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re: Is your boss a micromanager too?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:41 am to Will Cover
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:41 am to Will Cover
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If employees are happy, they will take pride in their work and be owners of their work. And they'll stand side-by-side with their leader / company and they'll fight during the tough times and celebrate during the good times.
Taking care of your employees first means they will then put the customer, i.e. the company's "asset" first. But if an idiot manager oversteps his/her boundaries, they'll soon realize they'll be no one there to help them. And business will suffer.
This is the truth
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:46 am to jscrims
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Sounds like your boss doesn't think you do your job well. I love the comments from the here is how to treat employees to stay. You are all expendable, myself included so anyone who thinks their value is more than what it is might want to check that attitude.
I think it's fair to say he doesn't. There are ways in which I can improve, but what I mentioned in my first post wasn't exactly a PIP they put me on. These are guidelines everyone has to follow.
It's feeling more and more restrictive, like they are legit looking for ways to blame us for any supposed problem.
I would say though that it takes about a year to really bring anyone up to speed on a marginally comfortable level. We are all expendable, but only to the point where out frick ups are so bad, the company is willing to dedicate the necessary time to training someone new.
This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 11:50 am
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:55 am to BulldogXero
I'm fortunate enough to have a boss who's hands off. He takes care of policy and BAAs, I am the hands on keyboard guy.
Then again in my line of work I'm not too concerned if I ever ended up with a micromanager. I'd just find another job within a day or two.
Then again in my line of work I'm not too concerned if I ever ended up with a micromanager. I'd just find another job within a day or two.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 11:57 am to BulldogXero
No, she let's me do pretty much whatever I want as long as I ask her permission first. Married 7 years to my boss.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:23 pm to link
Well played, sir
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:28 pm to BulldogXero
As much as I hate to admit it, I'm dealing with this right now myself. What sucks is that the job was great prior to this person joining. There is a certain personality type who can't let go and trust, and who is only happy when everyone else is as stressed as they are. It's completely counterproductive.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:35 pm to BulldogXero
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Sends customer satisfaction surveys upon project close.
Expects written/verbal explanation when negative comments are left on survey even to more seasoned employees.
Requests written next contact date in instances where project is placed on hold or initial call hasn't taken place.
Unless you are new, the 1st one is definitely a conrtol freek thing. the 2nd is micromanaging. I do not see these as micromanaging, but I work in an ISO environment and they are required.
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It's hard to verbalize the feeling this engenders. It's not micromanagement in and of itself but it feels that way based on how it's handled. If some asshat gives you all 1s or 2s because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed or because of something completely beyond your control, it's thrown back in your face because you didn't a) inform him the customer was angry [not always apparent at the outset] or b) you failed in defusing the situation.
Sounds like you may be working for a major micromanager, but you gave bad examples. I used to work under one that wanted status updates every 30 minutes, and I have to do the same for those under me. I typically ignored her requests until I hit major milestones or there were major delays; bc if I followed her requests 15-20 minutes of my every 30 minutes would be getting updates and it would slow everyone else down because they would have to stop to give me updaes. I just compromised with providing time budgets and requiring updates when my staff would miss a deadline.
This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 10/25/17 at 12:39 pm to BulldogXero
my boss is a yes man... anything the higher ups tell him to do he obeys. no matter how dumb or wasteful it is.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:07 pm to BulldogXero
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Is your boss a micromanager too?
No....I told him before he hired me "don't frick this up by being a dickhead".....he hasn't
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:23 pm to Weekend Warrior79
I haven’t talked to my boss in over a month. I take care of my shite and the numbers are good, so it ends up being not necessary.
I used to have a boss like OP, until I pulled out my dick and quit.
I used to have a boss like OP, until I pulled out my dick and quit.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 1:37 pm to BulldogXero
Have worked for micro-managers before. Most of them are more concerned with appearance then reality. The best boss I ever had was a guy that had done my job before. He wanted me out seeing customers instead of sitting in the office filling out reports. While one manager in our office earned the nickname "Clock Nazi", my boss filled out our reports for us. He did all kinds of things to help us whenever he could.
During a very slow period, our team surpassed our goals for well over a year when no one else in the the company's three offices was making theirs. The office not making it's goal was the only reason the corporate office had requested the reports.
The Clock Nazi manager was there for many years. I used to tell her boss he should put me under her if he ever wanted to get rid of me.
During a very slow period, our team surpassed our goals for well over a year when no one else in the the company's three offices was making theirs. The office not making it's goal was the only reason the corporate office had requested the reports.
The Clock Nazi manager was there for many years. I used to tell her boss he should put me under her if he ever wanted to get rid of me.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 10:07 pm to Retrograde
This is me most of the time, lucky if I talk to my boss more than once a month other than emails with projections and financials. But here lately I have been having to talk to him a lot more over some issues that are out of my control. I can tell he hates it and yesterday he finally asked what we needed to do to fix the most pressing situation. Could tell it was a huge relief when I agreed to take on more responsibility and agreed to fix the situation.
I feel bad for my boss though, as he manages us from afar and we have lost a few great employees due to people paying stupid money with the mega projects in swla and it’s gotten to the point he only trust me and another long term pm that moved to sales. He leans on us a ton and you can tell he hates asking us to do things above and beyond.
I feel bad for my boss though, as he manages us from afar and we have lost a few great employees due to people paying stupid money with the mega projects in swla and it’s gotten to the point he only trust me and another long term pm that moved to sales. He leans on us a ton and you can tell he hates asking us to do things above and beyond.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:46 am to BulldogXero
Current foreman is. Swear this man would follow me into the portajohn and tell me I'm holding my dick wrong if it wasn't an HR violation.
Posted on 10/26/17 at 7:53 am to SeabrookTiger
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