re: How should one go about annoying a micromanager

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they suck at delegating and are afraid to let go.

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I did this but I took it one step further before quitting. I was an outside sales person. We had morning recap meetings (about the day before) every morning with this manager and was literally the only reason we had to come into the office. But that was not enough, he wanted a phone call after every sales meeting with a potential client. I tried to explain that I used the time driving to the next meeting going over what I could have done better/what I missed/how I could have closed if I did not get the sale. Also if I did get the sale I used that time to prepare for the next potential customer. So I refused to call him every time. I got tired of his constant questioning of why clients would not buy. So I told him to go into my dashboard and contact every client and offer them whatever he wanted as a manager. If he sold them I wanted the house to keep the commission I would not take no matter how much work or time I put in up to that point. He sold zero. Freaking zero. Mike drop and I put in my notice. I actually believed in the product and recommended it to a family member a couple of months later. I called the manager to let him know (and because I wanted an excuse to ask him a question about something unrelated) and he admitted my exit interview was the only one he ever sweated. He was actually a likeable guy but could not stop the micromanaging. His office/branch closed within a year or so of my leaving because he could not keep employees.

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Keep bugging him for information constantly to the point he goes the other way when he sees you.

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