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Micro Manager Alert
Posted on 08/24/2007 by Beat Down... But Still Moving
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I have 2 bosses!!!
Neither communicate to each other nor do they communicate to me.
One of the bosses totally wants NOTHING to do with the organization. This is fine for me. Because he isn't in my hair. BUT...... it's that other one (the gnarly one) that's the problem. He is king of MICRO-MANAGEMENT. Since the other boss is completely hands off and no comment, this guy is a freak of nature determined to balance it all out.
I spend half of my day trying to read his feeble mind and prepare documents upon documents upon DOCU-MEN-TATION about how a job should be done -- how it was done last year, the year before and the year before that "when he had good staff". ***** rolling my eyeballs ******* Meanwhile -- the current jobs in my "inbox" go unattended because of these office distractions and comparisons and why this way when it can be done that way. This hemming and hawing causes me to put in extra time after work and at home just to make sure that these tasks are completed so that every thing he fears will fall through the cracks --- don't.
This Micro-Manager-Creation-of-Satan sometimes does things that are absolutely jaw-dropping. He doesn't trust our small staff of 6 to share simple messages with each other. (For example, ---- and this is true ----- He broke the copy machine and flagged a staff member in the hall and requested that she alert everyone in the office that the copy machine is broken. As I mentioned earlier, there are only six of us --- by the time she got to the 2nd staff person... which was me... I said, "Oh, xxxxxx just called me on the phone and told me about it already". Then the girl went to the 3rd person, 4th, 5th and even the 6th person --- and heard the same responses. I call it a complete waste of time. I'm sure she went to all six of us just in case Micro-FREAK skipped one of us. Her failure to alert all 6 of us would put him on EXTRA HIGH MICRO alert to our incompetence. And things like this happen constantly.
A "GOOD" day at work is when one of the bosses isn't coming into the office. A "GREAT" day at work is when BOTH of them are out of the office! I revel like on holiday when I hear that one of them is sick. I pray for them... I pray that they have a bout of food poisoning, broken hips, plumbing issues, Time Warner cable problems, the runs --- you name it. Then I feel guilty.... but then it passes quickly.
Sometimes I have to ask myself: Am I THAT stupid? Do I look THAT incompetent? I wouldn't be surprised if the MICRO-FREAK doesn't follow me to the bathroom to show me how to properly wipe my ass.
This micro-management stuff can break your spirit, destroy your pride and belief in yourself ---- if you let it. I have to remember that I am a strong person. I live in one of the toughest cities in the world. I "managed" to get myself here and I'm doing fine. I just need to figure out this damned job situation and dealing with MICRO-FREAK so that I can earn a decent dollar without all of this shit in my head, shit in my home, shit in my bed, shit in my dreams and the shit in my stomach that leaves me sitting on the toilet in the morning wondering can I make it in.
So many people are quick to tell me to LEAVE the job / WALK AWAY from the job ---- its easy for them to talk that shit. But I know in my heart that if I were to walk away from a job, no matter how close these people are to me.... they may travel with me .... but it will only be around the corner...... they won't walk the same distance that I'll have to go. Lack of money will test even the strongest of friendships. Having groceries, paying bills and plenty of extra cash is what seems to talk best.
I just took a moment to see how I feel. Now that I've made it this far into the rant, Typing this up has truly made me feel better --- but I'm typing all of this anonymously into the void. Whose listening? What am I accomplishing? What is the answer to life in the snake pit?
All I want to do is just unplug the land line, cut off the cell phone, rip out the doorbell, turn down the lights and pray that this too shall pass.
****** deep breath *******
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CK(08/24/2007)
If he is a micro-manager then give him what he wants! It really is just that simple ... Go to him for EVERYTHING and ask him if 'is it OK?' Just bombard him with everything, e-mails, papaerwork, phone calls, and any little detail that you bugs you with ... just unload both barrels on him. Make him so busy with all YOUR work that he will leave you alone!
dumber than a catbox full of sh*t(08/24/2007)
CK--that's what I was going to say!!! And make him sign and date every thing that you put before him! Paperwork him to death--that's what I do! And it works!
 Ms ADA(08/25/2007)
OMG....they make my boss in the male version too!!
Someone just needs to shoot them and put them out of their misery
dumber than a catbox full of sh*t(08/25/2007)
Paperwork him to death.
 SouthernProgrammer(08/29/2007)
Beat - I reread your post several times and feel for you. I have had a micro-manager like the one you describe and they can make your life absolute hell. Trying to paperwork them to death won't work because this type of Micro-manager LOVES that stuff because it only feels their own inflated sense of self-importance. You are exhibiting an extreme amount of stress and I imagine it is due to your micro-manager. To be honest, my micro-manager caused such stress in my life that I had a mild stroke which required time off. I eventually quit my job and within three weeks three other people within my department quit and said the same thing to HR as they left "Too much stress from that Micro Manager!" EVERYONE of us left for jobs paying LESS money. Did anything happen to the micro manager? Yes, he was given a higher position and moved to corporate.
I do advise looking elsewhere as NO job is worth the amount of stress this type of micro-manager can bring. I will say I had one person at the company I now work for who tried to be a micro-manager and I managed to train him, when he would send me email after email of requests I forwarded them onto our big boss along with the message "I'll work on it as soon as I can". Eventually the big boss noticed the extreme amount of emails and told my boss (him employee) that he needed to lighten up.
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