractor is lying about me to my agency and the client.

I'm not sure what to do. I (a contractor) report to a project manager with a different agency.

She is WAY over her head, and the entire project has been in absolute chaos. I've spoken with my agency several times, so they are aware, because this is a big contract for them.

Right before Christmas holiday, the PM told me (not asked, told) that I'd deleted content in a cloud-based Excel spreadsheet. I asked what was missing, and that I would look for it (there are about 30+ columns she's made in the spreadsheet.

She said, "there was a column, and it's gone, and you've been in the spreadsheet." (I have been, and they are always "open" in my browser tab so I can access them quickly.

I said, "I haven't deleted columns (I have hidden them to make the spreadsheet slightly more usable), but if you tell me what's missing, I will look for it."

She said, "No, never mind, I know you did it."

And I got pissed. I said, "I did NOT delete content. If you tell me what is missing, I will find it." (I know how to go back in the history to where something might be missing, if indeed it was deleted and not a hidden column.)

Again, she said, "No, you deleted it."

I told her she was either accusing me of sabotage or incompetence.

She's since reported me to my agency AND the client for "deleting content when I told her not to" Which is a lie on top of a lie. 1--did NOT delete content. 2--she is saying I did it when she told me NOT to.

So far, my agency and the client seem okay. My agency has several people embedded and multiple ones have complained about the PM. She comes off as super polite and sweet to leadership, but I have a recording of a Teams call where she blatantly threw me and a Merck employee under the bus "I was gone for a few hours and when I came back, they'd totally destroyed an excel document."

At this point, she's basically refusing to give me work, even though the deadline is next week, or gives me work that I've already done (I send it to her and she doesn't acknowledge it) and will only communicate thru teams. "As mentioned yesterday, pls do X."

Finally, because of the contract, I only can bill for work I do and am supposed to be 40 hours a week. With her not giving me work the last 2 days, I'm seriously short in hours.

I'm at my wit's end of how to deal with this. I've dealt with challenging PMs and projects, and can usually roll with it. But now that she's affecting my reputation and my finances, I'm pissed.