Does anyone else have a boss that is a total micromanager? If so, how do you deal with them?
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Posted by BigbadGus Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:24PM
Eat tonnes of garlic and be a close talker.
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Posted by Cassandra1982 Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:25PM
Quit! Not worth the mental anguish 😆
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Posted by BadOmen32 Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:22PM
Put a bomb in his car during lunchbreak. Turn the end of the shift into 4th of July.
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Posted by sumnerkagan Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:22PM
give them updates before they ask, anticipate their demands, make them think that whatever you're doing was their own idea
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Reply by sumnerkagan Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:23PM
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Reply by itscake Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:32PM
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Posted by stargaze22 Jan 7th, 2013 at 10:11PM
I always got the union involved or told him off which is probably why I never got any promotions at work .
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Posted by Beausejour Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:33PM
Just another tragic heavy machinery accident.
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Posted by perseverer Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:30PM
Good question. I dream of having an Equalizer, like robert McCall. It is even worse when it is a gang of four micromanagers. I try to keep out of their way, but they find a multitude of ways to complicate my life. There is no detail unremarked upon, or left to chance. To even access the workplace webmail I have to use a separate password. I went a year not reading the internal mail (with all the criticism that attends that) before I figured out they'd placed a block on my password. There is not a single resource I can use that doesn't have to pass through the hands of one of them, be seen to be given to me and removed from me when I have finished with it. So I have bought a lot of my own stuff. I have even had my personal belongings misappropriated and had to threaten action to get it back. So, I appreciate all the comments and the question too.
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Reply by winstonwelles Jan 7th, 2013 at 10:26PM
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Reply by perseverer Jan 7th, 2013 at 10:47PM
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Posted by Hermey Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:25PM
I did, but I just ignored him. he was so bad that he actually told us which keys to use when cutting and pasting. He said: You have to use CNTRL+X and not CNTRL+C then CNTRL+V. I said you got it, but I didn't meant it.
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Posted by BamPow Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:24PM
I've got the opposite situation. My boss lives in another country, and sometimes I feel like we need to send a search party to find her. I've had micromanagers, and the best you can do is to learn what they want and try to anticipate it. Once they get the idea that you're a step ahead of them, they'll turn their laser like focus onto someone else.
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Posted by Difum Jan 7th, 2013 at 9:23PM
Make little micro mistakes and drive him nuts.
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