RANT: Micromanaging at work.

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  • Guns_N_Buns
    Guns_N_Buns Posts: 1,899 Member
    I haven't been micromanaged, per say, but I've always had old bosses (like should already be retired). So, it irritates the hell out of me when they'll try to instruct me on how to do something in -- let's say Excel for example -- a very particular way, just because that's how they do it. Or they talk to you like they're instructing a child....can't stand that! I remember my boss almost having a heart attack when I would use 'Ctrl' + 'P' to paste. He'd start freaking out like I just killed his life long spreadsheet baby because I didn't right click and press 'paste special'...:grumble:
  • MikeCrazy
    MikeCrazy Posts: 2,716 Member
    Grr, I have a manager from another dept, that is always trying to micro manage me and many others. He needs to be gone, as he has been the culprit to some shady stuff. I made him look stupid by accident, just by asking questions about something that was obviously big time legally wrong, and now he has a vendetta against me and my boss.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I haven't been micromanaged, per say, but I've always had old bosses (like should already be retired). So, it irritates the hell out of me when they'll try to instruct me on how to do something in -- let's say Excel for example -- a very particular way, just because that's how they do it. Or they talk to you like they're instructing a child....can't stand that! I remember my boss almost having a heart attack when I would use 'Ctrl' + 'P' to paste. He'd start freaking out like I just killed his life long spreadsheet baby because I didn't right click and press 'paste special'...:grumble:

    OMG my current boss is a bit like this. Luckily she's pretty great overall but when it comes to Excel or business communications she is so set in her old-school ways!!!

    There's a specific letter format she favors, for no good reason, and she always says that's how she learned to do it in college. In the 1970s.
  • twinkles2121
    twinkles2121 Posts: 137 Member
    Wow, reading some of these stories, I feel really lucky. :blushing: I have a fantastic employer, She can be a tad bit micro manage-y, however we also have good working relationship. She knows I work better without her hovering over my shoulder. There is one incident that sticks out in my mind.

    One busy day I had scribbled a mental note to myself on a sticky and made a small typo. Instead of "Remember to get unit number" I wrote it as "Remember to do unit number" I didn't bother fixing it, I was busy and it still served it's purpose. the next morning, I came in and she had crossed it out what I wrote and re-wrote it. I turned her and was like ":huh: Reeeeally?? You're going to micro-manage my mental notes??" Then she said ":embarassed: :embarassed: ........it was bothering me......"
  • Guns_N_Buns
    Guns_N_Buns Posts: 1,899 Member
    I haven't been micromanaged, per say, but I've always had old bosses (like should already be retired). So, it irritates the hell out of me when they'll try to instruct me on how to do something in -- let's say Excel for example -- a very particular way, just because that's how they do it. Or they talk to you like they're instructing a child....can't stand that! I remember my boss almost having a heart attack when I would use 'Ctrl' + 'P' to paste. He'd start freaking out like I just killed his life long spreadsheet baby because I didn't right click and press 'paste special'...:grumble:

    OMG my current boss is a bit like this. Luckily she's pretty great overall but when it comes to Excel or business communications she is so set in her old-school ways!!!

    There's a specific letter format she favors, for no good reason, and she always says that's how she learned to do it in college. In the 1970s.

    That's how mine is. He's great overall, but when he gets all matter-of-fact with minuscule things like that is the end all be all of how to do it, it gets really annoying. Like dude, Courier was cool on your typewriter...leave this era of technology to me.
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    I haven't been micromanaged, per say, but I've always had old bosses (like should already be retired). So, it irritates the hell out of me when they'll try to instruct me on how to do something in -- let's say Excel for example -- a very particular way, just because that's how they do it. Or they talk to you like they're instructing a child....can't stand that! I remember my boss almost having a heart attack when I would use 'Ctrl' + 'P' to paste. He'd start freaking out like I just killed his life long spreadsheet baby because I didn't right click and press 'paste special'...:grumble:

    Isn't Ctrl+P for print and Ctrl+V for paste. Not that I'm micromanaging or anything...

    Actually, I do have one supervisor who tends to micromanage, but she's not my immediate supervisor anymore, thankfully. She is the Excel spreadsheet queen and nothing can be done right if it's not put in Excel.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    Thank goodness not a micromanager, but what my boss does on a daily basis blows my mind. Today may have just taken the cake.
  • Capt_Inzane
    Capt_Inzane Posts: 733 Member
    LOL I'm so glad someone said something about the ctrl + p I'm a computer nerd and was like o_O lol haha...

    Anyways, I absolutely love my job. My boss has came behind me watching YouTube and instead of being like "wtf you doing?" he's like "Why are you watching a grown man in a tutu? (btw it's a parody of what this guys daughter says) anyways best job ever.

    I'm really sorry at what some of you have to put up with and completely understand your frustrations just remember there are great jobs out there!!

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